Priapeia
Priaepia
by divers poets in English verse and prose. Translated by Sir Richard Burton and Leonard C. Smithers
- Within thy vitals thou desire to feel.
- PEnelope's first syllable followed by firstling of DIdo
- Take, and of CAmus--the front also of REmus the head.
- Whatso thou makest of these unto me when caught in my orchard
- Thief thou shalt give, such pain shall for thy thieving atone.
- An I rustical seem to have spoken somewhat unlearned,
- Pardon me: apples I pluck, pluck I no matter of books;
- Yet in my rudeness ok when hearing the dominie reading,
- Stood I storing in mind much of Homerical lore.
- 'Psoleon' fain he calls what we 'Psoloenta' be calling;
- What we 'Culum' name, 'Culeon' loves he to term;
- 'Smerdaleos' forsure designs what is nothing too cleanly
- And is the Pedicon's yard rightly 'Smerdalea' hight.
- What then? Had Trojan yard Taenerian dame and her Cunnus
- Never delighted, of song never a subject had he;
- But for the Tantalid's tool being known to Fame and well noted
- Old man Chryses had naught left him for making his moan.
- This did his mate dispoil of a fond affectionate mistress
- And of a prize not his plunderèd Aeacides,
- He that aye chaunted his dirge of distress to the lyre Pelethronian,