Purple Punk

Here is some verse quoted in that book I'm reading: "Your Punke dancing in Purple,/ With Musick that would make a Hermit frisk..." All right, everything is great about that, especially the extra e, you know what a sucker I am for an extra e, and the k in music isn't too shabby either, and the frisking hermit is nothing to sneeze at, is he? Also the vivid smattering of capital letters. In the book, there's a bracketed explanation: "Your Punke [prostitute] dancing in Purple,/ With Musick that would make a Hermit frisk..."