...often give the Jews a worse character than they deserve. Marlow makes the Jew say of himself: — " As for myself, I walk abroad a-nights» And kill sick...to lose some of my crowns, That I may, walking in nty gallery, S«e "em go plnion'd along by my door. Being young, I studied physio, and began First...

...is reminded of the speech in which the hero of The Jew of Malta. boasts of his improbable crimes:10 As for myself, I walk abroad a-nights And kill sick...under walls: Sometimes I go about and poison wells: . . . There I enrich'd the priests with burials, And always kept the sexton's arms in ure With digging...

...Barabas from Marlowe's The Jew of Malta, an extremely villainous caricature who says of himself "I... kill sick people groaning under walls: Sometimes I go about and poison wells." Jews were stock villains of the time, with stock vices: avarice, gross features, and a sort of scheming...

...drammi prediletti dal pubblico, e qui rappresentati, accarezzati, amplificati in pieno accordo con esso: As for myself, I walk abroad a-nights, And kill sick...my crowns; That I may, walking in my gallery, See them go pinioned along by my door. Being young I studied physic, and began To practise first upon the...

...Barabas and Aaron boast in the manner of the conventional Vice figure: Barabas: I walk abroad o' nights, And kill sick people groaning under walls; Sometimes...thieves, I am content to lose some of my crowns. That 1 may, walking in my gallery, See 'em go pinioned along by my door. (The Jew of Malta, II, iii, 1 79-85...

...explosions and massacres, which, as Charles Lamb says, cease to affect one much, so common is the blood. "I walk abroad a-nights, And kill sick people groaning...under walls; Sometimes I go about and poison wells." Barabas studied physic, and killed so many he "enriched priests with burials", and kept sextons' arms...