Priapeia
Priaepia
by divers poets in English verse and prose. Translated by Sir Richard Burton and Leonard C. Smithers
- When the fig's honied sweet thy taste shall catch
- And hither tempt thee hand of thee to stretch;
- Glance at my nature, Thief! and estimate
- The mentule thou must cack and what's it weight.
- A starveling stranger made me laughing-stock,
- Bringing me cakes and spelt with salt bestrown;
- Then, having scattered part upon the fire,
- Forthright he hied him, duty duly done.
- Hereat a neighbour's bitch incontinent comes--
- Led by the savour of the smoke, I ween--