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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In Sutorem, Epig. 74.

O thou whose teeth were wont to reach old hides,
And gnaw base rotten soles with dirty sides,
Thou hast thy Patron's lands now in th•• grave,
In which I vexe that thou a crib shouldst have,
And drunk dost break the christals with burn wine,
And frigst thy late Lord's Boy as he were th••ne.
With letters my sad Parents fooled mee,
O learning, what have I to doe with thee?
Thalia burn thy Books, and thy quills too▪
If Coblers get such boons from an old shooe.