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

I speak

Of him whose life was spared by Saladin.

Of what do you remind me? I had quite

Forgot the youth. Where is he? Know you him?

Have you not heard, then, how your clemency

Through him has flowed to me? How, at the risk

Of the existence which your mercy gave,