Part 90 (1/2)

In good health?

TEMPLAR.

Yes.

DAJA.

We have all been grieved Lest something should have ailed you. Have you been Upon a journey?

TEMPLAR.

Fairly guessed.

DAJA.

Since when Have you returned to us?

TEMPLAR.

Since yesterday.

DAJA.

Our Recha's father, too, is just returned, And now may Recha hope at last.

TEMPLAR.

For what?

DAJA.

For what she has so often asked in vain.

Her father pressingly invites you too.

He lately has arrived from Babylon With twenty camels, bearing precious stones, And stuffs and fragrant spices, which he sought In India, Persia, Syria, and China.

TEMPLAR.

I am no merchant.

DAJA.

He is much esteemed By all his nation--honoured as a prince-- And yet to hear how he is named by all Nathan _the Wise_, and not _the Rich_, seems strange.

It often makes me wonder.

TEMPLAR.

But to them It may be, _wise_ and rich--both mean the same.

DAJA.

It seems to me he should be called _the Good_, So rich a store of goodness dwells in him.