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. Take not his leg between your tender thighs,
  2. Nor with your hand provoke my foe to rise.
  3. How many love inventions I deplore,
  4. Which I myself have practis'd all before !
  5. How oft have I been forc'd the robe to lift
  6. In company; to make a homely shift
  7. For a bare bout, ill huddled o'er in haste,
  8. While o'er my side the fair her mantle cast!
  9. You to your husband shall not be so kind,
  10. But lest you should, your mantle leave behind.
  11. Encourage him to tope, but kiss him not,
  12. Nor mix one drop of water in his pot.
  13. If he be fuddled well, and snores apace,
  14. Then we may take advice from time and place.
  15. When all depart, while compliments are loud,
  16. Be sure to mix among the thickest crowd;
  17. There I will be, and there we cannot miss,
  18. Perhaps to grubble, or at least to kiss.