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Ex otio Negotium

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

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De Quicinali Epig. 85.

Sly Quicinalis cares not much to wed,
Yet would partake the off-spring of the bed,
But yet what trick? what custom is't he uses?
Most certain he his chamber-maids abuses.
So stocks his house and feilds: how truly he
Is calld the Father of his familie?