Climbing to reach the costly Hearts 1
To which he gave the worth,
He broke them, fearing punishment
He ran away from Earth－
To which he gave the worth,
He broke them, fearing punishment
He ran away from Earth－
(F.1626/J.1566)
[1] Heart:: short for heart-cherry (OED n. 30).
[3] broke, punishment:: a shrewd act, to steal the cherry.
[4] He:: an earth-shrew. Earth:: a hint on earth-shrew, a shrew-mouse.
To the dog-kind, from their having a longer snout, are referred the urchin or hedge-hog, the tatou or armadillo, the mole, the shrew-mouse or erd, i. e. earth-shrew. ─ The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London (1809)