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     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 Chaeronia, 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.