Note 299 — SCENE III.
Reading edition
trunks] i.e. tubes. We find the word used in this sense even during Charles the Second’s time;
“Through optic trunk the planet seem’d to hear.”
To the King—Marvell’s Works, vol. ii. p. 124, ed. 1726.
Reading edition
trunks] i.e. tubes. We find the word used in this sense even during Charles the Second’s time;
“Through optic trunk the planet seem’d to hear.”
To the King—Marvell’s Works, vol. ii. p. 124, ed. 1726.