# Result number

Work The work is either a play, poem, or sonnet. The sonnets are treated as single work with 154 parts.

Character Indicates who said the line. If it's a play or sonnet, the character name is "Poet."

Line Shows where the line falls within the work.

The numbering is not keyed to any copyrighted numbering system found in a volume of collected works (Arden, Oxford, etc.) The numbering starts at the beginning of the work, and does not restart for each scene.

Text The line's full text, with keywords highlighted within it, unless highlighting has been disabled by the user.

1

Henry VI, Part III
[V, 5]

Prince Edward

2920

Let AEsop fable in a winter's night;
His currish riddles sort not with this place.

2

Merchant of Venice
[IV, 1]

Gratiano

2063

O, be thou damn'd, inexecrable dog!
And for thy life let justice be accused.
Thou almost makest me waver in my faith
To hold opinion with Pythagoras,
That souls of animals infuse themselves
Into the trunks of men: thy currish spirit
Govern'd a wolf, who, hang'd for human slaughter,
Even from the gallows did his fell soul fleet,
And, whilst thou lay'st in thy unhallow'd dam,
Infused itself in thee; for thy desires
Are wolvish, bloody, starved and ravenous.

3

Merchant of Venice
[IV, 1]

Gratiano

2235

I have a wife, whom, I protest, I love:
I would she were in heaven, so she could
Entreat some power to change this currish Jew.

4

Taming of the Shrew
[V, 2]

Petruchio

2546

A good swift simile, but something currish.

5

Two Gentlemen of Verona
[IV, 4]

Launce

1883

Marry, she says your dog was a cur, and tells you
currish thanks is good enough for such a present.