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[1161-1175] Oedipus the King 407<br />

HERDSMAN<br />

No, no!—I said before that I gave it to him.<br />

OEDIPUS<br />

Whence hadst thou got it? In thine own house, or from another?<br />

HERDSMAN<br />

Mine own it was not—I had received it from a man.<br />

OEDIPUS<br />

From whom of the citizens here? from what home?<br />

HERDSMAN<br />

Forbear, for the gods' love, master, forbear to ask more!<br />

OEDIPUS<br />

Thou art lost if I have to question thee again.<br />

HERDSMAN<br />

It was a child, then, of the house of Laius.<br />

OEDIPUS<br />

A slave? or one born of his own race?<br />

HERDSMAN<br />

Ah me—I am on the dreaded brink of speech.<br />

OEDIPUS<br />

And I of hearing; yet must I hear.<br />

HERDSMAN<br />

Thou must know, then, that 'twas said to be his own child—but thy<br />

lady within could best say how these things are.<br />

HOW? She gave it to thee?<br />

Yea, O king.<br />

For what end?<br />

OEDIPUS<br />

HERDSMAN<br />

OEDIPUS<br />

HERDSMAN<br />

That I should make away with it.<br />

Her own child, the wretch?<br />

OEDIPUS

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