X.
TO THE LADY MARGARET LEY.
Daughter to that good Earl, once President
Of England’s Council and her Treasury,
Who lived in both unstained with gold or fee,
And left them both, more in himself content,
Till the sad breaking of that Parliament 5
Broke him, as [that dishonest victory]
[At Chæronea], fatal to liberty,
Killed with report [that old man eloquent],