P. OVIDII NASONIS AMORUM.
LIBER PRIMUS.
Elegia I.
Quemadmodum a Cupidine, pro bellis amoris scribere coactus sit.
We which were Ovid's five books, now are three,
For these before the rest preferreth he:
If reading five thou plain'st of tediousness,
Two ta'en away, thy[128] labour will be less;
With Muse prepared,[129] I meant to sing of arms,