I dreaded much, but dreaded not so much.

Hist, hist! Are those not footfalls? Yes! Why, who

Is out of bed with greybeards ere the morn?

The youthful Gyges! Ho! but if you knew

What I now know you’d have no droop i’ the gait!

[He retires. Enter Gyges.

Gyges.

And once again I’m here! What will I here?

I sicken in the fresh of heaven. With scent

The air’s besprent, so leaden and sense-steeping