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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 Fabullam, Epig. 36.

Fabullus when thou dost invite
Three hundred Strangers to my sight,
Dost wonder? and complain? and chide?
When thus unknown accompanied?
Though call'd I doe not forthwith wait on thee?
Me thinks I sup alone, and am not free.