Ribald Classic: The Tale Of An Ass
June, 1965
There once lived in Italy a jovial friar who took pity on the wife and ass of a man who did beat both for no other reason than that he was of a stupid and nasty nature. But although the friar, named Timothy, took pity on both, from the wife he would have taken more, for she was as comely as her husband was nasty—and as Timothy was lusty. Accordingly, the roguish man of God put into motion a plan by which he hoped to taste those delights of which he had heretofore only been informed, for he had n...
