A Letter to the Honourable Lady Margaret-Cavendish-Holles-Harley

MY noble, lovely, little Peggy,
Let this, my First-Epistle, beg ye,
At dawn of morn, and close of even.
To lift your heart and hands to heaven :
In double beauty say your pray'r,
Our father first, then notre pere ;
And, dearest Child, along the day,
In ev'ry thing you do and say,
Obey and please my Lord and Lady,
So God shall love, and Angels aid. Ye.

If to these Precepts You attend,
No Second-Letter need I send.
And so I rest Your constant Friend,
M. P.