Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Or I shall burst and ye Priapus lose.
  2. How I be futtered-out yourselves espy
  3. Used-up, bejaded, lean and pallid grown,
  4. Who erstwhile ruddy, in my doughtiness wont
  5. To kill with poking thieves however doughty.
  6. My side has failed me and poor I with cough
  7. The perilous spittle ever must outspew.
  1. Well-known darling of folk in the Circus Maximus far famed,
  2. Quinctia, tremulous hips trainèd and artful to wag,
  3. Cymbals and castanets (the wanton arms) to Priapus