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get,
Brib'd _Quack_ supprest his knavish Wit.
So Maid
upon the Downy Field
Pretends a Force, and Fights to yield:
The
Byast Court without delay,
Adjudg'd my Debt in Country Pay;
In
(mm) Pipe staves, Corn or Flesh of Boar,
Rare Cargo for the
_English_ Shoar;
Raging with Grief, full speed I ran

To joyn the
Fleet at (nn) _Kicketan_;
Embarqu'd and waiting for a Wind
I left
this dreadful Curse behind.
May Canniballs transported o'er the Sea
Prey on these Slaves, as they
have done on me;
May never Merchant's trading Sails explore
This
Cruel, this inhospitable Shoar;
But left abandon'd by the World to
starve,
May they sustain the Fate they well deserve;
May they turn
Savage, or as _Indians_ Wild,
From Trade, Converse and Happiness

exil'd;
Recreant to Heaven, may they adore the Sun,
And into Pagan
Superstitions run
For Vengence ripe---------------
May Wrath Divine
then lay those Regions wast
Where no Man's (oo) Faithful, nor a
Woman Chast.
[Footnote a: By the Cape is meant the _Capes of Virginea_[_sic._], the
first Land on the Coast of _Virginia_ and _Mary-Land_.]
[Footnote b: To _Cove_ is to lie at Anchor safe in Harbour.]
[Footnote c: The Bay of _Piscato-way_, the usual place where our
Ships come to an Anchor in _Mary-Land_.]
[Footnote d: The Planters generally wear _Blue Linnen_.]
[Footnote e: A _Canoo_ is an _Indian_ Boat, cut out of the body of a
Popular-Tree [_sic._, Poplar-Tree].]
[Footnote f: Wolves are very numerous in _Mary-Land_.]
[Footnote g: 'Tis supposed by the Planters that all unknown Persons run
away from some Master.]
[Footnote h: Syder-pap is a sort of Food made of Syder and small
Homine, like our Oatmeal.]
[Footnote i: Pon is Bread made of _Indian-Corn_.]
[Footnote k: Mush is a sort of hasty-pudding made with water and
_Indian_ Flower.]
[Footnote l: Homine is a dish that is made of boiled _Indian_ Wheat,
eaten with Molossus, or Bacon-Fat.]
[Footnote m: 'Tis the Custom for Servants to be obliged for four Years
to very servile work; after which time they have their Freedom.]
[Footnote n: These are the general Excuses made by _English_ Women,

which are sold, or sell themselves to _Mary-Land_.]
[Footnote o: Beds stand in the Chimney-corner in this Country.]
[Footnote p: Frogs are called _Virginia_ Bells and make (both in that
country and _Mary-Land_) during the Night, a very hoarse ungrateful
Noise.]
[Footnote q: _Kekicknitop_ is an _Indian_ Expression, and signifies no
more than this, _How do you do?_]
[Footnote r: These _Indians_ worship the Devil, and pray to him as we
do to God Almighty. 'Tis suppos'd, that _America_ was peopled from
_Scythia_ or _Tartaria_, which Borders on _China_, by reason the
_Tartarians_ and _Americans_, very much agree in their Manners,
Arms and Government. Other persons are of Opinion, that the
_Chinese_ first peopled the _West-Indies_; imagining _China_ and the
Southern part of _America_ to be contiguous. Others believe that the
Phoenicians who were very skilful Mariners, first planted a Colony in
the Isles of _America_, and supply'd the Persons left to inhabit there
with Women and all other Necessaries; till either the Death or
Shipwreck of the first Discoverers, or some other Misfortune,
occasioned the loss of the Discovery, which had been purchased by the
Peril of the first Adventurers.]
[Footnote s: Pizarro was the Person that conquer'd Peru; a Man of a
most bloody Disposition, base, treacherous, covetous and revengeful.]
[Footnote t: _Spanish_ Shoar.]
[Footnote u: There is a very bad Custom in some Colledges, of giving
the Students _A Groat ad purgandas Rhenes_, which is usually
employ'd to the use of the _Donor_.]
[Footnote v: Bears are said to live by sucking of their _Paws_,
according to the Notion of some Learned Authors.]
[Footnote w: The _Phoenicians_ were the best and boldest Saylors of

Antiquity, and indeed the only Persons, in former Ages, who durst
venture themselves on the Main Sea.]
[Footnote x: The _Priests_ argue, That our Senses in point of
_Transubstantiation_ ought not to be believed, for tho' the Consecrated
Bread has all the accidents of Bread, yet they affirm, 'tis the Body of
Christ, and not of Bread but Flesh and Bones.]
[Footnote y: In the County-Court of Mary-Land, very few of the
Justices of the Peace can write or read.]
[Footnote z: 'Tis the Custom of the Planters to throw their own, or any
other Person's Hat, Wig, Shooes or Stockings in the Fire.]
[Footnote aa: Planters are usually call'd by the Name of _Oronooko_,
from their Planting _Oronooko-Tobacco_.]
[Footnote bb: Cockerouse, is a Man of Quality.]
[Footnote cc: Musmilleon Vines are what we call Musk milleon
Plants.]
[Footnote dd: _Æthon_ 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