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
This beautiful girl, that goes by no
other name than Betsy, was formely a
retailer of apples, &c. She has lately,
with three other ladies, sported her figure
at Bath, and was there the reigning toast
amongst the first bucks of the place; she
is delicately and genteely form'd, about
the middle size, very young and spright-
ly, and modest in her conversation, ex-
cept when proper occasions demand wan-
ton freedom; her hair and eyes are black,
and her teeth remarkably white, through
which she plays the velvet tip with un-
common grace and ardour; we cannot
pretend to say who cropt the virgin bud
from the beautiful tree, but it could be
long before she put herself under the care
and direction of Mrs. K----, and under
such a tutoress we have no doubt but she
will
( 79 )
will be soon such a complete mistress of
her business, that join'd with her personal
accomplishments, will bring her into the
molt elevated life. Many of the post
steeds of Venus have been so often hack'd,
that they are broken winded, halt in
their paces, and are well nigh founder'd,
so as to be scarce fit for any thing but
_brood mares_, if they are not too old.
There will therefore be full room for
Betsy to succeed some of the most eminent,
as she is well worthy of the embraces of
the first men in the kingdom. Some
who have possess'd her speak with rap-
tures of the joy she bestows, they say the
beauties she displays when drest, great
as they are, are trivial to those which cus-
tom keeps concealed; they say the mossy
grot of Venus is perfectly enchanting;
her thighs are two alabaster pillars,
which with the ebon tendril that play in
wanton ringlets round the grot, and
the crimson lining of the elastic portals,
form together that perfect _clare obscure_, so
much admir'd in painting, and which al-
ways produce a most pleasing effect; that
her lovely snowy breasts are quickly be-
spread with purple meandring veins, and
that her murmurs, her broken sighs of
joy,
( 80 )
joy, and half spoken words of delight in
the rapturous minute, justify fully, the
exclamation of the poet.
Oh! how sweet to see her eyes
Rolling in their humid fires,
Where the nymph extended lies
Full of love and soft desires;
Conscious red her cheeks o'er spreading,
And her heaving bosom rising,
Milky paths to raptures leading,
Murmuring sighs her joys disguising.
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Miss P--mbr--ke, No. 5, _Duke-Street,
Adelphi_.
Where did my soul in the dear transport go?
Did it with willing haste to her depart?
It did, I'm sure, and fluttered around her
heart;
It heav'd, it trembled, and it panted there,
But all its weak efforts to stay were vain,
A kiss restored the fugitive again;
My soul re-enterd, we repeated o'er
A thousand joys unknown to both before.
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