#sweet poll

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Well, then, you must mind that an old shipmate o’ mine, Ben Leader, had a wife named Poll, a pretty sort of craft in her way, neat in her rigging, swelling bows, taking sort of figure-head, and devilish well-rounded in the counter; altogether, she was a very fancy girl, and all the men were a'ter her.

— Frederick Marryat, Jacob Faithful

Sweet Poll of Plymouth, 1786 stipple engraving after Thomas Stothard.

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