Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Doing his duty to guard both vineyard and garth of his lordling.
  2. Here then, O lads, reftain from ill-mannered picking and stealing;
  3. Rich be the neighbour-hind and negligent eke his Priapus;
  4. Take what be his: this path hence leadeth straight to his ownings.