DRURY LANE VESTAL. A woman of the town, or prostitute: Drury-lane, and its environs, were formerly the residence of many of those ladies.
COVENT, or CONVENT GARDEN, vulgarly called COMMON GARDEN. Anciently, the garden belonged to a dissolved monastery; now famous for being the chief market in London for fruit, flowers and herbs. The two theatres are situated near it. In its environs are many brothels, and, not long ago, the lodgings of the second order of ladies of easy virtue were either there, or in the purlieus of Drury Lane.
WHETSTONE'S PARK. A lane between Holborn and Lincoln's-inn Fields, formerly famed for being the resort of women of the town.
PICKT HATCH. To go to the manor of pickt hatch; a cant name for some part of the town noted for bawdy-houses in Shakespeare's time, and used by him in that sense.
YELLOW CAT. The golden lion, a noted brothel in the Strand, so named by the ladies who frequented it.