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. Wealth now is worth, whatever 'twas of old,
  2. And merit valu'd by its weight in gold.
  3. With male and female, this is now the rule,
  4. And he that's poor, of course must be a fool.
  5. The dame to read my am'rous verse delights,
  6. My writings likes, but scorns the man that writes;
  7. They freely on her privacy presume,
  8. And find admittance where I must not come;
  9. Me when she does her haunted house exclude,