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. What would I not your anger to abate,
  2. Redeem your favour, or remove your hate?
  3. To your revenge no means or method spare;
  4. Revenge, alas! is easy to the fair.
  1. There is a bawd renown'd in Venus' wars,
  2. Aud dreadful still with honorable scars;
  3. Her youth and beauty, craft and guile supply,
  4. Sworn foe to all degrees of chastity.
  5. Dypsas, who first taught love-sick maids the way
  6. To cheat the bridegroom on the wedding-day,
  7. And then a hundred subtle tricks devis'd,