"Lord Byron's Maggot", also known as "Lord Biron's Maggot" or "My Lord Byron's Maggot" is an English air and country dance tune in 6/4 or 6/8 time and D Major. The parts are played AAB or sometimes as only one part. A maggot was another term for a dram, a unit of liquid measure, and also meant something of small or little consequence or a plaything; from the Italian maggioletta. Maggots were latter 17th century longways country dances written generally to triple-time tunes. The country dance and tune were first printed in Henry Playford's Dancing Master, 12th edition (1703) and in all following editions through the 18th and final edition of 1728 (then published by John Young). It was also published in John Walsh's Complete Country Dancing-Master, Volume the Fourth (1740). The tune was the vehicle for songs in The Grub Street Opera (1731), The Genuine Grub Street Opera (1731), The Welsh Opera, or the Grey Mare the Better Horse (1731), Calista (1731) and The Mad Captain (1733). Country dance versions were printed in Walsh & Hare's The Compleat Country Dancing Master (1718) and later editions of 1731 and 1754. It was also printed in Barlow's Complete Country Dances from Playford's Dancing Master (1985) and Sharp's Country Dance Tunes (1909). Neither this nor "My Lord Byron's Delight", also in this section, have any relation to the poet Lord Byron although, since he was the 6th Baron Byron, there may be some connection to his ancestor(s).