Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Bringing me cakes and spelt with salt bestrown;
  2. Then, having scattered part upon the fire,
  3. Forthright he hied him, duty duly done.
  4. Hereat a neighbour's bitch incontinent comes--
  5. Led by the savour of the smoke, I ween--
  6. And gobbling all that offering to my yard