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
Anonymous
English wit and humor; Prostitution -- England -- London -- Humor; Sex -- Humor
This lady, in consequence of a trivial
fall out with her parents, (which by the
bye she had long sought for)left her home,
and flushed with all the fire of youth
impetuous; burning with every desire
the young hand of lust could create, and
still a stranger, except in idea, to the
grand _subduer_ of their fires, she sought
this expanded field of delight, nor sought
in vain; her youth and person soon
attracted the eye of an old male veteran
in our band, and her innocence and
simplicity were soon overpowered, her
maiden honours plucked, and all her
virgin claims at once lie dead. The
lively girl in question is now entering
her sixteenth year, has only been four
months
( 129 )
months on the town, the thinly _covered_
grot below has therefore not yet suffi-
ciently felt the general influence of its
much sought for _acquaintance_, to be
very thickly covered, still she thinks it
proof against any attack, nor fears to
meet the most vigorous, tho' destitute
of every other weapon. She is rather
darkly complexioned, with fine hazel eyes,
is short, and inclinable to be lusty, and
as pretty a leg and foot as man would
wish to divide, which any good natured
man, with two guineas in his pocket
that he has no objection to spare, may
lie between the whole livelong night,
and taste all the raptures he can possibly
expect to meet with, in one as yet so
untutored in the art.
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Madam D--sl--z, No. 46, _Frith-street,
Soho_.
Si javois pour heritage,
Le tresor le plus charmant,
je vous en donnerois en gage,
Et mon coeur pour un present.
It is only six months that this lady has
left her native country, and at present
speaks
( 130 )
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