Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Thy coynte (Penelope!) claiming his every thought;
  2. Thou who bidest so chaste with mind ever set upon banquets
  3. And with a futtering crew alway thy palace was filled:
  4. Then that thou learn of these which were most potent of swiving,
  5. Wont wast thou to bespeak, saying to suitors erect--
  6. 'Than my Ulysses none was better at drawing the bowstring