Percival Leigh, Manners and customs of ye Englyshe… (1849)
“ Found myself among as dirty shabby a Set of Fellows hanging about as I think I ever law, with whom two or three with the Look of Gentlemen, and a pretty Sprinkling of Milliner Girls and Nurse-Maids, but they presently away from the Ragamuffins to the East Side of the Yard, and so did I. Strange how all Women almost do run after Soldiers; which Mr. Pumpkyns do say is because Weakness do, by Instinct, seek the Protection of Courage ”
