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Ex otio Negotium

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

Fletcher, R.

[epigraph]

MARTIALL

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In Saletanum Epig. 65.

Why doe we see old Saletan so sad?
Is the cause light? thou sayst his wife is dead.
O the grand crime of fate! ô the sad chance!
Is Secundilla dead? that did advance
A thousand sesterties in dowry to thee?
O would this hap had neer came to undoe thee!