The Covent Garden Ladies (47 page)

13
. John Cleland,
Fanny Hill, or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
.

14
. To be salivated, or ‘in a sal’, refers to the effects of undergoing a mercury treatment for venereal disease. Taking small doses of mercury led to, among other things, the patient producing vast quantities of saliva.

15
. A slang term for guineas.

16
. Going out on the street.

17
. ‘Uncle’ was slang for pawnbroker.

18
. A fashionable lady’s hairdresser.

19
. Cull or cully: a man, or in the case of prostitutes, the term used for clients.

20
. ‘Son of Esculapius’: a physician.

21
. Sea-holly.

22
. A drug mixed with honey or syrup.

23
. The Magdalen Hospital for repentant prostitutes was founded in 1758 and offered a place of refuge and reform for women who wished to renounce their former trade.

24
. To cheat someone of their pay.

CHAPTER 15: ‘THE LITTLE KING OF BATH’

1
. Quin’s nickname.

2
. David Garrick rose to fame as ‘Bayes’ in the Duke of Buckingham’s play
The Rehearsal
.

3
. In this poem Derrick refers to how truly passé Quin’s style of acting had become. He recounts how the cowardly Quin, outdone by David Garrick and his natural style of dramatics, retired to Bath. Quin’s performance of Falstaff was legendarily bad but Derrick claims it was actually the most convincingly played role of his career, due to his belief that Quin was typecast.

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