Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. With foot-long fascinum shalt bulghar'd be:
  2. Yet if so mighty grievous punishment
  3. Profit thee naught, at higher stead I'll strike.
  1. Priapus! perish I an words obscene
  2. And wicked terms to use I'm not ashamed:
  3. But whenas thou, a god (bylaying shame),
  4. To me displayest bollocks evident,
  5. With Coynte the Prickle I must baldly name.
  1. Dreadful wi' sickle and dire with thy greater part, O Priapus!
  2. Prithee to me point out which be the way to the fount?