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He had written a play called The Usurer Matched, which was brought out by Wallack at the Surrey Theatre, and is said to have been played to crowded houses during a fairly long run, but neither this nor any of his other plays brought the author fame or fortune.
Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century Paston, George, d. 1936 1902
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_ l. 262, Ballad of the 'Usurer's wife,' to a 'very doleful tune'; _Id.
Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries 1900
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Usurer underwent perpetual Thoughtfulness, sleepless Nights, and anxious
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Now, it hapned, that a rich Usurer, whose Lodging was just over this poor Man, wonder'd very much at his being continually so very merry, who had nothing to support him, or to depend upon, but this his daily Labour; whilst the
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Now, it hapned, that a rich Usurer, whose Lodging was just over this poor Man, wonder'd very much at his being continually so very merry, who had nothing to support him, or to depend upon, but this his daily Labour; whilst the
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Usurer underwent perpetual Thoughtfulness, sleepless Nights, and anxious
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Usurer squander his hard gotten Wealth; it makes the best Friends become mortal Enemies, and one's Benefactor become one's Adversary.
Exilius 2008
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The Usurer took notice hereof, and ask'd him what was the reason he was not so jovial as heretofore?
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The Usurer took notice hereof, and ask'd him what was the reason he was not so jovial as heretofore?
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This one sentence will discou - rage any Usurer, knowyng hymself a murtherer.
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