TO THE LADY MARGARET LEY

by: John Milton (1608-1674)

      AUGHTER to that good Earl, once President
      Of Englands Counsel, and her Treasury,
      Who liv'd in both, unstain'd with gold or fee,
      And left them both, more in himself content,
      Till the sad breaking of that Parlament
      Broke him, as that dishonest victory
      At Chæronèa, fatal to liberty
      Kil'd with report that Old man eloquent,
      Though later born, then to have known the dayes
      Wherin your Father flourisht, yet by you
      Madam, me thinks I see him living yet;
      So well your words his noble vertues praise,
      That all both judge you to relate them true,
      And to possess them, Honour'd Margaret.

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