Nathan: Al Hafi,
Go to your desert quickly. Among men
I fear you'll soon unlearn to be a man. [Goes out.
What? Gone? I could have wished to question him
About our Templar. Doubtless he will know him.
Daya (bursting in): Nathan, the Templar's yonder, 'neath the palms.
Recha hath spied him, and she conjures you
To follow him most punctually. Haste!
Nathan: Take him my invitation.
Daya: All in vain.
He will not visit Jews.
Nathan: Then hold him there
Till I rejoin you. I shall not be long.
Scene II.—A place of palms. Enter the Templar, followed by a Friar.
Templar: This fellow does not follow me for pastime.
Friar: I'm from the Patriarch: he is fain to learn
Why you alone were spared by Saladin.
Templar: My neck was ready for the blow, when he
Had me unbound. How all this hangs together
Thy Patriarch may unravel.
Friar: He concludes
That you are spared to do some mighty deed.