Pretty Little Games for Young Ladies and Gentlemen
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Thomas Rowlandson (1756 – 1827) etched ten plates he called Anatomy Diversions produced for his intimate friends, posthumously collected in 1845 as "Pretty Little Games for Young Ladies and Gentlemen" or its full title "Pretty Little Games for Young Ladies and Gentlemen with Pictures of Good English Sports and Pastimes."
Each print is accompanied by a bawdy poem.
This text is taken from Centuria Librorum Absconditorum.
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The Willing Fair, or any Way to Please.
- The happy captain full of ^ine,
- Forms with the fair a new design:
- Across his legs the nymph he takes,
- And with Sfc George a motion makes.
- She ever ready in her way
- His pike of pleasure keeps in play :
- Rises and falls with gentle ease,
- And tries her best his mind to please.
- Ah ! happy captain, charming sport !
- Who would not storm so kind a fort ?*
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The Country Squire new Mounted.
- The Country squire to London came,
- And left behind his dogs and game ;
- Yet finer sport he has in view,
- And hunts the hare and cony too.
- The lovely lass her charms displays,
- She tips the hint and he obeys,
- Within a tavern view the fair,
- Each leg supported on a chair,
- Her buttocks on the table seated
- By which the squires joys compleated.
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The Hairy Prospect or the Devil in a Fright.
- Once on a time the Sire of evil,
- In plainer English call'd the devil,
- Some new experiment to try
- At Chloe cast a roguish eye -t
- But she who all his arts defied,
- Pull'd up and shew'd her sexes pride :
- A thing all shagg'd about with hair,
- So much it made old Satan stare,
- Who frightend at the grim display,
- Takes to his heels and runs away.
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The Larking Cull.
- While on the bed the nymph reclined
- Damon resolved to please his mind.
- His generation tube he shows,
- Between her swelling breasts it goes.
- His fingers to her touch-hole sent
- Alas to give her small content.
- A larger thing would give more pleasure
- She always loves to have full measure,
- And who for greater joys do hunt
- Than rising bubbies and a cunt.
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The Toss Off
- As Maramount her music grinds,
- Levi a pleasing passion finds.
- He calls the little wanton in,
- And tells his wishes with a grin.
- She takes the circumsised part,
- And plies her hand with easy art.
- The spouting tobe emits amain,
- Which eases Levi s aukward pain.
- Tho Christian girl you understand
- Shell take a Jewish thing in hand.
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New Feats of Horsemanship
- Well mounted on a mettled steed,
- Famed for his strength as well as speed,
- Corrinna and her favorite buck
- Are pleas'd to have a flying f—k.
- While o'er the downs the courser strains,
- With fiery eye and loosened reins,
- Around his neck her arms she flings,
- Behind her buttocks move like springs.
- While Jack keeps time to every motion,
- And pours in loves delicious potion.
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Rural Felicity or Love in a Chaise
- The Winds were hush'd, the evening clear,
- The Prospect fair, no creature near,
- When the fond couple in the chaise
- Resolved each mutual wish to please.
- The kneeling youth his vigour tries,
- While o'er his back she lifts her thighs.
- The trotting horse the bliss increases,
- And all is shoving love and kisses.
- What couple would not take the air
- To taste such joys beyond compare.
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The Sanctified Sinner.
- For all this canting fellow's teaching
- He loves a girl as well as preaching.
- With holy love he rolls his eyes,
- Yet view his stout man Thomas rise.
- 'Tis sure enough to make it stand
- To have it stroked by such a hand.
- When flesh and spirit both combine
- His raptures sure must be divine.
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The Wanton Frolic
- Upon the carpet Cloe laid,
- Her heels toss'd higher than her head,
- No more her cloaths her beautys (sic) hide,
- But all is seen in native pride.
- While Strephon kneeling smiles to see
- A thing so fit for love and he.
- His amorous sword of pleasure draws,
- Blest instrument in natures cause.
- The panting fair one waits its touch
- And thinks it not a bit too much.
John Camden Hotten is cited in Centuria Librorum Absconditorum on The Wanton Frolic:
- "There is a want of proportion in this very unlikely study from nature, and the artist's pencil must have been flurried at the gaze, or the legs would have been in better form. The width of the knee is absurd when compared with the gigantic buttocks, which are certainly most modestly portrayed. We object—strongly object—to the absurd form of the taper, which the gentleman holds in his hand. It looks more like a carrot than the genuine article. It burns brightly enough, but the shape is monstrously unreal—as any fair devotee will know."
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The Curious Wanton
- Miss Chloe in a wanton way
- Her durgling would needs survey.
- Before the glass displays her thighs
- And at the sight with wonder cries,
- "Is this the thing that day and night
- Makes men fall out and madly fight ?
- The source of sorrow and of joy
- Which King and beggar both employ?
- How grim it looks, yet enter in,
- You'll find a fund of sweets begin!"
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