OEDIPUS AT COLONUS
Chorus
Why this reluctance?
Oedipus
Dread my lineage.
Chorus
Say!
Oedipus
What must I answer, child, ah welladay!
Chorus
Say of what stock thou comest, what man’s son—
Oedipus
Ah me, my daughter, now we are undone!
Antigone
Speak, for thou standest on the slippery verge.
Oedipus
I will; no plea for silence can I urge.
Chorus
Will neither speak? Come, Sir, why dally thus!
Oedipus
Know’st one of Laïus’—
Chorus
Ha! Who!
Oedipus
Seed of Labdacus—
Chorus
O Zeus!
Oedipus
The hapless Oedipus.
Chorus
Art he?
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