LIBRARY ILLUSTRATIVE OF SOCIAL PROGRESS.
FROM THE ORIGINAL EDITIONS
COLLECTED BY THE LATE
HENRY THOMAS BUCKLE,
AUTHOR OF
"A HISTORY OF CIVILIZATION IN ENGLAND."
No. 2.
"ifyfcftitiaii at Stmxlt £\x$t\\xnt&.
PART THE SECOND
OF THE
EXHIBITION
OF
Female FLAGELLANTS
IN THE
Modest and Incontinent World.
Proving from Indubitable FACTS,
That a Number of Ladies take a Secret Pleasure,
In WHIPPING their own,
And CHILDREN committed to their care ;
and that their PASSION
for EXERCISING and FEELING the exquisite
PLEASURE of a BIRCH-ROD,
from objects of their CHOICE.
OF BOTH SEXES,
is to the full as PREDOMINANT,
as that of MANKIND.
Now Firft Publifhed from a Lady's Manufcript, and a Num-
ber of Letters fent to the Editor of the Firft Tart of iliis
original Work.
LONDON:
Printed for G. Peacock, No. 66 Drury Lane.
mdcclxxxy.
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preliminary address.
W
HEN the Firfc Part of this fmgular and
original Work waspubliflied, there was very
little expecled from tlie fale after the Subfcribcrs had
tlieir copies. The fingularity of the Work zvas talked
of, particularly among the Ladies, and it was owing to
their curiofity, no doubt, tlie fale became cxtenfive.
Much has been said pro and con about the authenticity
of the anecdotes; and feme readers have been found
filly enough to declare, becaufe thepaffion is not natural,
and does not run in the common channel, there can be no
truth in it. Now a man who abfolutcly loves a fine
woman, will not love her the lefs for exhibiting Iter
buinfiddle to his enraptured fight! Nay, fliould flic
requeft a fample from his hands, of what her mother or
govemefs often gave her when guilty of a crime, where
is the mighty error? 'Tis but a whipping, and if flic
choofes it from the fair hand of a zcoman, or from the
oppcfite
f
preliminary address.
■oppofitc /ex, I cannot fee how the moral world can be
injured by it. Her bumfiddlc is as much her own as
any other fiddle, and it would be hard indeed iffie was
prevented from having her favourite mufician to play
upon if whenever fie thought proper.
I
ANECDOTES and LECTURES
FOR THE
SECOND PART
OF THE
Female Flagellants
WITH
I TALES,
Translated from the FRENCH.
To the Authoress of the Female Flagellants.
Madam,
IHAVE read with pleafure your exhibition, &c.;
but (between us) I think you fhould have dwelt
•a little more on the lectures, as in your fafhionable
ones. I was very much pleafed, as well as feveral
ladies of my acquaintance, with the defcription of the
drefs of the characters, particularly with thofe that
wore large nofegays. A pretty woman with a very
large bouquet on one fide of her bofom, is to many
men a moft heavenly object. I fend you a few real
anecdotes, which, if you will take the trouble of em-
bellifhing,
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bellifhing, might be added to a fecond part of the
exhibition, &c, or of the fafhionable lectures.
Yours,
C. D.
Mifs N., a young lady of my acquaintance, was,
at a very early age, fo fond of birch difcipline, that
flie would fometimes take her Mamma's rod, and
exercife it with pleafure on her doll: fhe could never
account for that whimfical paffion. Her mother
dying when fhe was about eighteen, fhe went to live
with an aunt, who had under her care two girls about
twelve years old—diftant relations of hers. As they
were very wild and indolent, Mifs N. advifed her to
whip them with a birch-rod; but fhe, being rather
infirm, requefted fhe would eafe her of the trouble,
and take the care of them on herfelf. This was what
Mifs N. wanted; fhe foon gave a loofe to her favour-
ite paffion ; and no felicity on earth, fhe thought,
could equal the pleafure fhe felt when whipping the
bums of her young pupils. One day fhe went to
vifit a friend of hers, that lived about five miles from
town, and had been married lately to a gentleman of
fortune, a widower with one daughter. She found
her
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her bufy making a rod, and afked her if fhe had
any bold children in the houfe ? Yes, my dear, I was
juft going to whip my ftep-daughter for telling a
lye—it is a thing I never forgive: and, if you will
excufe me, I will go and give it to her, for I hate,
of all things, to defer correcting children when they
deferve it; and without waiting for an anfwer, fhe
opened the door of a back parlour, where a beautiful
girl, about thirteen, was fobbing and crying. After
turning up her petticoats as high as the fmall of her
back, fhe whipped her with a great deal of feverity.
Mifs N. took notice how fhe fqueezed her between
her thighs all the time, as fhe whipped her Standing,
leaning only againft a bureau. After fhe had done
fhe took Mifs N. to the garden, and picked for her
a beautiful nofegay, but fo monftroufly large that fhe
was almoft afhamed to wear it. However, as her
friend wore one of an equal fize, fhe pinned it to her
bofom. I fee, my dear, faid fhe, you are not ac-
quainted with the fecret influence of flowers ; know,
my dear girl, that their fweet perfume has an uncom-
mon effect on many men and women; but to have
that effect; on men, they muft adorn a lovely bofom
like yours. After fpending a very agreeable evening,
Mi.';
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Mifs N., being told the coach was at the door, took
her leave. She was not gone a mile, when a fervant
in livery flopped the coachman, to know if his mafter,
Sir G. B., a gentleman as great a votary to Flora as
to birch difcipline, could have a place in the coach—
one of the wheels of his own having broke on the
road. Mifs N. was too civil to refufe ; and the gentle-
man foon made his appearance, and apologized for
his intrufion. He was ftruck with her beauty, for fhe
wras really a moft elegant woman, and paid her many
compliments; faid fhe looked moft charmingly,
praifed very much her nofegay, and, in his opinion,
nothing could be more becoming. At their parting,
he requefted permiffion to vifit her, which fhe granted.
A few days after, a fervant came with a large bloom-
ing nofegay, as big as a broom, and a note to know if
flie would be at home in the evening, and to requeft
her acceptance of the bouquet. She anfwered that
fhe and her aunt would be glad of his company at
tea. Whilft fhe was dreffing, one of the girls came to
complain that her lifter had fcratched and beaten her
terribly. As foon as fhe was dreffed, fhe came down
with Sir G—'s bouquet in her bofom; and, after
making out of a new broom a moft excellent rod,
fhe
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fhe took the bold huffey to her room, pinned her
fmock to her fhoulders, and holding her faft between
her thighs, her leg over hers, fhe began to whip her
as hard as the could, leaning her back againft the
edge of a table, as fhe had feen her friend do. I have
been told that the fair votaries of birch difcipline
prefer that attitude to any other.—Will you beat your
fifter again, faid fhe; will you, will you, will you,
will you, will you, will you, you little fpiteful flut ?—
Indeed, indeed, coufin, I never will do it again ; pray
do forgive me.—I won't forgive you till I humble your
proud fpirit, you little vixen; I'll whip, whip, whip,
whip, whip, whip, whip this bold a—e to my liking.
What made you fcratch your filter?—tell, tell, tell,
tell, tell, tell, tell me this minute.—It was fhe that
began firft; oh dear, you hurt me ihockingly!—I am
glad to hear it—yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes!
I will make a good girl of you, and make you feel
this excellent rod! what a fine fpring it has! new
birch, I fee, is the only thing for whipping bold girls
with ; and this imprudent bum fhall get, get, get, get,
get, get, get, get enough of it, I promife you ! I am
refolved to whip your a—e fo well, that you fhall re-
member it a long time. Will you be more diligeat,
and
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and not be always romping inftead of minding your
work—will you, will you, will you, will you, will you,
will you, will you, you little minx ? will you ever
fcratch your fifler again—tell me, tell, tell, tell, tell,
tell, tell me ?—Oh, no! indeed I never will—forgive
me this once; oh, pray do!—Will you be very good
for the future ? Indeed I will.—Are you fure of it ?—
are you, are you, are you ? If ever you beat your
After again, I will whip you till the blood comes. Go
along, you bold flut!
Mifs N. declared to a friend, that between the
fragrance of the flowers, and the pleafure of exercifing
the rod, fhe felt inexpreffible delight! No wonder,
for the tears of concupifcence, as fhe confeffed, fell in
abundance on the fpot where fhe whipped her, and
faid flie never had fo much pleafure in whipping be-
fore, which fhe attributed to the fweet odour of her
bouquet. She had fcarce done, when Sir G. was
announced, and was quite enraptured to fee in her
bofom the bouquet he fent her, efpecially as fhe wore
it fo high on the left fide of her bofom, that her pretty
face was half fhaded with it. After tea, Mifs A.,
a fmart young lady about feventeen, an acquaintance
of
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of Mifs N., called to fee her—fhe was uncommonly
well dreffed, and happened to have alfo in her bofom
a very large nolegay of mols rofes, carnations, jeffamy,
&c. Sir G. was quite delighted, and gazed on them
both with rapture. After fome trifling converfation,
they all agreed to go to the Opera. When it was
over, he took the young ladies home in his coach—
left Mifs A. at her own houfe ; and, as foon as he was
alone with Mifs N., declared his paffion. She pro-
mifed to give him an anfwer in three days. At the
appointed time he waited on her, and was fhewn into
a parlour, where, while he was waiting for his charmer,
he perceived behind the glafs a birch-rod. As one of
the young girls happened to be in the parlour at
work, he foon got from her all the information he
defired concerning it, which delighted him very much,
and determined him to make Mifs N. his wife as foon
as poffible. She foon made her appearance in an elegant
dcfhabille; he earneftly entreated her to name the
happy day, which fhe did after fome hefitation ; and
I had the pleafure of hearing that their nuptials foon
took place. She took the young girls home with her,
as Sir G. faid he would provide for them. One day,
as fhe was going to a ball, elegantly dreffed in a white
luteftring,
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luteftring, beautifully trimmed with crape and flowers ;
on the fide of her head a black gauze hat, looped up
with a brilliant loop and button, and ornamented with
nine large white oftrich feathers; her hair dreffed
very high and wide to the front, the chignon very
large and low, and highly perfumed ; her fnowy bofom
quite bare, except what was covered by an immenfe
fide bouquet, exhaling a moft exquifite perfume ; her
lovely hands adorned with elegant bracelets, &c, one
of the girls committed in her prefence a very heavy
offence ; and, wifhing to correct her before fhe went,
fhe called her hufband to help her, as the girl was
very ungovernable, and fhe was unwilling to tumble
her drefs. He, quite delighted, immediately com-
plied with her requeft, made her fit on his lap, taking
care de tui mcttrc eii levrette, while flic was employed
in turning up the petticoats of the young culprit, who
was too much frightened to fee anything ; then hold-
ing the girl's hands with one of his, while the other
preffed the waift of his dear flagellator, who, almoft
loft in blifs, was whipping the little minx with the
utmolt feverity. She was fo well pleafed that day,
that fhe generally found the affiftance of her hufband
neceffary when any of them deferved chaftifement.
