StoryTitle("caps", "To the Lady Margaret Ley") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Daughter to that good Earl, once President", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Of Englands Council and her Treasury,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Who liv'd in both, unstain'd with gold or fee,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And left them both, more in himself content,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Till the sad breaking of that Parlament ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Broke him, as that dishonest victory", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "At Chæronéa, fatal to liberty,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Kil'd with report that Old man eloquent.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Though later born, then to have known the dayes", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Wherein your father flourisht, yet by you,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Madam, me thinks I see him living yet;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So well your words his noble virtues praise,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That all both judge you to relate them true,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "And to possess them, Honour'd Margaret.", "") ?>
Poet("John Milton", "1608–1674") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>