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
Behold those eyes that swim in humid fires,
And trace her wanton thoughts and young
desires;
Taste those sweet lips, with balmy Nectar
fraught,
And all the rich luxuriancy of thought:
Press her soft bosom--seat of swelling joy,
Whose charms invite the rosy pinion'd boy;
Who, fluttering here, may point the unerring
dart,
Flash in each eye, and revel in each heart,
Till bolder grown, your hand insatiate rove,
O'er her delightful _mount_ and _sportive grove_;
Then all her limbs unbound, her girdle loose,
There's nothing you can ask her, she'll refuse.
The above lines, from one of the
warmest and most elegant poets fancy
ever favoured, might be very justly ap-
plied to this charming girl. Rich with
the glow of youth, and the charms of a
person, in which nature has been lavishly
bountiful, she possesses a mind rarely,
very rarely met with in the frail
daughters of pleasure; generous, free-
hearted,
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hearted, noble, feeling, and disinterested,
might appear to be too high sounding
epithets for a woman of this dercription.
But however strange, it is not less strange
than true; for she possesses qualities,
which the want of, might make many a
titled dame, poessessed of that single virtue,
(or at least appearing to possess it) that
she has unfortunately lost,--blush, for
they may all with the strictest truth be
applied to her. Here then, may the
man come, (nay, we advise him to) who
wishes in the morning, succeedimg a de-
licious night, to find his person and his
purse safe, and his health uninjured;
here may he come, and taste every joy
the most luscious desire can wish; here
may his very sense be fed, nor know
satiety, for joined to a beautiful face, an
elegant form, and a graceful manner,
you win find the agreeable companion,
the good humoured girl, and the most
enchanting bedfellow; young, and not
more than three months _on_ the town, or
_in_ the town, fine hazel love-swimming
eyes, and dark brown hair, which left to
twine in nature's wanton folds, plays
loosely over a neck white as snow un-
sunned, and sweetly shades the most en-
chanting _love hillocks_ nature ever planted
_below_
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_below_, a jetty _black_ surrounds the _pouting
mansion_, rais'd on a pair of pillars that
might _shame_ the _whitest_, or mark the
smoothest alabaster, that twine in the
amorous encounter, and seem to partake
of that pleasure in the dye-away moment,
that we cannot pretend to set any value
upon.
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Mrs. Ch--sh--line, No. 36, _Titchfield
Street_.
Reclin'd upon a couch the maiden lay,
And all her virgin charms expos'd to view;
I saw them all, unseen, and in her eyes
Read the mad language of untaught desire.
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