THEB. SH. ’Twas not mine own; another gave it me.
OED. What Theban gave it, from what home in Thebes?
THEB. SH. O, I implore thee, master, ask no more!
OED. You perish, if I have to ask again.
THEB. SH. The child was of the stock of Laius.
OED. Slave-born, or rightly of the royal line?
THEB. SH. Ah me! Now comes the horror to my tongue!
OED. And to mine ear. But thou shalt tell it me!
THEB. SH. He was given out for Laius’ son: but she,
Thy queen, within the palace, best can tell.
OED. How? Did she give it thee?