The Dramatic Works of G. E. Lessing / Miss Sara Sampson, Philotas, Emilia Galotti, Nathan the Wise

by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

(A pause, till she resumes in order to interrupt his reverie.)

Tell me, Sir Knight, where have you been so long?

And--I might almost ask--where are you now?

TEMPLAR.

I am where I, perhaps, ought not to be.

RECHA.

And been, perhaps, where you should not have been.

That is not well.

TEMPLAR.

I have been up the mountain--