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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 Cerdonem Epig. 99.

Why art offended (Cerdo) with my book?
Thy life, and not thy person's by me strook,

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Then suffer harmless-wit, why is't not due
For me to sport? when stabbing's free to you?