The same things do I with handicraftsmen.
Hath he a good house?
He pledgeth that house until I bring it behind me.

Therewith gain I much in goods and money, and thus do I pass my days." "I thought," rejoined the peasant, "that 'twere only the Jew who did usury, but I hear that ye also ply that trade." The burgher answers that interest is not usury, to which the peasant replies that interest (_Guelt_) is only a "subtle name." The burgher then quotes Scripture, as commanding men to help one another.

The peasant readily answers that in doing this they have no right to get advantage from the assistance they proffer.

"Thou art a good fellow!" says the townsman.

"If I take no money for the money that I lend, how shall I then increase my hoard ?" The peasant then reproaches him that he sees well that his object in life is to wax fat on the substance of others; "But I tell thee, indeed," he says, "that it is a great and heavy sin." Whereupon his opponent waxes wroth, and will have nothing more to do with him, threatening to kick him out in the name of a thousand devils; but the peasant returns to the charge, and expresses his opinion that rich men do not willingly hear the truth.