Book 6, Epigram 30

Upon the plain as I rode all alone,
Assaulted by two sturdy lads I was;
I am a poor man Sires, let me be gone.
Nay, but ye shall be poor before ye pass.
     And so I was: yet lost nothing thereby.
     Would they had robbed me of my poverty.


Source: Chrestoleros: Seven Books of Epigrams written by T. B. (1598)