I have
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I have been told that there are fome young ladies
fond of adminiftering the birch difcipline, that will con-
trive to put in a certain place a curious inftrument,
which very much heightens their felicity, efpccially
when the child kicks and plunges.
After taking a pleafant ride one evening laft fum-
mer, I alighted at the houfe of a particular female
friend who had been about fix months married. He:
hufband had three children by a former wife, two ot
which I found her reprimanding with great heat when
I entered, and who kept up a continued roar the
whole time, though fhe had not taken the rod in hand,
nor did fhe then intend it, as fhe did not choofe to
fpoil her drefs, which was beautiful in the higheft de-
gree. She intended to appear at the Opera that
evening, and fhe took uncommon pains to captivate
the fafhionable youth, by wearing a fancy drefs
enough to raife an inextinguifhable flame in the
breaft of an Anchoret.
When I found fhe had no notion of taking the rod
in hand, I enforced the utility of it very ftrongly,
which fhe agreed to, with a requeft that I might give
her
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her blubbering fon a good whipping, while fhe tickled
fulky Mils's pofteriors. She brought from her clofet
a rod rather of the largeft fize, which we divided be-
tween us, and fhe having got roaring Mifs under her
arm, with her pofteriors well bared to the' rod, and I
Matter's trowfers down, which I had fome difficulty
in doing, he ftruggled and plunged fo much on my
lap, we did not ceafe whipping till we left their bums
as nicely marked with the rod as any enraged fchool-
miftrefs could do it. What with the harmony of this
angelic woman's voice while lecturing her daughter—
her drefs from head to foot—the brilliancy of her eyes,
which fhot their fire into my very foul and fet it in a
blaze—her fair fkin and plump fwelling bofom, with
two heavenly dimples in her cheeks—all thefe power-
ful provocatives, with that of exercifing the rod on
the boy, almoft deprived me of my fenfes, and fcarce
knowing what I did, as foon as the children went
down ftairs, I threw myfelf at the feet of the adorable
flagellator and kiffed them with rapture ; then, Starting
up, embraced her, and begged the felicity from he-r
magic hand.
Pleafure fparkled in her eyes as foon as I had made
the
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the requeft, and having placed me acrois two chairs,
and expofed my fwelling bum, fhe excrcifed the rod
with the moft bewitching feverity imaginable, ufing
with a little variation much the fame lecture fhe de-
livered to her daughter, which was pretty nearly in
the following words :—
Will you for ever provoke me to take the rod in
hand, you bold vixen ! I thought the whipping I gave
you yefterday morning would make you remember
what I can do with a rod!—Indeed, my dear lovely-
Mamma, it was my brother's fault, he does nothing
but quarrel with me from morning till night! I don't
believe but you are as quarrelfome as he, and I am
determined to whip, whip, whip, whip this ftubborn
fpirit out of you ! yes, yes, yes, yes, you naughty girl!
O my fweet Mamma, pray forgive me, pray do ! No,
no, no, no, I will not, upon my honour! Your Papa
told me a few days after I married him, he did not
believe your own Mamma ever gave you a tafte of a
rod, but I was refolved the firft opportunity, which
happened the next day, to make you dance to fome
tune, under as good a rod as this I exercife now!
Yes, yes, yes, yes, you bold, impudent girl! And
you
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you fhall find I'll take it in hand with as good a will
while I have Strength to conquer your turbulent fpirit!
0 dear! O Mamma! O dear, dear Mamma! O my
lovely, fweet, charming Mamma, pray, pray, pray for-
give me! don't whip me any more! I'll kifs the rod
indeed, and promife you, upon my honour, never to
give you this trouble again! Are, are, are, are you
fure of it? Do, my lovely, dear, fweet Mamma, try
me this once, and you'll find me a moft excellent girl,
you will, upon my honour!—Well, I'll try you : here,
kifs the rod, and thank me on your knees for making
fuch excellent ufe of it. I do indeed, my adorable
Mamma!
Such was the fcene between us; but what pen can
defcribe what I felt when at every turn of my head
1 beheld an angel in the perfon of my flagellator,
whofe every Stroke, till nature ebbed away, transported
me to regions of boundlefs felicity ?
I know a young married couple that have always
feparate beds in the fummer. Every morning the
lady appears at breakfaft in an ellegant dcfhabille,
and a moft enormous bouquet on the left fide of her
bofom
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bofom juft frefh picked. When breakfaft is over fhe
retires to her bed-chamber, where her hufband, dreffed
in his uniform (for he is an officer), foon follows her,
and enjoys her at Icvrettc, as they prefer that attitude
as moft voluptuous and favourable for conception.
She fays that her pleafure is more exalted from the
fweet perfume of the bouquet, which fhe is conftantly
fmelling to during the amorous engagement. She is
particularly fond of the fmell of wall-flowers. No
married people I think live more happy, or have more
beautiful children. Being one day on a vifit at their
country-houfe, her hufband brought her from the
garden a nofegay made of bunches of lilies of the
valley, hyacinths, jonquils, minionet, auriculas, double
wall-flowers, and violets, intermixed with fprigs of
narrow myrtle in bloffom, orange leaves, and fweet
briar. All the fweet flowers the fpring affords were
united in the moft beautiful bouquet I ever faw for
the time of the year. She immediately pinned it to
her bofom on the left fide, and afked her hufband how
he liked her with it. He anfwered with a kifs; and,
indeed, fhe looked fo tempting and fo effeminate, that
I longed to give her another. She is not above nine-
teen ; tall, rather flender, exceffively fair a bofom—
could
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could I match the pencil ol Correggio to give you an
idea of it!—her hands and arms were fymmetry itfelf.
In the fouth of Europe nothing is more common than
for Ladies to wear large nofegays, which occafions
many Ladies in this country, I am pofitively fure, to
do the fame; indeed, when they go to public places
they fhould wear them for many reafons. When I
was in France I feldom faw a Lady well dreffed
without one; the Countefs Du Barry, of whipping
memory, was never without one as large as a broom,
the late King of France being exceffively fond of
them. I have been told that the prefent Queen of
France, being fubject to the head-ache, forbade them at
Court for fome time; but now this fafhion is followed
more than ever, as the Queen is grown fond of them.
Though flowers have a moft luxurious, nay falacious
odour in the day time, yet one fhould be very careful
not to fleep in a room with much of them, for the ex-
halation from them is veiy dangerous, efpecially in
fmall bed-rooms. A young Lady that generally
received the embraces of her hufband in bed in a
flight defhabille he was very fond of. and ufed to wear
with it (as the lady above mentioned) a monftrous
nofegay, one night forgetting to take it from her
bofom
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TALES
Tranflated from the FRENCH.
It is necejfary to be obfcrvcd, that the character by whom
thofe Tales are related, is fuppofed to pojfefs the
peculiar intuitive advantages of an invifible fpy.
TALE
G
bofom after the amorous conflict, and being rathet
tired, fell afleep with it; in the morning fhe found
herfelf very ill, and continued fo for many days.
In my opinion a play on this fubject would be
vaftly entertaining, fuppofmg the principal characters
to be Lady Birch, Lady Tickletail, Mrs. Flogwell,
Mrs. Ticklebum, Lady Bouquet, Signora Birchini,
Mifs Bloffom, the three laft fond of whipping with
enormous bouquets in their bofoms, Mademoifelle
Dubouleau, the Governefs, and Lord Frolickfome,
Lord Frifky, Sir H. Prancer, Lord Jeffamy, a few
boys and girls, as Mifs Giddy, Mifs Tomboy, &c
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TALE the FIRST,
ONE evening as I fat in penfive melancholy in my
chamber, entered a fvveet little tit, attired in all the
charms of tempting defhabille, heightened by a fvvell-
ing bofom, adorned by a well felefted nofegay, and a
little after her, a young fellow of the fprightly age of
between twenty and thirty years.
The doors being carefully fhut, the curtains drawn,
and every crevice fecured with the utmoft caution, the
girl addreffed him in an authoritative tone, to this
effect—Well, abandoned wretch, whence came you ?
Did not I charge you not to go out without my leave ?
My dear mother, returned the young man, in the
moft fubmiffive tone, indicating all the tremour of a
fchool-boy, I am come from catechifm. From
catechifm impudence at this hour, faid the miftrefs,
you tell me a lye, accompanying the reproof with two
or three blows on the ear, and as many kicks on the
breech. Let me fee, let me fee, fays fhe, what you
have learned. How many mortal fins are there ?
There are,—there are,—my dear mother-1 cannot
exactly
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exactly remember how many there are.—What,
firrah, do you not remember your mortal fins? O
then I'll learn you to remember them. Come, Sir,
ftrip, ftrip this inftant. My dear mother, cried the
culprit, pray forgive me; I will learn them. No, no,
replied the other, fnatching a bundle of rods, you
fhall be whipt; ftrip, ftrip I fay. With that fhe un-
buttoned his fmall clothes, pulled them down to the
knees, and tucked his fhirt up above his fhoulders.
