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
---------What woman, when
Her blood boils up, and wantons in her veins,
When her hot panting pulse beats to the joy;
What woman then would quench her generous
flame
in an inactive tedious husband's arms,
That fires and jades our expectation
In the first stretch of love; then duly falls
To his old trot, and drudges out the course?
Altho' we cannot assert that this lady
is actually married, we can with truth
venture to affirm there are many that
have entered the matrimonial circle,
that does not possess the same degree of
constancy for their husbands, as this
lady does for her generous keeper. He
is to be sure an Hibernian gentleman
and a captain, two powerful inducements,
or rather compellers, to her keeping
within
( 127 )
within bounds; the first being generally
passionate and cruel when irritated, and
the profession of the latter is, we must
imagine, a powerful bar. But still she is
not impregnable, and where a gentle-
man (for that he must be) possesses the
proper means, there is not much doubt
of his success; flattery is a bait that few
females can withstand, let every word
and action be well cloathed in her
richest garb; this incense must be of-
fer'd at the shrine with pains, perseverance,
honour, secrecy, and liberality join-
ed with it, and when she is thoroughly
convinced that you possess all these re-
quisites, she will unfold her _haven_ of
delight, and put you in possession of
such charms that would not disgrace a
monarch's couch; her tell-tale lascivious
eye acts as a charming index to that un-
quenchable flame that fills the whole
frame, and swallows up the other senses;
she is rather short, but admirably well
made, and when once convinced of the
_honour_ and parts of her paramour, gives
such a loose to her unbounded appetite,
that very few of the Cyprian choir can
match her.
Miss
( 128 )
Miss H--ll--n, No. 2, _Glanville-street_.
Oh she is all the heart would wish, or eye admire,
The purest child of love by beauty fir'd;
Whom but to love, need only but to see,
To see, admire, such heaven born symmetry;
To touch, to feel, ah, there's the potent hold
That chains the will, and molds the snowy heart
To love's delightful glow; the milky hills
Half rising, half suppress'd, with glowing ardor
Ask corporeal pressure, and invite
The _carnal weapon_ to its burning sheath.
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