She could discourse with virtuoso's, travellers, scholars, merchants, divines, statesmen, and with good housewives in any kind: insomuch that a prime and elegant wit, Dr. Donne, well seen in all human learning ... is reported to have said of this lady, in her younger years to this effect; that she knew well how to discourse of all things from predestination to slea-silk. Meaning that although she was skilful in her housewifery, and such things in which women are conversant, yet her penetrating wit soared up to pry into the highest mysteries, looking at the highest example of female wisdom. Although she knew _Wool_ and _Flax_, fine _Linen_ and _Silk_, things appertaining to the spindle and the distaff: _yet she could open her mouth with wisdom_.... If she had sought fame rather than wisdom, possibly she might have been ranked among those wise and learned of her sex, of whom _Pythagoras_ or _Plutarch_, or any of the ancients have made such honourable mention.[69] A portrait of Anne at thirteen represents the books supposedly read by her under her tutor, Mr. Daniel, and her governess, Mrs. Ann Taylor, whose heads appear in the picture. The books are "Eusebius, St. Augustine, Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia, Godfrey of Boulogne, The French Academy, Cambden, Ortelius, and Agrippa on the Vanity of Occult Sciences."[70] [Illustration: ANNE CLIFFORD, COUNTESS OF DORSET, PEMBROKE AND MONTGOMERY From an engraving in Pennant's _Tour in Scotland_, 1790, Part II]