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
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Miss Sarah S--dd--ns, _at a Hair-
dresser's, Tavistock-row, Covent-garden_.
He dresses her wig in a new fashion way,
And black D--m--r as usual is jovial and gay;
She constantly smiles on her doating dear puff,
And thinks he can never be tumbled enough.
This good-natured piece of luxury
we have nor been able to trace beyond
five years, at which time she made her
entry in no very high sphere, but meet-
ing with great encouragement, she might
have done very well, but love, that
wicked deity, created for the ruin of his
female
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female votaries, shot poor Sally deep in
the heart; going to partake of an
innocent amusement, vulgarly called
_black hops_, where twelve pence will gain
admission, she beheld, oh dire misfortune!
a lovely African, blooming with all the
hue of the warm country that gave him
birth, and fell at that instant a sacrifice
to the charms of the well made sooty
frizeur; for some time she ranked him
amongst her own train, and charitably
exerted herself for his support, but
growing at length satiated with his dear
company, and almost ruined in the bar-
gain, she dismissed the gloomy object of
her late desires, and parted mutual
friends; since which time she has graced
the purlieus of Covent-Garden with her
presence, and is perfectly well known
under the Piazza. She is about twenty-
three, light hair and eyes, a good skin,
and size compleatly adapted for this
season, and which seems to please the
greatest part of her friends and customers,
who think two arms full of joy _twice_ as
good as one; she is remarkably good-
natured and affable to those who favour
her with a visit, and will take almost
any sum rather than turn her visitor
away;
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away; but if you absolutely bilk her,
beware of the consequence; for she is
so well convinced that she does not
merit such treatment, that she will, if
possible, revenge the injury; but we hope
none of our friends will ever pay her a
whole noctunal visit without a small
piece of gold in his pocket, as she is an
able pasture maker, is up to every
movement in the art of giving pleasure,
and will oblige them in any way.
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Miss M--lt--n, No. 9, _Charles-Street ,
Covent-Garden_.
Here haste ye gay, take pleasure on the wing,
Taste all her sweets conjoin'd, nor fear her
sting.
This agreeable girl has a pretty face
suffused with a good complexion, dark
penetrating eyes, hair of the same hue,
which waves in glossy ringlets o'er her
shoulders, a set of good teeth, and a
stature of the exact medium between a
giant and a pigmy; she has not been
more than eight months in this grand
mart of universal commerce, and now
stands out for a settlement from some of
her _warm_ admirers, which (being at the
rich
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