"Wildish. What, is there store of game here, gentlemen?
Modish. Troth, little or none; a few citizens that have brought their children out to air 'em, and eat cheesecakes.
Wildish. I thought this place had been so full of beauties, that like a pack of hounds in a hare warren, you could hunt one for another: what think you of an arbor and a bottle of Rhenish?"
[27] A gull; a courtesan's dupe; "one who may be easily led by the nose or put upon."—Bailey's Dict.
[28] Fegue or feague. "To beat, to whip, to drive."—Wright Dict. of obsolete and provincial English. Hence our word fag.
[29] Cheated of his portion.
[30] Whetstone's Park was the name of the district lying between Lincoln's Inn Fields and Holborn. The character of its inhabitants had given it at this time an ill reputation. In Crowne's comedy of the Country Wit (1675) occurs the following allusion to Whetstone's Park: "After I had gone a little way in a great broad street, I turned into a Tavern hard by a place they call a Park; and just as our Park is all Trees, that Park is all Houses. I asked if they had any Deer in it, and they told me, not half so many as they used to have; but that if I had a mind to a Doe, they would put a Doe to me."
[31] Strumpet.
[32] A prostitute.
[33] The present Pall Mall, so called from the game of Pall Mall formerly played there with ball and mallet. In Wycherley's time Pall Mall was already a street of houses, and the game was then played at the Mall in St. James's Park, also called Pall Mall.