De Bassa, Epig. 88.
Thy Bassa's used to place a childe up by her,
And calls it her delight her pretty pinck:
Yet loves no childe, which thou mayst more admire,
What then's the cause? why, Bassa's wont to stinck.
Ex otio negotium. Or, Martiall his epigrams translated. With sundry poems and fancies, / by R. Fletcher.
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