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Ex otio Negotium

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

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Ad Posthumum Epig. 59.

To morrow Posthumus, to morrow still
Thou sayst thou'lt live: but Posthumus when will
That morrow come? how far? where to be found?
Is't in the Parthian, or Armenian ground?

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Or can that morrow Priam's age out-boast?
Or Nestor's? tell what will that morrow cost?
Thou'lt live to morrow? this days life's too late,
Hee's wise that liv'd before the present date.