Epigrams of Martial, Englished with some other pieces, ancient and modern.

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Title: Epigrams of Martial, Englished with some other pieces, ancient and modern.
Author: Martial.
Publication: London :: Printed for Henry Bonwicke ...,; 1695.
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Subject terms: Epigrams, Latin.
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Ep. 44. On Sextus.

Having some small Commodity to buy,
I'th•• 'Change (the Usurer Sextus standing nigh,
My old Cam'rade, you know) lest I should pray
To borrow, for Prevention thus does say,
Softly Computing with himself, but so
As I may hear him. I to Secundus owe
Seven thousand, four to Phoebus, eleven more
To Philet; and I Wretch, have not in Store
One Doit, should now these Men for Money send:
O wond'rous Fetch of an old Canker'd Friend!
'Tis hard, when one is ask'd, not to supply:
But harder far, when not ask'd, to deny.