Now, if someone +really+ wants to make my day, point me to where I can find
a copy of The Blowen's Cabinet of Choice Songs (c. 1830). This apparently
contains poems of such surpassing obscenity that even the British Library
doesn't have a copy.
My collection of Borrow are passed down and were bought by my great
grandmother - sadly she didn't pick up this apparently obscene Cabinet. I
really want to read it as well now. Can it surpass Purcell's catch songs?
to clear up the various typical behaviours of a Blowen, other than blowing I
suppose, the Grose 1811 dictionary puts it all in context:
"The blowen kidded the swell into a snoozing ken, and shook him of his
dummee and thimble"
Edmund
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