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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I'de rather have the gentile lass,
But if she be denyd?
The Libertine shall freely pass,
And with my fancy side.

The hand-maid which excels them both,
Comes in the latest place:
If that she have in very troth,
But an ingenious face?