Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Whenas the Rigid God espied a wight
  2. Crisping his head with curling-tongs aglow
  3. That he be likest to a Moorish maid,
  4. 'Ho thou! (cried he) we tell thee, catamite;
  5. However much thou toast and curl thyself
  6. Is then a damsel more of worth, I ask,
  7. Than are the hairy honours of thy yard?'