Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  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.