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 coxcomb will in future times think fit
  2. To build in love his fortune on his wit ?
  3. Wealth now is worth, whatever 'twas of old,
  4. And merit valu'd by its weight in gold.
  5. With male and female, this is now the rule,
  6. And he that's poor, of course must be a fool.
  7. The dame to read my am'rous verse delights,
  8. My writings likes, but scorns the man that writes;
  9. They freely on her privacy presume,
  10. And find admittance where I must not come;
  11. Me when she does her haunted house exclude,
  12. To them she's civil, as to me she's rude.
  13. Me she exposes to a thousand harms,
  14. To walk the streets, while they are in her arms.
  15. For whom does she my passion disregard ?
  16. And who has intercepted my reward ?
  17. Why is the beau with so much joy embrac'd ?
  18. His pockets full, it seems, his coat is lac'd:
  19. He won her with his military air
  20. Which cheats as often as it charms the fair.