Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. The Mint strong-smelling and the healthful Rue,
  2. The fibrous Garlic and the Onion sharp--
  3. Which all though safely fenced and hedged by us
  4. Not less are cultured in the neighbouring garths.
  5. Yet, these abandoning, to what grounds I worked
  6. (Most villainous of thieves!), you're fain to flock.
  7. Doubtless for open penalty ye come
  8. And that attracts you wherewithal we threat.
  1. Ho thou, which hardly thy rapacious hand
  2. Canst from the garden in my charge contain,
  3. First shall this watchman, ever lustful loon,
  4. Entering and exiting alternate-wise
  5. Widen thy portal to its fullest stretch
  6. Then shall the couple guarding either flank,
  7. Grandly provided with those pensile parts,
  8. After they've sorely pierced thee prostrate thrown
  9. Bring to the self-same part an ass-foal lewd
  10. Gifted with pizzle not a whit the worse.