: STREET POETRY: From a broadside ballad: “The Smuggler’s Bride,” a stirring domestic ballad about a Bonnie-and-Clyde type duo on the high seas; and “Dash My Vig,” a young Londoner’s lament after his girl jilted him for a grocer’s apprentice (circa 1850).06:50: BLACK BESS; or, THE KNIGHT OF THE ROAD (starring HIGHWAYMAN DICK TURPIN), Chapter 85-90: Tom King is ironed very heavily and placed in the darkest, dampest dungeon in Newgate because the governor is wroth at him. He falls asleep on the hard stone bunk. When he wakes up, one of the sheriffs, Mr. Blandy, is there, inspecting the prison and expressing surprise that Tom has been placed in such a grim cell before having even seen a magistrate. But on the way back, he offers to bribe his guards 100 pounds each to let him escape, and they seem interested. Will Tom’s plan work? Can he escape from Newgate?47:45: INTRODUCING MISS BROWN: 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 Brown is a very pretty girl who was wooed, won, and discarded by a rakish young country gentleman, and ended up settling for a place in Covent-garden.51:15: A RATHER NAUGHTY COCK-AND-HEN-CLUB SONG: "A Rum-un To Look At, But a Good-un To Go” (basically the same idea as “Whole Lotta Rosie” by AC/DC, but written 200 years earlier).55:00: 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:GNOSTICS: (from intro) xxxFLASH COVES: (ibid) xxx.KNIGHTS OF THE ROAD: (ibid) Highway robbers.CORINTHIAN: (ibid) Sporting man of rank and fashion, most famously represented by Corinthian Tom from Pierce Egan’s “Life in London,” the story of the adventures of a wealthy Regency rake named Tom and his country cousin Jerry as they rampage through the streets of London on a continual spree.CYPRIANS: (From the introduction to Hostess Miss XXX) 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. BUMPER: (ibid) Liquor glass.STARK NAKED: (ibid) Gin.SLUICE YOUR TOMBSTONES: (ibid) Take a big drink.MOLL: (from cock-and-hen-club song, “A Rum-un To Look At …”) A dangerous and/or sexually friendly woman.LEARY: (ibid) Knowing, canny.PECK: (ibid) Food.HOOK AT: (ibid) Look askance at.HAPORTH: (ibid) Half-pennyworth.ON THE PAVE: (ibid) Walking the streets soliciting as a “nymph du pave.”TO LUSH: (ibid) To drink to intoxication.MOTS: (ibid) Prostitutes or promiscuous women.CROSS-BUTTOCK: (ibid) Wrestle.TOGG’D FLASH: (ibid) Dressed up in fine sexy style.PITCH UP: (ibid) Associate with fancy people.HOKEE: (ibid) Loot or money.TO PRIG: (ibid) To steal.BEAK: (ibid) Magistrate or judge.There are more! But we're out of space here. For complete show notes, see pennydread.com/discord and scroll to the bottom of the "Season Six" feed!