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. Let not his hand within your bosom stray,
  2. And rudely with your pretty bubbies play.
  3. But, above all, let him no kiss receive,
  4. That's an offence I never can forgive;
  5. Do not, oh! do not that sweet mouth resign,
  6. Lest I rise up in arms, and cry 'tis mine.
  7. I shall thrust in betwixt, and void of fear
  8. The manifest adult'rer will appear.
  9. These things are plain to sight, but more I doubt
  10. What you conceal beneath your petticoat;
  11. Take not his leg between your tender thighs,
  12. Nor with your hand provoke my foe to rise.
  13. How many love inventions I deplore,
  14. Which I myself have practis'd all before !
  15. How oft have I been forc'd the robe to lift
  16. In company; to make a homely shift
  17. For a bare bout, ill huddled o'er in haste,
  18. While o'er my side the fair her mantle cast!