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Ex otio Negotium

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

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In Matriniam Epig. 32.

Matrinia asks if I can love
A woman that is old:
And such a one I doe approve,
But thou art dead and cold.
I can embrace old Hecub's itch,
Or Niobe all one;
But not till she's turnd to a bitch,
The other to a stone.