Priapeia
Priaepia
by divers poets in English verse and prose. Translated by Sir Richard Burton and Leonard C. Smithers
- One linmed on tablet shall to thee be given
- Like-sized, like-coloured and alike of shape.'
- The God to promise deigning wagged his yard,
- By way of nod divine, and did my bede.
- Simply to thee I say whatever to say shall behove me,
- Since my 'nature' alway openly showeth to fight;
- Fain would I pedicate thee who'rt Fain to plunder my apples;
- An my want thou shalt grant, eke shall be granted thy want.