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.
- Let none conclude she's like her picture there.
- The fable she with hasty faith receiv'd,
- And what, so very well she lik'd, believ'd.
- But since so ill she does the poet use,
- 'Tis time her vanity to disabuse.
- My wife, a native of Phaliscan plains,
- Where the rich soils enrich the lab'ring swains,