Note 357 — ACT III.
Reading edition
i.e., Easy, easily. Eath is an old Saxon word, signifying ease. Hence uneath [or unneth] for uneasily, [or, rather, scarcely.] So, in the "Second Part of Henry VI.," act ii. sc. 4—
"Uneath may she endure the flinty streets."—S.
Again, in Spenser's "Fairy Queen," B. iv. c. 12. § 1—
"For much more eath to tell the starres on hy, Albe they endlesse seeme in estimation."