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. The watchman help'd her to a second leap.
  2. Let him who loves an easy whetstone whore,
  3. Pluck leaves from trees, and drink the common shore.
  4. The jilting harlot strikes the surest blow,
  5. A truth which I by sad experience know;
  6. The kind, poor, constant creature we despise,
  7. Man but pursues the quarry while it flies.
  8. But thou dull husband of a wife too fair,
  9. Stand on thy guard, and watch the precious ware;