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35. Thief, For First Thieving Shalt Be Swived

35

Priapus

Pedicabere, fur, semel; sed idem

si deprensus eris bis, irrumabo.

quod si tertia furta molieris,

ut poenam patiare et hanc et illam,

pedicaberis irrumaberisque.

Thief, for first thieving shalt be swived, but an

Again arrested shalt be irrumate;

And, shouldst attempt to plunder time the third,

This and that penalty thou shalt endure,

Being both pedicate and irrumate.

Thou shalt be bardashed, thief, for the first theft; and if twice caught, I will irrumate thee. But if thou shalt attempt a third theft, that thou mayst suffer penalties twain, I will both sodomise and irrumate thee.

[1.
\"Bardache", meaning a catamite. Italian "bardascia", from the Arabic "baradaj", a captive, a slave. The old English was "ingle" or "yngle" (a bardachio, a catamite, a boy kept for sodomy). In Latin Bulgarus means a Bulgarian or a heretic, from which our vulgar modern word 'bugger' is derived, as is the Italian "bugiardo "and the French "bougre".]
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