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28 . I will do so, when I have learned what hath chanced.

. Blind suspicion, bred of talk, arose; and, on the other part, injustice wounds.

. It was on both sides?

. Aye.

. And what was the story?

. Enough, methinks, enough—when our land is already vexed—that the matter should rest where it ceased.

. Seest thou to what thou hast come, for all thy honest purpose, in seeking to slack and blunt my zeal?

. King, I have said it not once alone—be sure that I should have been shown a madman, bankrupt in sane counsel, if I put thee away—thee, who gavest a true course to my beloved country when distraught by troubles—thee, who now also art like to prove our prospering guide.

. In the name of the gods, tell me also, O king, on what account thou hast conceived this steadfast wrath.

. That will I; for I honour thee, lady, above yonder men:—the cause is Creon, and the plots that he hath laid against me.

. Speak on—if thou canst tell clearly how the feud began.

. He says that I stand guilty of the blood of Laïus.

. As on his own knowledge? Or on hearsay from another?