Priapeia

Priaepia

by divers poets in English verse and prose. Translated by Sir Richard Burton and Leonard C. Smithers

  1. And, as yester'een she prayed ere daylight fled
  2. One of three teeth she happened out to crache.
  3. 'Bear it afar (cried I) and let it lurk
  4. Beneath thy tattered robe and tawny stole;
  5. (Fen as 'tis ever wont); and dread the fight
  6. Of meagre jaws which ope with such a gape--
  7. By hairy nostrils capped and eminent nose--
  8. Thou hadst deemed to see an Epicurean yawn.'
  1. Thou shalt be pedicate (lad!), thou also (lass!) shalt be rogered;
  2. While for the bearded thief is the third penalty kept.