Amores

Ovid

Ovid. Ovid's Art of Love (in three Books), the Remedy of Love, the Art of Beauty, the Court of Love, the History of Love, and Amours. Dryden, John, et al., translator. New York: Calvin Blanchard, 1855.

  1. Would he not buy, he might himself be bought."
  2. Fair Lucia blush'd. "It is a sign of grace,
  3. (Dypsas replied,) that red becomes thy face.
  4. All lovers now by what they give are weighed,
  5. And she is best belov'd that best is paid;
  6. The sun-burnt Latins, in old Tatius' reign,
  7. Did to one man perhaps their love restrain:
  8. Venus in her Aeneas' city rules,
  9. And all adore her deity but fools.
  10. Go on, ye fair, chaste only let such live
  11. As none will ask, and know not how to give.
  12. Life steals away, and our best hours are gone
  13. Ere the true use or worth of them be known.
  14. Things long neglected, of themselves decay;
  15. What we forbear, time rudely makes his prey.
  16. Beauty is best preserv'd by exercise,
  17. Nor for that task can one or few suffice.
  18. Wouldst thou grow rich, thou must from many take:
  19. From one 'twere hard continually to rake.
  20. Without new gowns and coaches, who can live ?