The Sot Weed Factor Or a Voyage to Maryland a Satyr in Which is Describd Th
The Sot Weed Factor Or a Voyage to Maryland a Satyr in Which is Describd Th
Ebenezer Cooke
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With proper allowance for breadth and burlefque, angry ex- aggeration and the difcomforts of fuch a " Gentleman " as we may fancy Mafter Cook to have been, it is well worth prefervation as hinting, if not photographing, the manners and cuftoms of the ruder clafles in a Bri- tifh Province a century and a half ago. The *' Sot-Weed Fadlor " was firft printed in Lon- don, in 1708, in a folio of twenty-one pages. It was reprinted, with a poem on Bacon's Rebellion, by Mr. Green, at Annapolis, Marylan...d, in 173 i. Mr. Green cautioufly reminds the reader that it was a defcription written twenty years before, and "did not agree with the condition of Annapolis at the time of its publica- tion ! The edition, now publifhed, is taken from the Lon- don copy of 1708, as " Printed and fold by B. Bragg, at the Raven, in Pater-Nofter-row (price 6d. )" In Stevens's Eibliotheca Americana, 1861, we find the following title : " Sot- Weed Redivivus ; or the Plant- " ers Looking-Glafs. In Burlefque Verfe. Calculated "for the Meridian of Maryland, by E.
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