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
she still enjoys the pleasure without the
least satiety; no licenc'd fair during the
honey moon can charm with more rapture,
or feel the poignant bliss with more ex-
tacy; every inviting motion is us'd, every
limb employ'd, to make the dying tran-
sports meet. Her own home is the place
where she in general sees her company, and
every visitor that passes the night in her
arms, she expects will make her two
guineas richer.
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Mrs. Eliza W--bst--r, No. 13, _John-
Street, Yottenham Court Road_.
Fancy itself, e'en in enjoyment, is
But a dumb judge, and cannot tell its bliss.
Mrs. W--bst--r is the daughter of a
gentleman, deceased, has received a good
education, which she improves by an
excellent natural understanding; her age
is twenty-one, her figure tall, and every
limb elegantly proportioned; she pos-
sesses an agreeable face, but we will not
flatter her by calling it a pretty one, be-
ing too thinly formed to constitute beau-
ty, and too much pitted with the small
pox to be stiled handsome; still she
commands
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commands a beautiful pair of dark eyes,
which give a most pleasing, amorous
expression to her whole countenance, and
makes her, tho' not a pretty, still a very
desirable girl; she possesses a lively and
entertaining manner, with an affable dis-
position, and refined, delicate sentiments,
which has lately been much been abused
by the brutality of her late keeper, Mr.
K--d, well known at Garraway's cof-
fee house, for the lowness of his birth,
and still greater meanness of his senti-
ments. He was some time since a corn-
factor, but has now relinquished that,
and nOw all his business, delight, and
employment, seems to be that of perse-
cuting Mrs. W----. In the course of
last summer he arrested her for the pal-
try sum a of twenty-five pounds, which,
from the natural consequences of not
paying immediately, amounted to sixty
pounds, and upwards. Indeed, could
the Whole conduct of this old r--l be
summed up, it would be impossible to
describe his cruelty to Mrs. W. which
proceeds merely from his resolution not
to live with a wretch, whose cruelty,
and her own disposition, obliges her to
despise. It is from such kind of usage
as this that has taught Mrs. W. prudence
and
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and discretion in all her engagements
with the men, nor will she ever admit a
visitor to take any liberties, without first
knowing the value he fits on her com-
pany; and from the appearance which
her present keeper enables her to make,
she expects to be something consider-
able.
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Mrs. Sp--nc--r, No. 35, _Newman-
Street, Oxford-Road_.
Wine whets the wit, improves its native force,
And gives a pleasant flavour to discourse.
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