PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVAEL [May 16, 1891.
CLERICAL /ESTHETICS.
Fair Parishioner. "Antd do you like the Fulpit, Mk. Auriol?"
The New Curate, "I do not. Er—it bides too much of the Figure, and I like every Ssake of the Surplice to tell I"
"BLOOD" V. "BULLION."
" Well then, it now appears you need my help.
Go to then : you co^ie to me, and you say,
' Shylock, -we would have moneys '—you say so;
You that did void your rheum upon my bjard,
And foot me, as you spurn a stranger cur
Over jrour threshold : moneys is your suit.
"What should I say to you ? Should I not say
' Hath a dog money ? ' "
Merchant of Venice, Act I., Scene 3.
" With bated breath and whispering humble-
ness x"
Not so I There comes a season when the stress
Of insolent and exacting tyranny
Makes the most patient turn.
Autocracy,
"Without the despot's vaunted virtue, pride,
Shows small indeed. Can Power lay aside
Its swaggering port, and low petition make
(Driven by those Treasury thirsts which never
slake)
For help from those.it harries ? Pharaoh's
soourge
Was the taskmaster's weapon, used to urge
The Hebrew bondsmen to their tale of toil,
But they round whom the Russian's knout
thongs coil,
Are of the breed of those the Russian palm
Can make petition to. Could triumph balm
The wounds of ages, here were balm indeed;
But blood revolts.
_Raoe of the changeless creed,
And ever - shifting sojourn, Skakspeare's
type
Deep meaning hides, which, when the world
is ripe
For wider wisdom, when the palsying curse
Of prejudice, the canker of the purse,
And blind blood-hatred, shall a little lift,
Will clearlier Bhine, like sunburst through a
rift
In congregated cloud-wracks. Shylock stands
Badged with black shame in all the baser
lands.
Us8 him, and—spit on him! That's Gentile
wont;
Make him gold-conduit, and befoul the font,—
That's the true despot-plan through all the
And cackling Grabianos chorus praise.
"The Jew shall have all justice." Shall
he so?
The tyrant drains., his gold, then bids
him—"Go!"
Shylock f The name bears insult in its
sound;
But he was nobler than the curs who hound
The patient Hebrew from his home, and
drive
Deathward the stronger Bonis they dread
alive.
Shylock ? So brand him, boors and babbling
wags,
Who scorn him, yet would share his money-bags;
Who hate him, yet can stoop to such appeal!
Beneath his meekness there1s a soul of steel.
High-featured, amply-bearded, see he stands
Facing the Autocrat; those sinewy hands,
Shaped but for clutching—so his slanderers
say—
The huckster bait can coldly put *>way
"Blood against bullion." The J dw-baiting
band
Howl frantic execration o'er the land;
Malign and menace, pillage, persecute ; _
Though the heart's hot, the mouth must fain
be mute.
The edict fulminates, the goad pursues ;
Proscription, deprivation,—ay, they use
All the old tortures, nor are then content,
But crown the work with ruthless banish-
ment.
And then—then the proud Muscovite seeks
grace,
And gold, from kinsmen of the harried race!
" He would have moneys" from the Hebrew
hoard,
To swell his state, or whet his warlike sword ;
Perchance buy heavier scourges for the backs
Of lesser Hebrews, whom his wolfish packs
Of salaried minions hunt.
Take back thine hand,
Imperious Autocrat, and understand
Gold buys not, rules not, serves not, salves
not all.
Blood speaks—in favour of the helpless thrall
Of tyranny. Here's no tame Shylock ; he
Shall not bend low, and in a bondsman's key,
Make o'er his money-bags with unctuous grace
To an enthroned enslaver of his race.
"Well then, it now appears you need my
help" [yelp!)
(You-whose trained curs at my poor kinsmen
" What should I say to you ? Should I not
say,
"Hath a dog money?" Blood's response
is-" Nay I"
A somewhat curious association of names
and ideas occurs in last week's Sporting and
Dramatic, where there is an illustration of
some ceremony taking place which is described
as "The Raines Foundation May Day Cele-
bration." Odd, that this particular Raine
should always fall on the First of May.
CLERICAL /ESTHETICS.
Fair Parishioner. "Antd do you like the Fulpit, Mk. Auriol?"
The New Curate, "I do not. Er—it bides too much of the Figure, and I like every Ssake of the Surplice to tell I"
"BLOOD" V. "BULLION."
" Well then, it now appears you need my help.
Go to then : you co^ie to me, and you say,
' Shylock, -we would have moneys '—you say so;
You that did void your rheum upon my bjard,
And foot me, as you spurn a stranger cur
Over jrour threshold : moneys is your suit.
"What should I say to you ? Should I not say
' Hath a dog money ? ' "
Merchant of Venice, Act I., Scene 3.
