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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 Priscum, Epig. 12.

Dost ask why I'de not marry a rich wife?
I'le not be subject in that double strife.
Let matrons to their heads inferior be
Else man and wife have no equalitie.