Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies or Man of Pleasure's Kalendar for the Year, 1788
Part 2
disposition, and the joy she conceives in the hour of bliss. As yet she hath not ap- proached the verge of satiety; she is not so hackneyed in the ways of man as to be merely passive, she enjoys the pleasure, and though she is very fond of a _noun substantive_ that can _stand_ by itself, yet she loves to make it _fall_, and indeed the stoutest man cannot _stand_ long before her; many a _fine weapon_ she has made a _mere hanger_ and the most stubborn steel hath melted in her _sheath_; yet no one complains, but rather rejoices at the de- bility she produces, and wishes for repe- tition which she enjoys with a _gou_ peculiar to herself, and is possessed of every _amo- rous_ means to produce it, as she is of every luscious one to destroy it.--To be met with at any of the genteel houses about St. James's.
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Miss W--d, at a Hair-dressers, _Wind- mill Street, Tottenham Court Road_.
Fair As May morning rising from the east, Or day dismounting from the golden west.
This young charmer is of the middle size, and the resplendent black of her lively
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lively eyes is finely contrasted by the fairness of her complexion and lightness of her hair: her teeth are good, and her temper complying. She is really a delici- ous piece, and her _terra incognita_ is so very agreeable to every traveller therein, that it hath ceas'd to deserve that name, and is become a well known and much frequented country; freely _taking in_ the stranger, _raising_ up them that _fall_, making the _crooked straight_, and although she does not pretend to restore sight to the blind, she'll place him in such a direc- tion that he cannot mistake the way; and for one guinea will engage he returns the same way back without any direction at all.
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Miss Fanny C--ortn--y, _at_ Mrs. Woods, _Lisle Street, Leicester Fields_.
My heart's so full of joy, That I could do some wild extravagance Of love in public, and the foolish world, That knows not tenderness, might think me mad.
This lady is fair, of a good size, very chatty, fond of obliging, and far from being mercenary: the more agreeable her
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her man, the less of money she expects or demands. It is true, she has other customers that make up for what she may loose by her attachments to plea- sure; so that between the one and the other, she is very well off, and we pro- phesy will be long in vogue; we have known her only six months, and have reason to think very few has known her longer.
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Miss R--fs, at Mrs. Wanpoles, No. 1, _Poland-Street_.
Soft, as when the wooing dove, Woo's his mate in vernal bowr's, Is this purest child of love, When she her _choicest treasure pours_.
Here youth and beauty are combined, and unadorned by education or art; what she _feels_ in the _amorous encounter_ cannot be feigned. Her natural simplicity is yet so unstained, and her knowledge of the world so very little, that it is almost impossible for her to dissemble; her hair, eye-brows and eyes, are of the deepest black; her complexion of the roses red, and her neck and breasts of the
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the purest white; her limbs are nobly formed, every joint possessing the most enchanting flexibility, which she mana- ges with uncommon dexterity, and her _Venus Mount_ is so _nobly fortified_, that she has no occasion to dread the _fiercest at- tack_, nor does she: and although she is obliged to make sudden _retreats_, her _ad- vances_ follow so very brisk, and are so effectual, that
Whene'er she quits the field, Waits _vice_ on her _lovely shield_.
but we must advise our lovers of the sport to keep her pleased, as her temper, a little different from _another part_, is not to be sported with.
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Mifs S---ms, No. 82, _Queen Ann's-Street East_.
Like some fair flower, whose leaves all co- lours yield, And opening, is with rarest odours fill'd; As lofty pines o'ertop the lowly reed, So does her graceful height most nymphs ex- ceed.
Miss S--ms is fair and tall, and if well paired, would be a very proper mould
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mould to cast grenadiers in; she is about twenty, and though rather above the common heighth, is not ungraceful nor awkward. She knows her value, and will seldom accept of less than two guineas, which indeed, are well be- stowed. It is remarkable, that her lovers are most commonly of a diminutive size. The vanity of surmounting such a fine tall woman, is, doubtless, an incentive to many, to so unmatch themselves, that they are content to be like a sweet-bread on a breast of veal. Yet, notwithstand- ing her size, we hear her _low countries_ are far from being capacious, but like a well made boot, is drawn on the _leg_ with some difficulty, and _fits so close_, as to give great pleasure to the wearer; it is about two years since her _boot_ has been ac- customed to wear legs in it, and though often _soaled_, (sold) yet never wears out.
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Miss B--lt--n, No. 14, _Lisle-Street, Leicester Fields_.
Why should they e'er give me pain, Who to give me joy disdain; All I ask of mortal man, Is to---------me whilst he can.
