Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  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.