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Are more deserving chastisement than his.<br />
HERDSMAN<br />
O best <strong>of</strong> masters, what is my <strong>of</strong>fense?<br />
OEDIPUS<br />
Not answering what he asks about the child.<br />
HERDSMAN<br />
He speaks at random, babbles like a fool.<br />
OEDIPUS<br />
If thou lack'st grace to speak, I'll loose thy tongue.<br />
HERDSMAN<br />
For mercy's sake abuse not an old man.<br />
OEDIPUS<br />
Arrest the villain, seize and pinion him!<br />
HERDSMAN<br />
Alack, alack!<br />
What have I done? what wouldst thou further learn?<br />
OEDIPUS<br />
Didst give this man the child <strong>of</strong> whom he asks?<br />
HERDSMAN<br />
I did; and would that I had died that day!<br />
OEDIPUS<br />
And die thou shalt unless thou tell the truth.<br />
HERDSMAN<br />
But, if I tell it, I am doubly lost.<br />
OEDIPUS<br />
<strong>The</strong> knave methinks will still prevaricate.<br />
HERDSMAN<br />
Nay, I confessed I gave it long ago.<br />
OEDIPUS<br />
Whence came it? was it thine, or given to thee?<br />
HERDSMAN<br />
I had it from another, 'twas not mine.<br />
OEDIPUS<br />
From whom <strong>of</strong> these our townsmen, and what house?<br />
HERDSMAN<br />
Forbear for God's sake, master, ask no more.<br />
OEDIPUS<br />
If I must question thee again, thou'rt lost.
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