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. Whilst lie is with thee, let some woman bring
  2. Some Indian stuff or foreign precious thing;
  3. Which thou must say thou want'st, and he must buy,
  4. Though for it six months hence in gaol he lie.
  5. Thy mother, sister, brother, and thy nurse,
  6. Must have a pull each at thy lover's purse.
  7. Let him from rivals never be secure,
  8. That hope once gone, love will not long endure;