Deals with role of the horticultural and phallic deity Priapus in Geoffrey Chaucer's poem, 'Parlement of Foules.' Treatment of Priapus as a pageant figure; Chaucer's skill in adapting passages in Boccaccio's 'Teseida'; Enhancement of suggestion of sovereignty; Roman practice of using statues of Priapus to ward thieves and to serve as scarecrows.