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
In the bloom of sixteen, tall and ele-
gantly genteel, with fine black expressive
eyes, and remarkable fine hair, which
flows
( 81 )
flows in graceful ringlets down her back,
and with an envious shade sweetly pro-
tects two of the most enchanting snowy
hillocks nature ever formed. Miss
P---- may well please, may well
attract the eye. She does please, she
does attract, and upon every account
well merits the attention of the man of
true taste. Untutored by art, and taught
only by powerful nature, she charms in
enjoyment; and as she has not, from
over frequency, been rendered callous
to the joys of love, she repays every
rapture with interest, and meets the
blissful moment with a tepid flood of
delight. At present she is in good
keeping by a citizen, not many miles
from Fleet Market, and having been
only three months under his care, has
not yet been sufficiently broke for the
sport, hope therefore that some of our
good friends will, by properly supplying
the citizen's place at those hours his
employment obliges him to be absent,
_instill_ into _her_ such _principles_ that will
at least raise her spunk to _proof_; but'
altho' young, she can well dispense with
a little more pocket money than her
keeper allows, and always expects twice
the number of pieces that her paramour
gives proofs of his manhood.
( 82 )
Miss Harriet Ll--d, _at a Toy Shop,
German-Street_
---------Born with every grace,
Ev'n envy must applaud so fair a face;
Such is her form as painters when they show
Their utmost art, on naked limbs bestow.
This pretty little smart girl, this true
lover of the sport, is at present in keeping
by a member of P--------t, not far
from St. James's; but not being suffi-
ciently _membered_ for her _lower house_, she
appropriates the greatest part of the
member's hard coin to support and keep
in good humour two favourites of her
own. The one a tender sprig of the
law, the other a jolly hearty looking
butcher; but still in spite of these three,
she has her _best apartment_ ready for any
one that is master of five guineas, and
will make her mistress of the same;
it is neatly ornamented with chestnut
coloured fringe, is snug and warm, and
when not _too warm_ (which we are told is
sometimes the case) very comfortable;
she is now only seventeen, her dark eyes
have much lustre and more meaning:
her
( 83 )
her limbs, tho' small, are well shaped,
covered with a skin fair as the swan's
neck, and soft as its down, they are
perfectly pliable, and form a thousand
true lovers knots, first to facilitate the
entrance into her _apartment_, and then
to keep the enraptured lodger there as
long as possible. Indeed, she never lets
one depart till he has paid his _rent_; but
to shew she is not avaricious, she
generally returns as much as she receives,
in the like _metal_, tho' not in the same
coin.
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