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. Watching the part where your sweet mouth hath been,
  2. And thence, with eager lips, will suck it in.
  3. If he, with clownish manners, thinks it fit
  4. To taste, and offer you the nasty bit,
  5. Reject his greasy kindness, and restore
  6. Th' unsav'ry morsel he had chew'd before.
  7. Nor let his arms embrace your neck, nor rest
  8. Your tender cheek upon his hairy breast;
  9. Let not his hand within your bosom stray,
  10. And rudely with your pretty bubbies play.
  11. But, above all, let him no kiss receive,
  12. That's an offence I never can forgive;
  13. Do not, oh! do not that sweet mouth resign,
  14. Lest I rise up in arms, and cry 'tis mine.
  15. I shall thrust in betwixt, and void of fear
  16. The manifest adult'rer will appear.
  17. These things are plain to sight, but more I doubt
  18. What you conceal beneath your petticoat;