Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Ever untrimmed is Aesculapius' beard;
  2. None hath a broader breast than bully Mars;
  3. But, an Priapus' rank 'mid these remain,
  4. There be no better-membered deity.
  1. Why on memorial tablet do they limn