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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 Spadone & Sene, Epig. 82.

An Eunuch and an old man strove to lye
With Ægle, but twixt both she still lay dry,
One wanted meanes the other strength to frig,
So either's labor itbh'd without a Jig.
To Uenus then for them and her shee groans,
To give the one his youth, th'other his stones.
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