Safely in harbour
Is the king’s ship; in the deep nook, where once
Thou called’st me up at midnight to fetch dew
From the still-vexed Bermoothes, there she’s hid.
– William Shakespeare
The Tempest, Act 1, Scene 2. Ariel in his conversation with Prospero says that King Alonso’s ship is hidden in a large deep bay in the still stormy Bermoothes island, where Prospero once commanded him to fetch magic dew. Some scholars believe that Bermoothes referred to Bermuda, which in Shakespeare’s time was considered an enchanted and stormy island inhabited by devils and witches.