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Ex otio Negotium

Or, Martiall his epigrams Translated. With Sundry Poems and Fancies, By R. Fletcher
  

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In Fabullum, Epig. 79.

When wrinckled Beldames thy familiars bee,
Or filthy Bauds, or worse if ought you see,
When these compagnions thou dost leade a-long
Through every Feast with thee, and walke, and throng,
(Fabulla) thus compared we needs must say
Th'art handsome and dost bear the bell a-way.