These four lines were not more appli- cable to Miss C--tl--y, than to this pre- sent
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sent reigning lover of the sport; she is rather above mediocrity in height and size, with fine dark hair, and a pair of bewitching hazel eyes; very agreeable and loving, but she is not so unreasonable as to expect constancy; it is a weak un- profitable quality in a woman, and if she can persuade her husband or keeper that she has it, it is just the same as though she really possessed it. Miss B--lt--n is conscious she loves variety, as it con- duces both to her pleasure and interest; and she gives each of her gallants the same liberty of conscience, therefore she never lessens the fill of joy, by any real or affected freaks of jealousy; when her lovers come to her, they are welcome, and they are equally so when they fly to another's arms. Indeed, when they do so, it is generally to her advantage, as she finds they return to her with re- doubled ardour, and her charms are in general more dear, from a comparison with others; and although her age is bordering upon twenty-four, and she has been a traveller in our path four years, her desires are not the least abated, nor does she set less value on herself.
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Miss D--v--np--rt, No 14, _Lisle-street, Leicester-fields_.
The nymphs like Nereids round her couch were plac'd, Where she another sea-born Venus lay; She lay and lean'd her cheek upon her hand, And cast a look fo languishingly sweet, As if secure of all beholders hearts, Neglecting she could take 'em.
This young charmer, for she is not yet past the bloom of eighteen, has so beautiful a face, that though here and there the general ravager of beauty has left his dented marks in a skin, that the finest tints of the tulip, carnation, or rose, blended with the hue of the fairest lily, cannot equal, (so vastly superior is the vermilion tinge of nature, in this her choicest and most animated work over all other) yet their effect is rather pleas- ing than otherwise; and perhaps have tempered a blaze of beauty, which with- out them would have been insupportable. Her eyes are of that colour, which the celebrated Fielding has given the heroine ofhis most admirable work, and which dart
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dart a lustre peculiar to themselves. From such an eye each look has power to raise
"The loosest wishes in the chastest heart,"'
and melt the soul to all the thrillings of unasked desire, till quite overpowered with the transporting gaze, the senses faint, and hasten to enjoyment. Her hair is also black, of which great orna- ment, nature has been lavishly bountiful, for when loose, it flows in unlimited tresses down to her waist; nor are the _tendrills_ of the _moss covered grotto_ thinner distributed, but though not yet _bushy_, might truly be stiled _Black Heath_; how early this _thicket_ of her maidenhead _was penetrated_ through, by the natural invader of _Middlesex_, we cannot pretend to say; moft probably when it was only a small brake; for from its present state, and the extraordinary warmth of the soil, it must have began to shoot very early, and the mother of all things must have opened the sanguinary sluices in this delightful _Channel_, at an early period. The mount above, has a most delicious swell, as ambitious to receive on it downy bed, its _swelling rival_and _antagonist_
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_antagonist_, and it is so well clothed, that it may be justly called the Cyprian Grove; whilst her breasts are so fine and so fully shaped, as to entitle her to be stiled _en bon point_, in the richest sense of the words, and they have a springinness that defies any weight whatever, of amo- rous pressure. Here the voluptuary might revel in pleasure, better imagined than described, in
"Soft silent rapture and extatic bliss."
Her teeth are remarkably fine; she is tall, and so well proportioned (when you examine her whole naked figure, which she will permit you to do, if you per- form Cytherean Rites like an able priest) that she might be taken for a fourth Grace, or a breathing Animated Venus de Medicis. Her disposition and tem- per is remarkably good, so sweet that it is your own fault if it be soured; for she is possesed of an uncommon share of politeness, nothing rude or un- courteous in her manner, but abounding with civility and good breeding; her connections are good, and she has a keeper (a Mr. H--nn--h) both kind and
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and liberal; notwithstanding which, she has no objection to two supernumerary guineas.
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Miss G--rge, _at a Grocer's Shop, South Moulton-Street_.
Hast thou beheld a fresher, sweeter nymph, Such war of white and red upon her cheeks, What stars do spangle, Heaven, with so much beauty, As those two eyes become that Heav'nly face.
At the tempting luscious age of nine- teen, this lovely girl presents us with a face well worth the attention of the _na- turalist_; She is of a fine fair complexion, with light brown hair, which waves in many a graceful ringlet, has good teeth, and her tell-tale dark eyes, speak indeed, the tender language of love, and beam unutterable softness; she is tall of stature; and of the moft tempting _en bon point_; plump breasts, which in whiteness sur- pass the driven _snow_, and melt the most _snowy_ of mankind to rapture. Her name she borrows from a gentleman, who, some little time ago, posessed her (as he thought
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thought) entirely for some time, but find- ing himslef mistaken, and tired with the _cornuted_ burthen on his brows, he left her about six months ago, to seek support in this grand mart of pleasure; and as she has been remarkably successful, and sti11 remains a favourite piece for the enjoy- ment of her charms, and the conversa- tional intercourse, with a temper remark- ably good, for a whole night she ex- pects five pounds five shillings.
