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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]\\
+Recording: {{ ::music:physical_snob-_064-bn3sp08.mp3.zip |}}
 <code>
-   Longways for Three Couples [[C.|1800]]
-   A1 1-8 The first woman leads the women round the men.
-   (women join hands)
-   A2 1- 8 The first man leads the men round the women. (men join hands)
-   B1 1- 8 Poussette:
-   First and second couples change (first man going forward),
-   first and third couples change (first man going back).
-   B2 1- 8 Poussette back.
-   First and third couples change (first man going forward),
-   first and second couples change (first man back).
-   C1 1- 8 First couple cross and continue round the second couple,
-   cross again in the middle and continue round the third couple
-   to the bottom of the set.
-   C2 1-8 Lead up the middle to the top and cast to the bottom of the set.</code>
+A1  1-8  The first woman leads the women round the men.
+         (women join hands)
+A2  1-8  The first man leads the men round the women. (men join hands)
+B1  1-8  Poussette:
+         First and second couples change (first man going forward),
+         first and third couples change (first man going back).
+B2  1-8  Poussette back.
+         First and third couples change (first man going forward),
+         first and second couples change (first man back).
+C1  1-8  First couple cross and continue round the second couple,
+         cross again in the middle and continue round the third couple
+         to the bottom of the set.
+C2 1-8   Lead up the middle to the top and cast to the bottom of the set.</code>
+video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4wzQzi9MI0&t=108s
+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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