Inscribed: Embroidered in capital letters in light colored threads at top: "SEEK NOT TO BE RICH BUT HAPPY" Embroidered under wide decorative band in capital letters: "STRIVE TO EXCEL IN DOING WELL" Embroidered in upper and lower case letters in red threads using "f" [long "s"] for "s": "Induftry taught in early Days/ Not only gives the teacher Praife/ But gives us Pleafure when we view/ The work which we were Taught to do/ Our Parents with exulting Joy/ Survey it as no childifh Toy/ But as a Prelude that each Day/ A greater genius fhall difplay/ Go on my Dear Strive to Excel/ Improve in Work and Learning well/ For Book and Needle both Contend/ To make a Houfewife and a Friend"/ Embroidered in red threads in upper and lower case letters: "Thro'every gentle fliding Hour/ May truth and virtue be my guide/ Nor foft Temptation find a Power/ To draw my fteady Soul afide" / "Elizabeth Young Her Work 1782"