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
It is not surprising, the notice which
a lady, who as long _erected_ her standard
in the _field_ of _pleasure_, attracts from the
veterans in the same field. This is the case
of our heroine, now about twenty-eight
years of age, tall, rather lusty, and a
figure that speaks true symmetry; hand-
some, a slight tinge of the brunette in
her complexion, with very fine dark hair,
fine hazel eyes, very dark, and finely
arch'd eye brows; indeed, she has been
a very fine woman, and is far from being
in her wane of beauty; her hair, indeed,
is remarkably fine, and such a length, as
to be able to be interwoven with her _once
maidenhead thicket_, now grown to a _fine
bushy arbour_ surrounding the _blissful cell_ of
the blind sovereign of wanton sports,
where he reigns predominant over every
sense,
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sense, and subjects all the rest to that of
feeling; here he keeps his court and holds
his revels; come then ye followers of Co-
mus, plunge your burning _plough shares_
within the betwiching circle, and slake
the hot breathing of untamed desire; here
dance the round of joy till sense grows
giddy in the maze, and taste the delicious
transports of maddening delight, till _pan-
ting nature striking the alarm_, proclaims a
_dying pause_ to her own music, and _pours_
forth the _flood_ of mingled rapture; she has
good breasts, and her limbs are finely
turn'd and proportioned; she is of a very
good disposition, and a most agreeable
companion, and is at present in keep-
ing by a Mr. M--lls; but being fond of
the _glow_ of youth, and the manly embrace
of full vigour, she indulges variety, and
is various in her expectation for so doing.
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Miss L--nds--y, No 13, _Little Portland
Street_.
What pity 'tis so fine a face and form
Should suffer pride, the cankerworms of joy,
That beauty to deform.
If a warm son of Bacchus, flush'd with
the fullness of desire impetuous, Would wish
to
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