Œdipus
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PHORBAS.
Remember what?
ICARUS.
Be not alarmed: thou mayest rejoice, that infant
Was Œdipus.
PHORBAS.
What hast thou said?
ICARUS.
[To Œdipus.
This Theban says, he gave thee to my arms;
Thy fate is known; this old man is thy father.
ŒDIPUS.
What complicated misery! Alas!
[To Phorbas.
If thou art indeed my father, will the gods
Ever suffer me to shed thy blood?
PHORBAS.
For thou art not my son.
ŒDIPUS.
Expose me in my infancy?
PHORBAS.
Permit me to retire, and hide from thee
The dreadful truth.