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Oedipus Rexsophocles
Title: Oedipus Rexsophocles
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1537 | Pages: 6.5 (approximately 235 words/page)
Oedipus Rexsophocles
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My lords look amazed to see your queen with wreaths and gifts of incense in her hands. I had a mind to visit the high shrines, for Oedipus is nervous, alarmed with various terrors. He will not use his past experience, like a man of sense, to judge the present need, but lends his ear to any croaker that argues. Since then my counsels don’t have an advantage, I turn to thee, our …showed first 75 words of 1537 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1537 total…my lineage, be it ne'er so low.
It may be she with all a woman's pride
Thinks scorn of my base parentage. But I
Who rank myself as Fortune's favorite child,
The giver of good gifts, shall not be shamed.
She is my mother and the changing moons
My brethren, and with them I wax and wane.
Thus sprung why should I fear to trace my birth?
Nothing can make me other than I am.
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