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. Reject his greasy kindness, and restore
  2. Th' unsav'ry morsel he had chew'd before.
  3. Nor let his arms embrace your neck, nor rest
  4. Your tender cheek upon his hairy breast;
  5. Let not his hand within your bosom stray,
  6. And rudely with your pretty bubbies play.
  7. But, above all, let him no kiss receive,
  8. That's an offence I never can forgive;
  9. Do not, oh! do not that sweet mouth resign,
  10. Lest I rise up in arms, and cry 'tis mine.
  11. I shall thrust in betwixt, and void of fear
  12. The manifest adult'rer will appear.
  13. These things are plain to sight, but more I doubt
  14. What you conceal beneath your petticoat;
  15. Take not his leg between your tender thighs,
  16. Nor with your hand provoke my foe to rise.
  17. How many love inventions I deplore,
  18. Which I myself have practis'd all before !
  19. How oft have I been forc'd the robe to lift
  20. In company; to make a homely shift