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Show OEDIPUS. Their flowing Robes of dazlmg Purple m * ^ Dillinttiy yo»dcr In that Po m t th<"? lhnd> lull Weil • a bloody Red flams all the place : And fee, their Faces are quite hid in Clouds. Pyr. Clufters of golden Stars hang o'er thei And feem fo crouded , that they burft upon 'cm; Ail dare at once their baleful influence, In leaking fire j[c. Long-bearded Comets itick, Like flaming Porcupines, to their Left Sides, As they would flioor their Quills into their Hcatu H*m. But fee I the King, and Queen, and all the Court! Did ever Day or Night fhew ought like this? [ Thunders ^ VThe Scene draws anddifcovers the Prodi^,', Enter Oedipus, Jocafta , Eurydice, Adraftus, all coming forward with tAma\ement. Oed. Anfwer, you Pow'rs Divine , fpare all this noifc, *,«,'-. This rack of Heav'n; and (peak your Fatal Pleafure, W h y breaks yon dark and elusky Orb away \ W h y from the bleeding W o m b of monftrous Night, Burft forth fuch Miriads of abortive Stars ? Ha' my Jocajla , look! the Silver Moon! A fetlin^ Crimfon ftains her beauteous Face! She's alfo'er Blood! and look! behold again, What mean the myftick Hcav*ns,fhc journieson! A vaft Eclipfe darkens the labouring Planet: Sound there , found all our Inftruments of War; Clarions and Trumpets, Silver, Brafs and Iron, And beat a thoufand Drums to help her Labour. Adr. 'Tis vain,- you fee the Prodigies continues OEDIPUS. Let's gaze no more, the Gods arc humorous. Old. 3* Oed Forbear, rafh Man - Once more I your Pleafure ! l *SK IS-*?! ^ G,OxtW0rm li&ht of humane Reafon Might dare to offer at immortal Knowledge And cope with Gods, why all this ftorm ofrSbrnr , Why do the Rocks fpht, and why ^ £ * S * Why thefe Portents HI Heav'n, and PJagueson Ear'rhi Why you Gigantick Forms, Ethcrial Monfters * Alas! Is all this but ro fright the Dwarfs Which your own Hands have made ? then be it fo Or if the Fates rcfolve fome Expiation Formurder'd Lajus, Hear me , hear me, Gods> Hear me thus proftrate: fpare this groaning Land Save innocent Thebes, flop the Tyfant Defrh Do this, and lo I ftand up an Oblano„ ' To meet your fwifteft and fcvercfl An2er Shoot all ar once and ftnke mc to the Center. [The Ctoud dravs that veU'd the Heads of the *%"*<" the Sky and (hews 'em Crown'd with the Names of Oedipus and Jocafta * 4 l ten above m great Charaaers of Gold <Adr. Either I dream, and all mv coolrr c r Are vaniOYd with tha. Cloud 4a" S ^ " * * Or, juft above thofe two Majeftick Heads I fee, I read diftintfly in large Gold, ' OtdipM and focajla , tAk. I read the fame. vtir. "T'swonderfuliyetoughtnotMantowad^ Too far in the vaft deep of Deftiny Oed. It fhall be fo. Ves,lwiUdic,OT^r,tofavcthCC/ |
