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1. Earning interest (rather than the present meaning, to lend at an exorbitant or unlawful rate).

2. Ten per cent (the lawful rate of interest in Bacon’s day).

3. They drive the lazy swarm of drones from their hives (Georgics, IV.168).

4. The fall of man in the Garden of Eden.

5. In the sweat of your face you shall eat your bread; not, in the sweat of another’s face (derived from Genesis 3.19).

6. In some parts of medieval Europe the Jews were compelled by law to wear yellow caps or bonnets.

7. Behave like a Jew, i.e. lend out money for interest (the Jews were the chief money-lenders at this time).

8. A thing allowed on account of the hardness of men’s hearts (Matthew 19.8).

9. That.

10. Some others have made perspicacious remarks, based on their suspicions, about banks, the disclosure of men’s estates and incomes, and other revelations (of how their money was obtained and used).