SCENE IV.--_A place of palms._ NATHAN _and the_ TEMPLAR.

NATHAN: Who hath betrayed me to the Patriarch?

TEMPLAR: Alas! 'twas I. You took my suit so coldly That when from Daya I had learned your secret, I fancied you had little mind to give A Christian what from Christians you had taken. I thought to use my knowledge as a lever, And so, not having you, I put the matter In problem-wise before the Patriarch. Suppose he find you out. What then? He cannot Seize Recha, if she be no longer yours. Ah! give her then, to me, and let him come.

NATHAN: Too late! You are too late, for I have found Her kinsfolk. Hark you, Recha has a brother.

TEMPLAR: Well, he's the man to fit her with a husband. Of thee and me she'll have no longer need.