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
Without possessing any particular at-
tracing charms this lady pleases, and has
many admirers. Her face is agreeable
without being pretty, she is well made,
without being strictly genteel; and a friend
to mirth and good humour, without vul-
garity. She carries on a snug good trade,
without going much abroad, and is in bed
a very amorous companion. If she does go
abroad it is generally to some of the pub-
iic hops, where she contrives to select out
her partner for the night, and will con-
vince him (although she dances well a-
midst twenty couple) that she _cuts_ a much
better _figure_ with only _one_, and being now
only twenty years of age,with good nature,
affability, and love depicted in all her
actions, no one that has three guineas in
his pocket, ought to be against parting
with two thirds to oblige her.
Miss
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Miss Betsy H--st--ng, No. 30, _Duke-
street, St. James's_.
Blest with such charms, the snowy heart could
move
Such melting beauties sovereign claims of love;
She sweetly smiles, unconscious of her pow'r,
And with her pleasing chat beguiles each hour.
It is an undoubted fact she, must
please, she must charm the heart, and
win the foul to exquisite delight; how
can it be otherwise! behold her eyes,
drinking their living moisture in cups of
the purest hazel, and holding converse
with the heart, in such a language, the
least meeting glance must immediately un-
derstand; behold her hair, glossy as the
pearly drops that gild the flow'ry field
when Phoebus first his eastern rays ex-
tends, and soft as turtles down; which,
when suffered to sport in nature's wanton
folds, hold all the graces in their sportive
curls; view next her teeth, as white as
the polish'd elephants, and beautiful as
white;
Cheeks from whence the roses seek their
bloom,
And lips from whence the zephyrs steal perfume
but all these charms united, fall very
short of her mental qualifications: her
lively
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