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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