NATHAN.

So much the better. Come with me, my step
Was eitherwise bent thither.

TEMPLAR.

May I ask,
Nathan, who ’twas now left you?

NATHAN.

Did you know him?

TEMPLAR.

Was’t that good-hearted creature the lay-brother,
Whom the hoar patriarch has a knack of using
To feel his way out?

NATHAN.

That may be. In fact
He’s at the patriarch’s.