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Ex otio Negotium

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

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In Æliam. Epig. 20.

Ælia just four teeth had, if I told right,
One Cough ejected two, another two:
Now she may cough securely day and night
There's nothing left for the third cough to doe.