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Ex otio Negotium

Or, Martiall his epigrams Translated. With Sundry Poems and Fancies, By R. Fletcher
Fletcher, R.
  
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Ad Cestum Puerum, Epig. 46.

How sweet's thy vertue, and thy shape to us?
Cestus my Boy, chast as Hippolitus!
Diana's self may teach, and swim with thee,
More wish'd then Phrygus by old Cybele.
Thou mayst succeed Ganymede in his place,
And unsuspected Smug the Thund'rer's face.
O happy she shall climbe thy tender bed!
And make thee man first for a maiden head!
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