VI. _The Merchant._

My trade doth euery thing to euery land supply,

Discouer unknowne coasts, strange Countries to ally;

I neuer did forestall, I neuer did ingrosse,

No custome did withdraw, though I return'd with losse.

I thriue by faire exchange, by selling and by buying,

And not by Jewish vse,[140] reprisall, fraud, or lying.

[Footnote 140: = usury. G.]

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