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