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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 senem Orbum, Epig. 45.

Th'art blinde, and rich and under Brutus bore,
And dost thou think true friendship now to have?
Tis true: But such thou hadst when young and poor,
He that comes now, desires thee in thy Grave.