<TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xmlns:py="http://codespeak.net/lxml/objectify/pytype" py:pytype="TREE"><text><body n="urn:cts:latinLit:phi1103.phi001.lascivaroma-eng1" xml:lang="eng"><div type="translation" n="" xml:lang="eng"><div type="textpart" subtype="poem" n="2"><l n="1">In play, Priapus (thou canst testify),</l><l n="2">Songs, fit for garden not for book-work, I</l><l n="3">Wrote and none over-care applied thereto.</l><l n="4">No Muses dared I (like the verseful crew)</l><l n="5">Invite to visit such unvirginal site.</l><l n="6">For heart and senses did forbid me quite</l><l n="7">To set the choir Pïérian, chaste and fair,</l><l n="8">Before Priapus' tool--such deed to dare.</l></div></div></body></text></TEI>