Lo, it were foul and monstrous usury To send thee ugliest paintings in the place Of thy fair spirit's living phantasies.

And I took counsel with myself, and contended with the nobles and rulers, and said to them, 'You exact usury each of his brother.'

"Oppression, fraud, cozening, usury, knavery, bawdry, murder, and tyranny, are the beginning of many ancient families:" "one hath been a bloodsucker, a parricide, the death of many a silly soul in some unjust quarrels, seditions, made many an orphan and poor widow, and for that he is made a lord or an earl, and his posterity gentlemen for ever after.

the greate usury Got by the sale of wantons?

She no longer thought of his covetousness, of his griping usury, of his living so much for self and so little for God.

So, though I loathe thee, butcher, I must buy The tokens of thy heartless usury.

Ill usury my favours reap from thee, Usurping Sol, the hate of heaven and earth.

We need not indeed believe the fierce calumnies which charged him with exhausting Italy by a boundless usury, and even stirring up a war in Britain by the severity of his exactions; but it is quite clear that he deserved the title of Proedives, "the over-wealthy," by which he has been so pointedly signalized.

"Let cheerful Mem'ry, from her purest cells, Lead forth a godly train of Virtues fair, Cherish'd in early youth, now paying back With tenfold usury the pious care.

And I wish, O conscript fathers, that it was lawful for us to dispense rewards to all the citizens; although we will give those which we have promised with the most careful usury.