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OEDIPUS AT COLONUS

Chorus

Why this reluctance?

Oedipus

Dread my lineage.

Chorus

Say!

Oedipus

What must I answer, child, ah welladay!

Chorus

Say of what stock thou comest, what man’s son—

Oedipus

Ah me, my daughter, now we are undone!

Antigone

Speak, for thou standest on the slippery verge.

Oedipus

I will; no plea for silence can I urge.

Chorus

Will neither speak? Come, Sir, why dally thus!

Oedipus

Know’st one of Laïus’—

Chorus

Ha! Who!

Oedipus

Seed of Labdacus—

Chorus

O Zeus!

Oedipus

The hapless Oedipus.

Chorus

Art he?

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