Thoas.

Just what I’d like to know; for if he’s heard

What I have heard—Pooh! no—I’ll vow he can’t have.

[Slowly retires.

Gyges.

She slumbers still! O blest, who dares to wake her!

’Tis dared by the nightingale that even now

Still half in dream sweet orison begins;

’Tis dared—He comes! What can he think of me?

[Enter Kandaules.