Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. A damsel drier than the raisin'd grape,
  2. Warmer than boxwood or than virgin wax,
  3. Who pismires clustering on her every limb
  4. Maketh a bulky-corpulent folk appear;
  5. One whose unopened bowels through her skin