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
der is, that she never will receive any
money, but take the offer as an affront.
These circumstances make us conclude
that K--lp--n, the name she has assumed
sometimes, is not her real name, and
that she is not a woman of the town, but
some married city lady, who takes this
method of getting home deficiencies sup-
plied abroad, and, as she is cautious of
her character, uses these precautions.
By not going to any house, she avoids
detection; by chusing none but those
whose conversation is congenial to her
own, she obliges none but men of sense
and honour; and by he constantly re-
fusing money, she demonstrates that love
for love is her motto; that her love of
the sport is her motive; perhaps she
may have another reason for chusing a
leathern conveniency as the scene of her
delights. We have been told that the
undulating motion of the coach, with
the pretty little occasional jolts, con-
tribute greatly to enhance the pleasure
of the critical moment, if all matters are
rightly placed. This she may have ex-
perienced, and therefore as pleasure is
her search, no wonder she prefers every
delicate addition to the gross sum.
Emma,
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Emma, _at Mother Gray's, No. 30,
Market-Lane, near the Opera House_.
In the middle of me,
You plainly may see,
A thing that will suit every man;
And when you are in it,
The critical minute,
Ensure as fast as you can.
A young tit of Mother Gr--y's own
procuring, and that our reader should
not mistake the old abbess, we will give
a short description of her. If you chance
to visit her in the morning, the smell of
yellow usquebaugh will salute your nos-
trils, of which she takes copious draughts
before breakfast. In all her actions she
shews the lewdness of a monkey, and
the letchery of a goat; she has lately
been _fired_ by P----, the French fri-
zeur, but knowing the use of murcury,
she applied it in such a manner that she
procured an effectual salivation, and
enabled her to take into her house the
fame squinting gentleman that present
acts as her _fine man_; she boasts of her
knowledge of great men, and there is
scarce a lord or duke in the land that
has not been her _cull_.
We
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