Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies: or Man of Pleasure's Kalendar for the Year, 1788Anonymous
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Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies: or Man of Pleasure's Kalendar for the Year, 1788
Anonymous
English wit and humor; Prostitution -- England -- London -- Humor; Sex -- Humor
-------Fair
As May morning rising from the east,
Or day dismounting from the golden west.
This young charmer is of the middle
size, and the resplendent black of her
lively
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lively eyes is finely contrasted by the
fairness of her complexion and lightness
of her hair: her teeth are good, and her
temper complying. She is really a delici-
ous piece, and her _terra incognita_ is so
very agreeable to every traveller therein,
that it hath ceas'd to deserve that name,
and is become a well known and much
frequented country; freely _taking in_ the
stranger, _raising_ up them that _fall_,
making the _crooked straight_, and although
she does not pretend to restore sight to
the blind, she'll place him in such a direc-
tion that he cannot mistake the way; and
for one guinea will engage he returns the
same way back without any direction at
all.
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Miss Fanny C--ortn--y, _at_ Mrs. Woods,
_Lisle Street, Leicester Fields_.
My heart's so full of joy,
That I could do some wild extravagance
Of love in public, and the foolish world,
That knows not tenderness, might think
me mad.
This lady is fair, of a good size, very
chatty, fond of obliging, and far from
being mercenary: the more agreeable
her
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her man, the less of money she expects
or demands. It is true, she has other
customers that make up for what she
may loose by her attachments to plea-
sure; so that between the one and the
other, she is very well off, and we pro-
phesy will be long in vogue; we have
known her only six months, and have
reason to think very few has known her
longer.
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Miss R--fs, at Mrs. Wanpoles, No. 1,
_Poland-Street_.
Soft, as when the wooing dove,
Woo's his mate in vernal bowr's,
Is this purest child of love,
When she her _choicest treasure pours_.
Here youth and beauty are combined,
and unadorned by education or art; what
she _feels_ in the _amorous encounter_ cannot
be feigned. Her natural simplicity is
yet so unstained, and her knowledge of
the world so very little, that it is almost
impossible for her to dissemble; her
hair, eye-brows and eyes, are of the
deepest black; her complexion of the
roses red, and her neck and breasts of
the
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the purest white; her limbs are nobly
formed, every joint possessing the most
enchanting flexibility, which she mana-
ges with uncommon dexterity, and her
_Venus Mount_ is so _nobly fortified_, that she
has no occasion to dread the _fiercest at-
tack_, nor does she: and although she is
obliged to make sudden _retreats_, her _ad-
vances_ follow so very brisk, and are so
effectual, that
Whene'er she quits the field,
Waits _vice_ on her _lovely shield_.
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