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. There's scarce a fop you meet with in your way,
  2. To whom you have not something soft to say;
  3. Some token which you either understand
  4. By mystic words or motion of the hand.
  5. They tell me you are sick; I run to see,
  6. And find, as ill as you pretend to be,
  7. It is not for my rival, but for me.
  8. I seldom told you of your faults, but strove
  9. To cover all your failings with my love;