[26] The Mulberry Garden was situated at the further extremity of the Mall in St. James's Park, upon the site now occupied by Buckingham Palace and its grounds. Its name was derived from a plantation of mulberry trees which James I. caused to be made there. Later, the spot was converted into a public garden, with shrubberies, walks, arbours, and a house of refreshment, and was much frequented by persons of fashion as well as citizens. Pepys found it "a very silly place, worse than Spring-garden," but "a wilderness here that is somewhat pretty." The following extract from Sedley's _Mulberry Garden_ gives an idea of the doings at this place. The scene is laid in the Garden:-- "_Wildish._ What, is there store of game here, gentlemen? _Modish._ Troth, little or none; a few citizens that have brought their children out to air 'em, and eat cheesecakes. _Wildish._ I thought this place had been so full of beauties, that like a pack of hounds in a hare warren, you could hunt one for another: what think you of an arbor and a bottle of Rhenish?" [27] A gull; a courtesan's dupe; "one who may be easily led by the nose or put upon."--_Bailey's Dict._ [28] Fegue or feague. "To beat, to whip, to drive."--_Wright Dict. of obsolete and provincial English._ Hence our word _fag._ [29] Cheated of his portion. [30] Whetstone's Park was the name of the district lying between Lincoln's Inn Fields and Holborn. The character of its inhabitants had given it at this time an ill reputation. In Crowne's comedy of the _Country Wit_ (1675) occurs the following allusion to Whetstone's Park: "After I had gone a little way in a great broad street, I turned into a Tavern hard by a place they call a Park; and just as our Park is all Trees, that Park is all Houses. I asked if they had any Deer in it, and they told me, not half so many as they used to have; but that if I had a mind to a Doe, they would put a Doe to me." [31] Strumpet. [32] A prostitute. [33] The present Pall Mall, so called from the game of Pall Mall formerly played there with ball and mallet. In Wycherley's time Pall Mall was already a street of houses, and the game was then played at the Mall in St. James's Park, also called Pall Mall. [34] _i.e._ The New Exchange, a long building, erected upon the site of the stables of Durham House, on the south side of the Strand, and nearly opposite Bedford Street. Opened in 1609, it became a fashionable lounge after the Restoration, and was pulled down in 1737. "It was erected partly on the plan of the Royal Exchange, with vaults beneath, over which was an open paved arcade; and above were walks of shops, occupied by perfumers and publishers, milliners and sempstresses."--_Timbs' Curiosities of London._ [35] Strumpet. [36] Bulk. "A stall before a shop."--_Bailey._ [37] Or Ferrandine: a stuff made of silk and wool.