Priapeia
Priaepia
by divers poets in English verse and prose. Translated by Sir Richard Burton and Leonard C. Smithers
- But thou, pleased with the fruit in effigy placed on thine altar,
- Genuine 'fruit' vouchsafe he, O Priapus! shall bear.
- Refrain from deeming all my sayings be
- In sport bespoken for mine own disport;
- Thieves taken thrice or four tunes in the fact
- (Believe my word) I'll surely irrumate.
- What shouldest say this spear (although I'm wooden) be wishing