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Miss Cl--nt--on, near Middlesex Hospital.
Mark my eyes, and as they languish, Read what your's have written there.
This is a very genteel made little girl, with the languishing eye of an Eloise; like her too, she is warm with the _fire_ of love, in all its native freedom, which, fanned by the amorous air, soon kindles into a flame that cannot be quenched but by the powerful effects of the _Cyprian Torrent_, which she is very fond of being _bathed in_; she has good teeth, And a lilly white skin, which is beauti- fully
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fully contrasted by a _grot_ black as the sooty raven, which, for two pounds two, will entertain you a whole night.
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Miss Betsy Cl--rke, No. 1 1, _Stephen-Street, Rathbone Place_.
Hope, with a gaudy prospect feeds the eye, Sooths every sense, does with each with comply; But false enjoyment the kind guide destroys, We lose the passion in the treacherous joys.
Enjoyment is the most exquisite of human pleasures; ah! what a pity it is so short in duration. Nature wound up to the highest pitch, after striking _twelve_, immediately descends to poor solitary _one_: these are the reflections that na- turally arise on enjoying Betsy. Though she is but little, she is an epitome of de- light, a quintescence of joy, which by the most endearing chemistry, give all spirit, and unite in small compass, the efficacy of a much larger bulk. Her lovely fair tresses and elegant countenance beat alarms to love; but we attack only to fall in the breach, and lament that the luscious
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luscious conflict is so soon ended. The common destroyer of beauty has made a few dells on the face of this fair Jewess, but a pair of pretty dimples makes ample amends, and quite over balances these trifling imperfections; she has been in life not more than six months, and ex- pects, if she calls any man a friend, to receive two guineas the first visit.
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Miss D--gl--ss, No. 1, _Poland-Street_.
See through the liquid eye, the melting glance, The buried soul in lovely tumults lost, And all the senses to the _centre sent_.
She is of the middle size, light hair, blue eyes, and about twenty-two; she is a very agreeable companion, fings a good song, and is a buxom, lively, luscious bed-fellow, but has nothing re- markable above the common run of women of the town, who are young and handsome; she has been a sportswoman in the Cyprian Games about five years, and always expects two pounds two be- fore she is mounted.
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Miss Betsy H--ds--n, _at Mrs. Kelly's, Duke-Street, Saint James's_.
How dull the spring of life would prove, Without the kiss that waits on love; From youthful lips you soon receive The richest harvest lips can give.
Eloped from her friends in the country but a short time, flushed with all the amorous fire of youth insatiate, and ripe with every personal charm the heart of man can wish, this pleasing girl enters our list. The fresh country bloom still remains unimpaired, the rural vivacity is still the same, and united with a beauti- ful skin and complexion, we can present our readers with a temper and disposition that good nature and affability must call their own. Her teeth are regular, and very white, her eyes of the most lively hazel, which, without the least fire from Bacchus, shoot the most powerful glances; her hair a lovely brown, her breasts are small and never have been sufficiently subjected to manual pressure to deprive them of their natural firmness; she is willingly compliant to any liberty in company, that does not extend beyond the bounds of decency; but let nature come
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come forth _unadorned_, get once the enchanting girl in bed, she _opens_ all her charms, and gives a sudden loose to such a bent of amorous passion, she would fire the most torpid dispolition; when once you press her in your eager arms the game must instantly begin, and scarcely does she allow an introductory kiss, so uncurbed is her appetite, and so fond is she of _repetition_, that she would with every lover that passes a night with her to be able to say with Ovid,
Fair Betsy knows, when numbering the delight Not less than _nine_ full tranfports crown'd the night.
Only six months has this child of love dealed out her charms in public, but well knowing their value, is not quite satisfied if she does not receive on _paper_ a proof of their excellence.
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Miss Br--wn, No. 8, _Castle Street, Ox- ford Market_.
Give me plenty of bub, From the large brandy tub, And I'll _spend_ the whole night in your arms, I'll expose every part Of my brown _apple cart_, And stifle, quite stifle the _boy_ in its _charms_.
I hope none of our readers will proves a Mr. L-d-tt, who, about six months ago, from
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from a mere silly quarrel with this his fa- vourite fair, thought it convenient to fin- ish his existence in the _leaden way_; she does not possess either youth or novelty sufficient to tempt many, to act in that way, having been at least seven years a trading nymph to our knowledge; she is tall, and genteelly made, with a fine skin, and beautiful flaxen hair, but is too fond of the brandy bottle to give that sincere delight, that _mutual interchange of souls_ so necessary to stamp the _extatic rapture_; she may, however, prove to those that will drink a glass with her, and has no objection to become as merry as herself, a desireable piece, as she is neither extra- vagant in her demands, or nice in the choicee of her admirers.
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Mrs. D--f--ld, _at a Sadler's, Charles Street, Soho_.
