[365] The galliard was a light active dance, much in fashion in the time of Queen Elizabeth.
[366] Hits at, or remarks intended to be applied to, particular individuals.
[367] A slight or insult.
[368] A sarcastic remark.
[369] The old term for colonies.
[370] He perhaps alludes covertly to the conduct of the Spaniards in extirpating the aboriginal inhabitants of the West India Islands, against which the venerable Las Casas so eloquently but vainly protested.
[371] Of course, this censure would not apply to what is primarily and essentially a convict colony; the object of which is to drain the mother country of its impure superfluities.
[372] Times have much changed since this was penned, tobacco is now the staple commodity, and the source of “the main business” of Virginia.
[373] To labor hard.
[374] Marshy; from the French marais, a marsh.