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Show io OEDIPUS: Shortly he'll be an Earth. Pyr Therefore the SeaLons Lie all confusMi and by the Heavens neglected, Forget themfelves : blind Winter meets the Summer In his mid-way , and feeing not his Livery, Has driv'n him headlong back: and the raw damps, With flaggy Wings, fly heavily about , Scattering their Peftilential Colds and Rheums Through all the lazy Air ^4lc. Hence Murrains follow , O n bleating Flocks , and on the lowing Herds: At laft , the Malady Grew more domeftick, and the taithrul Dog Dy'd at his Matter's Feet. Dioc. And ncxthis Mafter: [brooded, For all thofe Plagues which Earth and Air had f nit on infenour Creatures try'd their force * And hit they feiz'd on Man. Pyr. And then a thoufand Deaths at once advancM, And every Dart took place,- all was fo fudden, That fcarce a firft M a n fell; one but began T o wonder & ftraight fell a wonder too ; A third , w h o ftocp'd to rarfe his dying Friend, Diopt in the pious Act. Heard you that Groan! [Groan without. Dioc. A Troop of Ghofts took flight together there : N o w Death's •gtown riotous , and will play no more For fingle Stakes , but Families aud Tribes. H o w are w e lure w e breath not now our laft ? And that next Minute , Our Bodies caft into fome common Pit, Shall not be built upon, and overlaid By half a People ? <Jk. There's a Chain of Caufes Lu.k'd to Effects: •, invincible NcceiTity That OEDIPUS. it That what e'er is, could not but fo have been j That's m y -iccunty. To them enter Creon. Creon. So had it need , when all our Streets he cover'd With dead and dying Men» And Eardi ex poles Bodies on the Pavements More than ihe hides in Graves 1 Betwixt the Btide and Bridegroom have I feen The Nuptial Torch do common Offices O f Marriage and of Death. Dice. N o w , Oedipus, (If he return from W a r , our other Plague) Will fcarce find half he left, to grace his Triumphs. Pyr. A feeble Paran will be liing before him. Jj!c. H e would do well to bring the Wives and Children O f conquer'd cyfr giant to renew his Thebes. Creon. M a y Funerals meet him at ihe City Gates With their detefted Omeu. Dioc. O f his Child ten. Creon. Nay, though Ihe be m y Sifter, of his Wifo. ^Alc. O h that our Thebes might once again beheld A Monarch Thcban born 1 Dioc. W e might have had one. Pyr. Yes, had ihe People pleas'd. Creon. C o m e , y'are m y Friends: The Queen m y Sjftcj, after Lajus Death, Fear'd to he fingle, and fupply'd his place With a young Succellor. Dioc. H e much relembles Her former Husband too. CLAIC I always thought Co. Pyr. W h e n twenty Winters more have grizzfd his black Locks He |