Then follow; let me hold to you one hand

In the firm grip of pact, and with the other

Thrust me clean through by custom’s holy ordinance;

With rapture, yea, with smiles it shall be done.

Kan.

I almost rue the deed! Here rant and rave,

Within suspicion—Bah!

Gyges.

Why vacillate?

How oft have young men in free-willed devotion