COR. SH. Lest from your parents you receive a stain?
OED. That is the life-long torment of my soul.
COR. SH. Will you be certified your fears are groundless?
OED. How groundless, if I am my parents’ child?
COR. SH. Because with Polybus thou hast no kin.
OED. Why? Was not he the author of my life?
COR. SH. As much as I am, and no more than I.
OED. How can my father be no more to me
Than who is nothing?
COR. SH. In begetting thee
Nor I nor he had any part at all.
OED. Why then did he declare me for his son?