Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Written in verses twain mortals hereunder can read:
  2. 'Whatso my garden contains to thee shall be lawfullest plunder
  3. If unto us thou give whatso thy garden contains.'
  1. Though I be wooden Priapus (as thou see'st),
  2. With wooden sickle and a prickle of wood,
  3. Yet will I seize thee, girl! and hold thee seized