APPENDIX IN the CHAPTER V
Ovide, _Art to like ( love ? ) _, deliver I.
N 1. - « Sound at first the ground by a love letter which made your first statement ( declaration ? ), which it expresses your tenderness and contains, about is your row ( rank ? ), deep prayers.
« Promise, promise a lot, it costs so little. It is the wealth there which everybody possesses. When you will have given, we shall leave you, because we shall be beforehand paid. The important and the difficult, it is to obtain a first favour before having given nothing; not to lose the price, we always accordéra to you of news.
« If we send back to ( dismiss ? ) you your note ( ticket ? ) without reading it, do not pall you of this refusal and insist. If, having read your letter, we leave her ( it ? ) without answer, continue your papers, we shall eventually write ( spell ? ) you. Maybe as it will be asked you to stop your pursuits! Continue them, we wish what we push away ( repel ? ); you will soon see your accomplished wishes.
« If you meet your mistress ( teacher ? ) slept in her litter, approach her ( it ? ), but as accidentally. Be careful that a rival hears ( understands ? ) you and express yourselves by sentences with a double meaning. »
N 2. - « save ( spare ? ) nothing to gain ( win ? ) the chambermaid, if she is the confidante of her mistress ( teacher ? ). Seize the moment when this one will complain about the infidelity of her husband and about the insult of a rival. That, in the morning, the maid, by painting her hair, instigates her wrath; that she says to him ( her ? ) in half--voix: - Not, I do not think, you cannot return him ( her ? ) the same. That then she speaks skillfully about you; that she ( it ? ) swears that you are crazy about love, that you will die from it, especially that she ( it ? ) hurries being afraid that the thunderstorm dissipates. The anger of a beautiful is as the cloud which throws ( launches ? ) the flash of lighting, but fast bottom.
« Become attached the servants themselves. You can, without degrading you, greeting them each by the name and taking them the hand. Add to it some small presents if they ask to you for it; put in your interests all this world, including the doorkeeper and the slave who watches the door of the bedroom. »
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