Priapeia
Priaepia
by divers poets in English verse and prose. Translated by Sir Richard Burton and Leonard C. Smithers
- Whatso before thee I laid, of home-grown apples the firstlings,
- (Prithee, be pleased not to tell!) from Via Sacra be ta'en.
- An fro' me woman shall thieve or plunder me man or a man-child,
- She shall pay me with coynte, that with his mouth, this with arse.
- Whoso of violets here shall pluck or rose,
- Or furtive greens or apples never bought,
- May he in want of woman or of boy