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Nathan the Wise; a dramatic poem in five acts

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2019
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Of perishing?
My Recha, saidst thou?  She?  I heard not that.
I then should not have needed any house.
Upon the point of perishing—perchance
She’s gone?—Speak out then—out—torment me not
With this suspense.—Come, tell me, tell me all.

DAYA

Were she no more, from me you would not hear it.

NATHAN

Why then alarm me?—Recha, O my Recha!

DAYA

Your Recha?  Yours?

NATHAN

What if I ever were
Doomed to unlearn to call this child, my child,

DAYA

Is all you own yours by an equal title?

NATHAN

Nought by a better.  What I else enjoy
Nature and Fortune gave—this treasure, Virtue.

DAYA

How dear you make me pay for all your goodness!—
If goodness, exercised with such a view,
Deserves the name.—

NATHAN

With such a view?  With what?

DAYA

My conscience—

NATHAN

Daya, let me tell you first—

DAYA

I say, my conscience—

NATHAN

What a charming silk
I bought for you in Babylon!  ’Tis rich,
Yet elegantly rich.  I almost doubt
If I have brought a prettier for Recha.

DAYA

And what of that—I tell you that my conscience
Will no be longer hushed.

NATHAN

And I have bracelets,
And earrings, and a necklace, which will charm you.
I chose them at Damascus.

DAYA

That’s your way:—
If you can but make presents—but make presents.—

NATHAN

Take you as freely as I give—and cease.

DAYA

And cease?—Who questions, Nathan, but that you are
Honour and generosity in person;—
Yet—

NATHAN

Yet I’m but a Jew.—That was your meaning.

DAYA

You better know what was my meaning, Nathan.

NATHAN

Well, well, no more of this,
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