vv. 290–301
OEDIPUS, KING OF THEBES
Leader.
Our other clues are weak, old signs and far.
Oedipus.
What sign? I needs must question all that are.
Leader.
Some travellers slew him, the tale used to be.
Oedipus.
The tale, yes: but the witness, where is he?
Leader.
The man hath heard thy curses. If he knows
The taste of fear, he will not long stay close.
Oedipus.
He fear my words, who never feared the deed?
Leader.
Well, there is one shall find him.—See, they lead
Hither our Lord Tiresias, in whose mind
All truth is born, alone of human kind.
Enter Tiresias led by a young disciple. He is an old blind man in a prophet’s robe, dark, unkempt and sinister in appearance.
Oedipus.
Tiresias, thou whose mind divineth well
All Truth, the spoken and the unspeakable,
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