The learned Wife Sampler

Kingsland Leaflet 9, The Learned Wife Sampler is a counted cross stitch leaflet. . With the alphabet at the top and a border around it, the words at the bottom are "One did commend me to a wife both fair and young, That had French, Spanish and Italian Tongue. I thanked him kindly and told him I loved none such. For I thought one tongue for a wife too much. What love ye not the learned. Yes as my life learned schollar but not a learned wife." Circa 1740.