Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. the vagina.

1517

Skelton Elynour Rummynge line 492: There came an old rybybe; She halted of a kybe, And had broken her shyn At the threshold comying in, And fell so wyde open That one myght see her token.

2. (signs of) venereal disease [sign of disease, i.e. a discharge or gangrenous spots].

1607		E. Sharpham Cupid’s Whirligig I ii: I am sure that’s not Gods visitation, yet they are the Lords tokens, for hee hath sent them me.
c.1618		R. Daborn Poor Man’s Comfort 872: Yowle remember me, I haue left a familior Token with yo’, the French thing yo’ wot on.
1722		‘Whipping-Tom’ Rod for a Proud Lady II 6: Buboes, most painful Shankres, aching Heads, A falling Palate, Soreness, rotten Shins, And useless Bridge; all Tokens which (in Spite Of Flux or Salivation) do foreshew A loathsome End.
1732		Progress of a Rake 30: [She] left me a Token of her Love, as she calls it, which proveth to be too hot for me.
1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue n.p.: token [...] venereal disease; she tipped him the token, she gave him a clap or pox.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.

3. the plague; often in pl. [sign of disease, i.e. a discharge or gangrenous spots].

c.1642		T. Killigrew Parson’s Wedding (1664) IV iii: The house is shut up for the sickness this afternoon [...] there’s a Coach-man dead, full of the Tokens.
1653		Mercurius Democritus 28 Sept.-5 Oct. 592: The other day a pimple, or Tavern Token coming out on his Brows, he swore it was a Horne.
c.1698		B.E. Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Tokens the Plague.
1725		New Canting Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
1737, 1759, 1760, 1776		Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue n.p.: token the plague.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.