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" IN Venice towne not long agoe A cruel Jew did dwell, Which lived all on usurie, As Italian writers tell. "
Reliques of Ancient English Poetry:: Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs ... - Page 191
1765
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Observations on the Fairy Queen of Spenser, Volume 1

Thomas Warton - 1762 - 264 pages
...Jltjbe, ttcaufe be could not pay him at the time ip pointed. In Venice towne not long agoe, A cruell JEWE did dwell ; Which lived all on ufurie, As Italian writers tell. GERNUTUS called was the Jewe, &c. The whole fong would be too prolix for this place. I fhall tranfcribe only the clofe of the...
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The Monthly Magazine, Or, British Register, Volume 53

1822 - 688 pages
...Geriiutus, a Jewe, who lending to a merchant one hundred crownes, would have a pound of his fleshe. because he could not pay him at the time appointed. To the tune of ' Black and Yellow.' " The sequel of Gernutus's story corresponds exactly with the remorseless Shy lock. The bloudie Jew now ready...
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Select British Classics, Volume 27

1803 - 234 pages
...would have a pound of his fleshe because he could not pay him at the time appointed. IN Venice town 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 die. Nor never...
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The comedies of The Merchant of Venice, and As you like it, with the notes ...

William Shakespeare - 1805 - 350 pages
...would have a pound of his fleshe, because he could not pay him at the time appointed. IN Venice town 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 die, Nor never...
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Spirit of the English Magazines, Volume 11

1822 - 496 pages
...Gernutus, a Jewe, who lending to a merchant one hundred crownes, would have a pound of his fleshe, because he could not pay him at the time appointed. To the tune of ' Black and Yellow.' " The sequel of Gernutus's story corresponds exactly with the remorseless Shylock. The bloudie Jew now ready...
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Connoisseur

Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 294 pages
...would have a pound of hisjleshe because he could not pay him at the time appointed. In Venice town not long agoe, A cruel Jew did dwell, Which lived all on usurie, As Italian writers tell. Gernutus called was the Jew, Which never thonght to die, Nor never...
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Knight's Cabinet edition of the works of William Shakspere, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1843 - 376 pages
...incident VOL. I1. N 2 in the source from which the ballad-writer professed to derive his history : — " In Venice towne not long agoe, A cruel Jew did dwell, "Which lived all on usurie, As Italian writers tell." It was from an Italian writer, Ser Giovanni, the author of a collection...
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The Pictorial Balladist: A Collection of Ballads, of Various Ages ..., Volume 1

Joseph S. Moore - 1846 - 376 pages
...Gernutus, a Jewe, who, lending to a merchant an hundred crowns, would have a pound of his fleshe, because he could not pay him at the time appointed. To the tune of ' lllacke and Yellow.' ' It is invested with an interest beyond that which of itself it might have...
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Studies of Shakspere: Forming a Companion Volume to Every Edition of the Text

Charles Knight - 1849 - 582 pages
...found that incident in the souree from which the balladwriter professed to derive his history : — " In Venice towne not long agoe, A cruel Jew did dwell, Which lived all on usurie, Aa Italian ¡critère tell." It was from an Italian writer, Ser Giovanni, the author of a collection...
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The Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems of William Shakspere ...

William Shakespeare - 1851 - 600 pages
...found that incident in the source from which the balladwriter professed to derive Ms history : — " In Venice towne not long agoe, A cruel Jew did dwell, Which lived all on usurie, As Italian tenter* tell." It was from an lalian writer, Ser Giovanni, the author of a collection...
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