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Daughter to that good Earl, once President

John Milton·1608–1674
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Daughter to that good Earl, once PresidentOf 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 ParlamentBroke him, as that dishonest victoryAt Chæronéa, fatal to libertyKil'd with report that Old man eloquent,Though later born, then to have known the dayesWherin your Father flourisht, yet by youMadam, 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.