When he had received about half-a-dozen ftripes, he
pretended to ward them off with his hands, but fhe
tied them before him, and plied the birch till the
blood flowed moft copioufly. What now could mortal
imagine would be the confequence ? Why the fcene
was immediately changed : the fcholar became mafter
and the miftrefs became fcholar, and underwent a
fevere flogging in her turn ; and there is not a doubt
but the parties received a mutual and molt exquifite
pleafure.
Thefe means, faid I to myfelf, though Angular and
comical, have a powerful effect in ftimulating the
generative faculties. Singular and comical, replied a
genius at my elbow; nothing is more natural or
fofhionabla
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fafhionable at prefent. It is a ceremony ufed in all
the temples confecrated to Venus, which are always
provided with a good flock of birch for the accommo-
dation of their votaries, as an excellent means for
putting the blood in motion. Ladies of tafte always
take care to have a bundle of well-feafoned rods
under their bolfters for their own ufe or that of their
paramour. It is an infallible noftrum to invigorate
nature, enliven cold conftitutions, and we are told by
the faculty that it is a fovereign remedy in cafes of
iterility. A wag then remarked that the hand of a
lufty knave of a Friar could never afford fuch exquifite
fenfation as that of a pretty woman, and that there-
fore the devotees to the fex would become eafily
habituated to the chaftifement of the young and
mettlefome fifterhood : fo much for this ceremony and
its extraordinary effects.
TALE the SECOND.
An unfortunate fair one being enjoined by a
reverend father to do penance for the operation of an
enormous offence, by receiving fifty ftripes with the
rod,
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rod, the neceffary preparations were made for the
folemn occafion.
The poor delinquent confeffing her crime, with
blufhes, tucked up, and fubmitted her pofteriors to
the mercy of the old caftigator, who, provided with
an excellent implement of green birch, laid on without
ceremony. Thefe churchmen, faid a female auditor,
are furely without pity. That's very true, replied one
of the other fex, hardnefs of heart is their juft re-
proach, but under fuch circumftances a man of the
world would have been as little fufceptible of pity.
The culprit was beautiful, had a fkin of the lily white-
nefs, and had fcarcely reached to enchanting fifteen.
Such rapturous charms are too affecting to the view
to admit of difpenfing with an opportunity for admir-
ing them, and as that could not be afforded with
decency, but on the occafion of inflicting punifh-
ment, the good father feemed in no hurry to put an
end to it, though the pofteriors and thighs Streamed
with blood.
The poor girl bore the correction with all poffible
refignation, and the good father exercifed the difci-
pline
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pline with all the alacrity as could become fo whole-
fome an inftitution.
TALE the THIRD.
In early life I was apprentice to a fchool-miftrefs,
a moll unmerciful difpenfer of the birch, who upon a
certain occafion placed me in a clofet, near the fchool-
room, where the larger girls were commonly corrected,,
fo that I had an opportunity of feeing almoft every
day, to my moft exquifite pleafure, perhaps a dozen
of the moft beautiful pictures.
My miitrefs had, befides two under tutoreffes, a niece
who carried as much authority as herfelf in the fchool,
and, after her example, fpared the pofteriors of the
poor girls as little; indeed, flagellation feemed to be
her darling paffion. She was about twenty, tall, well
proportioned, always attired in becoming tafte, and
feldom without a large nofegay on one fide of her
bofom, for fhe encouraged the fafhion of wearing
enormous nofegays by her own example. The
fmalleft faults were punifhed with whipping—thirty
well
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well applied ftripes were the ordinary correction.
Sometimes this lady, who always corrected the larger
girls, from twelve to fourteen years of age, ftretched
the punifhment to fifty ftripes, with rods of green
birch.
The purveyor who fupplied this fchool had particu-
lar orders to fend no brooms but fuch as were com-
pofed of birch newly cut; for this experienced matron
well knew that the dry birch had a tendency to dif-
colour the fkin too much. Some feemed to receive
the chaftifement without concern, and affected levity
as much after as before the difcipline, whilft others
expreffed their feelings by the bittereft cries, and
endeavoured to ward off the ftripes with their hands ;
but all in vain, for inftead of obtaining any degree of
favour, their hands were tied before them, and they
received a double number of ftripes.
Notwithftanding this feverity of correction, the
fchool was very full, as the greateft part of female
parents approve of fuch rigorous difcipline; and, in-
deed, it muft be acknowledged, that punifhment was
never inflicted without defert. A number of very
beautiful
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beautiful ladies came out of this fchool as accomplished
and deeply (killed in Birch difcipline as any from out
of a convent.
A-pro-pos, replied a lady, who had been educated
in a convent, don't you imagine that the tenants of
the cloiftered domains are of fo delicate a texture,
they well know the virtues of the birch, and fo fre-
quent is the practice of flagellation there, that it will
be difficult to equal them in the exercife of the art.
It was at length confeffed that this method of cafti-
gation was of infinite fervice to young girls, who
thought themselves women before their time, and, after
having fpent five or fix years at thefe fchools, came
out of them as uninformed as they went in. One day
the niece came into the clofet set apart for correction,
and began to make a bundle of rods from a new
broom which the fervant maid brought her. She
then called in a young girl of about thirteen or
fourteen years of age, who immediately on the fight
of the rods began to cry, and afk pardon. A truce to
your tears, cried the other ; you know what I promifed
you this morning, you muft be whipt; upon which
fhe
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flie pulled up her petticoats and fliifts as high as fhe
could, put her head under her left arm, and holding
her faff, in this pofition, the buttocks and thighs
being well expofed, fhe began to apply the birch. I'll
do fo no more, cried the poor delinquent. You fliall
have it, fays the other, proceeding in the difcipline,
her eyes indicating the pleafure it afforded, till having
glutted her humour by exciting a profufion of blood,
fhe threw down the rod, and reclined on a chair al-
moft breathlefs. This paffion, it was added, prevails
with the women in general, from the fchool-miftrefs
to the miftreffes of the different arts and profeffions,
of which the narrator declares himfelf to be perfectly
affured.
For the SECOND PART of the FEMALE
FLAGELLANTS.
Mifs C-h, when fhe bore that name, took under
her care the two daughters of an officer in the Guards,
whofe wife had been her intimate companion, and was
lately deceafcd. They were both remarkably beauti-
ful, fair and plump of their age—one thirteen, the
other
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other turned of fourteen. She dreffed them always
in the higheft elegance and wantonnefs; had them
taught every accomplifhment under her own eye, and
always corrected every fault with the birch, and with
her own hand. She had a confidant in the late L--y
H-, who was remarkably fond of affifting and
feeing fuch exhibition. She ufed to fend for her on
thefe occafions ; and her woman, from whom I had
thefe particulars, affured me they would be fometimes
an hour before they would let their coats down. They
ufed to place their two chairs in a line, and one lay
up one girl, and the other the other, with their pofte-
riors over againft each other, fo as to have a view of
both at once, then they ufed to whip them a little,
and then compare their ivory globes, and then whip
them again alternately, but never feverely. And the
fame perfon told me the girls grew fo fond of it, that
they have often begged her in the moft earneft
manner to take them up at other times, which fhe
fays fhe frequently did, and ufed to take it from them
again herfelf.
WHIMSICAL
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WHIMSICAL ANECDOTE.
Lady M
A certain E
-has two beautiful young daughters,
and Lady H-, the former twelve,
the latter eleven years of age. There was a hand-
fome little boy, of nine years of age, who attended
Ladies ufed to play many innocent tricks, and to pafs
many jokes upon him. One very extraordinary joke
we muft not omit recording. They had perfuaded
him to believe that he muft implicitly comply with,
and perform, whatever they fhould be pleafed to order
and direct, otherwife he would lofe his place, by being
immediately turned off with fhame and difgrace ;
upon which he declared that he fhould at all times be
ready, as was his duty, to obey and fulfil their Lady-
ships' orders and commands as far as lay in his power.
Upon this declaration the young Ladies difmiffed
Tom (that being his name) for the prefent, with orders
to knock foftly at their bed-chamber door next morn-
ing at eight o'clock. Tom was punctual in obeying
this command, and obtained immediate admittance.
Lady M
as her foot boy. With him the young
The
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The young Ladies received him in their fhifts, and
made him follow them into their clofet. As foon as
they entered they (hut the door, upon which Lady
M- got up upon a chair, and flood upon it with
her pofteriors bared, having pulled up her fmock for
that purpofe, while Lady H-ordered the little fub-
miffive lackey to kneel down at the foot of the chair, and
to kifs Lady M-'s noble parts repeatedly, and to be
very careful not to let the proper place mifs his fervent
embraces. When Lady M-had indulged him as
long as fhe thought proper, fhe defcended, and was
fucceeded by her fitter, Lady H-, who mounted
the chair, and uncovered her bumfiddle, in the fame
manner that Lady M--had done, upon which the
particoloured urchin was commanded to kneel a
fecond time, and to imprefs his embraces in the fame
luxuriant manner he had done to Lady M-; which
he did with a degree of unaccountable and extraordi-
nary ecftacy on the beautiful pofteriors of both the
divine and angelic fitters. When thefe moil charm-
ing young Ladies had amufed themfelves as long as
they thought proper with their little (lave, whom they
had made moft haopy by their confidence they di(-
miffed
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miffed him with an injunction to return next morn-
ing at the fame hour, and not to impart to any one,
on no account whatever, the ufe or purpofe to which
they had applied him; all which commands he pro-
mifed moft faithfully to adhere to. This kind of
commerce Lady M- and Lady H-carried on
with their favourite Tom for about three weeks, when
a quarrel happened between Dick (Lady H--'s
foot-boy) and Tom ; in the courfe of which Dick told
him, that although their Ladies admitted him (Tom)
into their bed-chamber, he was determined not to be
ill-ufed by him. Lady H-'s maid, who happened
to be present at this difpute, was determined to avail
herfelf of the truth of Dick's affertion. She accordingly
watched Tom, and faw him admitted next morning
into the young Ladies' bed-chamber, upon which fhe
applied her eye to the key-hole, but could only fee
them retire to the adjoining clofet, through which fhe
pierced a fmall opening, and beheld, with much fur-
prife, Lady M- and Lady H-, with Tom
proftrate, as above related. She immediately in-
formed the young Ladies' Governefs of what fhe had
feen, who went to their apartment, and difcovered
them exhibiting in the lufcious fcene, agreeable to
their
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their peculiar and Angular penchant. The Governefs
acquainted the Countefs, their ftep-mother, of the
whole affair, who was all aftonifhment at the relation,
and immediately commanded the young culprits into
her prefence, whom fhe rated very fevcivly for a con-
fiderable time. Her Ladyfhip then ordered her maid,
who was in waiting, to go to the fhrubbery and bring
her a very good rod, for the purpofe of whipping very
heartily the backfides of thofe audacious, impudent
young huffies. The rod being brought, the young
Ladies immediately fell on their knees, imploring
their dear Mamma's forgivenefs, and promiling never
to offend again ; but all to no purpofe, for he/ Lady-
fhip, after feating herfelf upon the fopha, ordered the
Governefs to bring Lady M--to her, whom fiie
laid acrofs her knee : having expofed her lovely back-
fide to the rod, fhe whipped her foundly for full five
minutes, and afterwards exerted herfelf on the beautiful
pofteriors of her charming filter.
