1) quotes Chettle's _Kind Harts Dreame_, 1592: 'The
suburbs of the citie are in many places no other but dark dennes for
adulterers, thieves, murderers, and every
mischief
worker; daily
experience before the magistrates confirms this for truth.
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B. & Fl., _Humorous Lieut._ 1. 1.; Massinger, _Emperor of the East_
1. 2.; Shak., _Jul. Caes._ 2. 1; and Nares, _Gloss_. Wheatley (ed.
_Ev. Man in_, p.
1) quotes Chettle's _Kind Harts Dreame_, 1592: 'The
suburbs of the citie are in many places no other but dark dennes for
adulterers, thieves, murderers, and every
mischief
worker; daily
experience before the magistrates confirms this for truth.
' Cf. also
Glapthorne, _Wit in a Constable_, _Wks._, ed. 1874, 1. 219:
----make safe retreat
Into the Suburbs, there you may finde cast wenches.
In _Every Man in_, _Wks._ 1. 25, a 'suburb humour' is spoken of.
=1. 1. 60 Petticoate-lane.= This is the present Middlesex
Street, Whitechapel. It was formerly called Hog Lane and was
beautified with 'fair hedge-rows,' but by Stow's time it had
been made 'a continual building throughout of garden houses and
small cottages' (_Survey_, ed. 1633, p. 120 b).
