Crossword-Solution: CURRISH 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 12

XLVI “Which son, within short while, did undertake Degree of knighthood, as beseemed him well, Yet never durst he for his lady’s sake Break sword or lance, advance in lofty sell; As fair he was, as Citherea’s make, As proud as he that signoriseth hell, In fashions wayward, and in love unkind, For Cupid deigns not wound a currish mind.

Thus much have I done for thy memory, Mistress Prew! In spite of Herrick's disparagement of Deanbourn, which he calls “a rude river,” and his characterization of Devon folk as “a people currish, churlish as the seas,” the fullest and pleasantest days of his life were probably spent at Dean Prior.

For certain noted fugitives from the army of King Monmouth (which he himself had deserted, in a low and currish manner), having failed to obtain free shipment from the coast near Watersmouth, had returned into the wilds of Exmoor, trusting to lurk, and be comforted among the common people.

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 layest in thy unhallowed dam, Infus’d itself in thee; for thy desires Are wolfish, bloody, starv’d and ravenous.

Then I saw a thousand faces made currish by the cold, whence shuddering comes to me, and will always come, at frozen pools.