Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. 'Ho thou! (cried he) we tell thee, catamite;
  2. However much thou toast and curl thyself
  3. Is then a damsel more of worth, I ask,
  4. Than are the hairy honours of thy yard?'
  1. Ho girl! no whiter-skinned than Moorish man
  2. Yet, Oh! than every pathic softer far;
  3. Squatter than Pygmey fearful of the crane;
  4. Harsher and hairier than pelt of bear;
  5. Looser than Median or than Indian hose;
  6. Remain as please thee or at will depart.
  7. For, though full ready seem I, yet I want
  8. Of rockets half-score bundles at the least,
  9. Ere I that ditch-like groin can scrub and crush
  10. The swarming wormlets of thy privy parts.