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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 Bithynicum, Epig. 26.

Cause Nevia coughs, and grieves, breaths thick and short,
And drops her spittle on her brest in sport:
Do'st think thy self her heire made presently?
Th'art out, thy Nævia flatters, will not dye.