Priapeia
Priaepia
by divers poets in English verse and prose. Translated by Sir Richard Burton and Leonard C. Smithers
- Beneath thy tattered robe and tawny stole;
- (Fen as 'tis ever wont); and dread the fight
- Of meagre jaws which ope with such a gape--
- By hairy nostrils capped and eminent nose--
- Thou hadst deemed to see an Epicurean yawn.'
- Thou shalt be pedicate (lad!), thou also (lass!) shalt be rogered;
- While for the bearded thief is the third penalty kept.
- Here' Here! nor dare expect (whoe'er thou be)
- To 'scape the Lecher God's fane venerand;
- And, if a damsel lay the night with thee,
- From this my presence fear not to be bann'd
- Fen as the sterner Gods of Heaven command.