"The Captain's Maggot" is an English Country Dance in cut time and F Major. The parts are played AABB. It appeared in Henry Playford's Second Part of the Dancing Master printed in London in 1698. This was the 9th edition of the long-running Dancing Master series begun by Henry's father John and continued after Henry by John Young. "The Captain's Maggot" was retained in subsequent editions through the 18th and last, printed in 1728. It also appears in Walsh's Compleat Country Dancing Master, editions of 1718 and 1731 and in John Johnson's Wright's Compleat Collection of Celebrated country Dances, vol. 2 (London, 1748). It was also printed in Barlow's The Complete Country Dances from Playford's Dancing Master (1985).