Note 190 — THE CITY GALLANT.
Reading edition
At Hoxton. There is a tract entitled, "Pimlyco, or, Runne Red Cap. 'Tis a Mad World at Hogsdon," 1609.
By the following passage in "The Alchemist," act v. sc. 2, it seems as though Pimlico had been the name of a person famous as the seller of ale—
"Gallants, men and women, And of all sorts tag rag, been seen to flock here In threaves these ten weeks as to a second Hogsden In days of Pimlico and Eye-bright."
—[Gifford's edit., 1816, v. 164.]
Pimlico, near Westminster, was formerly resorted to on the same account as the former at Hoxton.