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Ex otio Negotium

Or, Martiall his epigrams Translated. With Sundry Poems and Fancies, By R. Fletcher
Fletcher, R.
  
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34

De Ape electro inclusa, Epig. 32.

Shining and yet shut up in th'amber drop,
The Bee as clos'd in its own waxe did lye,
Of all her labours reaping this the crop:
It's credible she fancied thus to dye.
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