Both Uses of
usury
in
The Winter's Tale
- How a usurer's wife was brought to bed of twenty money-bags at a burden, and how she long'd to eat adders' heads and toads carbonadoed.†
Scene 4.4 *
- Bless me from marrying a usurer!†
Scene 4.4
Definition:
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(usury) lending money at an exorbitant rate of interest