John Milton

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Sonnet 10

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 Chaeronea, 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.