Never so many userers were knowne,
As we have now; yet have we not enowe,
So many borrowing neede hath overthrowne,
Which would be more in debt, but know not how,
The usurers are tane up of Gentlmen,
Of Merchants, of the Nobles of the land.
The poore can now have no accesse to them,
Under undoing thrise, under good band.
Methinkes I heare the wretches how they call,
Let’s have more usurers, or none at all.
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| The usual Latin word is "faenerator." |
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