Ouid's elegies three bookes. By C.M. Epigrames by I.D.
About this Item
- Title
- Ouid's elegies three bookes. By C.M. Epigrames by I.D.
- Author
- Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D.
- Publication
- At Middlebourgh [i.e. London :: s.n.,
- after 1602]
- Rights/Permissions
-
To the extent possible under law, the Text Creation Partnership has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above, according to the terms of the CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). This waiver does not extend to any page images or other supplementary files associated with this work, which may be protected by copyright or other license restrictions. Please go to http://www.textcreationpartnership.org/ for more information.
- Subject terms
- Latin poetry -- Translations into English -- Early works to 1800.
- Love poetry, Latin -- Early works to 1800.
- Link to this Item
-
http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A08622.0001.001
- Cite this Item
-
"Ouid's elegies three bookes. By C.M. Epigrames by I.D." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A08622.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 13, 2024.
Pages
Page [unnumbered]
When they were slender, and like downy mosse,
They troubled haires, alas, endur'd great losse.
How patiently hot irons they did take,
In crooked trannells crispy curles to make.
I cryed, 'tis sinne, 'tis sinne, these haires to burne,
They well become thee, then to spare them turne.
Farre off be force, no fire to them may reach,
Thy very haires will the hot bodkin ••each.
Lost are the goodly lockes, which from their crowne,
Phoebus and Bacchus wisht were hanging downe.
Such were they as Dia••a painted stands,
All naked holding in her waue-moist hands.
Why doest thy ill kembd tresses losse lament?
Why in thy glasse doest••looke being discontent?
Be not to see with wonted eyes inclinde,
To please thy selfe, thy selfe put out of minde.
No charmed herbes of any harlot skath'd thee,
No fai••hlesse witch in Thessale waters bath'd thee.
No sicknesse harm'd thee, farre be that away,
No enuious tongue wrought thy thick lockes decay.
By thine owne hand and fault thy hurt doth grow,
Thou mad'st thy head with compound poyson flow.
Now Germany shall captiue haire-tyers send thee,
And vanqnisht people curious dressings lend thee.
Which some admiring O thou oft wilt blush,
And say he likes me for my borrowed bush.
Praysing for me some vnknowne Guelder dame,
But I remember when it was my fame.
Alas she almost weepes, and her white cheekes,
Died red with shame to hide from shame she seekes.
She holds, and viewes her old lockes in her lappe,
Aye me rare gifts vnworthy such a happe.
Page [unnumbered]
Cheere vp thy selfe, thy losse thou maiest repaire,
And be hereafter seene with natiue haire.