hundreds of Drury n.
the ‘red-light zone’ based on the network of streets and alleyways around Drury Lane, overlapping with adjacent criminal rookery n. (2) of St Giles.
 | jnr. [bk title] Modern Poetasters; or Directors no Conjurors A Farce [...] And an entertaining original scene of Mother W — yb — n’s Theatre, as acted in the Hundreds of Drury, by several Poets, Di|rectors, &c. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Democritus III 14: Hence going along the Hundreds of Drury, the Whores of the Place, stood in whole Shoals from one End of the Lane to t’other. | |
| ‘John Sheppard’s Last Epistle’ in Dly Jrnl (London) 16 Nov. 1: To the Hundreds of Drury I write, / And to all my Filching Companions / The Buttocks who pad it all night, / The Wh-res, the Thieves, and the Stallions. | |
| Journey from This World to the Next in Miscellanies (1993) 19: She then exprest great pleasure at the Account I gave her of the Beau Monde. She said, she herself, had removed the Hundreds of Drury to the Hundreds of Charing-Cross, and was much delighted to find that they had spread into St James’s. | |
| Count Fathom cap. 22: An English knight swore, with great assurance, that he had frequently rambled with him at midnight among the hundreds of Drury. | |
| London Mag. 34 38: [I]mpiety [...] for which, the hundreds of Drury is a proverb of infamy. | |
| Political Register 11 47: [O]ur senators nod over cards and dice, revel when awake in the Hundreds of Drury, and are dead to every sense of feeling—but the touch of gold. | |
| Manager in Distress 20: Are there not hundres of able bodied actors, besides those in the hundreds of Drury. | |
| Anecdotes of Mr. Hogarth 241: The Harlot’s Progress Plate IV [...] One Mary Moffat, a woman of great note in the hundreds of Drury. | |
| ‘Poll Newry, The Dainty Flag-Hopper’ in Gentleman’s Spicey Songster 30: O! have you not heard of Poll Newry, / Who lives in the hundreds of Drury; / Beware of her eye, for many’s the cly, / She has shook in the hundreds of Drury. |