[291] [Old copy, Push.]
[292] [Old copy, We’ll.]
[293] One of the significations affixed to this word by Skinner, in his “Etymologicon,” is “Venter, hinc Hisp., Buche, Ventriculus animalis, Belg., Bulcke, Thorax.”
So in “The Nice Valour,” by Beaumont and Fletcher, [Works, by Dyce, x. 142—
“My maintenance, rascals!
My bulk, my exhibition!”
Where Mr Dyce explains bulk simply by body.]
[294] The same sentiment is both in Shakespeare and Beaumont and Fletcher. Thus in the “Two Gentlemen of Verona,” act 3, sc. 2:—
“Win her with gifts, if she respects not words;
Dumb jewels often in their silent kind,