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

by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

With loud applause. But if the object be,

By something better than a sleight of hand,

To sound my judgment, if the thing be fact,

And may have happened in our diocese,

Here in our dear Jerusalem itself,

Why then----

TEMPLAR.

What then?

PATRIARCH.

Then were it well, Sir Knight,