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
Mrs. D--f--ld, _at a Sadler's, Charles
Street, Soho_.
Then he began to rave and tear,
And swore once more he'd try the fair
To grace his notes he would take care,
She gave her kind consent.
He pitch'd the highest note he could,
And kept the stops just where he should,
Damon, says she, your musick's good,
And I am now content.
This lady, we are told, is remarkably
fond of musick, and there is no _tune_
within
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within _compass of the flute_ but she plays
with the greatest dexterity; she is perfect
mistress of all the _graces_, is never _out_ in
_stopping_, and is full as well skilled in
_pricking_; altho' the principal part of her
_music_ is played in _duets_, and every _duet_
in a _natural key_, she has not the smallest
objection to _two flats_; she has a variety
of sweet notes, and many pleasing _airs_,
and generally chooses the lowest part;
every _shake and quaver_ she feels in-
stinctively, and sometimes has played the
same _tune_ over _twice_, before her partner
has gone through it once, without the
least deviation from true concord; she
does not allow of any _cross barrs_, and is
particularly partial to the _Tacit_ flute;
her moving stars are as black and as
round as the end of a _Crotchet_; no _flower
that blows is like_ her cheek, or _scatters such
perfume_ as her breath: no _advice can
controul her love; she does as she will with
her swain_, presses him _away to the copse_,
puts the _wanton God where the bee sucks into
her pleasant native plains_, soon after you
feel the _graceful move_ and find _how sweet
it is in the low-lands_; and should it be _in
sable night, she loves to restore the drooping
plant_, thinks _variety is charming_, and
always _gives one kind kiss before she parts_;
and
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and as she is now only nineteen, can sing
a French as well as an English song, and
has a very good friend, whose name she at
present assumes: you must not approach
her shrine without being well fortifyed
with _root of all evil_.
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Miss B--nd, No. 28, _Frith-Street_.
A rose-bud blows in either cheek,
Round which the lily makes its bed;
Two dimples sweet good nature speak,
And auburn ringlets deck her head.
Her heaving breasts pant keen desire,
Their blushing summits own the flame;
Her eyes seem wishing _something nigher_,
Her hand conducts it to the same.
Miss B--nd is a very genteel agreeable
little girl, and is distinguished more by
the elegancy of her dress, than the beauty
of her person, which might perhaps have
been ranked in the list of tolerable's, had
not the small-pox been quite so unkind;
she is, nevertheless, a desirable _well tem-
pered
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