Templar: To save a Jewish maid?
Friar: A weightier office!
He'd have you learn the strengths and weaknesses
Of Saladin's new bulwark!
Templar: Play the spy!
Not for me, brother!
Friar: Nay, but there is more.
It were not hard to seize the Sultan's person,
And make an end of all!
Templar: And make of me
A graceless scoundrel! Brother, go away;
Stir not my anger!
Friar: I obey, and go.
[Exit. Enter Daya.
Daya: Nathan the Wise would see you; he is fain
To load you with rewards. Do see him—try him!
Templar: Good woman, you torment me. From this day
Pray know me not; and do not send the father!
A Jew's a Jew, and I am rude and bearish.
I have forgot the maiden; do not make
These palm-trees odious where I love to walk!
Daya: Then farewell, bear. But I must track the savage.