Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Profit thee naught, at higher stead I'll strike.
  1. Priapus! perish I an words obscene
  2. And wicked terms to use I'm not ashamed:
  3. But whenas thou, a god (bylaying shame),
  4. To me displayest bollocks evident,
  5. With Coynte the Prickle I must baldly name.
  1. Dreadful wi' sickle and dire with thy greater part, O Priapus!