Note 527 — ACT V. SCENE I.

by Amsterdam] “The toleration allowed to all religious sects in the United Provinces, on their throwing off the Spanish yoke, occasioned numbers of dissenters from the established religion of their country, to take refuge in different parts of the states of Holland. The chief place appears to have been Amsterdam, which is mentioned as such in several contemporary dramatic writers. See Ben Jonson’s Alchymist, and The Fair Maid of the Inn, by Beaumont and Fletcher.”—Reed.