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. On it and me, I'll favour the deceit.
  2. False as thou art, why must I daily see
  3. Th' intriguing billet-doux he sends to thee ?
  4. The wanton sonnet, or soft elegy ?
  5. Why does your bed all tumbled seem to say,
  6. See what they've done, see where the lovers lay!
  7. Why do your locks and rumpled head-clothes show
  8. 'Tis more than usual sleep that made 'em so?
  9. Why are the kisses which he gave, betray'd
  10. By the impression which his teeth had made ?
  11. Yet say you're chaste, and I'll be still deceived;
  12. What much is wish'd for, is with ease believ'd.
  13. But when you own what a lewd wretch thou art,
  14. My blood grows cold and freezes at my heart,
  15. Then do I curse thee, and thy crimes reprove,
  16. But curse in vain, for still I find I love;
  17. "Since she is false," oft to myself I cry,
  18. "Would I were dead,"-yet 'tis with thee I'd die
  19. I will not see your maid, to let me know
  20. Who visits you, where, and with whom you go;