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Gernutus The Jew Of Venice Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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The First Part	A
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In Venice towne not long agoe	B
A cruel Jew did dwell	C
Which lived all on usurie	D
As Italian writers tell	C
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Gernutus called was the Jew	E
Which never thought to dye	F
Nor ever yet did any good	G
To them in streets that lie	F
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His life was like a barrow hogge	B
That liveth many a day	H
Yet never once doth any good	G
Until men will him slay	H
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Or like a filthy heap of dung	B
That lieth in a whoard	G
Which never can do any good	G
Till it be spread abroad	G
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So fares it with the usurper	D
He cannot sleep in rest	G
For feare the thiefe will him pursue	E
To plucke him from his nest	G
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His hearte doth thinke on many a wile	I
How to deceive the poore	D
His mouth is almost ful of mucke	B
Yet still he gapes for more	D
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His wife must lend a shilling	B
For every weeke a penny	J
Yet bring a pledge that is double worth	K
If that you will have any	J
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And see likewise you keepe your day	G
Or else you loose it all	L
This was the living of the wife	M
Her cow she did it call	L
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Within that citie dwelt that time	N
A marchant of great fame	O
Which being distressed in his need	G
Unto Gernutus came	O
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Desiring him to stand his friend	G
For twelve month and a day	G
To lend to him an hundred crownes	E
And he for it would pay	G
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Whatsoever he would demand of him	P
And pledges he should have	Q
'No' quoth the Jew with flearing lookes	E
'Sir aske what you will have	Q
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'No penny for the loane of it	G
For one you shall pay	G
You may doe me as good a turne	J
Before my dying day	G
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'But we will have a merry jeast	G
For to be talked long	B
You shall make me a bond ' quoth he	J
'That shall be large and strong	B
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'And this shall be the forfeyture	D
Of your owne fleshe a pound	G
If you agree make you the bond	G
And here is a hundred crownes '	-
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'With right good will ' the marchant says	E
And so the bond was made	G
When twelve month and a day drew on	J
That backe it should be payd	G
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The marchants ships were all at sea	J
And money came not in	J
Which way to take or what to doe	G
To thinke he doth begin	J
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And to Gernutus strait he comes	E
With cap and bended knee	J
And sayde to him 'Of curtesie	E
I pray you beare with mee	J
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'My day is come and I have not	G
The money for to pay	G
And little good the forfeyture	D
Will doe you I dare say '	-
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'With all my heart ' Gernutus sayd	G
'Commaund it to your minde	G
In thinges of bigger waight then this	E
You shall me ready finde '	-
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He goes his way the day once past	G
Gernutus doth not slacke	B
To get a sergiant presently	J
And clapt him on the backe	B
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And layd him into prison strong	B
And sued his bond withall	J
And when the judgement day was come	R
For judgement he did call	J
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The marchants friends came thither fast	G
With many a weeping eye	F
For other means they could not find	G
But he that day must dye	F
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The Second Part	G
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'Of the Jews crueltie setting foorth the mercfulnesse of the Judge towards the Marchant To the tune of	S
Black and Yellow	J
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Some offered for his hundred crownes	E
Five hundred for to pay	G
And some a thousand two or three	J
Yet still he did denay	J
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And at the last ten thousand crownes	E
They offered him to save	T
Gernutus sayd 'I will no gold	G
My forfeite I will have	Q
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'A pound of fleshe is my demand	G
And that shall be my hire '	-
Then sayd the judge 'Yet good my friend	G
Let me of you desire	D
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'To take the flesh from such a place	E
As yet you let him live	U
Do so and lo an hundred crownes	E
To thee here will I give '	-
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'No no ' quoth he 'no judgement here	D
For this it shall be tride	G
For I will have my pound of fleshe	V
From under his right side '	-
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It grieved all the companie	J
His crueltie to see	E
For neither friend nor foe could helpe	G
But he must spoyled bee	E
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The bloudie Jew now ready is	E
With whetted blade in hand	G
To spoyle the bloud of innocent	G
By forfeit of his bond	G
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And as he was about to strike	B
In him the deadly blow	J
'Stay' quoth the judge 'thy crueltie	G
I charge thee to do so	J
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'Sith needs thou wilt thy forfeit have	Q
Which is of flesh a pound	G
See that thou shed no drop of bloud	G
Nor yet the man confound	G
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'For if thou doe like murderer	D
Thou here shalt hanged be	E
Likewise of flesh see that thou cut	G
No more than longes to thee	E
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'For if thou take either more or lesse	J
To the value of a mite	G
Thou shalt be hanged presently	E
As is both law and right '	-
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Gernutus now waxt franticke mad	G
And wotes not what to say	J
Quoth he at last 'Ten thousand crownes	J
I will that he shall pay	J
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'And so I graunt to set him free '	-
The judge doth answere make	B
'You shall not have a penny given	J
Your forfeyture now take '	-
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At the last he doth demaund	G
But for to have his owne	J
'No ' quoth the judge 'doe as you list	G
Thy judgement shall be showne	J
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'Either take your pound of flesh ' quoth he	E
'Or cancell me your bond '	-
'O cruell judge ' then quoth the Jew	E
'That doth against me stand '	-
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And so with griping grieved mind	G
He biddeth them fare well	J
'Then' all the people prays'd the Lord	G
That ever this heard tell	J
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Good people that doe heare this song	B
For trueth I dare well say	J
That many a wretch as ill as hee	E
Doth live now at this day	J
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That seeketh nothing but the spoyle	J
Of many a wealthey man	J
And for to trap the innocent	G
Deviseth what they can	J
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From whome the Lord deliver me	E
And every Christian too	E
And send to them like sentence eke	B
That meaneth so to doe	G