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)