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For Bermudas tobacco Nares quotes from Clitus's Whimz., p. 135, "Where being furnished with tinder, match, and a portion of decayed Bermoodus they smoke it most terribly." Our forefathers esteemed the March brewing; we the October. To "build a sconce" means, I suppose, to fix a candle in a candle-stick. This speech of Sir Richard's is very much in Shirley's style: cf.
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