Earn, 1) ancient spelling of yearn, q. v.
2) a) to acquire as a reward or wages: Ado III, 3, 115 (sth. of a p.). As III, 2, 77. Tw. III, 4, 199. Wint. I, 2, 107. H4B I, 2, 29. II, 4, 155. Troil. IV, 5, 141. Cor. I, 1, 278. II, 3, 103. Oth. IV, 2, 163. Ant. III, 13, 46. Per. IV Prol. 13.
b) to deserve: “his excellence did e. it, ere he had it,” Ado III, 1, 99. “I and my sword will e. our chronicle,” Ant. III, 13, 175. “feast the army; we have store to do't, and they have --ed the waste,” IV, 1, 16.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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