Oedipus King of ThebesTranslated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes
Speak it. If true, I will conceal it not.

Oedipus.

Oedipus.

This: that until he talked with thee, the seer

Ne'er spoke of me as Laïus' murderer.

vv. 574-589  [Pg 33]

Creon.

Creon.

I know not if he hath so spoken now.

I heard him not.—But let me ask and thou

Answer me true, as I have answered thee.

Oedipus.

Oedipus.

Ask, ask! Thou shalt no murder find in me.

Creon.

Creon.

My sister is thy wife this many a day?

Oedipus.

Oedipus.

That charge it is not in me to gainsay.


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