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
She is a fine lusty well looking lady;
her eyes and hair are dark; her teeth
good, and her age about thirty; she sees
much company, and none depart unsatis-
fied, it being her study to please, and her
pride to be thought worthy of a second
visit. She is very careful of her health,
and where she has the least reason to
suspect infection, is very strict in examin-
ing the ambassador of love e'er she re-
ceives his tribute. Tho' a very generous
dealer, and one who has dealt in our
market at least ten years, she does not
appear to be quite void of sensibility;
but seems to give pleasing proofs that she
feels delight, as well as bestows it. Her
old
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old friend, whose name she stole, has
been long dead, and by his death has
reduced her to accept of almost any sum
her paramour offers.
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Miss J--hn--t--n, No. 6, _Church
Court, St. Martin's Lane_.
Here roses red, and lilys fair;
The gifts of nature, deck her air.
Oh for a touch of the pencil of anima-
tion to color the picture of one of the most
lively productions in our exhibition; she
is genteel and well made, with a beautiful
face, the tints in which are done by
nature alone, fine light hair, and a pretty
learing eye, that would make a monk
disregard his vow of celibacy, or a
mahometan think that he had got one of
the daughters of paradise; her mouth
small, her lips tempting; her teeth even,
white, and regular; her foot and leg
smart, and her dress at once neat and
genteel. But these are not the sole
powers of this lady; she is acquainted at
once
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once with the whole rationale of love, as
well as with the entire practice of it; and
whether we talk of those mysteries which
are only known by the adepts, or those
more clumsily applied operations of the
lower orders of the sisterhood, she is up
to every thing in love's tactics. Her
dialect does not tell us she is a native of
Scotland, tho' her father, who is an
half pay officer, yet resides there; at
this period when the powers of love or
lust are at their full bloom, necessity and
inclination together, prompted her to
become a dancer on our cyprian stage,
and is very desirous of pleasing every
man that makes her his partner, and is
so very careful of her health, that before
she receives her _guinea_, she must examine
every _one_ of her partner's _legs_.
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Mrs. S--tt--n, No. 31, _Tavistock-Street_.
When will the dear man come, that I may
hold him
Fast as my love can make him, hug him close
As my fond soul can wish; give all my breath
In sighs and kisses, tell I swoon with rapture.
All this she seems to say to each
admirer; it cannot be true to all. But
no
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