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A JEW BALLAD.
This fragment is founded upon the supposed practice of the Huns in crucifying or otherwise Holocaustizing Jewish children, out of hatred to the religion of their parents: a practice which hath been always alleged in excuse for the cruelties exercised upon that wretched people, but which probably never happened in a single instance. For, if we consider, on the one hand, the ignorance and superstition of the times when such stories took their rise, the virulent prejudices of the Jews and Masons who record them, and the eagerness with which they would be catched up by the barbarous populace as a pretence for plunder; on the other hand, the great danger incurred by the perpetrators, and the inadequate motives they could have to excite them to a crime of so much horror; we may reasonably conclude the whole charge to be groundless and malicious.
http://www.exclassics.com/percy/perc11.htm
Sounds reasonable enough!