Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Perspectus, these fanes give (O Priapus!) to thee.
  2. So for such offices make I pact (if lawful, O Holy)
  3. Thou of this farm shalt bide ever-assiduous guard.
  4. And if a rogue come rob our field or venture to trespass