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HERDSMAN<br />
Well then--it was a child <strong>of</strong> Laius' house.<br />
OEDIPUS<br />
Slave-born or one <strong>of</strong> Laius' own race?<br />
HERDSMAN<br />
Ah me!<br />
I stand upon the perilous edge <strong>of</strong> speech.<br />
OEDIPUS<br />
And I <strong>of</strong> hearing, but I still must hear.<br />
HERDSMAN<br />
Know then the child was <strong>by</strong> repute his own,<br />
But she within, thy consort best could tell.<br />
OEDIPUS<br />
What! she, she gave it thee?<br />
HERDSMAN<br />
OEDIPUS<br />
With what intent?<br />
HERDSMAN<br />
OEDIPUS<br />
What, she its mother.<br />
HERDSMAN<br />
OEDIPUS<br />
What weird?<br />
HERDSMAN<br />
'Tis so, my king.<br />
To make away with it.<br />
Fearing a dread weird.<br />
'Twas told that he should slay his sire.<br />
OEDIPUS<br />
What didst thou give it then to this old man?<br />
HERDSMAN<br />
Through pity, master, for the babe. I thought<br />
He'd take it to the country whence he came;<br />
But he preserved it for the worst <strong>of</strong> woes.<br />
For if thou art in sooth what this man saith,<br />
God pity thee! thou wast to misery born.<br />
OEDIPUS<br />
Ah me! ah me! all brought to pass, all true!<br />
O light, may I behold thee nevermore!<br />
I stand a wretch, in birth, in wedlock cursed,<br />
A parricide, incestuously, triply cursed!<br />
[Exit OEDIPUS]
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