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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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43

Ad Bassum, Epig. 54.

My Bassus why? why dost thou write
Thyestes Feast? Medea's flight?
What hast to doe with Niobe?
Or Troys remains Andromache?
Deucalion's feat's a theam more fit,
Or Phaethon's to share thy wit.
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