This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 edition. Excerpt: ... SALADIN. By this you mean They would insist that you and Melek both Should bear the name before ye could presume As man or wife to love a Christian? SITTAH. Just so--as if a Christian alone Can know the love which the Creator's hand Hath planted in the breast of man and wife! SALADIN. The Christians ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 edition. Excerpt: ... SALADIN. By this you mean They would insist that you and Melek both Should bear the name before ye could presume As man or wife to love a Christian? SITTAH. Just so--as if a Christian alone Can know the love which the Creator's hand Hath planted in the breast of man and wife! SALADIN. The Christians hold such strange absurdities They well might credit this. And yet you err; For 'tis the Templars, not the Christians, As Templars, mark me, not as Christians, Who foil my purpose here, refusing still To part with Acre from their greedy clutch; Acre, which Richard's sister should have brought As dowry to our Melek; while, to mask Their knightly aims, they needs must play the monk, The guileless monk, forsooth !--and now, to snatch A fleeting triumph, they will scarce await The termination of the armistice. So be it, sirs, 'tis all the same to me, Were all else only as it ought to be. SITTAH. Brother, what else goes wrong with you; what else Could disconcert you thus? SALADIN. What else but that Which still hath disconcerted all my schemes; I've been to Lebanon and seen our sire;1 He sinks beneath his cares. S1TTAH. Alas, alas! SALADIN. He must succumb, with straits on every hand; All fails, now here, now there ■ SITTAH. What straits ?--what fails? SALADIN. What else but what I almost scorn to name; Which, when 'tis mine, seems so superfluous, And, when it lacks, so indispensable. Where is Al Hafi now, hath no one gone To call him here? Oh hateful, cursed gold !-- Ha! here he comes, and in the nick of time. 1 See Note 22. Scene II.--Al Hafi, Saladin, and Sittah. AL HAFI. I trust the Egyptian moneys have arrived, And in good store. SALADIN. What, have you word of them? AL HAFI. Not I; but yet I thought they must have come, And that belike...
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