Ex otio negotium. Or, Martiall his epigrams translated. With sundry poems and fancies, / by R. Fletcher.

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Title: Ex otio negotium. Or, Martiall his epigrams translated. With sundry poems and fancies, / by R. Fletcher.
Author: Martial.
Publication: London, :: Printed by T. Mabb, for William Shears, and are to be sold at the Bible in Bedford street in Covent-garden,; 1656.
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Ad Fidentinum Epig. 73.

Fidentine dost thou think and seek to be
A Poet by my verse in thievery?
So Aegle with her bought and Indian bone
may seem to have a sound mouth of her own.
So painted-faced Lycoris may seem white,
Though black as Moores veild in a nat' rall night.
For that same cause that thou art Poet call'd,
Thou mayst be said bush-haird when thou art bald.