The Age Reviewed A Satire: In two parts: Second edition, revised and corrected [by Robert Montgomery] |
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And, mark how usurers
swarm, with greedy bait;
Those harpies feeding on the fallen great;
Secure they cozen by illegal aid,
And raise on broken hearts their hideous trade!
Of swindlers most abhorred—the crafty Jews,
Colleagued with brokers and their monied crews,
Crawl round the land to cozen and enmesh,
Like Shakspeare's, ready for the coins or flesh;—
The world's collected scum from ev'ry zone,
Would shame these men-hounds that defile our own:
Look on a Jew-dog!—how the living pest
Palls on the gaze, and heats the loathing breast;
Mark! how the minion rolls his greedy eye,
And through his widen'd jaw lets out the monstrous lie!
Prowling for victims, through the allies dark
He roams, a lender to each high-born spark;
And grants some squeezing pittance for a bond,
Till ruined heirs from bartered rights abscond.
Those harpies feeding on the fallen great;
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And raise on broken hearts their hideous trade!
Of swindlers most abhorred—the crafty Jews,
Colleagued with brokers and their monied crews,
Crawl round the land to cozen and enmesh,
Like Shakspeare's, ready for the coins or flesh;—
The world's collected scum from ev'ry zone,
Would shame these men-hounds that defile our own:
Look on a Jew-dog!—how the living pest
Palls on the gaze, and heats the loathing breast;
Mark! how the minion rolls his greedy eye,
And through his widen'd jaw lets out the monstrous lie!
Prowling for victims, through the allies dark
He roams, a lender to each high-born spark;
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Till ruined heirs from bartered rights abscond.
Notwithstanding the usury laws, it is well known, that usury still subsists in all its direful realities. Jews and Christians are alike sharers of this griping practice; the former are, indeed, worthy the appellation of dogs. They are filthy in person, and filthier in mind; petrified against humanity, preferring gold to the very flesh on their bodies; and of course to other people's. It is dreadful to think of the calamitous consequences, occasioned by these outcasts, to young men of dissipation. To their personal appearance we may well apply:
Hispida membra quidem et duræ per brachia setæ
Promittunt atrocem animum.
Juv.
Promittunt atrocem animum.
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