Still thefe young wantons were not terrified from
fuch falacious amufement—for about a fortnight after,
they feigned a flight fickness, for the pleafure of lying
in bed, and were caught by their mother making ufe
of
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■of an indifcreet toy. The Lady was enraged to
frenzy on beholding fuch a fcene ; but ftifled her rage
till fhe returned with an excellent rod. The writer of
thefe anecdotes happened to be on a vifit, and could
not conceive what the Lady was at when fhe faw her
leave the room with the birchen fceptre, till, hearing
the cries of her daughters, fhe ran upftairs, and dis-
covered the exafperated Lady holding the culprits
down in bed, and whipping them with the utmoft
feverity.
What furprifed the writer very much was to fee
two full grown girls kicking and plunging under the
heavy ftrokes of the rod, and fuffering their delightful
pofteriors to be left in the condition of a fchoolboy
after a whipping from a favage fchoolmafter, when
their united Strength could vanquish their mother.
But it feems whenever they made refiftance, the
Lady tied them alternately with a belt down on a
chair, and whipped them without mercy.
For
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For the SECOND PART of the FEMALE
FLAGELLANTS.
The Editor of the Female Flagellants, in the Note,
page 31, fays that fhe is informed that Birch difcipline
is never ufed in any boarding-fchool, meaning for
young Ladies. This information is wrong.
There are fome fchools, in and near Town, where
the rod is never applied; but in many the pupils are
obliged to undergo the Birchen correction whenever
they are detected in a fault, fometimes even for a very
trivial one. In the girls' fchools in the great Towns,
at a diftance from London—fuch as Litchfield, Exeter,
Salifbury, and Worcefter, whither children are often
fent from hence, the ufe of the rod is as common as at
the Public fchools for boys. The miftreffes and
tutoreffes whip their fcholars, big girls as well as little
ones, without any fcruple. They are either horfed on
the back of a big girl or obliged to lie down on a
ftool—juft as the Lady who flogs finds convenient.
In moft fchools fome girl has her learning and board
gratis, to perform the fervices of fweeping the fchool,
making
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II
making the rods, and holding up the young Ladies to
be whiot. At moft of thefe fchools a Writing-mafter
attends tc teach the fcholars, and I have known
feveral times, when a Miftrefs has detected a naughty
Miij in a very flagrant offence, fuch as perfifting in a
fib, Stealing from her fellow fcholars, telling tales out
Oj
fchool, &c, fhe has thought herfelf not equal to the
tafk of giving the proper punifhment, and has em-
ployed the Writing-mafter to inflict it upon girls of
thirteen or fourteen years of age. When this happens
poor Mifs's backfide fmarts feverely, as Matter lays on
the rod with a heavy hand, fo as to mark the culprit
with the figns of the lafh, from the top of her buttocks
down to her garters, while the Miftrefs and the
Tutoreffes, and perhaps a Birch loving Lady befides,
fit by, and enjoy the twiftings and poftures of the
beautiful little fufferer. Some parents don't mind
thefe things, and others never hear of it, as the girls
are afraid to tell, no crime being fo feverely corrected
as telling tales out of fchool. I have obferved that
young Ladies who are orphans, or whofe friends live
at a great diftance, as in the Weft Indies, or Ireland,
are frequently whipped for faults which others efcape
correction
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To
correction for; and as no letter goes from fchool
without being examined, if any attempt is made to
complain by writing, Mifs muft expect to be horfed
and flogged without mercy, until her backfide is al-
moft flayed, and this would be done before all the
fcholars as an example of what they are to expect if
they fay anything of their fufierings. Ladies don't
like to own thefe facts, but I know them to be true,
and many have owned to me, after they have left
fchooL that all this is true. I have feen fwinging
Birch rods at many girls' fchools. Some Miftreffes
and Mafters make the poor little tilings kifs the rod
every time they are whipped.
I am,
Your humble Servant,
VAPULATOR.
March 22,
1785.
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To the EDITOR of the SECOND PART of the
FEMALE FLAGELLANTS.
Madam,
Amidft a number of curious anecdotes, permit me
to introduce one as fingular, and, perhaps, of more
benefit to the world at large.
Chatting with a fele<5t party of my female friends
laft night, and running over many Striking particulars
in the Fafhionable Lectures, and the first part of your
work, a lady, after hearing many obfervations on the
fubjecl of whipping, introduced an anecdote that may
be of infinite fervice to many whofe lives are made
miferable through the want of children.
A few years ago fhe formed an intimacy with a
young couple of good fortune, who had been married
fome years without being bleft with a child. The
woman was beautiful, and wore a prolific appearance,
and the hufband feemed as able a General as ever
acquired laurels in the fields of Venus.
Whai
H 2
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What with the fneers of the ill-natured, and the
jefts of friends, the gentleman had but a fore time of
it. And this would have continued for fome years
longer, in all probability, had not a lady made her
appearance in the family, who had juft arrived from a
convent in France.
This lady was fifterto the fterile lady, and loved her
as her life ; nor was fire a whit lefs fond of the hufband,
who was her relation, and had been her play-mate
when a boy.
Hearing him feverely roafted one evening about
his wife's fterility, fhe, on her return home, told them
both if they would fuffer her to adminifter a remedy
fhe would forfeit her life if fhe did not fucceed. This
remedy a well informed lady in France communicated
to her, with an affurance of its certain fuccefs.
When fhe mentioned the particulars they laughea
immoderately, but they were fo anxious to poffefs a
child, with her earneft entreaties, they complied.
The lady of the houfe inftantly fent for a new broom,
out of which fhe defired the maid to make a large rod
for
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for her dog, and bring it to her. While this was
fettling the fifter dreffed herfelf as fplendid as poffible
in the French tafte, and, having got the rod from the
fervant, and tied thofe twigs together fhe liked beft,
fhe entered her filler's chamber in a great paffion,
where fhe and her hufband were enfolded in each
other's arms. When the lady found everything right
between the couple, fhe inftantly pulled the gentle-
man's breeches down to his heels, and having tucked
in his fhirt above his waift, fhe plied the rod gently,
upbraiding him the whole time (as was agreed be-
tween them) about his inactivity in not getting his
wife with child—the language between them running
in fomething like the following (train :—
The LECTURE.
Will you for ever, you great lazy rafcal, expofe
your wife and yourfelf to the derifion of every one ?
will you, will you, will, will, will, will you, you im-
potent young fcoundrel ? " Oh, no, my dear, lovely
fifter, I will not indeed ! I will not, upon my honour! "
I'll make you, you fhall not! I am determined to put
life
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life into you now, and not call a blufh eternally into
my fitter's face and your own! yes, yes, yes, yes, yes,
yes, yes, yes, you fhall learn activity from this excel-
lent rod before I have done, you may reft affured!
"Oh, my dear fitter! Oh, my dear, dear, beautiful
fitter, for God's fake, don't whip fo hard ! I promife
you you fhall not have this fault to complain of any
more! Charlotte, my dear, angelic Charlotte, lay
afide the rod!" I will not lay afide the rod, I will
not, upon my honour, till I make you as active and
fprightly as any hufband exifting! Keep him down,
my dear fitter; don't let him get away till I am satis-
fied he will do as I would have him !—I knew another
lazy gentleman in France, whofe wife could get no-
good of him till a good rod was as well applied to his
backfide as this I exercife now! " Charlotte! Char-
lotte ! my deareft, lovely Charlotte! my adorable
Charlotte, let me go ! "—You fhall not go ; hold him,
fitter, hold him tight! He fhall find it not an eafy
matter to get from under the rod when I take it in
hand! yes, yes, I fee how active you can be when a
good rod is well applied; your motions are brifk
enough now! You may take my word for it you
fhall feel it often while I remain in this houfe ! " Oh,
Charlotte!
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Charlotte! Charlotte! my fweet fitter! my lovely
Charlotte, I—die—with—tranf—port!"-In that
moment the threw her arm over his back and whipt
him fmartly, till he gained the fummit of his felicity.
It may appear ftrange, but it is a fact, that in one
of the three whippings he got in this manner, his wife
conceived, and in about nine months after they were
bleft with a lovely boy, and Charlotte, for her aJTifi>
ance, had an elegant prefent of diamonds at his birth.
The lady faid (he knew the flagellating lady very
intimately, and declared, when dreft, no woman could
look lovelier. She declared to the lady who related
the anecdote, from what fhe had heard on the Con-
tinent, fhe was fatisfied the fplendour of the flagellator's
drefs heightens the blifs in a fupreme degree; and
fhe altered her drefs each time as much as fhe poffibly
could, that he might fancy her a new character, or
one that had charmed him in the courfe of his walks
that day.
r Yours, &c,
Charlotte.
Briftol, March 17, 17S5.
