Ashley without make up, looks like she just got up

Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure)

Letter The Second

... the length of it too was prodigious; then the rich appendage of the treasure-bag beneath, large in proportion, gather'd adn crisp'd up round in shallow furrows, helped to fill the eye, and complete the proof of his being a natural, not quite in vain; since it was full manifest that he inherited, and largely too, the prerogative of majesty which distin- guishes that otherwise most unfortunate condition, and gives rise to the vulgar saying "A fool's bauble is a lady's playfellow." Not wholly without reason: for, generally speaking, it is in love as it is in war, where longest weapon carries it. Nature, in short, had done so much for him in those parts, that she perhaps held herself acquitted in doing so little for his head.

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