Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Yon Telethusa befamèd amid the damsels Suburran
  2. (Who by her gains I hold freedwoman now is become)
  3. Girds with a gilded crown, O Holy! thine inguinal organ,
  4. Held by the pathic girls like in degree to a god.
  1. Whoso comes hither shall a bard become
  2. And to me dedicate facetious verse;
  3. But who thiswise doth not, 'mid learnèd poets
  4. Shall pace with fundament fulfilled of 'figs'.