Daughter to that good Earl, once President
Of Englands Council 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 Chæronéa, fatal to liberty,
Kil'd with report that Old man eloquent.
Though later born, then to have known the dayes
Wherein your father flourisht, yet by you,
Madam, me thinks I see him living yet;
So well your words his noble virtues praise,
That all both judge you to relate them true,
And to possess them, Honour'd Margaret.
— John Milton
1608–1674
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