P.S
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P.S.—/ think a good metzotinto print from
this anec-
dote would be very highly priced by the lovers
of fine
women and birch.—Should any of your readers wifk to
know why a whipping from a female hand fliould
give
birth to conception, that learned and pleafing trcatife on
flogging the loins and reins, by Dr. Meibomius,
will
fatisfy them.
For the SECOND PART of the FEMALE
FLAGELLANTS.
Bath, March 3, 1785.
Madam,
The firft part of your work excited my curiofity
very much ; indeed, fo ftrongly was I preffed to read
it, that I folicited a female friend who was jufl fetting
out for London to fend it by the firft conveyance.
Many of the anecdotes are whimfical to a degree,
and I muft fay prettily put together. I have read
them, and heard them read, in many a private party,
and do affure you, though many of them do not wear
45
a face of probability, yet the Ladies, one and all, de-
clared them in a great meafure faithful pictures ot
whipping paftime.
I am not, I affure you, fond of feeling the rod, even
from the hand of a Goddefs, having had enough of it
while under the tuition of a Governefs as mercilefs as
fhe was ugly. But to the point.
Reading the ftory of Mrs. E-this morning to
my maid as fhe was dreffing me, and expreffing fome-
what of furprife at fuch a paffion in women, fhe
affured me the following anecdote was in every point
authentic:—
A Lady, with whom fhe lived formerly, was fo de-
voted to the pleafure, that fhe fet two days of every
week apart for enjoying it. A whipping from the
hands of a Lady of equal years fhe delighted highly
in, but to be well whipt by a full grown girl tranfported
her. She had a fifter equally fond of it, who lived
with her, and who, with my maid, were the only
perfons in the fecret.
This
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f This Lady happened to fpend a few weeks at
Buxton Wells, where fhe formed an intimacy with a.
family of distinction, confifting of a gentleman, his
two daughters, and his fifter, who took care of the
girls, their mother being dead. The eldeft of thefe
girls was the fineft picture of true beauty ever feen,
and her vivacity was equal to her beauty. At this
period fhe was fourteen years old, all life apd fpirits,
and the foul of every company fhe entered into, r
?
The. Lady faw and adored; but how to gain the
fummit of her felicity was the queftion.
Mifs N. was highly delighted with the company of
the Lady, who we may fuppcfe exerted herfeif to the
higheft degree to rivet the affections of her blooming
charmer. The maid fet her wits to work, and as
Abigails are fertile at expedients, fhe fucceeded.
It was fixed that the young Ladies fhould b'e invited,,
without the aunt, to fpend a day with the two Ladies.
They came, and all was mirth and hilarity; they
romped, tickled, and diverted themfclves with a num-
ber of innocent pranks, till at length the Lady turned
up
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up Mifs's clothes and gave her a few gentle flaps, ob-
ferving at the fame time how happy fhe fhould be to
be her Governefs, for the pleafure of tickling her
pretty backfide.
Mifs took it all in jeft, and laughed over it with
great glee; after which the Lady's fifter whispered
Mifs N-, and they retired for a few minutes. Now
this was the very thing the Abigail had concerted.
In a little while the Ladies returned to the parlour,
Mifs with a rod in her hand, and the Lady's fifter re-
commending her to make a proper ufe of it, and offer-
ing her affiftance to hold the Lady.
The inftant the Lady faw them enter, fhe made an
effort to feize the rod, but was inftantly overpowered
by her fifter and the two Miffes, who all compelled
her to lie on a fmall table, and fuffer herfelf to be
whipt by her young Mamma. The other young Lady
feeing her kick, got under the table, and, lying flat on
her belly, held the culprit's legs, while fhe feemed to
endeavour, by pulling up her petticoats, flapping her
little bum, and other efforts, to difengage her limbs
from her; all which, as fhe wifhed no doubt, proved
ineffectual,
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ineffectual, nor would the Lady's fitter, who held her
down the whole time, fuffer the pretty flagellator to
leave off till fhe thought the Lady was tranfported,
which did not happen to be the cafe, till her pofteriors
wore the ftripes generally feen on thofe from the
hands of a flagellating ftep-mother, or a fevere French
Governefs. As foon as the Lady got up, fhe laughed
immoderately, and throwing her arms round the neck
of her difciplinarian, kiffed her with ecilacy, and told
her fhe would make an admirable Governefs. Mifs
laughed at the obfervation, and told her it was her
filter's doings entirely, who called her out and infifted
on it, obferving at the fame time how pleafed fhe
would be to affift me, and fhe was certain you would
take it all in good part. So I do, upon my honour,
faid the Lady, kiffing her lovely hand, and the only
retaliation I require is that you inflict the fame
punifhment on my fitter this minute. The fitter
made an attempt to get away, but the Lady took
care to hold her down, till Mifs exercifed the rod with
bewitching feverity. Thus were they both delighted,
nor did Mifs know a tittle about the truth of the
matter the whole time
To
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To tlxa PUBLISHER of the FEMALE
FLAGELLANTS.
Sir,
Laughing fome time ago with a party of lively girls
of the Cyprian train, over a print reprefenting a num-
ber of boarding-fchool girls going to flagellate the
governefs, one of the ladies related an anecdote as
whimfical as any I have yet read or heard, which is
much at your fervice, either to infert in the fecond
part of the Female Flagellants, or to ftimulate you to
take your pencil in hand and make two good paintings
from it.
Belinda (for fuch is the Lady's name who related
the anecdote) was placed out, at a very early age, at
a boarding fchool, a few miles from town, under the
tuition of a woman who poffeffed the moft infinuating
addrefs in the female world, which always fecured her
a fufficient number of pupils—having through it ac-
quired a great name among parents an'd guardians.
A fhort while after Belinda had been at fchool, the
Governefs turned off her affiftant; and, feeing an
advertifement
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aavertifement in the Morning Poft from a French
tutorefs, fhe fent for her and inftantly engaged her.
This, faid Belinda, we all fet down as a high proof of
her tafte, as the lady, who was a native of Picardy,
was one of the moft charming women in the world.
Her ftature was majeftic, but her air and demeanour
was nature itfeli. The peculiar fplendour ot her
carriage was foftened and fubdued by the moft affable
condefcenfion—her charms infpired univerfal rapture !
The fofteft rofes that ever youth and modefty poured
out on beauty glowed on the lip of this lovely woman.
Her cheeks were the bloom of Hebe, and all that
could tranfport human nature adorned her fwelling
bofom. This flight of ecftacy, faid Belinda, ran from
one girl to another through the fchool on her appear-
ance, little fufpecting what a flagellating fpirit lurked
beneath this fafcinating exterior.
Madame Whipperanti (a name, faid Belinda, we
baptized her by a fliort while after fhe made her ap-
pearance) was not above two days in the fchool when
fhe addreffed our governefs in French, afking if fhe
fuffcred the ufe of the rod in her fchool, to which fhe
anfwered yes; becaufe, faid the French lady, I have
obferved
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obferved no fign of any fuch ufeful implement fince I
entered your fchooL
I have had no occafron, faid the governefs, to take it
in hand. Pardon me, faid the other, you have been
repeatedly provoked to it in my own hearing by three
or four dunces: but you are too eafy, madam. I
never found any admonition produce fo powerful an
effect as a good birch-rod well handled ; and I would
forfeit my life, with the affiftance of a good one, I
would work fuch a reformation that you would be
cafed of one-half the burthen attending your prefent
fyftem of tuition.
This was faid, faid Belinda, in our hearing, and you
may be certain we looked at each other, and at her
with aftonifhment.
I What with this advice in our hearing and enforcing
it in private, backed by a niece to the governefs, who
was an afiiitant in the fchool, the lady, who we thought
no bad hand before the arrival of Madame Whipper-
anti, gave into it at once, and it fell to my lot, faid
Belinda, to be tlie fecond whofc pofteriors were
fmartly whipped by this woman.
But
L ]
But the molt laughable anecdote throughout this
bufinefs is the following:—
This woman, anxious, I can fafely fwear for -
general difplay of backfides, dropped a little French
book in a bed-room where about a dozen of the girls
flept, in which many voluptuous Icenes were defcribed,
illuftrated with a number of prints ol an inflammatory
tendency.
Maria C-, who was the life and foul of our
fociety, and who was a compleat miftrefs of French,
tranflated the whole of the work, and fet us cock-a-
hoop to put in practice many of the fcenes. One in
particular ftruck our fancy, and feemed to give us a
higher notion of the good things of this life than any
other.
This was a print and glowing paffage, where an
amorous engagement with a mock -is defcribed.
The belt and the machine were in a fhort while manu-
factured by the fertile genius of Maria, and we had,
as foon as we had tafted the divine fweets flowing
from
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from it, above a dozen made in the courfe of a couple
of days.
About a week had elapfed after this charming dif-
covery, when one morning, which happened to be a
holiday, Madame Whipperanti, wifhing no doubt for
a grand entertainment on the bumfiddle, watched our
motions fo very clofe, that fhe brought the Governefs
to a peep-hole fhe made in the next room, who ob-
ferving how we were engaged—for we were all in high
ecftacy, except Maria, whofe belt gave way, and whole
companion was fattening it on—the Governefs, with
her flagellating companion, Mifs Harriet, the niece,
and a lady who was a boarder in the family, all burft
into the room, and threw our divine party into the
greateft confufion. Some ran out of an oppofite door,
who were foon overtaken, and we were inftantly
guarded to the fchoolroom. Nothing but birch and
flaying of bums echoed around. The maids were
ordered up flairs. Such as endeavoured to efcape
were tied down on chairs and flools. Some were
horfed, who were not eafily managed, among whom
was your humble fervant, who was mounted on the
back of a maid-fervant as powerful as an Hercules.
Nothing
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Nothing was heard around but roaring, crying, the
found of the rods, and the moft impaffioned lectures.
I fancy to this hour, faid Belinda, laughing, Madame
Whipperanti took an uncommon liking to my pofte-
riors, for I remember well fhe kept me up full five
minutes, and exercifed the rod with fuch feverity,
ufing very little intermiffion, that with all her beauties,
from her brilliant eyes to her angelic hand and arm,
and from that to her matchlefs leg and foot, I could
not feel anything of tranfport in it; though I am well
perfuaded any of the male creation would have
thought it next a journey to heaven to have felt her
pull his breeches down, and tuck in his fhirt above his
waift with as much deliberation and feeming pleafure
as fhe lifted my petticoats, and the rod exercifed by
her magic hand with the utmoft vigour.
