Ex otio negotium. Or, Martiall his epigrams translated. With sundry poems and fancies, / by R. Fletcher.
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Ex otio negotium. Or, Martiall his epigrams translated. With sundry poems and fancies, / by R. Fletcher.
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Martial.
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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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"Ex otio negotium. Or, Martiall his epigrams translated. With sundry poems and fancies, / by R. Fletcher." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A89611.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 19, 2025.
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descriptionPage 77
Ad Entellum, Epig. 68.
Oh that the famed Alcinous garden seesMay well prefer (Entellus) thine to his.Least nipping winter peirce the purpl•• grapes,And on the Vines smart Frosts commit their rapes.Thy vintage in a gem inclosed lyes,And the Grape cover'd, not hid from our eyes.So female shapes shine through their Tifanie,And Pibbles in the waters numbred bee,What would not nature free, to wit, im∣part?When winter's made an Autumn by thy art.
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