And true I did report God's oracle. Next, seek in Thebes for any plots entwined Between this seer and me; which if ye find, Then seize and strike me dead. Myself that day Will sit with thee as judge and bid thee Slay! But damn me not on one man's guess.—'Tis all Unjust: to call a traitor true, to call A true man traitor with no cause nor end! And this I tell thee. He who plucks a friend Out from his heart hath lost a treasured thing Dear as his own dear life. But Time shall bring vv. 614-626 [Pg 35] Truth back. 'Tis Time alone can make men know What hearts are true; the false one day can show. Leader. Leader. To one that fears to fall his words are wise, O King; in thought the swift win not the prize. Oedipus.
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