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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 Librum suum, Epig. 1.

Thou that art entring the tryumphant Court,
Learn with a blushing grace more chast to sport.
Strip'd Uenus hence: this is not thy book,
Great Cæsar's goddess come, and on me look.