Here’s bullies, gamblers, bawds, and whores,

Who daily do ensnare men;

Thief-takers, vintners, pimps by scores,

With Welsh and Irish chairmen.

And trav’lers who the world go through,

Have given attestation;

So strange a place, you cannot trace

In any other nation.

‘The Humours of Covent Garden’ – G. A. Stevens, 

The Choice Spirit’s Chaplet (1771)