P. OVIDII NASONIS AMORUM.
LIBER SECUNDUS.
Elegia I.[233]
Quod pro gigantomachia amores scribere sit coactus.
I, Ovid, poet, of my[234] wantonness,
Born at Peligny, to write more address.
So Cupid wills. Far hence be the severe!
You are unapt my looser lines to hear.