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 ====== THE PHYSICAL SNOB ====== ====== THE PHYSICAL SNOB ======
 +Dance of unknown provenance, but probably published in around 1800.\\  
 +Interpreted by Bentley in 1962.\\\
 Longways for Three Couples [c.1800]\\ Longways for Three Couples [c.1800]\\
 Recording: {{ ::​music:​physical_snob-_064-bn3sp08.mp3.zip |}} Recording: {{ ::​music:​physical_snob-_064-bn3sp08.mp3.zip |}}
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 video https://​www.youtube.com/​watch?​v=N4wzQzi9MI0&​t=108s video https://​www.youtube.com/​watch?​v=N4wzQzi9MI0&​t=108s
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 +There was a broadside ballad called "The Physical Snob" [Roud Number: V1973] about a cobbler who moonlights as a quack physician. It goes:
 +<​code>​
 +I am a physical snob, Sirs,
 +Can cure ev'ry disease very vast!
 +There'​s no greater dab at a job, Sirs,
 +Than litte Emanuel Last.
 +A son of a seventh son I, Sirs,
 +Altho' in no chariot I rolls!
 +As a physician I patch up your bodies,
 +As a cobbler I patch up your soles.
 +With my fol de rol, &c.
 +
 +Your Warnick-lane physic disciples,
 +Strut about, and look wond'​rous big;
 +But alas! all their knowledge is plac'd
 +In a gold-headed cane and bush wig;
 +As for me, Sirs, I cure all distempers,
 +Howsomever so bad they may be;
 +But, like many of my learned brothers,
 +No prescription without I've a fee.
 +With my fol de rol, &c.
 +
 +Master Bobby, a crop of this age,
 +T'​other day in great haste for me sent;
 +Lest death should push him off life's stage,
 +So away the the gemman I went:
 +I gave him a potion for sleeping,
 +Which, a little while after he'd ta'en,
 +He was put into bed, and he slept, Sirs,
 +So sound that he ne'r wak'd again.
 +With my fol de rol, &c.
 +
 +When my physical habit I quit,
 +As a cobbler appearing to view,
 +I ne'er fear each fancy shall hit,
 +If I gain approbation from you;
 +And when I'm at work in my stall,
 +Or in physical habit, I sing,
 +Whether handling the potion or awl,
 +Like a true Briton, God save the King.
 +With my, &​c.</​code>​
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