JOCASTA.
Said I not from the first it would be so?
OEDIPUS.
Thou didst, but I was led astray by fear.
JOCASTA.
Henceforth dismiss these bugbears from thy soul.
OEDIPUS.
The incest—have I not still that to dread?
JOCASTA.
Why should man fear whose life is but the sport
Of chance, to whom the future is all dark?
'Tis best to live at hazard as one may.
For that predicted incest, dread it not,
For many a man has in a dream ere this
Lain with his mother. He who takes no thought
Of such hobgoblins, lives the easiest life.