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vv. 1020–1028

’Twas not I begot

Oedipus, neither was it he.

What wild

Fancy, then, made him name me for his child?

Thou wast his child—by gift. Long years ago

Mine own hand brought thee to him.

Coming so,

From a strange hand, he gave me that great love?

He had no child, and the desire thereof

Held him.

And thou didst find somewhere—or buy—

A child for him?

I found it in a high

Glen of Kithairon.

[Movement of, who stands riveted with dread, unnoticed by the others.

Yonder? To what end

Wast travelling in these parts?

I came to tend

The flocks here on the mountain.