There now, and I'd thought Purcell's catches were almost innocently mild!
Which could prove one of two things ....
joanna
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From: "Edmund Hardy" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, June 10, 2006 2:33 AM
Subject: Re: Totally Off-Topic Question - blowen's
> 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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