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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—L

Lewkner's Lane

Now called “Charles Street,” Drury Lane, London, always noted for ladies of the pavement.

The flymphs of chaste Diana's train,
The same with those of Lewkner's Lane.

Butler: Hudibras, part iii. canto 1.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
Lex non Scripta
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