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
speaks very little English. She is young
and lively, (but still does not seem to
possess so much vivacity as the majority
of her countrywomen;) she loves to
revenge her countrymen's cause on the
English, by doing what the most valor-
ous Frenchman would never effect, that
is, to bring Britons on their knees; she
is now about twenty two, rather short
and fat, with a plump face, and such a
roguish lear in her eye, that cannot be
resisted. Several of our brave officers
have spent some of their _best blood_ in her
service, and regretted they had no more
to _shed_. Her lovely dark hair seems like
a net to catch lovers, and her lower tend-
rils, which sport on her alabaster mount
of Venus, are formed to give delight. She
has one qualification which many English
girls want, which is a certain cleanliness
in the Netherlands. They are contented
to wash their faces, necks, and hands;
but Mademoiselle, like many of her
countrywomen, thinks that not enough;
she performs constant ablutions on the
gulph of pleasure, and keeps it constantly
fresh, cool, and clean, never putting
a morsel into that mouth, till she has
fully absterged every possible remnant of
the last meal. She constantly mounts
her
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her _bidet_, and with a large sponge laves
the whole extent of the parish of the
mother of all saints. Some may, perhaps,
think her a female spy, or a smuggler;
but surely a girl, who so freely discloses
her own secrets, can have no improper
aim at those of government; and her
commodity cannot be pronounced as
contraband when it hath so often been
duly entered.
She dresses quite in the French stile
and taste, lays on a profusion of rouge
and pearl powder, and is not particularly
partial to money, but will condescend to
take a couple of guineas, _not as payment,
but solely as 'une gage d'amour_.
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Miss Emma Ell--tt, No. 8, _Action-
street, Gray's-Inn-Lane_.
Our souls their former joys renew,
We raise new sport, and wanten jesting;
Our eyes each others charms review,
In every form of love contesting.
At last, our body's warm'd with mutual
fire,
To prove each others aid to join in one
conspire.
This truly lovely woman is about
twenty, and, whilst she remains in a
state
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