I only tell this tale

That you may know how much his head is worth.

But I am weary of him. All the day

I am running round to every wretched Moor

To borrow--money for him--I who ne'er

Ask for myself, am now obliged to sue

For others--and, according to my creed,

To borrow is to beg, as, when you lend

Your money upon usury, you steal.

Among my Ghebers on the Ganges' shores