FOOTNOTES:
[2] The reference is to a then prevalent form of brigandage and blackmail practised by the females of the smaller American cities, by which reputable women also were permitted to "accost" and to exercise all the other street privileges of strumpets.
[3] A minor poet and essayist of the period.
[4] In the Revised Version: King James's bishops hushed up this awkward matter with a pious mistranslation.