Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Whatso thou makest of these unto me when caught in my orchard
  2. Thief thou shalt give, such pain shall for thy thieving atone.
  1. An I rustical seem to have spoken somewhat unlearned,
  2. Pardon me: apples I pluck, pluck I no matter of books;
  3. Yet in my rudeness ok when hearing the dominie reading,
  4. Stood I storing in mind much of Homerical lore.
  5. 'Psoleon' fain he calls what we 'Psoloenta' be calling;
  6. What we 'Culum' name, 'Culeon' loves he to term;
  7. 'Smerdaleos' forsure designs what is nothing too cleanly
  8. And is the Pedicon's yard rightly 'Smerdalea' hight.