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 16, 2025.
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Epitaphium Latini, Epig. 29.
The stage his sweet renown, the fameOf playes, Latinus known by name,I here lye seiz'd in deaths cold night,Thy great applause, thy delight.I that could make strict Cato beMy joy'd spectator, and at meeThe Curii and Fabricii smileAnd loose their gravity the while.But yet my life nere bore away▪Ought from the theatre or play,I only there did act my partNot out of nature, but by art.Nor could I to great Caesar beeGrateful without my vanitie.Yet Deifi'd Domitian mightSee that my inward parts were right.But ye may call me at your willA Parasite of Phoebus still,
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While Rome may know me rais'd aboveInto the family of Jove.
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