As a spectator merely, or to consult the oracle? Creusa ’Tis his wish to hear the self-same answer from Trophonius and Phoebus too. Ion Is it to seek earth’s produce or fruit of offspring that ye come? Creusa We are childless, though wedded these many years. Ion Hast thou never been a mother? art thou wholly childless? Creusa Phoebus knows whether I am childless. Ion Unhappy wife! how this doth mar thy fortune else so happy! Creusa But who art thou? how blest I count thy mother! Ion Lady, I am called the servant of Apollo, and so I am. Creusa An offering of thy city, or sold to him by some master?