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Rh. I would not say it if I did not mean it.

. Then it is time to lead me within.

. Come, but let your children go.

. No, do not take them from me.

. Do not seek to be master; you won the mastery but could not keep it to the end.

Make way for Oedipus. All people said

‘That is a fortunate man’;

And now what storms are beating on his head?

Call no man fortunate that is not dead.

The dead are free from pain.