Gyges.
And what? Why thus it was. Scarce knowing
Your act’s import, half with repelling motion,
And half perchance with the uplifter’s gesture,
You stretched the hand which, tentatively, shyly,
He grasped; which then, e’en then, to tip of finger
Was short—withdrawn or ere he came to touch.
Did you not thus? Oh speak!
Rhod.
Rise, rise, I say!