Oedipus
Must I not fear my mother’s marriage bed?
Jocasta
Why should a mortal man, the sport of chance,
With no assured foreknowledge, be afraid?
Best live a careless life from hand to mouth.
This wedlock with thy mother fear not thou.
How oft it chances that in dreams a man
Has wed his mother! He who least regards
Such brainsick fantasies lives most at ease.
Oedipus
I should have shared in full thy confidence,
Were not my mother living; since she lives
Though half convinced I still must live in dread.