We must now change the scene to the village of Ashby, or rather to a country house in its vicinity belonging to a wealthy Israelite, with whom Isaac, his daughter, and retinue, had taken up their quarters; the Jews, it is well known, being as liberal in exercising the duties of hospitality and charity among their own people, as they were alleged to be reluctant and churlish in extending them to those whom they termed Gentiles, and whose treatment of them certainly merited little hospitality at their hand.
A zsidók, mint tudjuk, igen nagylelkűek, ha arról van szó, hogy hit­testvéreikkel szemben gyakorolják a vendégszeretet és jótékonyság erényeit, de állítólag szűkmarkúak, ha olyanokat kell segíteni, akiket ők pogányoknak neveznek. Viszont az is igaz, hogy a keresztények viselkedése gyakran érthetővé teszi ezt a szűkmarkúságot.