Oedipus
What then, thou knowest, and yet willst not speak!
Wouldst thou betray us and destroy the State?
Teiresias
I will not vex myself nor thee. Why ask
Thus idly what from me thou shalt not learn?
Oedipus
Monster! thy silence would incense a flint.
Will nothing loose thy tongue? Can nothing melt thee,
Or shake thy dogged taciturnity?
Teiresias
Thou blam’st my mood and seest not thine own
Wherewith thou art mated; no, thou taxest me.
Oedipus
And who could stay his choler when he heard