NATHAN.

To ask the same of me?

SALADIN.

Yes.

NATHAN.

Then ’tis well we’re both accommodated.
That I can’t send thee all I have of treasure
Arises from the templar; thou must know him,
I have a weighty debt to pay to him.

SALADIN.

A templar! How, thou dost not with thy gold
Support my direst foes.

NATHAN.

I speak of him
Whose life the sultan—