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| Searching... Subject: USURY Matches Found: 13 CANTO 45, by EZRA POUND Poem Text Poem Explanation 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'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'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'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 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 |
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