Then he began to rave and tear, And swore once more he'd try the fair To grace his notes he would take care, She gave her kind consent. He pitch'd the highest note he could, And kept the stops just where he should, Damon, says she, your musick's good, And I am now content.
This lady, we are told, is remarkably fond of musick, and there is no _tune_ within
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within _compass of the flute_ but she plays with the greatest dexterity; she is perfect mistress of all the _graces_, is never _out_ in _stopping_, and is full as well skilled in _pricking_; altho' the principal part of her _music_ is played in _duets_, and every _duet_ in a _natural key_, she has not the smallest objection to _two flats_; she has a variety of sweet notes, and many pleasing _airs_, and generally chooses the lowest part; every _shake and quaver_ she feels in- stinctively, and sometimes has played the same _tune_ over _twice_, before her partner has gone through it once, without the least deviation from true concord; she does not allow of any _cross barrs_, and is particularly partial to the _Tacit_ flute; her moving stars are as black and as round as the end of a _Crotchet_; no _flower that blows is like_ her cheek, or _scatters such perfume_ as her breath: no _advice can controul her love; she does as she will with her swain_, presses him _away to the copse_, puts the _wanton God where the bee sucks into her pleasant native plains_, soon after you feel the _graceful move_ and find _how sweet it is in the low-lands_; and should it be _in sable night, she loves to restore the drooping plant_, thinks _variety is charming_, and always _gives one kind kiss before she parts_; and
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and as she is now only nineteen, can sing a French as well as an English song, and has a very good friend, whose name she at present assumes: you must not approach her shrine without being well fortifyed with _root of all evil_.
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Miss B--nd, No. 28, _Frith-Street_.
A rose-bud blows in either cheek, Round which the lily makes its bed; Two dimples sweet good nature speak, And auburn ringlets deck her head. Her heaving breasts pant keen desire, Their blushing summits own the flame; Her eyes seem wishing _something nigher_, Her hand conducts it to the same.
Miss B--nd is a very genteel agreeable little girl, and is distinguished more by the elegancy of her dress, than the beauty of her person, which might perhaps have been ranked in the list of tolerable's, had not the small-pox been quite so unkind; she is, nevertheless, a desirable _well tem- pered
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pered piece_, and one that does not degrade herself by her company or her actions; she comes into our corps, in confequence of her good keeper's leaving England, and enlists a volunteer, in all the spright- liness and vivacity of nineteen, with beautiful auburn hair, and a pair of pretty languishing blue peepers, that seem at every glance to tell you how nature stands affected below; nor will those swimming luminaries deceive you; _it_ is ever ready to receive the _well formed tumid guest_, and as the _external crura_ en- twine and press _home_ the _vigorous tool_, the _internal crura_ embrace it, and presses out the last _precious drops_ of the _vital fluid_, which her hand, by stealth, conveyed to the _treasure bags_ of nature, by tender _squeezings_ seem to increase the undiscrib- able rapture, at the _dye away moment_; in short, during her performance of _venereal rites_, she is all the heart of the most in- flamed sensualist can wish, or any man that has two spare guineas in his pocket, can desire.
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Miss Gr--n, No. 32, _Little Russel-Street_.
Strait a new heat return'd with his embrace, Warmth to my blood and colour to my face; Till at the length, with mutual kisses fir'd,) To the last bliss we eagerly aspir'd, ] And both alike attain'd, what both alike ) desir'd.
When beauty beats up for recruits, he must be an errant coward indeed, who re- fuses to enlist under its banner; and when good humour, complaisance, and engaging behaviour are the rewards of service, it is shameful to desert. This lady's charms attract most who behold them; though of a low stature, and rather under the middle size, she is ele- gantly formed; her black eyes, contrasted with her white teeth, are highly pleasing, and the goodness of her temper rivets the chains which her agreeable form first put one. One guinea, is then, too poor a re- compence for such merit; and it is to be deplored, that a girl, who should only exchange love for love, should be obliged to take payment for what is ever beyond price: in bed, she is by far the better piece,
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piece, and is up to every manoeuvre necessary to restore life, and every luscious _move_ to destroy; hands, tongue, lips, legs, and every part of the busy frame is engaged at once in the pleasing task, and all to provoke and bring the _soul breathing conflict_ to the _last extatic gush_.
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Mrs. D--d, No. 6, _Hind-court, Fleet Street_.
O my soul, Whither, whither art thou flying, Lost in sweet tumultuous dying? You tremble love, and so do I! Ah! stay, and we'll together dye; My soul shall take her flight with thine Life dissolving in delight, Heaving breasts and swimming sight, Faultering speech and gasping breath, Symptoms of delicious death; My soul is ready for the flight.
This lady appeared some years ago, to our readers, under the name of Ogl--, but as we have frequently seen, that a girl, though young, may yet be very disagreeable,
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