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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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De Picente, Epig. 57.

Old Picens had three teeth which from him come
As he sat coughing hard over his Tombe:
Which fragments he tooke up into his brest
Dropd from his mouth: Then laid his bones to rest.
Least that his Heire should not them safely see
Interr'd: He did himself the curtesie.
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