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[590-606] Oedipus at Colonus 635<br />

<strong>THE</strong>SEUS<br />

But if to thy content, then for thee exile is not seemly.<br />

OEDIPUS<br />

Nay, when ." was willing, they refused.<br />

<strong>THE</strong>SEUS<br />

But, foolish man, temper in misfortune is not meet.<br />

OEDIPUS<br />

When thou hast heard my story, chide; till then, forbear.<br />

<strong>THE</strong>SEUS<br />

Say on: I must not pronounce without knowledge.<br />

OEDIPUS<br />

I have suffered, Theseus, cruel wrong on wrong.<br />

<strong>THE</strong>SEUS<br />

Wilt thou speak of the ancient trouble of thy race?<br />

OEDIPUS<br />

No, verily: that is noised throughout Hellas.<br />

<strong>THE</strong>SEUS<br />

What, then, is thy grief that passeth the griefs of man?<br />

OEDIPUS<br />

Thus it is with me. From my country I have been driven by mine own<br />

offspring; and my doom is to return no more, as guilty of a father's blood.<br />

<strong>THE</strong>SEUS<br />

How, then, should they fetch thee to them, if ye must dwell apart?<br />

OEDIPUS<br />

The mouth of the god will constrain them.<br />

<strong>THE</strong>SEUS<br />

In fear of what woe foreshown?<br />

OEDIPUS<br />

That they must be smitten in this land.<br />

<strong>THE</strong>SEUS<br />

And how should bitterness come between them and me?

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