Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Ghosts might be raised from graves and answers give to their queries.
  2. Images too there were, this of wool, that of wax, and the greater
  3. Woollen that seemed with pains about to punish the lesser
  4. Suppliant standing in wax as one foredoomèd to perish
  5. After a servile way. One calls on Hecate, th' other
  6. Summons fell Tisiphone; then mightest thou look upon serpents
  7. Wriggling with Hell-sluts around, whilst Luna ruddily blushing
  8. Hid her behind the tall tombs lest she these doings might witness.
  9. Now if I false in aught be, my head bewrayed with white mutings
  10. Dropt by the crows and hither repair to bepiss and conskite me