Priapeia
Priaepia
by divers poets in English verse and prose. Translated by Sir Richard Burton and Leonard C. Smithers
- Cymbals and castanets (the wanton arms) to Priapus
- Offers and tambourine struck with the hand to self drawn.
- Wherefore prays she that aye she please her mob of admirers;
- Let one and all stand stiff after the wont of her god.
- Thou, of unrighteous thought, that hardly canst
- Refrain from robbing this my garden-plot,
- With foot-long fascinum shalt bulghar'd be: