Double the measure of your squandered present.

Your deed has vexed me, and it hurts me still.

Gyges.

Be gracious if I cannot meet your wish.

Such trash is changed like magic to a load,

And when, with all this gold and precious stones,

The beauteous slave-girl came to swell the treasure,

I used the slender whiteness of her neck

And hung thereon the precious vanities.

I can employ naught further than my sword,