"What is the matter! It seems the Tartars must have well boxed your ears that you heard nothing!"
"Tell, then, what did happen there!"
"Such things have happened that, since you were born and christened, you never saw the like of them!"
"Speak, then, at once; and say what has happened, thou son of a dog!" cried one among the crowd, losing patience.
"Such times are come that even the holy churches are no longer ours!"
"How so?"
"Jews are made landlords thereof.[21] If one does not pay the toll to the Jew no mass can be performed."
"What nonsense art thou saying?"
"And if the cursed Jew does not put, with his damned finger, a mark upon the holy passover, the passover cannot be consecrated!"
"He lies, gentlemen brothers! This cannot be, that an unclean Jew should put a sign upon the holy passover!"