ABSTRACT
WIN [More distressed than before] Uh, uh! LITTLE WIT Ay, and Solomon too. [Aside to Win] Win - the more, the
merrier! Win, we'll leave Rabbi Busy m a booth. - [Calling] Solomon, my cloak.
[Enter Solomon] SOLOMON Here, sir. 80 BUSY In the way of comfort to the weak, I will go and eat. I will eat
exceedingly, and prophesy. There may be a good use made of it too, now I think on 't: by the public eating of swine's flesh, to profess our hate and loathing of Judaism, whereof the brethren stand taxed. I will therefore eat, yea, I will eat exceedingly. 85
LITTLE WIT Good, i' faith, I will eat heartily too, because I will be no Jew. I could never away with that stiffnecked generation, and truly I hope
58. her first fruits J The child of her first pregnancy. 60. face] Outward appearance. 64. reformed] Converted to puritan belief. 66. fear] Thing to be feared. 67. dressing] Preparation of the meat. 68-9. abominable and not good] Anti-climax borrowed from Proverbs 20:23. 82. prophesy] Have religious visions. 84. Judaism ... taxed] Because of the puritan adherence to the Old Testament. In fact,
puritans were more tolerant of Jews than were other Christian sects; expelled from England in the thirteenth century, Jews were allowed to return under Cromwell during the Puritan Republic.
