Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. A chough, a caries, an eld-worn grave,
  2. By lapse of crowding centuries rotten grown,
  3. Who as a wetnurse haply may have fed
  4. Tithonus, Priam, Nestor, and perchance
  5. When they were little lads was agèd crone,
  6. Sues me for swiver she may never lack!
  7. How if she pray me to be girl again?
  8. Yet, if she's moneyed, she's again a girl.