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Show OEDIPYS Mm. Fly, the tempeft drives, this way, balirs ) Wohither can Age andBlmdnefg t@ke thcn‘ flight ; " 1f1could fly, what cow'dI fuffer worfe,, SeCure af greater Hisd <o 60 [Nozjé mnzw, Creon, Creon, Creon YE& [E&‘ltwk Emer Creon, oncles Alcander Pyracmon ; foflowed by the Crowd Creog. I thank ye, Conntrymen but mufi rcfuf‘ The honours, you .intend me, they' I¢ toogreat And Iam too unworthy; think agen And make a better choxc 1C:it. Think twice!1 ne're thought tw1ce m all my lif That's double Work 2 Cit. My firft word is always my fecond; ‘and thefefore Il hav No fecond words and therefore once agaml fay, A Creon All. A Creon, a Creon a Creon Creon. Yet here me, Fellow Citizens Dice. Fellow Citizens! there was a word of kindnefs > Ale: When did Oedipus falute you by that familiar name 1 Cp. Never; never; he was too.proud Greon, Indeed he could not, for he was a ftrange But. under him our Thebes is half deftroyed Forbid it Heay'n the refidue fhould perifh 5. Do Under a Theban-born [Eu ( 'Tis true, the Gods might: feqd this Plaguc among you, Becaufe a ftranger rul'd: put what ofthat Candredrefs- it now -3 Ciz; Yes, you or none. w L Tis certain that the Gods are angry Wlth us flay'; Becanfe he reigns Creon. Oedipus may return: you. may be ruin'd 1 Cit. Nay, if that be the matteryweare ruin'd already € ‘ 2 Cir. Half of us that are here prefent were living men bu Yefterday, and we that are abfent'do but drop and drop . And no man knows: whether hebe dead or living. An - Therefore while we are found and well, let.us fatisfie ou Confciences, and make a new King,. 3 C7¢.Ha, 'if we were but worthy ta fee another Coronatxon, And then if we muft dye, we'lbgo merrily together. pU All. To the queftion, to the queftion Diog, Are you content, Creon fhould be yonr ng " All. A Creon, a Creon, a Creon IW? iM( Tir. Hear me, ye Thebmr and thou Creon, "hear mek 1 Cit, Who's that would be heard; we'll hear. no ‘man Wc G fcarce hear one another et i |