Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies or Man of Pleasure's Kalendar for the Year, 1788

Part 6

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She has met with many admirers but showing lately too great a partiality for the gentleman whose name she assumes, ( a horse jockey) she has lately sunk a little in the world; his late inconstancy, however, has wrought so powerfully upon her, that she is now soliciting the fa- vours and support of her old friends; she is of a good size, and well made, of a lively and sweet disposition, loves a glass of Madeira, but never takes a glass in one

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one hand without having prudence in the other, and is particularly careful that the effects of Bacchus shall not prevent the more sensible joys, of Venus. Two pounds two shillings is her price to stran- gers, but if a very old and good, acquain- tance, she will not refuse half the sum.

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Miss Cl--rk, No. 116, _Wardour-street_.

If any wench Venus's girdle wears, Altho' she be ever so ugly, Roses and lilys will quickly appear, And her face look wond'rous smugly.

In some respeCt Miss C---- verifies this remark of Mr. Gay, for very little else than her wearing Venus's girdle can invite any to admire so plain a counte- nance; she is tall and lusty, with dark hair and eyes, a very indifferent set of teeth, and a very flat face; she is now twenty-five, has followed the trade some years, and never refuses any sum scarce that is offered her.

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Miss W--ls--n, No 1, _Little-court, Castle-street, Leicester fields_. ' Nature for meat and drink provides a place, And when receiv'd they fill their certain space; Hence _thirst_ and _hunger_ may be satisfy'd, But this repletion is to love deny'd.

This pretty piece of animation wants not the aid of art to make her shine one of the most conspicuous in the list of tra- ding nymphs; altho' she cannot be called very handsome, still she is a fine girl, and nature has sufficiently furnish'd her with those beauties the nicest hand of art would only deface. Her want of pride (which is in this age a very rare perfection) sets off to superior advantage every feature; her goodness of temper and disposition acts as a security to her most valuable acquaintance, and her just- ness of principle gains her the esteem of all who have the happiness of knowing her. She is the daughter of a gentleman who holds a considerable place under government, has had a genteel education, and seems quite untainted with the vices of the town; her great attachment to Mr. J----n, of the theatre, is a bar to her see- ing much company; with them that has the good fortune to sleep with her, will find she

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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.

This is fully verified in Mrs. S. who is never so good a companion as when a _little_ enlivened with the juice of the grape but, always guided by prudence and dis- cretion, she never goes so far as to render herself the least unpleasant. Her figure is tall, elegant and stately.

Her full orb'd chest lie open to the gale, And teach the lily whiteness in the vale.

Her legs and feet are particularly neat and clean; she sings a good song, is a very good friend to mirth and good hu- mour, and always steers clear of vulga- rity.

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rity. She is now in her twentieth year, possessed of every charm that encourag- ing. age can boast, and but a very few months has left Hampshire; we therefore think two guineas bestowed upon her cannot be regretted.

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Miss C--rb--t, No. 16, _Goodge-street_.

Panting she lay, and fetch'd long double sighs, Whilst with thick mists pleasure had dimmed her eyes.

Some girls have been debauched by delusive arts, and under promises of mar- riage, and others have commenced har- lots through want, but neither of these motives actuated this lady's principles; it was mere lewdness that overpowered all nature's works, and stamped the princi- ples of conjunction and copulation at a very early period: Ere twelve summers had warmed her constitution, she learned the use of different machines, and felt the effects of friction as soon as she had any genial fluid within her. Who first stamped her virgin mould, we are at a loss to tell, but from the luxuriance of the

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the present soil, guess it was broke open at an early period. She is a very luscious looking piece, with dark eyes and hair, a very good complexion, tall, and genteely formed, with a charming slender leg, and a pretty foot, which she never troubles the gentlemen to stoop very low to have a perfect view of. She is very good na- tured, sings a good song, and is in bed a charming companion, particularly at this season of the year; for she is desirous of having every part in contact the whole night. In regard to price, she has one fixed rule; she always measures a gentle- man's _may-pole_ by a standard of _nine inches_, and expects a guinea for every inch it is short of full measure.

