Now called “Charles Street,” Drury Lane, London, always noted for ladies of the pavement.
“The nymphs of chaste Diana’s train,
The same with those of Lewkner’s Lane.”
Butler: Hudibras, part iii. canto 1.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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