NATHAN: Hath Saladin no further need of me? Perchance my stores might furnish forth thy wars. SALADIN: Is this Al Hafi's hint? I'll not disown My object was to ask---- NATHAN: Thou shouldst have all But that I owe a weighty debt to one-- The Templar thou didst spare. SALADIN: I had forgot him. NATHAN: He saved my daughter from the flames. SALADIN: Ah, so? He looked a hero. Bring him hither; Sittah must see our brother's counterfeit. NATHAN: I'll fetch him. For the rest, we are agreed. SCENE V.--_The Place of Palms_. DAYA _and the_ TEMPLAR. DAYA: Knight, swear to me that you will make her yours; Make both her present and eternal welfare. Listen. She is a Christian, and no child Of Nathan's. TEMPLAR: Are you sure of what you say? DAYA: It cost me tears of blood. She does not know She is a Christian born. TEMPLAR: And Nathan reared Her in this error, and persists in it? Oh, it confounds me--go; and let me think. _[Exeunt_. ACT III SCENE I.--_The cloisters of a convent_. ATHANASIOS _the Patriarch_, _and the_ TEMPLAR. ATHANASIOS: Heaven keep you in your valour, good Sir Knight! You seek my counsel? It is yours; say on. TEMPLAR: Suppose, my reverend father, that a Jew Brought up a Christian child, in ignorance Of her own faith and lineage, as his daughter, What then? ATHANASIOS: Is this mere supposition, sir? If in our diocese such impious act Were done in truth, the Jew should die by fire. You will not name the man? I'll to the sultan, Who will support us. TEMPLAR: I'll to Saladin, And will announce your visit. ATHANASIOS: Was it then A problem merely? Nay, this is a job For Brother Bonafides. Here, my son! [_Exit_ ATHANASIOS, _talking with the friar_. SCENE II.--_A room at the palace of_ SALADIN. _Slaves bring in money-bags to_ SALADIN _and_ SITTAH. SALADIN (_to_ Sittah): Here, pay yourself with that. And look, I found This portrait 'midst the heap of plate and jewels. It is our brother Assad. I'll compare The likeness with our Templar. Ah, who's there? The Templar? Bid him enter. [_Enter the_ TEMPLAR. TEMPLAR: Saladin, Thy captive, sire, who's life is at thy service! SALADIN: Ah, brave young man, I'm not deceived in thee. Thou art indeed, in soul and body, Assad! Came Nathan with thee? TEMPLAR: Who? SALADIN: Who? Nathan TEMPLAR (_coldly_): No. SALADIN: Why so cold?