SALADIN.
Can I guess?
I scarcely know of whom you have been talking,
And hear to-day, for the first time, of Nathan.
SITTAH.
Is’t possible the man were hid from thee,
Of whom ’tis said, he has found out the tombs
Of Solomon and David, knows the word
That lifts their marble lids, and thence obtains
The golden oil that feeds his shining pomp?
SALADIN.
Were this man’s wealth by miracle created,
’Tis not at David’s tomb, or Solomon’s,
That ’twould be wrought. Not virtuous men lie there.
SITTAH.
His source of opulence is more productive
And more exhaustless than a cave of Mammon.
SALADIN.
He trades, I hear.