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. While his lewd hand descends below the board?
  2. No wonder that Hippodamia's charms,
  3. At such a sight, the Centaurs urg'd to arms:
  4. That in a rage, they threw their cups aside,
  5. Assail'd the bridegroom, and would force the bride.
  6. I am not half a horse, (I would I were :)
  7. Yet hardly can from you my hands forbear.
  8. Take, then, my counsel; which observ'd, may be,