Betsy

( 78 )

B--t--sy, at Mrs. Kelly's, _Duke Street,

St. James's_.

--Endless joys are in that heaven of love,

A thousand Cupids dance upon her smiles;

Young bathing graces wanton in her eyes,

Melt in her looks, and pant upon her breasts;

Each word is gentle as a western breeze

That fans the infant bosom of the spring,

And every sigh more fragrant than the morn.

This beautiful girl, that goes by no

other name than Betsy, was formely a

retailer of apples, &c. She has lately,

with three other ladies, sported her figure

at Bath, and was there the reigning toast

amongst the first bucks of the place; she

is delicately and genteely form'd, about

the middle size, very young and spright-

ly, and modest in her conversation, ex-

cept when proper occasions demand wan-

ton freedom; her hair and eyes are black,

and her teeth remarkably white, through

which she plays the velvet tip with un-

common grace and ardour; we cannot

pretend to say who cropt the virgin bud

from the beautiful tree, but it could be

long before she put herself under the care

and direction of Mrs. K----, and under

such a tutoress we have no doubt but she

will

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will be soon such a complete mistress of

her business, that join'd with her personal

accomplishments, will bring her into the

molt elevated life. Many of the post

steeds of Venus have been so often hack'd,

that they are broken winded, halt in

their paces, and are well nigh founder'd,

so as to be scarce fit for any thing but

_brood mares_, if they are not too old.

There will therefore be full room for

Betsy to succeed some of the most eminent,

as she is well worthy of the embraces of

the first men in the kingdom. Some

who have possess'd her speak with rap-

tures of the joy she bestows, they say the

beauties she displays when drest, great

as they are, are trivial to those which cus-

tom keeps concealed; they say the mossy

grot of Venus is perfectly enchanting;

her thighs are two alabaster pillars,

which with the ebon tendril that play in

wanton ringlets round the grot, and

the crimson lining of the elastic portals,

form together that perfect _clare obscure_, so

much admir'd in painting, and which al-

ways produce a most pleasing effect; that

her lovely snowy breasts are quickly be-

spread with purple meandring veins, and

that her murmurs, her broken sighs of

joy,

( 80 )

joy, and half spoken words of delight in

the rapturous minute, justify fully, the

exclamation of the poet.

Oh! how sweet to see her eyes

Rolling in their humid fires,

Where the nymph extended lies

Full of love and soft desires;

Conscious red her cheeks o'er spreading,

And her heaving bosom rising,

Milky paths to raptures leading,

Murmuring sighs her joys disguising.

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Miss P--mbr--ke, No. 5, _Duke-Street,

Adelphi_.

Where did my soul in the dear transport go?

Did it with willing haste to her depart?

It did, I'm sure, and fluttered around her

heart;

It heav'd, it trembled, and it panted there,

But all its weak efforts to stay were vain,

A kiss restored the fugitive again;

My soul re-enterd, we repeated o'er

A thousand joys unknown to both before.

In the bloom of sixteen, tall and ele-

gantly genteel, with fine black expressive

eyes, and remarkable fine hair, which

flows

( 81 )

flows in graceful ringlets down her back,

and with an envious shade sweetly pro-

tects two of the most enchanting snowy

hillocks nature ever formed. Miss

P---- may well please, may well

attract the eye. She does please, she

does attract, and upon every account

well merits the attention of the man of

true taste. Untutored by art, and taught

only by powerful nature, she charms in

enjoyment; and as she has not, from

over frequency, been rendered callous

to the joys of love, she repays every

rapture with interest, and meets the

blissful moment with a tepid flood of

delight. At present she is in good

keeping by a citizen, not many miles

from Fleet Market, and having been

only three months under his care, has

not yet been sufficiently broke for the

sport, hope therefore that some of our

good friends will, by properly supplying

the citizen's place at those hours his

employment obliges him to be absent,

_instill_ into _her_ such _principles_ that will

at least raise her spunk to _proof_; but'

altho' young, she can well dispense with

a little more pocket money than her

keeper allows, and always expects twice

the number of pieces that her paramour

gives proofs of his manhood.

( 82 )

Miss Harriet Ll--d, _at a Toy Shop,

German-Street_

---------Born with every grace,

Ev'n envy must applaud so fair a face;

Such is her form as painters when they show

Their utmost art, on naked limbs bestow.

