SCENE II.--_A place of palms. Enter the_ TEMPLAR, _followed by a

FRIAR.

TEMPLAR: This fellow does not follow me for pastime.

FRIAR: I'm from the Patriarch: he is fain to learn Why you alone were spared by Saladin.

TEMPLAR: My neck was ready for the blow, when he Had me unbound. How all this hangs together Thy Patriarch may unravel.

FRIAR: He concludes That you are spared to do some mighty deed.

TEMPLAR: To save a Jewish maid?

FRIAR: A weightier office! He'd have you learn the strengths and weaknesses Of Saladin's new bulwark!

TEMPLAR: Play the spy! Not for _me_, brother!

FRIAR: Nay, but there is more. It were not hard to seize the Sultan's person, And make an end of all!

TEMPLAR: And make of me A graceless scoundrel! Brother, go away; Stir not my anger!

FRIAR: I obey, and go.

[_Exit. Enter_ DAYA.

DAYA: Nathan the Wise would see you; he is fain To load you with rewards. Do see him--try him!

TEMPLAR: Good woman, you torment me. From this day Pray know me not; and do not send the father! A Jew's a Jew, and I am rude and bearish. I have forgot the maiden; do not make These palm-trees odious where I love to walk!

DAYA: Then farewell, bear. But I must track the savage.

[_Exeunt._