The Sot-weed Factor: or, A Voyage to Maryland. A Satyr.: In which is Describ'd The Laws, Government, Courts and Constitutions of the Country, and also the Buildings, Feasts, Frolicks, Entertainments and Drunken Humours of the Inhabitants of that Part of America. In Burlesque Verse. — John Shaqi
The Sot-weed Factor: or, A Voyage to Maryland. A Satyr.: In which is Describ'd The Laws, Government, Courts and Constitutions of the Country, and also the Buildings, Feasts, Frolicks, Entertainments and Drunken Humours of the Inhabitants of that Part of America. In Burlesque Verse.Cooke, Ebenezer
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The Sot-weed Factor: or, A Voyage to Maryland. A Satyr.: In which is Describ'd The Laws, Government, Courts and Constitutions of the Country, and also the Buildings, Feasts, Frolicks, Entertainments and Drunken Humours of the Inhabitants of that Part of America. In Burlesque Verse.
Cooke, Ebenezer
Maryland -- Description and travel -- Poetry
[Footnote bb: Cockerouse, is a Man of Quality.]
[Footnote cc: Musmilleon Vines are what we call Musk milleon Plants.]
[Footnote dd: _AEthon_ is one of the Poetical Horses of the Sun.]
[Footnote ee: _Chinces_ are a sort of Vermin like our _Bugs_ in
_England_.]
[Footnote ff: Wild Turkies are very good Meat, and prodigiously large in
_Mary-Land_.]
[Footnote gg: Succahana is Water.]
[Footnote hh: A Goud grows upon an _Indian_ Vine, resembling a Bottle,
when ripe it is hollow; this the Planters make use of to drink water out
of.]
[Footnote ii: This Fellow was an Apothecary, and turned an Attorney at
Law.]
[Footnote kk: The _Yaws_ is the _Pox_.]
[Footnote ll: The chief of _Mary-Land_ containing about twenty-four
_Houses_.]
[Footnote mm: There is a Law in this Country, the Plaintiff may pay his
Debt in Country pay, which consists in the produce of his Plantation.]
[Footnote nn: The home ward bound fleet meets here.]
[Footnote oo: The Author does not intend by this any of the _English_
Gentlemen resident there.]
* * * * *
FINIS.
GLOSSARY.
Cockerouse: a man of Quality.
Chinces: _chinches_,--bed-bugs.
Froes: women; _frau_ (German)
_vrouw_ (Dutch).
Hoe (at the): working in the field.
Lanctre-Looe: the game at cards of _loo_.
Night-rails: night cloathes.
Oast: host.
Oronooko: tobacco, also a nick-name, in those days, for a planter.
Pam: in _loo_ the knave or clubs generally, and sometimes
the knave of trumps, is agreed on as the
highest card, and called Pam.
Sot-weed: tobacco.
Sot-weed Factor: tobacco-agent or supercargo.
Succahana: water.
Tripple-Tree: gallows.
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