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. And blush at bonds, which once with pride I bore:
  2. But this, methinks, should have been done before.
  3. To leave my wicked courses I begin,
  4. As years deprive me of the gust of sin.
  5. On Cupid's neck I should have trod when young,
  6. And vanquish'd him when my desires were strong.
  7. In that there had been virtue; now there's none,
  8. The world will say so; let the world say on.
  9. Much opposition I shall meet; perhaps,
  10. The lewd will laugh, and threaten a relapse.
  11. To bear reproaches I must be prepar'd,
  12. Easy's the end, when the beginning's hard;
  13. Content let me the present pain endure,
  14. For the sharp medicine is the patient's cure.