Therefore preach hardly thy bellyful, But I nevertheless will declare the Pope's bull.
"A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume I."
R. Dodsley
It was the bullying, brazen swagger and the voice that traffics in filth and impudence instead of wit; and, in payment for his evening bellyful he was pouring out abuse of Cunningham that grew viler and yet viler as Cunningham came nearer and the fakir realized that his subject could not understand a word of it.
"Rung Ho!"
Talbot Mundy
The Pale spent its time tilling and fighting, and it was more sure of its bellyful of blows than of bread.
"Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry"
Thomas Davis Commentator: T. W. Rolleston