The public weal calls there, and here thine own,830
And both with equal voice. Direct thy steps
Along a middle course! provoke not fate;
Permit thy fortune to unfold itself.
It profits naught to change a happy state.
Oedipus: A change is well when all is at the worst.
Old Man: What better canst thou ask than royal birth?835
No further seek, lest thou thy sire repent.
Oedipus: Though I should prove to be of shameful blood,
My purpose still is fixed to know the truth.