"How shall this bosom multiplied digest
The senate's courtesy."
I do not think that the text is, in any place in these plays, more certainly correct than it is here; yet some late editors adopt without hesitation bisson multitude, the reading of Collier's folio. By 'bosom multiplied' the poet means the union or complex of the bosoms, i.e. hearts, affections, of the people. In his next speech Cor. uses in a similar manner "multitudinous tongue;" and in ii. 2 we meet "multiplying spawn." In Lear (v. 3) we have "the common bosom;" and in our poet's Lover's Complaint "That he did in the general bosom reign."
"To jump a body with a dangerous physic."
For 'Jump' Pope read vamp, Singer imp. 'Jump' is risk, hazard, and the verb seems, like so many others, to be here causative.
"Go call the people; in whose name I myself."