214 1 ride lie at anchor; float 7 the Bermudas were discovered by Juan Bermudez in 1515 9 Edmund Waller’s ‘The battel of the Summer Islands’, 1645, describes a fight between the Bermudans and two stranded whales 20 Ormus Hormuz in the Persian Gulf

214 23 Apples pineapples 28 Proclaime make known Ambergris the odoriferous secretion of the sperm whale, see Marvell’s ‘The Gallery’ (no. 170), 1. 38 39 Chime harmony, musical concord 40 the poem’s forty lines may correspond to the Israelites’ forty years in the wilderness