Ribald Classic: The Conquest Of A Clever Clerk

July, 1964

There once lived a venerable knight who, weary from many encounters both upon battlefield and bed, ordered his young and innocent bride to wear a coat of mail whenever they took their jousting together. The lady, more blessed with beauty than with intellect, accepted his explanation that she would be harmed in love's jousts without armor. Dutifully, she thus donned a hauberk on their nuptial eve, ne'er dreaming that there might be other manners of adorning oneself in such sport.The knight soon d...