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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=346018" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Gernutus the Jew of Venice</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The First Part</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>In Venice towne not long agoe<br>A cruel Jew did dwell,<br>Which lived all on usurie,<br>As Italian writers tell.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Gernutus called was the Jew,<br>Which never thought to dye,<br>Nor ever yet did any good<br>To them in streets that lie.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">His life was like a barrow hogge,<br>That liveth many a day,<br>Yet never once doth any good<br>Until men will him slay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Or like a filthy heap of dung,<br>That lieth in a whoard;<br>Which never can do any good,<br>Till it be spread abroad.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So fares it with the usurper,<br>He cannot sleep in rest,<br>For feare the thiefe will him pursue<br>To plucke him from his nest.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">His hearte doth thinke on many a wile,<br>How to deceive the poore;<br>His mouth is almost ful of mucke,<br>Yet still he gapes for more.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">His wife must lend a shilling,<br>For every weeke a penny,<br>Yet bring a pledge that is double worth,<br>If that you will have any.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And see, likewise, you keepe your day,<br>Or else you loose it all;<br>This was the living of the wife,<br>Her cow she did it call.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Within that citie dwelt that time<br>A marchant of great fame,<br>Which being distressed in his need,<br>Unto Gernutus came:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Desiring him to stand his friend <br>For twelve month and a day;<br>To lend to him an hundred crownes;<br>And he for it would pay</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Whatsoever he would demand of him,<br>And pledges he should have:<br>'No' (quoth the Jew with flearing lookes),<br>'Sir, aske what you will have.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'No penny for the loane of it<br>For one you shall pay;<br>You may doe me as good a turne,<br>Before my dying day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'But we will have a merry jeast,<br>For to be talked long:<br>You shall make me a bond,' quoth he,<br>'That shall be large and strong:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'And this shall be the forfeyture,<br>Of your owne fleshe a pound:<br>If you agree, make you the bond,<br>And here is a hundred crownes.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'With right good will!' the marchant says:<br>And so the bond was made.<br>When twelve month and a day drew on,<br>That backe it should be payd,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The marchants ships were all at sea,<br>And money came not in;<br>Which way to take, or what to doe<br>To thinke he doth begin.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And to Gernutus strait he comes,<br>With cap and bended knee;<br>And sayde to him, 'Of curtesie, <br>I pray you beare with mee.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'My day is come, and I have not <br>The money for to pay:<br>And little good the forfeyture<br>Will doe you, I dare say.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'With all my heart,' Gernutus sayd,<br>'Commaund it to your minde;<br>In thinges of bigger waight then this <br>You shall me ready finde.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He goes his way; the day once past,<br>Gernutus doth not slacke<br>To get a sergiant presently,<br>And clapt him on the backe.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And layd him into prison strong,<br>And sued his bond withall;<br>And when the judgement day was come,<br>For judgement he did call.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The marchants friends came thither fast,<br>With many a weeping eye,<br>For other means they could not find,<br>But he that day must dye.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>The Second Part.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Of the Jews crueltie: setting foorth the mercfulnesse of the Judge towards the Marchant. To the tune of <br>Black and Yellow.<br>'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Some offered for his hundred crownes<br>Five hundred for to pay;<br>And some a thousand, two or three,<br>Yet still he did denay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And at the last ten thousand crownes<br>They offered, him to save:<br>Gernutus sayd, 'I will no gold,<br>My forfeite I will have.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'A pound of fleshe is my demand,<br>And that shall be my hire.'<br>Then sayd the judge, 'Yet, good my friend,<br>Let me of you desire</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'To take the flesh from such a place,<br>As yet you let him live:<br>Do so, and lo! an hundred crownes <br>To thee here will I give.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'No, no,' quoth he, 'no, judgement here;<br>For this it shall be tride;<br>For I will have my pound of fleshe<br>From under his right side.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It grieved all the companie<br>His crueltie to see,<br>For neither friend nor foe could helpe <br>But he must spoyled bee.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The bloudie Jew now ready is<br>With whetted blade in hand,<br>To spoyle the bloud of innocent,<br>By forfeit of his bond.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And as he was about to strike<br>In him the deadly blow,<br>'Stay' (quoth the judge) 'thy crueltie;<br>I charge thee to do so.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Sith needs thou wilt thy forfeit have,<br>Which is of flesh a pound,<br>See that thou shed no drop of bloud,<br>Nor yet the man confound.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'For if thou doe, like murderer <br>Thou here shalt hanged be:<br>Likewise of flesh see that thou cut<br>No more than longes to thee.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'For if thou take either more or lesse,<br>To the value of a mite,<br>Thou shalt be hanged presently,<br>As is both law and right.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Gernutus now waxt franticke mad,<br>And wotes not what to say;<br>Quoth he at last, 'Ten thousand crownes<br>I will that he shall pay;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'And so I graunt to set him free.'<br>The judge doth answere make;<br>'You shall not have a penny given;<br>Your forfeyture now take.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At the last he doth demaund<br>But for to have his owne:<br>'No,' quoth the judge, 'doe as you list,<br>Thy judgement shall be showne.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Either take your pound of flesh,' quoth he,<br>'Or cancell me your bond:'<br>'O cruell judge,' then quoth the Jew,<br>'That doth against me stand!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And so with griping grieved mind<br>He biddeth them fare-well:<br>'Then' all the people prays'd the Lord,<br>That ever this heard tell.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Good people, that doe heare this song,<br>For trueth I dare well say,<br>That many a wretch as ill as hee<br>Doth live now at this day;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That seeketh nothing but the spoyle<br>Of many a wealthey man,<br>And for to trap the innocent<br>Deviseth what they can.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">From whome the Lord deliver me,<br>And every Christian too,<br>And send to them like sentence eke<br>That meaneth so to doe.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Anonymous+Olde+English">Anonymous Olde English</a><div class=q>
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In Venice towne not long agoe
A cruel Jew did dwell,
Which lived all on usurie,
As Italian writers tell.

Gernutus called was the Jew,
Which never thought to dye,
Nor ever yet did any good
To them in streets that lie.

His life wa..."></div>
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