beshrew वाक्य

Historically, the animals called shrews were superstitiously feared, falsely believed to have a venomous bite and to behave aggressively and with cruelty, leading to the now-obsolete word " beshrew ",'to curse or invoke evil upon '.
Then suddenly, without warning, he shifts into a lower key that resonates with real sorrow, and when a member of the onstage audience observes, " Beshrew my heart but I pity the man, " it is not, for once, said in mockery.