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Miss G--rd--ner, No. 47, _Union-street, Oxford street_.

She thrust among the bushes her fair hand, To draw the plant; and every plant she drew, She shook the stalk, and brushed away the dew.

This lady's character answers exceed- ingly well to her name, being exquisitely well skilled in the art of _raising_ plants in a _hot-bed_; this she practices on her own _bottom_,

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_bottom_, but still wishes for a partner to be concerned in the business. Her person is pleasing, she has the roses in her cheeks, encircled with beds of never fading lilys; is as strait as a pine of two years growth, though not quite so tall; her locks shine like black maiden hair, and she is as full of juice as a _ripe amber goose-berry_; she takes a guinea to be _engrafted_ upon, and is a very agreeable sprig of _hare-hound_. She is much esteemed by the lovers of _planting_, for having a beautiful show of _navel-wort_, and her fondness for _rampions_ and _amber vitae_, she despises _fool-stones_, _cuckow pintle_, _Jews ears_, or _birch_; but particularly likes _Adam's Apple-tree_, _sensi- tive plant_, _stich-wort_, _nutmegs_, and such valuable productions. To all such she is free, for her _lips_ opens her _lady's mantle_, encloses them in her _convolvulus_, pours down a whole volley of _seed_, and never quits them whilst they have a _drop_ of _sap_.

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Miss Louisa M-ns-n, No. 12, _Wells-street_.

What various charms can M-ns-n boast, By nature thus befriended; Whose legs impart a charm when cross'd, And charming when extended.

Observe her well, the oblique glance, the lascivious look, the frequent heave of the

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the breasts fully speak her inward feel- ings; but can any of our readers account for her immoderate fondness for sugar plumbs? it must certainly be that that induced, her to take the famous little Jemmy B--tl--r into her train, the _upper mouth_ he keeps constantly supplied with its favourite food; but we fear _Jemmy_ has not parts sufficient to supply the _lower_ with a tenth part of _its_ neces- sary food. She therefore solicits the favours of the good natured public for the necessary supplies to that inchanting spot. She is of a good size, and every limb well proportioned. Knowing the beauty of her hand and arm, she takes particular care they shall not pass un- noticed for want of being seen; convinced of the delicate proportion of her leg and foot, she is very careful their covering shall not discredit them, and has a pleasing knack of keeping them con- stantly exposed to sight; and being taught by the eyes of her admirers the influence her neck and breasts command, she covers them with so thin a veil, that the smallest blue branch is easily covered; her eyes she cannot hide, nor does she wish it; they are plain indications of

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of nature's central spot, and beam with all the fire of the _enchanting spot_. Two guineas is her price, and should Jemmy be there he must retire if she thinks fit.

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Mrs. Antr--b--s, No. 8, _Lisle-street, Leicester-Fields_.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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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

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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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state of silence, commands every attract- ing charm the heart of man can wish; she speaks French tolerably well, and sings inimitably; she has now trod the path of love four years, during which, time pretty Emma has experienced every vicissitude the cruel hand of fortune could possibly inflict. At present Mr. B. a merchant, in Castle-Court, is the gen- tleman from whom she derives her prin- cipal support; she has fine blue melting eyes, with an aquiline nose, and a very pretty mouth, when her tongue is in- active, but when once she gives a loose to that unruly member, she pours forth such a torrent of blackguardism that shall destroy every attracting feature, and spoil one of the most desirable looking girls in the _Cyprian market_. Our damsel is therefore the most agreeable looking girl when asleep; in bed she is truly amorous, and a charming sportswoman, and when one strain is finished, cries, _da capo_, with a good grace, for which she expeas five guineas.

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Miss T--f--n, No. 2, _Glanville-Street_.

Had love's fair goddess been so strong in charms, Rash Diomede had dropt his vent'rous arms; No shameful victory the Greek had won, But had a thousand wounds receiv'd instead of giving one.

