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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 Pætum, Epig. 77.

Pætus thou took'st ten sesterties from mee
Cause Bucco loos'd two hundred due to thee,
May others crimes I pray nere hurt me! when
Two hundred thou canst loose, why not my ten?