Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Wealth is my loss! Do thou vouchsafe lend aid to my prayer,
  2. Nor, by thy signal shown, me, O Priapus, betray:
  3. Whatso before thee I laid, of home-grown apples the firstlings,
  4. (Prithee, be pleased not to tell!) from Via Sacra be ta'en.
  1. An fro' me woman shall thieve or plunder me man or a man-child,
  2. She shall pay me with coynte, that with his mouth, this with arse.