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. "Ovid, the servant of Corinna, pray'd
  2. The goddess here, the teeming dame to aid."
  3. Ah, goddess! of my humble suit allow;
  4. Give place to my inscription and my vow.
  5. If frighted as I am, I may presume
  6. Your conduct to direct in time to come,
  7. Corinna, since you've suffer'd thus before,
  8. Ah, try the bold experiment no more!
  1. What boots it that the fair are free from war,
  2. And what that they're forbid the shield to bear,
  3. Against themselves if they knew arms employ
  4. And madly with new wounds their lives destroy?