Besides, it should appear, that if he had

275 The present money to discharge the Jew,

He would not take it. Never did I know

A creature, that did bear the shape of man,

So keen and greedy to confound a man:

He plies the Duke at morning and at night;

280 And doth impeach the freedom of the state,

If they deny him justice: twenty merchants,

The Duke himself, and the magnificoes

Of greatest port, have all persuaded with him;