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538—560]. Thou hast sinned—. No wilful sin—

. How?—. A gift was given to me—O, broken-hearted that I am, would I had never won from Thebes that meed for having served her!

. Wretch! How then?…thine hand shed blood?…

. Wherefore this? What wouldst thou learn?

. A father s blood? {{sc|Oe}. Oh! oh! a second stab—wound on wound!

. Slayer! . Aye, slayer—yet have I a plea—

. What canst thou plead?—. —a plea in justice

. What?…

. Ye shall hear it; they whom I slew would have taken mine own life: stainless before the law, void of malice, have I come unto this pass!

. Lo, yonder cometh our prince, Theseus son of Aegeus, at thy voice, to do the part whereunto he was summoned.

. Hearing from many in time past concerning the cruel marring of thy sight, I have recognised thee, son of Laïus; and now, through hearsay in this my coming, I have the fuller certainty. For thy garb, and that hapless face, alike assure me of thy name; and in all compassion would I ask thee, ill-fated Oedipus, what is thy suit to Athens or to me that thou hast taken thy place here, thou and the hapless maiden at thy side. Declare it; dire indeed must be the fortune told by