" With bated breath and whispering humble-
ness x"
Not so I There comes a season when the stress
Of insolent and exacting tyranny
Makes the most patient turn.
Autocracy,
"Without the despot's vaunted virtue, pride,
Shows small indeed. Can Power lay aside
Its swaggering port, and low petition make
(Driven by those Treasury thirsts which never
slake)
For help from those.it harries ? Pharaoh's
soourge
Was the taskmaster's weapon, used to urge
The Hebrew bondsmen to their tale of toil,
But they round whom the Russian's knout
thongs coil,
Are of the breed of those the Russian palm
Can make petition to. Could triumph balm
The wounds of ages, here were balm indeed;
But blood revolts.
_Raoe of the changeless creed,
And ever - shifting sojourn, Skakspeare's
type
Deep meaning hides, which, when the world
is ripe
For wider wisdom, when the palsying curse
Of prejudice, the canker of the purse,
And blind blood-hatred, shall a little lift,
Will clearlier Bhine, like sunburst through a
rift
In congregated cloud-wracks. Shylock stands
Badged with black shame in all the baser
lands.
Us8 him, and—spit on him! That's Gentile
wont;
Make him gold-conduit, and befoul the font,—
That's the true despot-plan through all the
And cackling Grabianos chorus praise.
"The Jew shall have all justice." Shall
he so?
The tyrant drains., his gold, then bids
him—"Go!"
Shylock f The name bears insult in its
sound;
But he was nobler than the curs who hound
The patient Hebrew from his home, and
drive
Deathward the stronger Bonis they dread
alive.
Shylock ? So brand him, boors and babbling
wags,
Who scorn him, yet would share his money-bags;
Who hate him, yet can stoop to such appeal!
Beneath his meekness there1s a soul of steel.
High-featured, amply-bearded, see he stands
Facing the Autocrat; those sinewy hands,
Shaped but for clutching—so his slanderers
say—
The huckster bait can coldly put *>way
"Blood against bullion." The J dw-baiting
band
Howl frantic execration o'er the land;
Malign and menace, pillage, persecute ; _
Though the heart's hot, the mouth must fain
be mute.
The edict fulminates, the goad pursues ;
Proscription, deprivation,—ay, they use
All the old tortures, nor are then content,
But crown the work with ruthless banish-
ment.
And then—then the proud Muscovite seeks
grace,
And gold, from kinsmen of the harried race!
" He would have moneys" from the Hebrew
hoard,
To swell his state, or whet his warlike sword ;
Perchance buy heavier scourges for the backs
Of lesser Hebrews, whom his wolfish packs
Of salaried minions hunt.
Take back thine hand,
Imperious Autocrat, and understand
Gold buys not, rules not, serves not, salves
not all.
Blood speaks—in favour of the helpless thrall
Of tyranny. Here's no tame Shylock ; he
Shall not bend low, and in a bondsman's key,
Make o'er his money-bags with unctuous grace
To an enthroned enslaver of his race.
"Well then, it now appears you need my
help" [yelp!)
(You-whose trained curs at my poor kinsmen
" What should I say to you ? Should I not
say,
"Hath a dog money?" Blood's response
is-" Nay I"
A somewhat curious association of names
and ideas occurs in last week's Sporting and
Dramatic, where there is an illustration of
some ceremony taking place which is described
as "The Raines Foundation May Day Cele-
bration." Odd, that this particular Raine
should always fall on the First of May.
Werk/Gegenstand/Objekt
Titel
Titel/Objekt
Punch
Weitere Titel/Paralleltitel
Serientitel
Punch
Sachbegriff/Objekttyp
Inschrift/Wasserzeichen
Aufbewahrung/Standort
Aufbewahrungsort/Standort (GND)
Inv. Nr./Signatur
H 634-3 Folio
Objektbeschreibung
Maß-/Formatangaben
Auflage/Druckzustand
Werktitel/Werkverzeichnis
Herstellung/Entstehung
Künstler/Urheber/Hersteller (GND)
Entstehungsdatum
um 1891
Entstehungsdatum (normiert)
1886 - 1896
Entstehungsort (GND)
Auftrag
Publikation
Fund/Ausgrabung
Provenienz
Restaurierung
Sammlung Eingang
Ausstellung
Bearbeitung/Umgestaltung
Thema/Bildinhalt
Thema/Bildinhalt (GND)
Literaturangabe
Rechte am Objekt
Aufnahmen/Reproduktionen
Künstler/Urheber (GND)
Reproduktionstyp
Digitales Bild
Rechtsstatus
Public Domain Mark 1.0
Rechteinhaber Weblink
Creditline
Punch, 100.1891, May 16, 1891, S. 234
Beziehungen
Erschließung
Lizenz
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