Book II, Epigram 44: In Sextum

Whether I've bought a freeze coat or a boy,
For three or four times double the pound Troy,
Forthwith the us're
Sextus, which ye know
To be my antient neighbour-friend in show,
In care, least I should borrow of him, fears
And whispers to himself, but by my eares,
I to Secundus owe seaven thousand pounds,
To Phaebus four, eleven Philetus sounds;
Whiles I have not one farthing in my chest:
O my conceited friend's ingenious jest!
Sextus 'tis hard to give a flat denyal,
When thou art askd: much more before the tryal.