Priapeia
Priaepia
by divers poets in English verse and prose. Translated by Sir Richard Burton and Leonard C. Smithers
- Ho thou, which hardly thy rapacious hand
- Canst from the garden in my charge contain,
- First shall this watchman, ever lustful loon,
- Entering and exiting alternate-wise
- Widen thy portal to its fullest stretch
- Then shall the couple guarding either flank,
- Grandly provided with those pensile parts,
- After they've sorely pierced thee prostrate thrown
- Bring to the self-same part an ass-foal lewd
- Gifted with pizzle not a whit the worse.
- Then who is wise beware of working ill,
- Knowing so much of pego waits him here.