This tit bit is not above sixteen, ra- ther short; but pretty, having an excel- lent complexion, with fine blue eyes, light hair, and a very white, and regular set of teeth. Altho' she has not been six months upon the _Pave de Londres_, (hav- ing received a complete education, has learnt to dance, speak French, and play upon the guittar; and has likewise been initiated into all the mysteries of the Cyprian school; having read _les Bejoux Indiscrets_; the _Woman of Pleasure_; Ro- chester's Poems;) she is _au fait de tout_. Add to this, she has often viewed with rapture all _Aretin's_ postures, and longed for the practice, as well as the theory. No wonder then that she should be in- clined to give delight in every possible attitude, and has no kind of objection to yield, with becoming modesty, to take a _coup_ a la _levrette_. She is at present in keeping by a citizen, who has suffered her

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her to assume his name, but is always pleased when Mr. T. is not with her, to accommodate any gentleman in her _pret- ty apartment_ a whole night, for which she expects two guineas.

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Miss Harriet B--r--n, No. 8, _Tavi- stock-row_.

In framing thee, heav'n took unusual care, And stampt thee fairest of the _Cretan_ fair.

There is something so very engaging in the person of this lady, that those gen- tlemen, who once visit her, seldom or ever fail repeating it. In her deportment she is free and open, without the least tinge of affectation, in size rather below mediocrity, fine dark hair, and bewitch- ing black eyes; a complexion between the fair and brunette: her features are remarkably delicate, and, conjunctively taken, fully verifies the Poet.

None can observe her features but approve, There's grace with beauty, dignity with love.

Her breasts are finely proportioned, and delicately moulded for love's tender attack, and swell and recede the melting lan- guage

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guage of the heart; the _grove beneath_, delicately shaded by a _sable thicket_, is fraught with all its proper sensibility, and, well knowing the value of her charms, she is not one that can be sported with, not will she suffer any liberty beyond the strictest bounds of decency to take place, without the payment of one piece before hand.

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Miss W--ll--ms, No. 3, _Glanville- street_.

Firm breasts, white belly, and such thighs, Gaze ghastly envy, and forget her size.

This lady's affable temper, and en- gaging disposition, fully compensates for her size, which is rather diminutive, and the innumerable beauties of her face, when put in competition with this defi- ciency, ought entirely to efface the small- est idea of it. From her youth we might be led to imagine her deficient in the practice of love, but we can assure our readers he will meet but few in the _cy- prian field_ that will shew better sport; her hair is a beautiful glossy dark brown; her eye brows finely arc'd, and of the same

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same hue, which, contrasted by a pair of beautiful cerulean eyes, and cheeks of living roses and lilies, places her in the rank of first rate beauties,

Her rising breasts two hillocks are of snow, On which two little fragrant rose buds grow;

below which descends the smooth track of a belly, which conveys to the mind an idea of animated ivory, at the bottom of which is display'd a lovely chesnut fringe, terminated by a pouting _slash hole_, which is far from being insensible to the raptures of its _grisly antagonist_, and with pleasure _opens_ its _mouth_ to receive his well erected crest, who _enters_ with his accus- tomed pride, but soon returns with _fal- len head_, as if conscious of its presumption; but the _mistress_ of this formidable _enemy_ is well acquainted with the means of re- storing life to the _vanquished memmber_, but only to make it more sensible of its ina- bility. Mercenary views are far from what she aims at; she can give and receive a _luscious_ share of pleasures of _copulation_; but beginning to know the accustom'd ways of the baser sort of men, and not being always confident of the honour of her _paramour_, if he is a stranger,

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stranger, she must receive her compli- ment of half a guinea, or a guinea, ac- cording to the length of the intended visit, before she proceeds to any kind of business.

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Miss Fanny H--nl--y, No 14, _King- Street, Saint James's Square_.

Her every thought, and wishes, and desires, Agree with yours, and burn with mutual fires.