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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 Liberum amicum, Epig. 77.

(Liber) thy friends sweet care! worthy to bee
Crownd with Rose-buds to all eternitie!
Art wise? still let thy hair with unguents flow!
While flowry garlands compasse in thy brow!

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May thy clear glass with falerne wine black prove!
And thy soft bed growe warme with softer love!
A life thus led, though in its youth resign'd,
Is made much longer than it was design'd.