THEB. SH. My lord, she did.
OED. With what commission?
THEB. SH. I was to destroy him.
OED. And could a mother’s heart be steeled to this?
THEB. SH. With fear of evil prophecies.
OED. What were they?
THEB. SH. ’Twas said the child should be his father’s death.
OED. What then possessed thee to give up the child
To this old man?
THEB. SH. Pity, my sovereign lord!
Supposing he would take him far away
Unto the land whence he was come. But he
Preserved him to great sorrow. For if thou
Art he this man hath said, be well assured
Thou bear’st a heavy doom.
[page 119][1182-1218] OED. O horrible!
Horrible! All fulfilled, as sunlight clear!
Oh may I nevermore behold the day,
Since proved accursèd in my parentage,
In those I live with, and in him I slew![Exeunt