And so, since, from long usance, the cause of my anguish, instead of growing less, has become greater, the wish has come to me, noble ladiesin whose hearts, mayhap, abides a love more fortunate than mineto win your pity, if I may, by telling the tale of my sorrows.

" "Many a time and oft In the Rialto you have me About my moneys and my usances."

But ere ye be aware will flit away; For nought of them is yours, but th'only usance Of a small time, which none ascertains may.

Be warned that unless the 8 shillings and the usance thereof be forthcoming, the town-crier shall notify the sale of the sundry articles named.

Had I myself the money, I should gladly meet your needs at a moderate usance, not more than twenty-five in the hundred; but my friend is a hard man, who exacts large returns for his means, and will be very urgent that repayment be made on the day named in the bill.

It pains me to make known to you that, owing to the great demands recently made upon the goldsmiths by her sacred Majesty, money hath become very dear; and as it was not my own lent you, I have been obliged to pay above the usance expected a further premium of seventeen in the hundred, which I pray you to presently repay me.

For its usance I send a package of a new herb from the Chesapeake, called by the natives tobacco.

The usance of wealth and the service of laborers at the moment rendered constitute forms of income.

The existing system is likewise characterized by competition in the buying and selling of wealth and of the usances and services of economic agents.

Thus virtually the depositors have by their savings made possible the building and equipping of these actual forms of wealth, and have an equitable claim upon the usance of them, which claim is met by the payment of interest and dividends to the savings banks.

As a matter of economic theory, the usance of a child, a woman, or a man, is merely that kind and amount of service that can be given out by each without repressing the normal possibilities of growth, reducing the normal health and vigor, or shortening the normal period of healthy productive human existence.

Equally good house usance would cost more in nearly all towns, and much more in larger cities.

I, chs. 12 and 13 on proportionality and usance.]

I (e.g., usance, value of labor, time-preference, profits), a study of which is prerequisite to an intelligent study of the problems of personal distribution.]

He it was who prepared their bonds and contracts, and placed out their ill-gotten gains at exorbitant usance.

" The solemn bore, who holds that speech Was given us to prose and preach, And not for lighter usance, Straight should be sent to Coventry; Or omnium concensu, be Indicted as a nuisance.