{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/priap/prp39.htm","path":"cla/priap/prp39.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/priap/prp39.htm","text":"Forma Mercurius potest placere,\n forma conspiciendus est Apollo,\n formosus quoque pingitur Lyaeus,\n formosissimus omnium est Cupido.\n me pulchra fateor carere forma,\n verum mentula luculenta nostra est:\n hanc mavult sibi quam deos priores,\n si qua est non fatui puella cunni.\nForm-charms in Mercury have might to please;\n Form in Apollo is conspicuous charm;\n Formose in picture is Lyaeus limned\n And Cupid most formose of all is shown.\n Freely of lovely form the lack I own;\n Yet is our mentule a resplendent gem;\n And this to th'erst-named gods shall aye prefer\n The damsel dowered with no fatuous coynte.\nMercury has a pleasing form, Apollo's is eminent for its beauty; Lyaeus too is painted of comely figure; Cupid is handsomest of all. My figure is, I confess, wanting in beauty, but my mentule is, in truth, magnificent; and if there be a girl with a sensible coynte, she had rather have that for herself than all the former gods.","title":"39. Form-charms in Mercury have might to please","type":"page"}