The Hesperides & Noble Numbers/Appendix of Epigrams/Once Poor, Still Penurious

by Robert Herrick

64. ONCE POOR, STILL PENURIOUS.

Goes the world now, it will with thee go hard:
The fattest hogs we grease the more with lard.
To him that has, there shall be added more;
Who is penurious, he shall still be poor.