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Gyges thus endeavoured to decline the king's proposal, trembling lest
some dreadful evil should befall him through it. But the king replied
to him, "Courage, friend; suspect me not of the design to prove
thee by this discourse; nor dread thy mistress, lest mischief be.
thee at her hands. Be sure I will so manage that she shall not even
know that thou hast looked upon her. I will place thee behind the open
door of the chamber in which we sleep. When I enter to go to rest she
will follow me. There stands a chair close to the entrance, on which
she will lay her clothes one by one as she takes them off. Thou wilt
be able thus at thy leisure to peruse her person. Then, when she is
moving from the chair toward the bed, and her back is turned on thee,
be it thy care that she see thee not as thou passest through the doorway."
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