{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/priap/prp38.htm","path":"cla/priap/prp38.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/priap/prp38.htm","text":"Simpliciter tibi me, quodcumque est, dicere oportet,\n \u00a0\u00a0 natura est quoniam semper aperta mihi:\n pedicare volo, tu vis decerpere poma;\n \u00a0\u00a0 quod peto, si dederis, quod petis, accipies.\nSimply to thee I say whatever to say shall behove me,\n Since my 'nature' alway openly showeth to fight;\n Fain would I pedicate thee who'rt Fain to plunder my apples;\n An my want thou shalt grant, eke shall be granted thy want.\nSince my nature[1] is always open, it behoves me to say to thee--whate'er it is--frankly. I wish to pedicate; thou wishest to pluck apples. What I desire, if thou wilt give: what thou desirest, thou shalt receive.\n[1. In the original Latin, natura, punningly used in the double sense 'native character' and 'privy part'.]","title":"38. Simply to thee I say whatever to say shall behove me","type":"page"}