Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xii.21 | That spanieled me at heels, to whom I gave | That pannelled me at heeles, to whom I gaue |
Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.126 | To me you cannot reach. You play the spaniel, | To me you cannot reach. You play the Spaniell, |
Julius Caesar | JC III.i.43 | Low-crooked curtsies and base spaniel fawning. | Low-crooked-curtsies, and base Spaniell fawning: |
King Lear | KL III.vi.68 | Hound or spaniel, brach or lym, | Hound or Spaniell, Brache, or Hym: |
Macbeth | Mac III.i.92 | As hounds and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs, | As Hounds, and Greyhounds, Mungrels, Spaniels, Curres, |
A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.203 | I am your spaniel; and, Demetrius, | I am your spaniell, and Demetrius, |
A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.205 | Use me but as your spaniel: spurn me, strike me, | Vse me but as your spaniell; spurne me, strike me, |
Pericles | Per IV.vi.122 | undo a whole household, let me be gelded like a spaniel. | vndoe a whole houshold, let me be gelded like a spaniel, |
The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.i.136 | Where's my spaniel Troilus? Sirrah, get you hence, | Where's my Spaniel Troilus? Sirra, get you hence, |
The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.270 | water-spaniel – which is much in a bare Christian. | Water-Spaniell, which is much in a bare Christian: |
The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.ii.14 | Yet, spaniel-like, the more she spurns my love | Yet (Spaniel-like) the more she spurnes my loue, |