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Nathan the Wise; a dramatic poem in five acts
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2019
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Lest something ailed you.
TEMPLAR
So?
DAYA
Have you been journeying?
TEMPLAR
Hit off!
DAYA
How long returned?
TEMPLAR
Since yesterday.
DAYA
Our Recha’s father too is just returned,
And now may Recha hope at last—
TEMPLAR
For what?
DAYA
For what she often has requested of you.
Her father pressingly invites your visit.
He now arrives from Babylon, with twenty
High-laden camels, brings the curious drugs,
And precious stones, and stuffs, he has collected
From Syria, Persia, India, even China.
TEMPLAR
I am no chap.
DAYA
His nation honours him,
As if he were a prince, and yet to hear him
Called the wise Nathan by them, not the rich,
Has often made me wonder.
TEMPLAR
To his nation
Are rich and wise perhaps of equal import.
DAYA
But above all he should be called the good.
You can’t imagine how much goodness dwells
Within him. Since he has been told the service
You rendered to his Recha, there is nothing
That he would grudge you.
TEMPLAR
Aye?
DAYA
Do—see him, try him.
TEMPLAR
A burst of feeling soon is at an end.
DAYA
And do you think that I, were he less kind,
Less bountiful, had housed with him so long:
That I don’t feel my value as a Christian:
For ’twas not o’er my cradle said, or sung,
That I to Palestina should pursue
My husband’s steps, only to educate
A Jewess. My husband was a noble page
In Emperor Frederic’s army.
TEMPLAR
And by birth
A Switzer, who obtained the gracious honour
Of drowning in one river with his master.
Woman, how often you have told me this!
Will you ne’er leave off persecuting me?
DAYA
My Jesus! persecute—
TEMPLAR
TEMPLAR
So?
DAYA
Have you been journeying?
TEMPLAR
Hit off!
DAYA
How long returned?
TEMPLAR
Since yesterday.
DAYA
Our Recha’s father too is just returned,
And now may Recha hope at last—
TEMPLAR
For what?
DAYA
For what she often has requested of you.
Her father pressingly invites your visit.
He now arrives from Babylon, with twenty
High-laden camels, brings the curious drugs,
And precious stones, and stuffs, he has collected
From Syria, Persia, India, even China.
TEMPLAR
I am no chap.
DAYA
His nation honours him,
As if he were a prince, and yet to hear him
Called the wise Nathan by them, not the rich,
Has often made me wonder.
TEMPLAR
To his nation
Are rich and wise perhaps of equal import.
DAYA
But above all he should be called the good.
You can’t imagine how much goodness dwells
Within him. Since he has been told the service
You rendered to his Recha, there is nothing
That he would grudge you.
TEMPLAR
Aye?
DAYA
Do—see him, try him.
TEMPLAR
A burst of feeling soon is at an end.
DAYA
And do you think that I, were he less kind,
Less bountiful, had housed with him so long:
That I don’t feel my value as a Christian:
For ’twas not o’er my cradle said, or sung,
That I to Palestina should pursue
My husband’s steps, only to educate
A Jewess. My husband was a noble page
In Emperor Frederic’s army.
TEMPLAR
And by birth
A Switzer, who obtained the gracious honour
Of drowning in one river with his master.
Woman, how often you have told me this!
Will you ne’er leave off persecuting me?
DAYA
My Jesus! persecute—
TEMPLAR
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