To The Lady Margaret Ley - J. Milton

85 To The Lady Margaret Ley
The eighty-fifth poem in the collection. (* additional details below )

*NOTES FROM THE BACK OF THE BOOK:

Lady M. Ley was daughter to Sir J. Ley, afterwards Earl of Marlborough, who died March, 1628-9, coincidently with the dissolution of the third Parliament of Charles's reign. Hence Milton poetically compares his death to that of the Orator Isocrates of Athens, after Philip's victory in 328 B.C.