...soe done, From prison threescore knights and four Delivered everve one. GERNUTUS THE JEW OF VENICE. he footstool, or he wouldn't have done it, on any account. 'Why, bless my usurie, As Italian writers tell. Gernutus called was the .lew, r, Which never thought to dye, Nor ever...

...Gernutus, a.fewe, 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 Black and Yellow." [This is the first of four ballads printed by Percy as probable sources for the plots of four of Shakspere's...

...part of Shakespeare's Jew, was known both to the dramatist and to the author of the present ballad. THE FIRST PART. 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...

...lending to a tnerehant an hundred crownes, would have a pound of hisfleshe, because he could not pa) kim at the time appointed. To the tune of Black and yellow....Which lived all on ufurie As Italian writers tell. Gcrnutus called was the Jew, Which never thought to dye, Nor never yet did any good To them in ftreets...

...lending to a merchant an hundred crmuncs, would have a pound of hisfleshc, because he could not pa) kirn at the time appointed. To the tune of Black and yellow....Which lived all on ufurie As Italian writers tell. Gemutus called was the Jew, Which never thought to dye, Nor never yet did any good To them in ftreets...

...GERNUTUS. a JEWE. who lending to a merchant an hundred erownes, would have a pound of hisßeshe, because he could not pay him at the time appointed. To the tune of Blach and yellow. THE FIRST PART. TN Venice towne not long agoe 1 A cruel Jew did dwell, Which lived...

...GERNUTUS, a JEWE, who lending to a mer"chant an 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 FIRST PART. in TN Venice towne not long agoe -»-A cruel Jew did dwell, Which lived all on usurie, As Italian writers...

...hundred Crownes , wonld have a pound of his Flesh , because he <-ould not pav him at the day appoynted. 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 die, Nor ever...

...Gernutus, a Jewe, who lending to a merchant an hundred crowns, would have a pound of fleshe, because he could not pay him at the time appointed. To the...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...

...has its twin brother in the ballad of Gernutus, the Jew of Venice, preserved in Percy's Reliques : " In Venice towne not long agoe A cruel Jew did dwell, Which lived all on usurie, As Italian writers tell." Both stories seem to be derived from an Italian novel by Giovanni...