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. That aggravated most the cruel curse;
  2. I would not wish my greatest foe a worse.
  3. How oft have I attended you abroad,
  4. Or in the city, cirque, or on the road ?
  5. They took me for your husband by my care,
  6. Or that your guardian or your slave I were.
  7. I by the people's glances, and your own,
  8. Observ'd you were acquainted with the town;
  9. That of your love if I possess'd a part,
  10. 'Twas plain I shared with many more your heart.
  11. What need I of your perjuries bring proof,
  12. Suppose the common talk was not enough!
  13. What do your ogles and your gestures mean,
  14. Your carriage at th' assembly and the scene ?
  15. There's scarce a fop you meet with in your way,
  16. To whom you have not something soft to say;
  17. Some token which you either understand
  18. By mystic words or motion of the hand.
  19. They tell me you are sick; I run to see,
  20. And find, as ill as you pretend to be,