StoryTitle("caps", "A Letter ") ?>
To Lady Margaret Cavendish Holles-Harley, When a Child
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My noble, lovely, little Peggy, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Let this my First Epistle beg ye, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "At dawn of morn, and close of even, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To lift your heart and hands to Heaven. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In double duty say your prayer: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Our Father first, then Notre Pére. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And, dearest child, along the day, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In every thing you do and say, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Obey and please my lord and lady, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So God shall love and angels aid ye. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "If to these precepts you attend, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "No second letter need I send, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And so I rest your constant friend", "") ?>
Poet("Matthew Prior", "1664–1721") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>