To bait fish withal: It is
good to use it for fishing;
if it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge.
Even if his meat is not delicious, at least he can breathe my breath.
He hath disgraced me, and hindered me half a million; laughed at my losses,
he had humiliated me, killing me hundreds of thousands of dollars of business, I laugh at the loss-making,
the mocked AT Gains, My, My Nation Scorned,
sarcasm my surplus, insult my nation,
thwarted my Bargains, Cooled my friends, Heated mine enemies;
destroy my business, alienate my friends, incited my enemies;
?. and the What's his-reason the I AM a of Jew
his reasons What is it? Just because I am a Jew.
Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs,
don’t Jews have five
senses, limbs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions?
No sense, no emotion, no blood?
fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons,
he is not eating the same food, the same weapon can hurt him,
subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means,
warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? The
same medicine can heal him. It will be cold in winter and hot in summer, just like a Christian?
If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you prick us, do we not bleed
?
if you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you tickle us, do we not laugh
?
if you poison us, do we not die? If you poison us, do we not die
?
and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?
Then if you wrong us, shall we not revenge ?
If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that
.
If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? Revenge.
If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example? Why, revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew,
how can a Christian show his humility? revenge.
The villany you teach me, I will execute,
you have taught me the cruel methods,
and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.
And it shall go hard but I will better the instruction .
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