The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

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? 76