Who rouse the shirtless patriots of Spain?

Who keep the world, both old and new, in pain

Or pleasure? Who makes politics run glibber all?

The shade of Bonaparte's noble daring?

Jew Rothschild and his fellow Christian Baring.

Those, and the truly liberal Lafitte,

Are the true lords of Europe. Every loan

Is not a merely speculative hit,

But seats a nation or upsets a throne.

Republics also get involved a bit;

Columbia's stock hath holders not unknown

On 'Change; and even thy silver soil, Peru,

Must get itself discounted by a Jew."

- George Gordon Byron, Don Juan (1819)

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