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Ex otio Negotium

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

Fletcher, R.

[epigraph]

MARTIALL

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In Gaurum. Epig. 51.

Gaurus approves my wit but slenderly,
Cause I write verse that please for brevity,
But he in twenty volumes drives a trade
Of Priam's warrs. O hee's a mighty blade!
We give an Elegant young pregnant birth,
He makes a dirty Gyant all of earth.