Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. And, if a damsel lay the night with thee,
  2. From this my presence fear not to be bann'd
  3. Fen as the sterner Gods of Heaven command.
  4. The Ne'er-do-wells and paltry gods are we
  5. Of rural worship and 'spite modesty
  6. Aye under Jove with balls a-bare we stand:
  7. Then enter whoso hither entry seek
  8. Reckless of bawdy-house's blackened reek!
  1. Charged to my charge the fieldlet who shall dare
  2. With hand not modest anywise molest,
  3. Me fox no eunuch he shall know and feet.