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. And then a hundred subtle tricks devis'd,
  2. Wherewith the am'rous theft might be disguis'd;
  3. Of herbs and spells she tries the guilty force,
  4. The poison of a mare that goes to horse.
  5. Cleaving the midnight air upon a switch,
  6. Some for a bawd, most take her for a witch.
  7. Each morning sees her reeling to her bed,
  8. Her native blue o'ercome with drunken red: