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Notice! - The entry text below is taken directly from the original text. This includes misspellings and grammatical errors!

Miss B-r-n

1790 Edition

14 Castle Street, Oxford Market

Locations:

Castle Street

Oxford Market

Marylebone Parish

See also:

Music

Travelling Musicians

Her Covent Garden Ladies Entry:

Indeed sir, says she, you play sweetly this flute,
You ravish my sense, tho? your instrument's mute;
Before that I’d hear the noisy ton'd flute,
I'd give all my treasures to gobble the root,
Of your's, &c.

The father of this funny girl was a taber and pipe player, at the fashionable hops in town, and in his daughter's early years instilled into her principles the use of the flute; but not having an ear for music, and fearful of disobeying her father, altho' she threw aside the use of one, by a more natural instinct she much sooner attained the use of another, and can play any strain, without much straining, in two flats, which she thinks is a very natural key, and there is no one a greater proficient at double tonguing the flute, or stopping in tune. She is now about nineteen years of age, a fair complexion, fine dark eyes, and is of such a size, as to be able to do the business in any position you would wish to place her, sitting or landing, a table or a chair, a bed or a carpet, is very indifferent to her, and she will mount St. George, rather than not subdue the dragon; a single air is half a guinea, for a nocturnal rondo, she expects four times the sum.

Details
Age:

19

Home:

London

Appearance:

Fair complexion, dark eyes

Name:

Miss Boron

Price:

2l

Nationality

English

TLDR

Born in 1771, she is the daughter of a musician who toured around various entertainment venues, pubs, and social spaces. Since her father was renowned for playing the tabor (a snare drum) and the pipe, her entry includes many double entendres about 'blowing' a cylindrical object.

Image Credits:
A Scene in the Recruiting Officer – Philippe Mercier (1739)
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