The title "Rakes of the Town" confuses me.
In the poem/song "The Lark in the Morning," a verse (many variants) has the lines-
"As they were coming home from the rakes of the town,
The meadow being all mown and the grass had been cut down.
As they should chance to tumble all on the new mown hay
Oh it's kiss me now or never this bonnie lass would say."
(And it ensued just what one would expect-)

The other meaning, the unscrupulous, libidinous males of the town, I couldn't find under that title as a song. Not found in the Bodleian.