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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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Ex otio Negotium
Ad Tongilianum Epig. 52.
Thy house two hundred pounds (
Tongilian
) cost,
Which by a frequent chance of fire was lost:
Thy Brief rose ten times more: let me require
Was't not thy plot to set thy house on fire?
Ex otio Negotium