...first stanza suggests the novel, of which we have given an outline, as the probable foundation of it: "In Venice towne not long agoe a cruel Jew did dwell, Which lived all on usurie, as Italian writers -tell." Here again the Poet is clearly traced by certain resemblances of...

...insipid, yet often well adapted to the pathetic. As an example, Percy refers to Gernutus : In Venice town not long agoe A cruel Jew did dwell, Which lived all on nsnrie As Italian writers tell. The difference here noted by Percy is the principal thing in this branch...

...insipid, yet often well adapted to the pathetic. As an example, Percy refers to Gernutus : In Venice town not long agoe A cruel Jew did dwell, Which lived all on usnrie As Italian writers tell. The difference here noted by Percy is the principal thing in this branch...

...insipid, yet often well adapted to the pathetic. As an example, Percy refers to Gernutus: In Venice town not long agoe A cruel Jew did dwell, Which lived all on usurie As Italian writers tell. The difference here noted by Percy is the principal thing in this branch...

...had his story from the Italian writers, and not from Shakespeare, is proved by the opening stanza: In Venice towne not long agoe A cruel Jew did dwell, Which lived all on usurie, As Italian writers tell. As the merchant's ships were all at sea, he could not return the money...

...remember Marlowe's Jew of Malta, written about 1590. Marlowe's2 relation to Shakespeare and the great 1 "In Venice towne not long agoe A cruel Jew did dwell, Which lived all on usurie, As Italian wittrs tell" HalHwell, however, says, "little reliance can be placed upon a statement...