To hear, and not anticipate, your will.

Yet it but ill becomes my character

And station, Sultan, to be thus profuse

Of gratitude because you've spared my life--

A life which henceforth is at your command.

SALADIN.

Only forbear to use it to my hurt.

Not that I grudge my mortal enemy

Another pair of hands; but such a heart

As yours I do not yield him willingly.