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.

by Ebenezer Cooke

[(aa)] Planters are usually call'd by the Name of Oronooko, from their Planting Oronooko-Tobacco.

[(bb)] Cockerouse, is a Man of Quality.

[(cc)] Musmilleon Vines are what we call Musk milleon Plants.

[(dd)] Æthon is one of the Poetical Horses of the Sun.

[(ee)] Chinces are a sort of Vermin like our Bugs in England.

[(ff)] Wild Turkies are very good Meat, and prodigiously large in Mary-Land.

[(gg)] Succahana is Water.

[(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.

[(ii)] This Fellow was an Apothecary, and turned an Attorney at Law.

[(kk)] The Yaws is the Pox.