: STREET POETRY: From a broadside ballad: “The Lass of ___ Town” and “The Frolicsome Widow” — and if that last title sounds just a little bit spicy, well, it is! (1844).08:00: BLACK BESS; or, THE KNIGHT OF THE ROAD (starring HIGHWAYMAN DICK TURPIN), Chapter 62-64: Our felonious friends are marched through the darkness to a well-lighted cavern and presented to the leader of the band of smugglers, whose goods they stumbled across. They decide not to let the smugglers know their identity, but rather to pretend to be young gentlemen. So they ask for a private meeting with the smuggler chief, who — as hoped — gives them an ultimatum: Join us, or die….38:00: INTRODUCING MISS DAVIS: One of the “ladies of the evening” listed and described in Harris’s List of Covent-garden Ladies, a directory for bucks and bloods out on the town in the early 1800s. Miss Davis is enthusiastically praised for her skill in putting on a “Great Big O Show” for her patrons.44:00: A RATHER NAUGHTY COCK-AND-HEN-CLUB SONG: "THAT’S A WERY NAUGHTY NAME” (a paean of fulsome praise for “my flash Bett” and her “wery naughty” bits)44:30: A FEW MILDLY DIRTY JOKES from what passed in 1830 for a dirty joke book: "The Joke-Cracker" by Martin Merryman, Esq.GLOSSARY OF EARLY-VICTORIAN SLANG USED IN THIS EPISODE:RUBBER: (from broadside ballad, “The Frolicsome Widow”): “Play me a rubber” means play a round of Bridge. It’s possible, but not likely, that this is a sly reference to a condom; the first rubber condoms came out in 1855, so the estimated date of this broadside would have to be off by a decade or two for that to be the case. Before that, they were made with animal intestines.CYPRIANS: (From the introduction to Hostess Miss Davis) Ladies of easy virtue, a classical reference to the island of Cyprus, supposedly peopled with sexually frisky ladies. SPORTING THEIR BLUNT: (ibid) Throwing money around. KIDDY: (from cock-and-hen-club song, “What’s a Wery Naughty Name”) Stylish, flash-talking fellow. PAIR OF CODS: (ibid) Our singer is clearly a fishmonger, so he would be likely to show a customer a literal pair of codfish; but “cod” was also slang for a testicle (as in “codpiece,” which is clearly being punned on here. NO NOSE: (from “The Joke-cracker”) Not an unusual sight back in the early 1800s, because syphilis could cause the cartilage in a person’s nose slough off.