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Rob Th'answores are blowen in the wyndes? (the reference I meant to Pelham was specifically to Wall's novel and the fictional Richard Pelham, mad eighteenth century poet, he created, but no matter) 2009/9/18 Robin Hamilton <[log in to unmask]> > dave: > > << > which features Pelham and was looking for any reference to it. > >> >>> > Pelham is also the title of a novel by Buller Littun, he in the dark and > stormy night frame. > > One of the notorious Newgate novels, supposed to be the reason society was > going to the dogs (in 1828) and contains more blowens than you can shake a > stick at. > > Rodent > > *********************** > > "Ruffling Job, my prince of prigs, is that you? are you come to the ken > alone, or do you carry double?" > > "Ah, Bess, my covess, strike me blind if my sees don't tout your bingo > muns in spite of the darkmans. Egad, you carry a bane blink aloft. Come > to the ken alone--no! my blowen; did not I tell you I should bring a > pater cove, to chop up the whiners for Dawson?" > > "Stubble it, you ben, you deserve to cly the jerk for your patter; come > in, and be d--d to you." > > Upon this invitation, Jonson, seizing me by the arm, pushed me into the > house, and followed. "Go for a glim, Bess, to light in the parish bull > with proper respect. I'll close the gig of the crib." > > From _Pelham_, by BL > -- David Bircumshaw "A window./Big enough to hold screams/ You say are poems" - DMeltzer Website and A Chide's Alphabet http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw