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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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Qualem puellam velit Epig. 33.

I'de rather have the gentile lass,
But if she be denyd?
The Libertine shall freely pass,
And with my fancy side.
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The hand-maid which excels them both,
Comes in the latest place:
If that she have in very troth,
But an ingenious face?
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