Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Save a Priapus stood in marble wrought
  2. So the Cilician, who with hand sans pelf
  3. Scornèd departing, stole Priapus' self.
  1. Carved me no rustic boor his artless sickle a-plying:
  2. Here of the bailiff thou see'st noble and notable work;
  3. For that the wealthiest swain who owns the lands Caërétan