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Subject: USURY
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` CANTO 45, by EZRA POUND    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: With usura / with usura hath no man a house of good stone
Subject(s): Gonzaga, Luigi (1267-1360); Hate; Usury


CANTO 45, by EZRA POUND    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With usura %with usura hath no man a house of good stone
Last Line: Corpses are set to banquet %at behest of usura
Subject(s): Gonzaga, Luigi (1267-1360); Hate; Usury


ELEGY ON THE MUCH LAMENTED DEATH OF MR. DEMAR ... RICH USERER, by JONATHAN SWIFT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Know all men by these presents, death the tamer
Last Line: Will think his better self alive
Subject(s): Usury


EPIGRAM: ON BANK THE USURER, by BEN JONSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bank feels no lameness of his knotty gout
Last Line: He toils to be at hell, as soon as they.
Subject(s): Usury


EPIGRAM: ON BAWDS AND USERERS, by BEN JONSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If, as their ends, their fruits were so the same
Last Line: Bawdry, and usury were one kind of game.
Variant Title(s): On Bawds And Usurers
Subject(s): Usury


ON A USURER, by JONATHAN SWIFT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beneath this verdant hillock lies
Subject(s): Usury


THE HARD BARGAIN, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In a pawnshop on lucky street
Last Line: All say he drives a hard bargain.
Subject(s): Jews; Pawnshops; Usury; Judaism; Pawnbrokers


THE MAID OF HONOUR, by PHILIP MASSINGER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Good day to your lordship
Last Line: [flourish. Exeunt.
Subject(s): Mompesson, Sir Giles (d. 1628); Usury


THE TALE OF PIERS THE USURER, by ROBERT OF BRUNNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Saint john the almoner
Last Line: For his meekness and his good deed.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mannyng, Rober
Subject(s): Covetousness; Ten Commandments; Usury


THE USURER, by HENRY HART MILMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dost thou know, bianca
Last Line: And thank'd my god that I had braver riches.
Subject(s): Usury


THE USURER'S PATERNOSTER, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The usurer betimes arose
Last Line: His music is too falsely set.'
Subject(s): Usury


USURERS, by NICOLAS GUILLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ornithomorphous monsters
Last Line: And lend them to one another for a fee
Subject(s): Usury


USURY, by ALBERT DURRANT WATSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Heir to the wealth of all the storied past
Subject(s): Usury