Hoo cavedin earthwight

• HCE

• who

• Hoo: used in placenames in England, referring to coastal peninsulas and promontories → Howth is a peninsula

• Hu: ancient Egyptian deity, a deification of the first word, the word of creation, which Atum uttered upon ejaculating the world into existence

• cave: (Latin) beware!

• din: a loud noise → the Viconian thunder referred to in the next line?

• caved-in earthworks

• wight: person

• earthquake: this phrase refers to Earth, the first of the four Classical Elements; the following three phrases refer to the three other elements