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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 Milone, Epig. 101.

Milo is not at home, but travell'd out,
His fields ly barren, but his wife doth sprout:
But why's his land so bare? his wife so full?
His land has none, his wife has many a pull.