Note 277 — VI SOUTH LONDON GROUP
Reading edition
Walpole’s Letters, ed. Cunningham, ii. 32, 24 June, 1746. Bad company was not unknown in the earlier days of the gardens: see Welsted’s Epistle on False Fame, 1732:—
“For Cupid’s Bowers she hires the willing scull ... While here a ’prentice, there a captain bites.”