Dialogue

 1 Intro|             And he, Socrates, is a midwife, although this is a secret;
 2 Intro|          Come then to me, who am a midwife, and the son of a midwife,
 3 Intro|          midwife, and the son of a midwife, and I will deliver you.
 4  Thea|             that I am the son of a midwife, brave and burly, whose
 5  Thea| unscientific way; and yet the true midwife is also the true and only
 6  Thea|         the god compels me to be a midwife, but does not allow me to
 7  Thea|          Come then to me, who am a midwife’s son and myself a midwife,
 8  Thea|         midwife’s son and myself a midwife, and do your best to answer
 9  Thea|            labour, I am the barren midwife; and this is why I soothe
10  Thea|       former ages. The office of a midwife I, like my mother, have