To the Lady Margaret Ley
分类: 英语诗歌
DAUGHTER to that good Earl once President
Of England's Council and her Treasury
Who lived in both unstain'd with gold or fee
And left them both more in himself content
Till the sad breaking of that Parliament
Broke him as that dishonest victory
At Ch?roneia fatal to liberty
Kill'd with report that old man eloquent;—
Though later born than to have known the days
Wherein your father flourish'd yet by you
Madam methinks I see him living yet;
So well your words his noble virtues praise
That all both judge you to relate them true
And to possess them honour'd Margaret.