Books: Nathan the Wise
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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing >> Nathan the Wise
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SITTAH.
What do I hear? Could it be otherwise? [The like.
SALADIN (to the templar).
Now, proud boy, thou shalt love me, thou must love me,
[To Recha.
And I am, what I offered to become,
With or without thy leave.
SITTAH.
I too--I too.
SALADIN (to the templar.)
My son--my Assad--my lost Assad's son.
TEMPLAR.
I of thy blood--then those were more than dreams
With which they used to lull my infancy -
Much more.
[Falls at the Sultan's feet.
SALADIN (raising him.)
Now mark his malice. Something of it
He knew, yet would have let me butcher him -
Boy, boy!
[During the silent continuance of reciprocal embraces the curtain falls.]
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