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vv. 1158–1167

’Fore heaven, thou shalt yet, if thou speak not true.

’Tis more than death and darker, if I do.

This dog, it seems, will keep us waiting.

Nay,

I said at first I gave it.

In what way

Came it to thee? Was it thine own child, or

Another’s?

Nay, it never crossed my door:

Another’s.

Whose? What man, what house, of these

About thee?

In the name of God who sees,

Ask me no more!

If once I ask again,

Thou diest.

From the folk of Laïus, then,

It came.