Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Apples moulded in wax giveth, O Godhead, to thee:
  2. But thou, pleased with the fruit in effigy placed on thine altar,
  3. Genuine 'fruit' vouchsafe he, O Priapus! shall bear.
  1. Refrain from deeming all my sayings be
  2. In sport bespoken for mine own disport;
  3. Thieves taken thrice or four tunes in the fact