To me, and why; because I’m obstinate— Would force upon you what you have no use for? FRIAR. The book besides was none of mine. Indeed It must at any rate belong to th’ daughter; It is her whole, her only patrimony— Save she has you. God grant you ne’er have reason To sorrow for the much you’ve done for her. NATHAN. How should I? that can never be; fear nothing. FRIAR. Patriarchs and templars— NATHAN. Have not in their power Evil enough to make me e’er repent. And then—But are you really well assured It is a templar who eggs on your patriarch? FRIAR. It scarcely can be other, for a templar Talked with him just before, and what I heard Agreed with this. NATHAN. But there is only one Now in Jerusalem; and him I know; He is my friend, a noble open youth. FRIAR. The same. But what one is at heart, and what One gets to be in active life, mayn’t always Square well together. NATHAN. No, alas, they do not. Therefore unangered I let others do Their best or worst. O brother, with your book I set all at defiance, and am going Straight with it to the Sultan. FRIAR. God be with you! Here I shall take my leave. NATHAN. And have not seen her— Come soon, come often to us. If to-day The patriarch make out nothing—but no matter, Tell him it all to-day, or when you will. FRIAR. Not I—farewell! NATHAN. Do not forget us, brother My God, why may I not beneath thy sky Here drop upon my knees; now the twined knot, Which has so often made my thinkings anxious, Untangles of itself—God, how I am eased, Now that I’ve nothing in the world remaining That I need hide—now that I can as freely Walk before man as before thee, who only Need’st not to judge a creature by his deeds— Deeds which so seldom are his own—O God! NATHAN _and_ TEMPLAR. TEMPLAR (_coming forward_). Hoa, Nathan, take me with you. NATHAN. Ha! Who calls? Is it you, knight? And whither have you been That you could not be met with at the Sultan’s? TEMPLAR. We missed each other—take it not amiss. NATHAN. I, no, but Saladin. TEMPLAR. You was just gone. NATHAN. O, then you spoke with him; I’m satisfied. TEMPLAR.