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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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In Pollam Epig. 42.

Cause Polla thou dost strive so fine
With paint to smooth thy wrinckled groin,
Thou daubst thy belly, not thy lips to mee,
And peradventure in simplicitie
The smaller fault lyes open freely still,
That which is hid is thought the greater ill.
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