Word: sayd
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...knowledge of the systematic slaughter of five million Jews under Hitler? The title of the First Quarto of 1600 and the Second Quarto of 1619 runs, in part: "The most excellent Histories of the Merchant of Venice. With the extreame crueltie of Shylock the Iewe towards the sayd Merchant. . . ." The fact is that Shakespeare, and Elizabethan Londoners generally, could have had little if any first-hand knowledge of Jews, since Jews had been banished from England at the end of the thirteenth century and were not readmitted until the middle of the seventeenth...
...Richard finding himselfe in this distresse, commaunded the Master gunner to split and sinke the shippe. But the Captaine and the Master yeelded that all their lives should be saved, and Sir Richard was sent unto to remoove, the shippe being marveilous unsavorie. Sir Richard died as it is sayd, the second or third day. What became of his body we know not. His owne honour he hath not outlived...