It cost my father well-nigh forty pounds,
Real Indian stuff, I'll give that too—if you
Will leave me but my life: I will not die!
[She sinks back to her former position.]
ISAAC and ESTHER are led in.
KING. What crime has he committed?
MANRIQUE. Sire, thou know'st,
The entrance to the royal gardens is
Denied this people when the court is here.
KING. And I permit it, if it is forbidden.
ESTHER. He is no spy, O Sire, a merchant he,
In Hebrew are the letters that he bears,
Not in the Moorish tongue, not Arabic.
KING. 'Tis well, I doubt it not.
(Pointing to RACHEL.) And she?
ESTHER. My sister!