Indeed, I am convinced to this hour Madame Whip-
peranti had a violent liking for my bumfiddle, for I
remember well while fhe was untying the inftrument
of pleafure, which was faftened round my middle, fhe
complained of the knot, flapped my pofteriors with
her hand, and run it over both cheeks repeatedly, till
fhe
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the had difengaged the inftrument. But this was not
the only thing that convinced me of her love for my
pofterior beauties, for every time I turned my head to
implore forgivenefs during her exercifing the rod, I
could perceive her beautiful eyes ready to bounce out
of her head—fo loft was fhe in tranfport.
It was certainly the richeft feaft for a backfide
voluptuary imaginable, to fee fuch a number of bums
in one view! I fhould fay before the punifhment, for
after it they were fadly difcoloured, no poor culprits
having ever received a feverer flagellation. Madame
Whipperanti, I have been informed, lives now with a
merchant of immenfe fortune in the city, who no
doubt will bequeath her fomething confiderable for
the felicity he receives from her hands
To
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To the EDITOR of the EXHIBITION of
FEMALE FLAGELLANTS.
Madam,
As I find you mean to publifh a Second Part of the
Female Flagellants, I fend you the following anec-
dotes which have been lately communicated to me by
a friend, and which (when corrected) might perhaps
amufe many of your readers.
Yours,
Cl.'.rinda.
Mifs B-was the daughter of a merchant, who,
having fuffered many loffes, was obliged to become a
bankrupt. As fhe was of a very amorous difpofition,
a moft charming girl, with pretty blue eyes, always
fwimming in the fluid of amorous dalliance, it is no
wonder if fhe fell a victim to the late Lord-. Sir
H. G, who had fpent many years in Italy, and had
rafted
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tafted very often the felicity of a birch-rod from the
hands of the Italian Ladies—who, as fame reports,
are more expert at giving pleafure in that way than
any women in Europe—meeting her one day at an
exhibition, he joined her, and as he knew fhe was
comeatable, he propofed to take her into keeping,
which fhe accepted. He faw her home, dined with
her, and foon after he introduced his favourite fubject.
She immediately underftood him, but having no rod
by her, fhe fent her maid for one to a Mantua-maker
who lived in the fame houfe, and who having a num-
ber of children and apprentices, was never without a
good birch-rod. The maid foon returned with a moft
excellent one. After whipping and lecturing him for
a confiderable time, fhe found to her great furprife it
had not the defired effect.
He propofed to her to go to Kenfington, and
•ordered the coachman to flop at a nurfery reputed
for felling beautiful flowers, and furnifhing the fair
votaries to Flora with handfome bouquets. He
foon prefented her with a moft elegant one, and fo
exceffively large, that fhe could fcarcely pin it to her
bofom. After a few turns in the garden they returned
home.
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nome. On entering her bccl-room fhe found on the
bed a new birch-rod, which the careful maid had
provided during her abfence. She took it up, and,
affuming a fevere look, fhe, in the character of an
angry mother, whipped him as feverely as fhe could,
and fo well acted her part, that he foon gave her proof
of his being a very good boy. He owned to her
afterwards that the fweet fmell of flowers had always
an uncommon effect on him ; that when he was about
ten years old, it was his delight to provoke his ftep-
mother to whip him—fhe being a beauty of the firft
order, and not then above feventecn, exceffively fond
of flowers, and feldom without a monftrous bouquet
in her bofom.
That, however, the flowers had not the Ieaft effect
n him but when made in a nofegay, and placed on
one fide of the bofom of a pretty woman. Mifs
B-knew very well the fecret influence of flowers
in men as well as in women (a knowledge, however,
that few women poffefs); but as to whipping, fhe was
rather a stranger to it. One day he told her it would
give him the higheft felicity to fee her whip a young
girl in fome elegant drefs. Mifs 13-foon prevailed
on
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on the Mantua-maker to fend her one of her daughters
as a little companion—a bold little girl about eleven,
as fhe was to teach her to read and work, by way of
amufement. She foon found herfelf obliged to fmart
her bum with the birch-rod. A woman of Mifs
B-'s difpofition could not but find a new fource of
amufement in that employment; and, indeed, fhe
exercifed the rod as often as fhe could.
However, wifhing to gratify Sir H. G., fhe dreffed
one day in the moft elegant manner, not forgetting
to wear on one fide of her bofom, quite up to her ear,
a monftrous bouquet, or rather a broom, of the moft
odoriferous flowers! When the hour approached that
fhe expected him, fhe made the girl read to her,
flapping her hands now and then with a large rod
made of new birch: and as foon as fhe heard him
coming fhe retired with the girl to her bed-chamber—
protefting fhe would whip well the little lazy flut;
made her go on her knees, kifs the rod, &c.; then
lifting her clothes to her middle, fhe began to whip
her with all the feverity of a fchool-miftrefs, throwing
her in the moft wanton attitudes; her pretty bofom
heaving all the time with tumultuous joy, her eyes
fparkling
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fparkling with ecftacy, and her pretty face partly
buried in the nofegay! As there was a glafs door,
Sir H. G. could plainly fee this luxurious icene, and
was fo highly plealed with it, that he fettled a pretty
annuity on her that very day.
A friend of mine who, a few years ago, refided at
Edinburgh, was acquainted there with a Mifs F-, a
profeffed diiciplinarian, who kept a genteel day-school
for young Ladies. As fhe lived in the fame houfe,
fhe had been a witnels to many curious whipping
fcenes. Mifs F- was then about twenty-five, a
tall, handfomc girl, carrying the paffion of whipping
to an extreme.
One day as my friend was at breakfaft with her,
a beautiful girl, about fourteen or fifteen, entered the
parlour, and delivered into her hands, with a feemingly
dejected air, a little note. After reading it, fhe told
her to wait a minute, then running out of the parlour,
fhe loon returned with a birch-broom. As fhe left
the note on the table, my friend had the curiofity to
read it—the contents oi which were :—Mrs. S-'s
compliments
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compliments to Mifs F-, will be for ever thankful
to her, if fhe will take the trouble of giving her
daughter a good whipping, having been very du-
refpectful to her this morning. She then ordered the
girl to prepare herfelf for a good whipping. After
making a fhocking rod, fhe turned her petticoats as
high as flie could, pinned her fmock to her fhoulders;
then holding her tight under her left arm, fhe began,
to whip her fo feverely, that in a minute her beautiful
bum was crimfoned as deep as the fineft rofe. O,
Mifs, forgive me, for God's fake! cried the young girl
—I can't bear it! no, no, no, no! I fhan't, till I have
left a fample of this excellent birch on your pretty
bottom ! Will you ever difoblige your mother—will,
will, will, will, will you! No, no, indeed, Ma'am, I
affure you I never will! To fay I fhould be obliged
to whip a girl almost fit to be married ; but, indeed,
Mr. Birch is the only hufband fit for a bold girl like
you ! How do you like him ?—tell, tell, tell, tell, tell,
is he not a fweet man ?
After whipping her for full five minutes, feeing her
a—e and thighs in weals, flic gave over; but to fhame
her
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her the more, (lie ftuck in her bofom a monftrous
bundle of birch.
About half a-year after, as my friend was walking
about the Caftlc, fhe faw two young Ladies elegantly
dreffed—one refembling fo much the girl fhe had feen
whipt, that fhe drew near her in order to fatisfy her-
felf, and found it was the fame. She accofted her, and
found by her converfation (lie had been lately mar-
ried. Nothing could equal the elegance of her drefs :
inftead of a bundle of birch, fhe wore, as well as her
fair companion, an enormous fide bouquet ot natural
flowers, with a black hat full of large white feathers.
As foon as fhe went home, fhe told Mifs F--who fhe
had feen ; who, far from being furprifed, told her that
nothing was more common in Scotland than for girls
to marry at that age—that (he had whipped fome a
week before they were married ; that the young Lady
in queltion had been married to a rich merchant, a
widower, with a boy of ten, and a girl of nine years
old.
Curious to know how this young Lady behaved to
her ftep-children, my friend contrived to become
intimate
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intimate with her. One day fhe was on a vifit at her
houfe, the children behaved very undutiful to her,
which exafperated her fo much, that fhe rung the bell
and ordered her maid to get her a good birch-rod.
You know, Ma'am, faid fhe, how Mifs F-ferved
me not long ago; if you will excufe me, I will (erve
thefe bold children in the fame manner. By all
means, faid my friend ; I think they deferve a good
whipping. The maid foon brought her an excellent
rod. She took hold immediately of the boy, and,
pulling his breeches to his heels, fhe whipped him till
fhe was tired. After refting a few minutes, fhe took
the girl and ferved her juft like the boy.
As my friend was on a very intimate footing with
her, fhe made her confefs that fhe was not only ex-
ceffively fond of whipping, but delighted in being
herfelf whipt, though not altogether fo feverely as
Mifs F-- ufed to whip her fcholars; that her
hufband was as great a votary to birch-difcipline as
herfelf, and fhe generally whipped him every night
before they went to bed. That fhe had prevailed on
a coufin of hers, a girl about her age and of the fame
humour, to come fometimes to help her to whip her
hufband,
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hufband, when they would drefs In the moft eiegant
manner, each with a bouquet of a monftrous fize in
their bofom; that her coufin, who generally was dreffed
like a fchool girl, would then whip him whilft he was
engaged with her in the amorous combat.
Being one day, before her marriage, at his houfe,
and feeing his children behaving very rudely, fhe faid
in joke, if fhe was their mother fhe would whip them
well with a good birch-rod; upon which he fent the
children out of the room, and throwing himfelf at her
feet, begged fhe would accept of his hand, and take
the care of his children upon her, but above all not to
fpare the rod. On recovering herfelf fhe told him if
her mother would confent fhe had no objection: being
a great match the mother confented immediately.
