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Ex otio Negotium

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

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Ad Lectorem Epig. 2.

This whom thou readst is he by thee required,
Martiall, through all the world fam'd and desired,
For sharpest Books of Epigrams, on whom
(Ingenious Reader) living, without Tombe,

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Thou hast bestow'd that high and glorious wreath,
Which seldome Poets after death receive.