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. Pleases, who sighs, and cries, " I am undone."
  2. But could thy spies say, " We have kept her chaste,"
  3. Good servants then, but an ill wife thou hast;
  4. Who fears to be a cuckold is a clown,
  5. Not worthy to partake of this lewd town,
  6. Where it is monstrous to be fair and chaste,
  7. And not one inch of either sex lies waste.
  8. Wouldst thou be happy ? with her ways comply,
  9. And in her case lay points of honour by:
  10. The friendship she begins, wisely improve,
  11. And a fair wife gets one a world of love:
  12. So shalt thou welcome be to ev'ry treat,
  13. Live high, not pay, and never run in debt.
  1. 'Twas in the midst and silent dead of night,
  2. When heavy sleep oppos'd my weary sight,
  3. This vision did my troubled mind affright:-
  4. To Sol expos'd there stood a rising ground,
  5. Which cast beneath a spacious shade around;
  6. A gloomy grove of spreading oaks below,
  7. And various birds were perch'd on ev'ry bough;