Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Priapus! perish I an words obscene
  2. And wicked terms to use I'm not ashamed:
  3. But whenas thou, a god (bylaying shame),
  4. To me displayest bollocks evident,
  5. With Coynte the Prickle I must baldly name.
  1. Dreadful wi' sickle and dire with thy greater part, O Priapus!
  2. Prithee to me point out which be the way to the fount?
  1. Hie thee amid these vines whereof an thou gather a grape-bunch
  2. Guest! of the water shalt drink serving for different use.
  1. Long as thy wanton hand to pluck refrain
  2. Chaster than Vesta's self thou may'st remain
  3. Else thee my belly's arm shall loosen so
  4. Out of thy proper anus thou shalt flow.
  1. A damsel drier than the raisin'd grape,
  2. Warmer than boxwood or than virgin wax,