I’m looking for "a terribly rare but blindingly funny satire on Queen
Elizabeth’s court, in which Sir Walter Raleigh, the Queen, and
half-a-dozen other luminaries sit around discussing farts, sex, and
booze."

What is the name of this Mark Twain story, and where is it?

Hi Markabe,


Thank you for your question.

You are referring to "1601" Conversation, as it was by the Social
Fireside, in the time of the Tudors. [Date, 1601.]
By Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), originally censored and recently
rediscovered. Read it here:
http://www.tower.org/library/1601.html

A short excerpt:

“In ye heat of ye talk it befel yt one did breake wind, yielding an
exceding mightie and distresfull stink, whereat all did laugh full
sore, and then-
Ye Queene.-Verily in mine eight and sixty years have I not heard the
fellow to this fart. Meseemeth, by ye grete sound and clamour of it,
it was male; yet ye belly it did lurk behinde shoulde now fall lean
and flat against ye spine of him yt hath bene delivered of so stately
and so vaste a bulk, where as ye guts of them yt doe quiff-splitters
bear, stand comely still and rounde. Prithee let ye author confess ye
off spring. Will my Lady Alice testify?

Lady Alice.-Good your grace, an' I had room for such a thundergust
within mine ancient bowels, 'tis not in reason I coulde discharge ye
same and live to thank God for yt He did choose handmaid so humble
whereby to shew his power. Nay, 'tis not I yt have broughte forth this
rich o'ermastering fog, this fragrant gloom, so pray you seeke ye
further.”
http://www.mbay.net/~jmd/1601.html

Additional information that may interest you:

Mark Twain’s Biography
Brandeis University Website
http://people.brandeis.edu/~teuber/twainbio.html

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I hope this information has been helpful.

Best regards,
Bobbie7

That was fast!

Perhaps "Blackadder II" is a modern version of that satire.

http://www.blackadderhall.com
http://www.rowanatkinson.org/blackadder.htm