She faid fhe liked him very well, for though he had
two children he was not thirty, having been married
very young. He fettled his whole fortune on her and
her pretty coufin, a brother of his having left a con-
siderable fortune to his children.
A doctor of my acquaintance told me he knew a
girl about thirteen who was in a confumption, and
almoft
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almoft given over. On the death of her mother fhe
was fent to an aunt who lived in the North, where fhe
recovered her health fo well that in a couple of years
fhe was as ftrong and healthy as any girl of her age.
But what is very extraordinary, he attributed her
recovery to the frequent whippings fhe got from her
aunt.
This Lady had a numerous family, and was igno-
rant of the true fituation of her niece, as the girl had
been very much indulged during her mother's life,
and that even her bad ftate of health had been attri-
buted to that extreme indulgence and carefulnefs that
prevails fo much in fome families ; fhe would fcarcely
do anything fhe was bid. Her aunt, who was a proud,
imperious woman, and ufed to whip her refractory
children with the birch-rod with the utmoft feverity,
foon ferved Mifs in the fame manner; would fend her
out to play in the garden with her children in the
coldell weather, allowing her nothing but coarfe
wholefome food. In fhort, this girl is now married,
has many children, and had fhe lived a little longer
with her mother in all probability would be dead
now.
This
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This gentleman affured me he had recommended
very often to feveral Ladies to punifh with birch dif-
cipline their children when committing faults which
appear to proceed from an heavy, bold, and indolent
difpofition, as nothing promotes the circulation of
the blood better than a good rod, efpecially when
made of new birch, and well applied to the pofteriors
—free, however, from cruelty.
To the PUBLISHER of the FEMALE
FLAGELLANTS.
Sir,
I think the following lines merit a place in your
curious repofitory of anecdotes in the Flagellant
world.
Yours,
G. R.
AN
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AN ODE.
To Mifs L-y W-n.
A beautiful girl, on finding her in tears, on having
received, juft before from her mother, the fevere dif-
cipline of a birch-rod for a fmall tranfgreffion, though
fourteen years of age.
My charming Lydy, tell mc why
That blubber'J face, that wat'ry eye?
Whom whilefome like a lambkin gay
1 faw fo wanton, fkip and play.
Is little beau, thy goldSnch, flown?
Or playfome kitten fulky grown?
Has frolic fquirrel broke his chain,
And been fad author of thy pain ?
Has faucy Tommy fnatch'd a kifs,
Or done ftill fomething more amifs?
Has he through key-hole chane'd to fpy
Thy taper leg, or milk-white thigh ?
Thefe would not make my fair one grieve,
Nor her of wonted fmiles bereave :
Far fharper evils caufe her gloom,
A Rod has boen poor Lydy's doom.
In vain at Mamma's feet fhe knelt,
Not lefs the tingling Birch fhe felt:
How hard, Mamma, muft be thy heart
To make that lovely Bum to fmart!
Bum,
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Bum, fairer far than Hebe's cheek!
Bum, more than Venny's bofom fleek!
Bum, than Ermine's down more white!
Bum, more than dazzling to the light'
Thofe twinful orbs late fpotlefs (how,
Now with deep tints of crimfon glow t
The blufhing roies of her cheek,
Have rivals now not far to feek!
Hence, baleful twigs, from hence depart,
Curft Birch that caus'd my Lydy's fmart;
May'ft thou prove food for keeneft fire,
And there, though late, thy ftings expire!
Hafte, little wanton, to my arms,
Intruft me with thy op'ning charms ;
Let me now guard thee fafe from rods,
And we'll be happier than the Gods !
To the EDITOR of the FEMALE
FLAGELLANTS.
Madam,
You feem to pay your whole attention to modern
anecdotes, unmindful of what enraptured our anceftors.
Pray, my dear Madam, did you never hear, or have
you never read, that Queen Befs herfelf was moft
happy
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happy in the Cxercile of the rod , nay, that fhe gave
tranlcendent felicity when fhe had a bold boy under
correction ? Methinks I fee you open your eyes and
wonder what is to follow; but do not be amazed, I
will give you chapter and verle for my affertion.
The celebrated Earl of Effex, in one of the mif-
underftandings between him and Queen Elizabeth,
having given her a more than common caufe of
offence, and wifhing in a particular manner to foothe
her refentment, wrote to her in the following terms.
He gave the Queen, as we find in Camden, explicit
thanks for the corrections fhe had inflicted upon him,
and kiffed (to ufe his words as recited by the above
author), and kiffed her Majesty's Royal hand, and the
rod which luid chaflifcd hint.
Now whether this Royal Difciplinarian figured in
the character of a ftep-mother, a governefs, or any
other character remarked for the exercife of the rod,
or whether fhe did it to pleafe herfelf, or her noble
admirer, matters not; it is certain fhe gave unbounded
felicity when fhe took the rod in hand, if we credit his
Lordfhip's affertion.
indeed
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Indeed Queen Elizabeth is not the only great
woman who has given pleafure with the rod, for we
find the following anecdote in the Count of Buffi's
amorous hiftory of Gauls, a book which caufed the
difgrace of its author, on account of the liberties he
had taken in it with the character of King Louis the
Fourteenth, and his miftrefs Madame de la Valiere.
The illuftrious Count of Guiche, one of the firft-rate
beaus of the court of the King juft mentioned, having
committed a fault with the well-known Countefs of
Olonne, he wrote the next day to the Countefs in the
following words—"If you want me to die, I will bring
you my fword; if you think I only deferve to be
flagellated, I will come to you in my fhirt."
I am equally aftonifhed, Madam, that you have
taken no notice of thefe gentlemen who are fo pafiion-
ately fond of a Lady's pofterior beauties. I have
heard of a gentleman who would kneel down, and,
with the higheft tranfport, ravifh kiffes from the
pofteriors of his miftrefs, and continue in that ecftacy
above an hour.
Of thefe gentlemen who worfhip a Lady's bum with
fuch
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fuch enthufiaftic rapture, and who have faid and fung
many pretty things about it, perhaps the following
defcription from a pleating French tale, entitled Ara-
minta's Bumfiddle, will be found to approach the fub-
lime nearer than any other on the lubject.
Defcription of ARAMINTA's BUMFIDDLE.
By T I M A N T E.
I never was io taken with anything fince I was
born, Madam, as I was a little while ago with—you
know what. Indeed, take it altogether, for beauty
and good qualities, I do not believe there is the fellow
of it upon the face ol the earth : fo plump ! fo fmooth !
fo well proportioned!—And then for a complexion,
that is to fay, tor a pure red and white! all the rofes
and lilies, the fnow and vermillion that ever were be-
ftowed upon Ladies' cheeks in fonnets and romances,
from the beginning of the world to the date hereof,
are nothing to it! And all this without the expence
of pocket glaffes, powders, paint, or patches; only an
innocent wafh now and then, and that is all It is as
true
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true the pretty creature is as blind as Cupid, but then
it is as furs to wound: and if it has no eyes, neither
does it want any: because it has nothing to do but
what may be done in the dark as well as in the light i
and then the difcretion ol H is admirable. It is very
fparing 01 lpeechs it has the wit never to refute a good
thing when it is offered, and tells no tales out of fchool
when it has done. It is the common reconciler and
rendezvous to both fools and philofophers; and, in
one word, the lupport, the comfort, and the bufinefs.
ot human nature.
More might be faid i>ro and con in the cafe; but
this fhall fuffice. My humble fervice, I befeech you,
Madam, when you lee my noble friend next. I know
you may do me a good office there if you pleafe ; and
I am fure you will, if you have that kindnefs for me,
which I wifh you may have, efpecially when you
fhall find that this gaiety of humour has in the bottom
of it the higheft degree of paffion and refpect that
can enter into the foul of
TlMANTE.
Of
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Of thefe Ladies who have charmed with tne magic
exercife of the rod one anecdote deferves par-
ticular mention. The Lady who furnifhed the
Publifher with the particulars has his thanks,
hoping at the fame time fhe will not be offended
at feeing an abridgment of her letter, which, from
the many repetitions in the Lecture, would be
too heavy and unentertaining if the whole was
printed.
Louifa Ticklebum (for fo the Lady fhall be called),
when very young, was placed under the tuition of a
Lady who kept a fmall boarding-fchool near Hyde-
park corner. No woman in the univerfe ever took
more pleafure than this Governefs in whipping the
bums of her little pupils, and no woman ever invented
fuch modes of horfing the culprits. One way in par-
ticular fhe invented, that was in general ufe when fhe
had a full-grown girl under the rod, which was a fcale
fufpended from the centre of the room, the cord from
which ran through two pullies, and was fattened in a
corner of the room. This cord was loofened by two
of the ftouteft girls, who let the fcale down till the
culprit was tied on it with a belt, and then raifed it to
that
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that height the Governefs dehred. 'I*he Lady would
then, it' the pofteriors pleafed her, keep the culprit up
five minutes, and very often double the time, lecturing
and whipping.
Louifa has often declared fhe could never account
for her partiality to feeling and cxercifing the rod but
through her being often feverely whipped by this
woman, who, though forty years old, to ufe the lan-
guage of a celebrated writer, " Poffeffed the eafielt and
moft elegant delivery, and accompanied her fpeech
with the action of an arm of an exquifite form, and a
hand as white as fnow, and with a trown on her face
which, without leffening its beauty, gave a true ex-
preffion of her refentment." But the beft picture of
fuch a woman, at leaft the beft I have ever feen, is-
that inimitable print of the Countefs de Barre whip-
ping the Marchionefs de Rozen, which does diftin-
guifhed honour to the defigner and engraver; and
here give me leave to introduce the anecdote in its
genuine colours, for the print, to prefeve beauty, is
wide of the fituation of the Marchionefs when under
the rod.
