Is it you?
A dervis so magnificent!—
HAFI.
Why not?
Can nothing then be made out of a dervis?
NATHAN.
Yes, surely; but I have been wont to think
A dervis, that’s to say a thorough dervis,
Will allow nothing to be made of him.
HAFI.
May-be ’tis true that I’m no thorough dervis;
But by the prophet, when we must—
NATHAN.
Must, Hafi?
Needs must—belongs to no man: and a dervis—
HAFI.