Note E236 — 43.
Reading edition
"Baies," Bays, from French baie, which is formed from Lat. bacca = a berry. In old writers bay is used for a berry generally, as "the bayes of ivyne," but in time the term came to be applied to the berries of the sweet bay, called by Virgil lauri baccas, from their being an article of commerce; from the berry the term was extended to the tree itself.