Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. And with a futtering crew alway thy palace was filled:
  2. Then that thou learn of these which were most potent of swiving,
  3. Wont wast thou to bespeak, saying to suitors erect--
  4. 'Than my Ulysses none was better at drawing the bowstring
  5. Whether by muscles of side or by superior skill;
  6. And, as he now is deceased, do ye all draw and inform me