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Ex otio Negotium

Or, Martiall his epigrams Translated. With Sundry Poems and Fancies, By R. Fletcher
  

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In Bassum, Epig. 99.

When thou awife so youthful hast,
So rich, so noble, wise, and chast,
That the most wicked Goat that is
A better cannot wish for his.
Thou spendst thy strength with Boyes (we see)
Which thy wife's dowry bought for thee,
So to his Mistris thy Prick comes
Tyred, thus redeemed with mighty summs.

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Nor will he stand though tempted by
The voyce's or thumbs flattery.
Blush then, or let the Law unfold it,
(Bassus) this is not thine, th'hast sold it.