Blowzelinʹda.

A country maiden in Gay’s pastoral called The Shepherd’s Week.

“Sweet is my toil when Blowzelind is near;

Of her bereft, ʹtis winter all the year… .

Come, Blowzelinda, ease thy swain’s desire,

My summer’s shadow and my winter’s fire.”


Pastoral i.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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