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. But when she look'd on you, poor harmless maid,
  2. You blush'd, and all the kind intrigue betray'd;
  3. Yet still I vow'd, I made a stout defence,
  4. I swore, and look'd as bold as innocence;
  5. "Damme,—egad!" all that, and—"let me die!"'
  6. Kind Venus, do not hear my perjury;
  7. Kind Venus, stop thy ears when lovers lie.
  8. Now, Betty, how will you my oaths requite?