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439—462] . What riddles, what dark words thou always speakest!

. Nay, art not thou most skilled to unravel dark speech?

. Make that my reproach in which thou shalt find me great.

. Yet 'twas just that fortune that undid thee.

. Nay, if I delivered this town, I care not.

. Then I will go: so do thou, boy, take me hence.

. Aye, let him take thee: while here, thou art a hindrance, thou, a trouble: when thou hast vanished, thou wilt not vex me more.

. I will go when I have done mine errand, fearless of thy frown: for thou canst never destroy me. And I tell thee—the man of whom thou hast this long while been in quest, uttering threats, and proclaiming a search into the murder of Laïus—that man is here,—in seeming, an alien sojourner, but anon he shall be found a native Theban, and shall not be glad of his fortune. A blind man, he who now hath sight, a beggar, who now is rich, he shall make his way to a strange land, feeling the ground before him with his staff. And he shall be found at once brother and father of the children with whom he consorts; son and husband of the woman who bore him; heir to his father's bed, shedder of his father's blood.

So go thou in and think on that; and if thou find that I have been at fault, say thenceforth that I have no wit in prophecy.

[ is led out by the Boy.— enters the palace.