Priapeia
Priaepia
by divers poets in English verse and prose. Translated by Sir Richard Burton and Leonard C. Smithers
- Woollen that seemed with pains about to punish the lesser
- Suppliant standing in wax as one foredoomèd to perish
- After a servile way. One calls on Hecate, th' other
- Summons fell Tisiphone; then mightest thou look upon serpents
- Wriggling with Hell-sluts around, whilst Luna ruddily blushing
- Hid her behind the tall tombs lest she these doings might witness.
- Now if I false in aught be, my head bewrayed with white mutings
- Dropt by the crows and hither repair to bepiss and conskite me
- Julius, frail Pediatia and eke Voranus the robber.
- Why should I mention all and each? how chattered alternate