Priapeia
Priaepia
by divers poets in English verse and prose. Translated by Sir Richard Burton and Leonard C. Smithers
- Howling with Sagana th' elder (and paleness had rendered the couple
- Horrid of mien); anon both the ground with their talons
- Clawing, and black-fleeced lamb with teeth a-tearing to tatters
- Either began; its gore in a ditch was spillèd, so thereby
- Ghosts might be raised from graves and answers give to their queries.
- Images too there were, this of wool, that of wax, and the greater