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Ex otio Negotium

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

Fletcher, R.

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MARTIALL

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Ad Gallum de ejus uxore Epig. 56.

In Lybia thy wife they stigmatize
With the foule crime of too much avarice.
But they are lyes they tell: she is not wont
To take, but give for scouring of her ---.