Miss

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Mis N--ble, No. 10, _Plough Court,

Fetter Lane_.

She darted a sweet kiss,

The wanton prelude to a farther bliss;

Such as might kindle frozen appetite,

And fire e'en wasted nature with delight.

She is really a fine girl, with a lovely

fair complexion, a most engaging be-

haviour and affable disposition. She

has a most consummate skill in reviving

the dead; for as she loves nothing but

active life, she is happy when she can

restore it: and her tongue has a double

charm, both when speaking and when

silent; for the tip of it, _properly applied_,

can talk eloquently to the heart, whilst

no sound pervades the ear and send such

feelings to the central spot, that imme-

diately demands the more noble weapon

to _close_ the _melting scene_.

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Miss Sophia M--rt--n, No. 11, _Ste-

_phen Street, Rathbone Place_.

Oh! the transporting joy!

Impetuous flood of long-expected rap-

ture, she is a charming black beauty;

her vivid eyes, speak the liveliness of her

disposition,

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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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