Nares thinks that
the real Bermudas are
referred
to here.
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association
also Earle, _Microcosmography_, ed. Morley,
p. 173.
=3. 3. 148 an old debt of forty.= See 2. 8. 100.
=3. 3. 149 the Bermudas.= See note 2. 1. 144.
Nares thinks that
the real Bermudas are
referred
to here.
=3. 3. 155 You shall ha' twenty pound on't.= As Commission on
the two hundred. 'Ten in the hundred' was the customary rate at
this period (see _Staple of News_, _Wks._ 5. 189).
=3. 3. 165 St. Georges-tide?= From a very early period the 23d of
April was dedicated to St. George. From the time of Henry V. The
festival had been observed with great splendor at Windsor and other
towns, and bonfires were built (see Shak, _1 Henry VI.
