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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 Priscum, Epig. 95.

Priscus thou oft dost ask what I would bee
If I were rich and rais'd to Potencie.
Can any man his future soule declare?
Suppose thou wert a Lyon: How wouldst stare?