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