Ribald Classic: The Double Talk Of Love

August, 1967

Any man who had seen the courts of our Kings François and Henri II, even if he had seen the whole world, would be sure to say that he had never beheld anything so lovely as our queens and ladies of the court. And one of the things he might have observed about them is that they follow the description by Lord du Bellay, who spoke of his mistress as "sober of speech but brisk in bed."Of course, he meant sober when in conversation with all and sundry, for love makes ladies both eloquent an...