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Rh. Where did you come by it? Your own child, or another?

. It was not my own child—I had it from another.

. From any of those here? From what house?

. Do not ask any more, master; for the love of God do not ask.

. You are lost if I have to question you again.

. It was a child from the house of Laius.

. A slave? Or one of his own race?

. Alas! I am on the edge of dreadful words.

. And I of hearing: yet hear I must.

. It was Said to have been his own child. But your lady within can tell you of these things best.

. How? It was she who gave it to you?

. Yes, king.

. To what end?

. That I should make away with it.

. Her own child?

. Yes: from fear of evil pro­phecies.

. What prophecies?