I recently reread Gulliver’s Travels (it’s great) and then looked at the Goodreads reviews. a surprising number of the negative ones were like “I read this book expecting a classic work of literature but it has jokes about pee and poop in it!” and I was like “huh? those parts were great!” like there’s an anecdote in the Laputa section about a scientist trying to transform poop back into food which is hilarious. I want to read more books like that, where extremely juvenile humor is rendered in the most archaic language possible
by iciclefites
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Not toilet humour as such, but I suspect you would enjoy the section of Frances Burney’s *Evelina* involving a monkey, and probably Captain Mirvan’s antics more generally.
Shakespeare is full of dick jokes, if you understand what he’s saying. Discussed [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/s/Qv0x7XXQZ0) and [here](https://noshitshakespeare.tumblr.com/post/141536019521/about-shakespeare-and-dick-jokes)
Equally, Chaucer. Just read a summary of The Miller’s Tale, for example. Take a guess at what touching a woman “by the queynte” means! And a whole lotta fart jokes, too