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Ex otio Negotium

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

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De Gellia, Epig. 34.

Gellia nere mourns her fathers losse
Whiles no one's by to see,
But yet her soon commanded tears
Flow in societie:
‘To weep for praise is but a feigned moan,
‘He grieves most truly that does grieve alone.