This pretty little smart girl, this true

lover of the sport, is at present in keeping

by a member of P--------t, not far

from St. James's; but not being suffi-

ciently _membered_ for her _lower house_, she

appropriates the greatest part of the

member's hard coin to support and keep

in good humour two favourites of her

own. The one a tender sprig of the

law, the other a jolly hearty looking

butcher; but still in spite of these three,

she has her _best apartment_ ready for any

one that is master of five guineas, and

will make her mistress of the same;

it is neatly ornamented with chestnut

coloured fringe, is snug and warm, and

when not _too warm_ (which we are told is

sometimes the case) very comfortable;

she is now only seventeen, her dark eyes

have much lustre and more meaning:

her

( 83 )

her limbs, tho' small, are well shaped,

covered with a skin fair as the swan's

neck, and soft as its down, they are

perfectly pliable, and form a thousand

true lovers knots, first to facilitate the

entrance into her _apartment_, and then

to keep the enraptured lodger there as

long as possible. Indeed, she never lets

one depart till he has paid his _rent_; but

to shew she is not avaricious, she

generally returns as much as she receives,

in the like _metal_, tho' not in the same

coin.

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Miss Sarah S--dd--ns, _at a Hair-

dresser's, Tavistock-row, Covent-garden_.

He dresses her wig in a new fashion way,

And black D--m--r as usual is jovial and gay;

She constantly smiles on her doating dear puff,

And thinks he can never be tumbled enough.

This good-natured piece of luxury

we have nor been able to trace beyond

five years, at which time she made her

entry in no very high sphere, but meet-

ing with great encouragement, she might

have done very well, but love, that

wicked deity, created for the ruin of his

female

( 84 )

female votaries, shot poor Sally deep in

the heart; going to partake of an

innocent amusement, vulgarly called

_black hops_, where twelve pence will gain

admission, she beheld, oh dire misfortune!

a lovely African, blooming with all the

hue of the warm country that gave him

birth, and fell at that instant a sacrifice

to the charms of the well made sooty

frizeur; for some time she ranked him

amongst her own train, and charitably

exerted herself for his support, but

growing at length satiated with his dear

company, and almost ruined in the bar-

gain, she dismissed the gloomy object of

her late desires, and parted mutual

friends; since which time she has graced

the purlieus of Covent-Garden with her

presence, and is perfectly well known

under the Piazza. She is about twenty-

three, light hair and eyes, a good skin,

and size compleatly adapted for this

season, and which seems to please the

greatest part of her friends and customers,

who think two arms full of joy _twice_ as

good as one; she is remarkably good-

natured and affable to those who favour

her with a visit, and will take almost

any sum rather than turn her visitor

away;

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away; but if you absolutely bilk her,

beware of the consequence; for she is

so well convinced that she does not

merit such treatment, that she will, if

possible, revenge the injury; but we hope

none of our friends will ever pay her a

whole noctunal visit without a small

piece of gold in his pocket, as she is an

able pasture maker, is up to every

movement in the art of giving pleasure,

and will oblige them in any way.

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Miss M--lt--n, No. 9, _Charles-Street ,

Covent-Garden_.

Here haste ye gay, take pleasure on the wing,

Taste all her sweets conjoin'd, nor fear her

sting.

This agreeable girl has a pretty face

suffused with a good complexion, dark

penetrating eyes, hair of the same hue,

which waves in glossy ringlets o'er her

shoulders, a set of good teeth, and a

stature of the exact medium between a

giant and a pigmy; she has not been

more than eight months in this grand

mart of universal commerce, and now

stands out for a settlement from some of

her _warm_ admirers, which (being at the

rich

( 86 )

rich age of twenty, the prime of female

charms, when every zeal that can enhance

enjoyments is at its full zenith) she con-

cludes ought to be a good one. Mr.

N--by, a limb of the law, is her greatest

friend and her particular admirer, but

does not seem to have any objection to

her

"Flying abroad for food,"

and is not at all displeased to find her a

guinea richer than when he left her.

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Miss Gr--ce, No 124, _Portland street_.

Forc'd to consent, but never to obey,

Panting he lies; the _liquid minute_ pass'd,

She feedeth on the _stream_ as on a prey,

And calls it heavenly moisture.

Some ladies prefer the profit, others

the pleasure; some may divide it equally

in their choice, and perhaps their may

be, among Venus's tribe, the lady found

almost indifferent to either; this lady

however we may venture to affirm is not

of the last stamp; she is a fine inviting

looking girl, with very lively Cupidinous

eyes and a good complexion, and scarcely

ever to be found but in a good humour;

and

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and her paramour, provided he can prove

himself the good bed fellow, has nothing

to fear in this lady's company, as money

with her is not the entire object, it is the

enjoyment that constitutes her happiness,

and in that part she is a truly lovely ac-

tress; her twining limbs never forget their

office; her busy lips is mistress of the ge-

nuine burning kiss, and the intermediate

parts move in every direction that can

possibly enhance the coming joy, which

she will powerfully urge a repetition of,

as long as dame nature can possibly af-

ford it. She is at prefent in keeping by

a French count, who though very jea-

lous, often suffers her to sport it in his

chariot, during which time her tell-

tale black eyes, is busy in hunting for ad-

mirers, and can tip the wink and con-

duct him, if approved, to a safe harbour;

and altho' not so very fond of money,

she does not expect to have less than five

guineas offered her.

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