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. 'Tis money makes the judge with looks severe
  2. Insult the poor, and give the rich his ear;
  3. 'Tis money buys the title, makes the knight,
  4. And dignifies with quality the cit:
  5. Let money do all this, and more; the bar
  6. Let money govern, and direct the war.
  7. Let peace, as money sets the terms, be made,
  8. But let it not the rights of love invade.
  9. Let us enjoy this privilege at least,
  10. That if we must be poor, we may with love be bless'd:
  11. For now-a-days there's not a dame in town
  12. So coy, but if you've money she's your own.
  13. What tho' her keeper may an Argus be ?
  14. Blind him with money, and he'll nothing see.
  15. What though her husband should by chance be by?
  16. He'll leave the house, let you your money fly.
  17. If there's a god above, to whom belongs
  18. The cause of love, and slighted lovers wrongs,
  19. Revenge the false one's mercenary scorn,
  20. And let ill-gotten pelf to dirt return.