X <br /> <br />Daughter to that good Earl, once President <br />Of Englands Counsel, and her Treasury, <br />Who liv'd in both, unstain'd with gold or fee, <br />And left them both, more in himself content, <br />Till the sad breaking of that Parlament <br />Broke him, as that dishonest victory <br />At Chaeronea, fatal to liberty <br />Kil'd with report that Old man eloquent, <br />Though later born, then to have known the dayes <br />Wherin your Father flourisht, yet by you <br />Madam, me thinks I see him living yet; <br />So well your words his noble vertues praise, <br />That all both judge you to relate them true, <br />And to possess them, Honour'd Margaret. <br /> <br />Note: Camb. autograph supplies title, To the Lady Margaret <br />Ley.<br /><br />John Milton<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sonnet-10-3/
