Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. This did his mate dispoil of a fond affectionate mistress
  2. And of a prize not his plunderèd Aeacides,
  3. He that aye chaunted his dirge of distress to the lyre Pelethronian,
  4. Lyre of the stiff taut string, stiffer the string of himself.