"Mr. Lanes Maggot" is also known as "Lane's Maggot", "Polly for ever", "Richmond Ball" and "The Round". A "maggot" is another term for a dram; a unit of liquid measure and also meant a small thing of little consequence or a plaything; from the Italian maggioletta. Maggots were longways country dances of the late 17th century often dedicated to a personage or named for a composer. "Mr. Lane's Maggot" is attributed to Mr. Lane who was dancing master to Charles II, who also composed or is associated with "Mr. Lane’s Minuet" and "Mr. Lane’s Trumpet Minuet". The tune appears in Pepys circa 1690. William Vickers prints a major-mode version in his 1770 music manuscript collection under the title “Richmond Ball”. “Mr. Lane’s Maggot” first appears in print in The English Dancing Master, 9th edition (1695) and in all subsequent editions through the 18th and final edition in 1728. Playford (1695) notes that it is "A Song made by Mr. Tho. D'Ursey upon a new country dance at Richmond, called, Mr. Lane's Magot". The alternate title “Richmond Ball” was used in the 17th and 18th editions (1721 & 1728). It was published by Thomas D’Urfey in Wit and Mirth, or Pills to Purge Melancholy, vol. 2 (as the indicated tune for the song "The Richmond Recreation: or, The Royal Dance of Delight") and in the various editions of John Walsh's Complete Country Dancing Master, beginning in 1718 (followed by editions of 1731 and 1754) as "Lane's Maggot." The tune was used as a vehicle for a broadside ballad called "Strike up drousy Guts-scrapers." A more sophisticated employment of the melody was by Francesco Barsanti as the subject in the allegro section of his Overture in A minor, Op. 4 no. 1 for string quartet and keyboard (optional), published in Edinburgh around 1745.