THE EQUINOX
RINALDO. It may be so.
But you are my hostage.
[He releases her.
Shefaæs him,
LAYLAH. A worthless pledge.
RINALDO. These silks and pearlsl
I could draw your veil
through a link in my chain mail.
LAYLAH. I am the bride of the Emir.
RINALDO. A fair bride
I guessed you his daughter.
LAYLAH. My feet have not entered his house.
RINALDO. Your feet are fair.
.
.
. Can you tell fortunes?
LAYLAH. On the forehead of every man his destiny
is
written.
RINALDO. Read mine.
LAYLAH. Let me go to my house.
RINALDO‘ Then I will read yours.
You are to be captive
to a strange knight.
LAYLAH. Not to you, Sir Knightl
RINALDO. The rest is dark.
LAYLAH. You dare not touch me.
RINALDO. Sit there I
[Heseats Iter on the wall ofΜε well,]
Do you guess what I have been thinking as I rode through the
sun to these palms?
LAYLAH. Some new plot to carry fire and sword through
our quiet villages.
RINALDO. No.
I was wondering why men should not live
at peace,
I was wondering what was the quarrel that has
beggared Europe and made Asia 3 shambles these nigh five
score years.
LAYLAH. I cannot tell you.
This is all I know, that in the time of Pope?י111113130
Urban the Second, some pilgrims to Jerusalem
began
to?
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