The-
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The Marchionefs of Rozen, one of the attendants of
the Countefs of Provence, had for fome time paid
affiduous court to Madame de Barre. The latter
liked her much; and they became intimate friends
The Marchionefs was young and handfome, and had
the air of a child. This obfervation is neceffary. The
Countefs did not forget to invite her to a fplendid
entertainment. Madame de Rozen went, but fhortly
after broke off all connection with her friend, or, at
leaft, fhewed a great coolnefs. This was probably
owing to the Princefs, whom fhe had the honour to
ferve, who had feverely reproached her for her atten-
tion to a female fo much the fubject of public cenfure ;
and efpecially for her being noticed by the court as
being prefent at her entertainments.
Whatever might have been the caufe, the Countefs
was not infenfible to the change. She complained to
the King, who made a jeft of the matter, faying, the
Marchionefs was but a child, for whom a rod was the
fitteft punifhment. Madame de Barre took the King's
■words in the literal and moft rigorous fenfe.
The Marchionefs called on her one morning, and
after
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after they had breakfafted in a friendly manner
together, the favourite invited her into her cloiet,
as if fhe had Something particular to tell her. That
moment four lufty chambermaids feized upon the
poor criminal, and vvhipt her foundly. The fufferer,
boiling with rage, complained to the Sovereign, who
had nothing to reply when the miftrefs reminded him
that flie had no more than executed the fentence ot
his Majefty.
He concluded with laughing at the affair; and
Madame Rozen, by the advice of the Duke D'Aiguillon,
revifited the Countefs. After fome raillery on the
flagellated pofteriors, which made known and con-
firmed the anecdote, the two friends embraced, and
agreed to bury all in oblivion.
But to return to Louifa.—After fhe left fchool, fhe
lived with her mother, a widow Lady, not a hundred
miles from Chifwick. She had not been long at home
before flie had a general invitation to every family of
confequence in the vicinity of that rural fpot, and
being a very fine girl, with a lively flow of converfa-
tion. fhe fecured a number of admirers.
Notwithstanding
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Notwithstanding all this, it fo happened that
fhe
paffed her four-and-twentieth year before any man
thought ferioufly of marrying her. Indeed, the want
of fortune was the chief reafon for this neglect:, and
the would in all probability have remained longer
without a bed-fellow if her exercife of the rod had not
charmed a gentleman even to idolatry.
A Lady, fitter to a merchant of London, lpent a
Summer near her mother's, and took fuch a likiag to
Louifa, that fhe made her her bofom friend. Before
they had been a month acquainted, they appeared
like fitters, and nothing was pleafure with one that
the other did not partake oi. Louifa, in a frolic one
day, when they were alone in a grotto, made a rod
and proceeded to exercife it on her new friend, who
was eafily prevailed on to undergo the pleating punifh-
ment, and from that day they feldom were alone
without tafting this felicity. Indeed, they called in a
third hand to partake of this pleafure, and that Avas a
filter to the writer of thefe lines, who has often de-
clared fhe took very high delight in this Singular
aiaulenient.
Louila
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Louifa was never fo happy as when fhe had her
loved friend on her lap, and her legs held by her other
confidante, while fhe made her bold daughter's back-
fide fmart with the rod
The merchant had often heard his fifter mention
Louifa in the higheft (train of panegyric, and never
longed more to accumulate a plumb than he did to
fee her. In a fhort while he beheld and adored! he
raved of her morning, noon, and night! bumpered her
whenever he facrificed to Bacchus! and fwore, by the
bright Goddeffes of Charles the Second's court, there
never was a lovelier woman born. But what en-
raptured him moft was her magic excrcife of the rod.
The merchant was a widower, though not above
five and thirty, and had an only child, a fon, who was.
indulged in everything, and who was then about eight
years old. Louifa took a great liking to the boy, and
had him at her mother's above a month, when one.
Sunday, after her return from church, fhe was informed
the boy had wantonly trampled on a bed of flowers
flie had taken great pleafure in raifing. She was in a
great paffion, and fcolded the child feverely, when at
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the moment fhe beheld his father alight from his
phaeton at the gate, who, on entering the parlour,
feeing her features difturbed, prefled to know the
caufe. She told him the whole affair, adding with,
much warmth, if fhe had that dominion over the
youth fhe wifhed for fhe would make his backfide
fmart with a good rod. O! my dear Madam, faid
the Gentleman (his eyes bouncing out of his head at
the found), pray take a rod in hand this moment, and
' whip him well, for I affure you he never got a tafte of
birch, though there is not a bolder boy living.
Louifa being a pretty good judge of phyfiognomy,
perceived inftantly in the countenance of the Gentle-
man what his feelings were, and inftantly retired in
purfuit of a rod. When fhe returned the Gentleman
took the rod from her hand, while fhe was employed
in unbuttoning the youth's troufers, which, in the con-
flict between them, fell oft*. And now the battle raged
on all fides.—As foon as fhe had placed the youth on
her lap, and had taken the rod from the Gentleman,
nothing was heard but "whip him well, my dear
Madam !" "Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes! I'll take care to
\ whip him in fuch a manner that he fhall long re-
member ! '*
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member!" "Oh! Pray Mifs Louifa, my dear Mifs
Louifa, pray forgive me! Pray let me down and I'll
never do anything to offend you again : I won't, upon
my honour!" Whip him foundly, cried the father:
I never faw a Lady handle a rod fo well in my life!
" Yes, yes, yes, yes! I'll take care his backfide fhall
remember me !" laid the Lady, turning her head afide
and giving the father fuch a bewitching look that
penetrated him to the foul. " Oh, Papa! Papa!
roared the youth, pray fave me, and indeed I'll never
be bold again ! " No, Sir, faid the Lady, fufpending
the rod, and fettling him on her lap, your Papa has
delivered you into my hands now, and you'll find I'll
teach you better manners! Will you ever trample on
my flowers again ? O that I were your ftep-mother!
upon my honour your backfide fhould be well ac-
quainted with a rod before a week's end! Yes, yes,
yes, you audacious urchin! "Oh, for God's lake,
Mifs Louifa, don't whip me any more! I promife you
I'll be an excellent boy, and do everything you would
have me! Indeed, indeed, I'll never difoblige you
again! My Papa will be bound for me, I'm fure."
Your Papa fays no fuch thing; he fays you are an
ungovernable boy, and has begged me to whip you
well,
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•well, which I am determined to do before you get
from under my hands! Oh, Papa, Papa, Papa! in-
deed I'll never do it again, upon my honour I will not,
only intercede for me this once, and I'll love you while
I live» " No, Sir," faid the father; " the Lady knows
when to have done; you have got into the hands you
fhould have been in long ago, if I had been fortunate
enough to have met with her, and I affure you fhe
fhall have the fole care of you in a few days! Whip
him well, my dear, good Lady, he wanted fuch a
woman to curb him ! " Yes, yes, yes, yes! I'll curb
him, I am refolved. Here fhe let him flip off her lap,
pretending fhe could not hold him, and, after chafing
him about the room, fhe laid hands on him and begged
the father would horfe him, which he inftantly did.
Stoop down, my dear Sir, faid the Lady, you are too
tall, and bear him above my reach. He inftantly bent
himfelf low, and Louifa, who, as has been faid before,
was an excellent phyfiognomift, now put her judgment
to the trial; in fhort, fhe had often heard of men fond
of birch from the beautiful hand of a Lady, and fhe
wifhed to put her judgment to trial and fee whether
he was one of the fort. While fhe was fettling the
boy on the back of his father, fhe took care to remove
the
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the fkirts of his father's coat in fuch a manner that
when he ftooped fhe had his bum in a proper direction,
if it was uncafed, for the rod. She had hitherto whipt
the boy very gently, but now fhe gave him three or
four ftrokes of the rod that made him caper and plunge
with all his might. This was what fhe wanted, for it
gave her an opportunity of letting fall fome ftrokes on
the father's bum, which appeared to fall accidentally
in the contention. When the gentleman received a
few of thefe, and beheld the lovely object that let
them fall, his blood boiled within him from head to
foot, and by the time he had received about a dozen
ftrokes he could hold out no longer, fo holding the
boy with one hand, he unbottoned his nankeen
breeches with the other, which being pretty large foon
fell to his heels. The oddity of the circumfiance
made Louifa fmile, but fhe was determined to be
ferious, and therefore took no notice, but tucked in
his fhirt under his waiflcoat, and made her lecture
ferve both. The ftrokes that fell on the boy were
light to what fell on the father, for her accidental
flripes were of the heavieft kind, as fhe thought by
that means to rivet his affections.
It
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It would be my greateft pleafure, cried fhe, to be
ftep-mother to fuch a mifchievous urchin, I would
take the rod in hand every hour of the day! Mifs
Louifa, Mifs Louifa, Mifs Louifa! my dear Mifs
Louifa, pray let me down ! indeed, upon my houour,—
O dear, O dear, O dear—for God's fake pardon me!—
You may kick and plunge and roar, as long as you
like, but I am determined to leave fomething on your
backfide to remember me! Yes, you great bold boy
<here three or four heavy ftrokes fell on the father's
bum), who, feeling he had enough, cried out to the
Lady, I think, Madam, he has had enough. Well,
faid the Lady, I will lay afide the rod, but as a farther
punifhment he fhall be blindfolded inftantly, with his
hands tied behind him, and fhall ftand behind the
fcreen half-an-hour.
This the father was highly tickled at, as it gave
him an opportunity of buttoning his breeches unfeen
by the boy, who was hood-winked by the Lady before
the father let him down. The Gentleman was fo de-
lighted with the frolic altogether, that in lefs than a
fortnight he married the Lady, and fettled a jointure
of fix hundred a year on her.
The
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The youth, who Is now upon the verge of manhood,,
has declared to a demirep of diftinguifhed beauty,
that from being habituated to the rod trom the hand
of fo lovely a woman, he connects, like Rouffeau, this
pleafure with that in general eftimation. He has
farther declared the fight ot Louifa in full drefs,
though now paft forty, fets his blood boiling with
fenfuality in an inftant, as there is a certain air
majefty about her few women poffefs.
C. W. M., who, in a letter to the Publiflier, offered five
hundred a year for life to a fine woman who would
fuperintend the education of his children, and who
zvould be content to live entirely m the
country, is in-
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