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Show TNORD "I"P\?}__;Sf."_ Enter Oedi'pus honoy i i ~ 0Oed. O, 'is too little this, thy lofs of fight ‘What has it done? I fhall be gaz'd. at no ~ The more ; be pointed at, there goes the Monfter Nor haveI hid my horrours from'my felf ' For tho' corporeal light be loft for ever ‘ ~ Thebright reflecting Soul, through glaring Opticks - Prefents in larger fize her black Idea's, & ‘Doubling the bloody profpect of my Crimes . Holds Fancy down, and makes her att again With Wife and Mother, Tortures, Hell, and Furies . B !' now the baleful off-fpring's brought to light = Inhorrid formthey rank themfelves before me ‘What fhall I call this Medley of Creation %{! Here one, with all th' obedience of a Son a nisfli g o -"Borro'winfg Focafta's look, kneels at my Feet And ‘ealls me Father, there a fturdy Boy © Refembling Lajus juft as whenI kill'd him - Bears up, and with his cold hand grafping mine B Cries out, how fares my Brother Oedipus What, Sons and Brothers ! Sifters and Daughters too ' fly from my whirling brain Flyall, begon woo b o Hence, Inceft, Murder; henee, you ghaftly figures OGods! Gods, anfwer relies, ! l?;fi'., i Let me go mad, or dye R ( 80 " o ‘ 2 isthere any mean VS £3 Enter Jocalta Foc. Where, where is this moft wretched of mankind This ftately Image of imperial Sorrow Whofe ftory told, whofe very name bur mention'd Would cool the rage of Feavers, and unloc The hand of Luft from the pail Vitgin's hair And throw the Ravifher before herfeet Oced. By all my fears, I think Focafta's Voice wori tha worf fa o O't n beg fly e Hen - Of damning Charmers!- O abhor'd, loath'd Creature Fly, by the Gods, or by the Fiends, Icharge thee ' a H o t So o h r N f W Far as the Eaft t think mot thou fhalt ever enter there ¢ Golden Gates are barr'd with Adamant aft thee, and me; and the Celeftial Goards; - % f" |