Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Thy cross is ready, shaped as artless yard;
  2. 'I'm willing 'faith' (thou say'st) but 'faith here comes
  3. The boor and plucking forth with bended arm
  4. Makes of this tool a club for doughty hand.
  1. This place, O youths, I protect, nor less this turf-builded cottage,
  2. Roofed with its osier-twigs and thatched with its bundles of sedges;
  3. I from the dried oak hewn and fashioned with rustical hatchet
  4. Guarding them year by year while more are they evermore thriving.
  5. For here be owners twain who greet and worship my Godship,
  6. He of the poor hut lord and his son, the pair of them peasants: