Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. The mentule thou must cack and what's it weight.
  1. A starveling stranger made me laughing-stock,
  2. Bringing me cakes and spelt with salt bestrown;
  3. Then, having scattered part upon the fire,
  4. Forthright he hied him, duty duly done.
  5. Hereat a neighbour's bitch incontinent comes--
  6. Led by the savour of the smoke, I ween--
  7. And gobbling all that offering to my yard