A dirty joke from the 1400s…

In Florence, a young woman, somewhat of a simpleton, was on the point of delivering a baby. She had long been enduring acute pain, and the midwife, candle in hand, inspected her secret area, in order to ascertain if the child was coming. โLook also on the other side,โ said the poor creature, โmy husband has sometimes taken that road.โ
From โThe Facetiae Or Jocose Tales of Poggioโ, a joke book published in the 1400โs by Poggio Bracciolini:




