Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. How I be futtered-out yourselves espy
  2. Used-up, bejaded, lean and pallid grown,
  3. Who erstwhile ruddy, in my doughtiness wont
  4. To kill with poking thieves however doughty.
  5. My side has failed me and poor I with cough
  6. The perilous spittle ever must outspew.