I have heard That you found favour in the sultan’s sight, I beg with all humility to be Remembered to him. I am purely motived By zeal in th’ cause of God. What of too much I do, I do for him—weigh that in goodness. ’Twas then, most noble sir—what you were starting About the Jew—a problem merely! TEMPLAR. Problem! [_Goes_. PATRIARCH. Of whose foundation I’ll have nearer knowledge. Another job for brother Bonafides. Hither, my son! [_Converses with the Friar as he walks off_. SCENE.—A Room in the Palace. SLAVES _bring in a number of purses and pile them on the floor_. SALADIN _is present_. SALADIN. In troth this has no end. And is there much Of this same thing behind? SLAVE. About one half. SALADIN. Then take the rest to Sittah. Where’s Al-Hafi? What’s here Al-Hafi shall take charge of straight. Or shan’t I rather send it to my father; Here it slips through one’s fingers. Sure in time One may grow callous; it shall now cost labour To come at much from me—at least until The treasures come from Ægypt, poverty Must shift as ’t can—yet at the sepulchre The charges must go on—the Christian pilgrims Shall not go back without an alms. SALADIN _and_ SITTAH. SITTAH (_entering_). Why this? Wherefore the gold to me? SALADIN. Pay thyself with it, And if there’s something left ’twill be in store. Are Nathan and the templar not yet come? SITTAH. He has been seeking for him everywhere— Look what I met with when the plate and jewels Were passing through my hands— [_Showing a small portrait_. SALADIN. Ha! What, my brother? ’Tis he, ’tis he, _was_ he, _was_ he alas! Thou dear brave youth, and lost to me so early; What would I not with thee and at thy side Have undertaken? Let me have the portrait, I recollect it now again; he gave it Unto thy elder sister, to his Lilah, That morning that she would not part with him, But clasped him so in tears. It was the last Morning that he rode out; and I—I let him Ride unattended. Lilah died for grief, And never could forgive me that I let him Then ride alone. He came not back. SITTAH. Poor brother— SALADIN.