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…showed last 75 words of 3277 total…fleshy bond of husband and wife. When the abuse of the Jew as usurer is combined with the Christian religious bias against Jewry that marked Elizabethan England, this leads to a natural result in the demonization of the Jew. This demonization quickly leads to the image of the Jew as a wanton murderer, and is clearly revealed in the accusation of "blood libel" that arose against the Jews during their year before exile from England.