"Ah! eighty zecchins is too little.

It leaveth no profit for the usages of the moneys; and, besides, the good horse may have suffered wrong in this day's encounter.

O, it was a hard and a dangerous meeting! man and steed rushing on each other like wild bulls of Bashan! The horse cannot but have had wrong." "And I say," replied Gurth, "he is sound, wind and limb; and you may see him now, in your stable.

And I say, over and above, that seventy zecchins is enough for the armour, and I hope a Christian's word is as good as a Jew's.

If you will not take seventy, I will carry this bag" (and he shook it till the contents jingled) "back to my master." "Nay, nay!" said Isaac; "lay down the talents--the shekels--the eighty zecchins, and thou shalt see I will consider thee liberally." Gurth at length complied; and telling out eighty zecchins upon the table, the Jew delivered out to him an acquittance for the horse and suit of armour.