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A slave, or born of Laïus’ blood?

There comes the word I dread to speak, O God!

And I to hear: yet heard it needs must be.

Know then, they said ’twas Laïus’ child. But she

Within, thy wife, best knows its fathering.

’Twas she that gave it?

It was she, O King.

And bade you what?

Destroy it.

Her own child?

Cruel!

Dark words of God had made her wild.

What words?