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Ex otio Negotium

Or, Martiall his epigrams Translated. With Sundry Poems and Fancies, By R. Fletcher
Fletcher, R.
  
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De Lævina Epig. 63.

Lævina Chast as Sabines were of old
Whose face look'd stricter than her husbands, could,
Whiles she permits her selfe refresh'd to be
Oft in the baths held in communitie,
She fell on fire, embraced a lad, and burn'd,
Chast she came there, but too much chasd return'd.
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