Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies: or Man of Pleasure's Kalendar for the Year, 1788 — John Shaqi
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
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English wit and humor; Prostitution -- England -- London -- Humor; Sex -- Humor
but we must advise our lovers of the sport
to keep her pleased, as her temper, a
little different from _another part_, is not
to be sported with.
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Mifs S---ms, No. 82, _Queen Ann's-Street
East_.
Like some fair flower, whose leaves all co-
lours yield,
And opening, is with rarest odours fill'd;
As lofty pines o'ertop the lowly reed,
So does her graceful height most nymphs ex-
ceed.
Miss S--ms is fair and tall, and if
well paired, would be a very proper
mould
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mould to cast grenadiers in; she is about
twenty, and though rather above the
common heighth, is not ungraceful nor
awkward. She knows her value, and
will seldom accept of less than two
guineas, which indeed, are well be-
stowed. It is remarkable, that her lovers
are most commonly of a diminutive size.
The vanity of surmounting such a fine
tall woman, is, doubtless, an incentive to
many, to so unmatch themselves, that
they are content to be like a sweet-bread
on a breast of veal. Yet, notwithstand-
ing her size, we hear her _low countries_
are far from being capacious, but like a
well made boot, is drawn on the _leg_ with
some difficulty, and _fits so close_, as to give
great pleasure to the wearer; it is about
two years since her _boot_ has been ac-
customed to wear legs in it, and though
often _soaled_, (sold) yet never wears out.
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Miss B--lt--n, No. 14, _Lisle-Street,
Leicester Fields_.
Why should they e'er give me pain,
Who to give me joy disdain;
All I ask of mortal man,
Is to---------me whilst he can.
These four lines were not more appli-
cable to Miss C--tl--y, than to this pre-
sent
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sent reigning lover of the sport; she is
rather above mediocrity in height and
size, with fine dark hair, and a pair of
bewitching hazel eyes; very agreeable
and loving, but she is not so unreasonable
as to expect constancy; it is a weak un-
profitable quality in a woman, and if she
can persuade her husband or keeper that
she has it, it is just the same as though
she really possessed it. Miss B--lt--n
is conscious she loves variety, as it con-
duces both to her pleasure and interest;
and she gives each of her gallants the
same liberty of conscience, therefore she
never lessens the fill of joy, by any real
or affected freaks of jealousy; when her
lovers come to her, they are welcome,
and they are equally so when they fly to
another's arms. Indeed, when they do
so, it is generally to her advantage, as
she finds they return to her with re-
doubled ardour, and her charms are in
general more dear, from a comparison
with others; and although her age is
bordering upon twenty-four, and she has
been a traveller in our path four years,
her desires are not the least abated, nor
does she set less value on herself.
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