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An usurer is a money-lender who charges high interest. In Shakespeare's day, the Catholic Church condemned the practice. Therefore, what does Friar’s metaphor mean?

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The friar's speech also employs a metaphor, as he compares the nature of plants to the nature of humans, who have the capacity to do both good and evil, to harm and heal.

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