Eath

There, as he look'd, he saw the canvas rent, / Through which the voice found eath and open way.

At these advantages he knowes 'tis eath to cope with her quite severed from her maids.

There has been much written on the learning of Shakespeare but not much to the purpose: one of our old Scotch proverbs is worth all the dissertations on the subject I have yet seen. "God's bairns", it says, "are eath to lear",[…].

He rub'd, and prickt, and pierst her to the bones, / Digging as farre as eath he might for stones ...

Their food and their raiment he eith can supply.