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Rh I am all a-quiver. I have seen monstrous sights, — an uncaged wolf, The corpse of one sucked by a vampyre, The widow Kupfen's malformed child — but never Until this hour, a Jew. D' ye call me Jew ? Where do you spy one now ? You 'll have your jest Now or anon, what matters it? Well, I Have seen a Jew, and seen one burn at that ; Hard by in Wartburg ; he had killed a child. Zounds! how the serpent wriggled! I smell now The roasting, stinking flesh !

Father, be these The folk who murdered Jesus ?