Both Uses of
usury
in
King Lear
- …matter; When brewers mar their malt with water; When nobles are their tailors' tutors; No heretics burn'd, but wenches' suitors; When every case in law is right; No squire in debt nor no poor knight; When slanders do not live in tongues; Nor cutpurses come not to throngs; When usurers tell their gold i' the field; And bawds and whores do churches build;— Then shall the realm of Albion Come to great confusion: Then comes the time, who lives to see't, That going shall be us'd with feet.†
Scene 3.2
- The usurer hangs the cozener.†
Scene 4.6 *
Definition:
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(usury) lending money at an exorbitant rate of interest