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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 Fannio Epig. 80.

When Fannius should have scaped his Foe,
His own hands stopt his breath:
And was't not madness I would know,
By dying to 'scape death;