P. [24]: 14. Angling for single Money in a Shoe. This line from the Epilogue to The Libertine (1676) is quoted in context in the Author's Epistle. It also appears on the title-page of PC.
P. [27]: 14. Whetstone-Whore. A reference to Whetstone Park, a street at the North end of Lincoln's Inn Fields. The name was subsequently changed to Whetstone St., but has since reverted, perhaps under the liberalizing influences of its principal present-day occupants, The New Statesman and the Olivetti typewriter company.
P. [30]: 12-17. To ... pick'd. The reference is apparently to one of the "posture artists" of Moorfields, another brothel district; however, there may also be an allusion intended to an incident in the Duke's playhouse on 23 June 1679, when John Churchill, the future Duke of Marlborough, attempted to cane Betty Mackerell, an orange girl, and was thrashed in his turn by Thomas Otway. See Ham, Otway and Lee, pp. 112-115.
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