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 Lewis Baboon.Lex non Scripta. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Lewkner’s Lane.
 
Now called “Charles Street,” Drury Lane, London, always noted for ladies of the pavement.   1
       
“The nymphs of chaste Diana’s train,
The same with those of Lewkner’s Lane.”
       
Butler: Hudibras, part iii. canto 1.
 


 Lewis Baboon.Lex non Scripta. 

 
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