LXVIII.

Steel Barons, molten the next generation

To silken rows of gay and gartered Earls,

Glanced from the walls in goodly preservation:

And Lady Marys blooming into girls,

With fair long locks, had also kept their station:

And Countesses mature in robes and pearls:

Also some beauties of Sir Peter Lely,

Whose drapery hints we may admire them freely.

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