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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 Theodoro, Epig. 94.

A fire consumed the Poet's trumperie:
Apollo can this please the nine and thee?
O the great crime of Heaven! ô sad disaster!
Because the House was burnt and not the Master!