Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Shall with sore righteous penalty be paid?
  2. Howe'er thou 'plain, no more shall tender boy
  3. Ope to thy bidding, nor on groaning bed
  4. His mobile buttocks writhe with aiding art:
  5. Nor shall the wanton damsel's legier hand
  6. Stroke thee, or rub on thee her lubric thigh.
  7. A two-fanged mistress, Romulus old remembering,
  8. Awaits thee; middlemost whose sable groin
  9. And hide time-loosened thou with coynte-rime bewrayed
  10. And hung in cobwebs fain shalt block the way.