John Milton (1608–1674)

DAUGHTER 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 Chaeronéa, 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.