Oedipus the King
“OEDIPUS A slave? Or was he born to Laius' own blood?
HERDSMAN I've come to the terrorwhich I must speak.
OEDIPUS And which I must hear. But I will hear it.
HERDSMAN The child was said to be Laius' own son.
Your lady in the house would know that best.
OEDIPUS She gave you the child?
HERDSMAN She gave him, King.
1340 OEDIPUS To do what?
HERDSMAN I was to let it die.
OEDIPUS Kill her own child?
HERDSMAN She feared prophecies.
OEDIPUS What prophecies?
... HERDSMAN That this child would kill his father.
OEDIPUS Why, then, did you give him to this old man?
HERDSMAN I pitied him, master. The man would take him, I hoped, to a new home in another land.
But that man saved him for this 1350 the worst grief of all.MoreLess
HERDSMAN I've come to the terrorwhich I must speak.
OEDIPUS And which I must hear. But I will hear it.
HERDSMAN The child was said to be Laius' own son.
Your lady in the house would know that best.
OEDIPUS She gave you the child?
HERDSMAN She gave him, King.
1340 OEDIPUS To do what?
HERDSMAN I was to let it die.
OEDIPUS Kill her own child?
HERDSMAN She feared prophecies.
OEDIPUS What prophecies?
... HERDSMAN That this child would kill his father.
OEDIPUS Why, then, did you give him to this old man?
HERDSMAN I pitied him, master. The man would take him, I hoped, to a new home in another land.
But that man saved him for this 1350 the worst grief of all.MoreLess
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