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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 Cæcilianum Epig. 74.

Scarce on in all the Citty would embrace
Thy proffer'd wife (Cæcilian) free to have:
But now she guarded, and lock'd up: apace
Thy custom comes. O th'art a witty knave!