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. Thy subject, and the bed shall be thy throne;
  2. Thou there, my lovely queen, shall give me laws,
  3. Nor in my absence, to rejoice have cause,
  4. Nor ever shall my services be blam'd
  5. Nor shalt thou of thy servant be asham'd.
  6. My poetry's my purse, my fortun's there,
  7. I have no other way to win the fair;
  8. Nor is that way the worst; the brightest dames