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Show 64 O E D I P V S. Impute m y Errors to your o w n Decree : M y Hands arc guilty, but m y Heart is free. [Exeunt <Amho, ACT. IV. SCENE 1. * Enter Pyracmon , Creon. Pyracmon. SOmc bufinefs of import that Triumph wears < You feem to go with-, nor is't hard to oUcfs W h e n you are pleas'd, by a malicious joy, Whofe red and fiery Beams cait through your Vifaoc A glowing pleafure. Sure you fmile revenge, And I cou'd gladly hear. Creon. Would'it thou believe This giddy hair-brain'd King, w h o m oldTmfut Has Thundcr-ftrook, with heavy accufation, Tho' confeious of no inward Guilt, yet fears-, H e fears Iocafla, fears himfelf, his fhadow; H e fears the multitude; and , which is worth An Age of laughter, out of all Mankind, H e chufes m e to be his Orator: Swears that eAdraftusznd thelean-look'd Prophet) Arc joint Confpirators; and wifht m c ro Appeafe the raving Thebans; which I fwore T o do. Pyr. A dangerous undertaking} Directly oppofitc to your o w n intereft. Creon. N o , dull Pyracmon; when I left his Prefence, Wilk all the Wings with which reyenge could imp My OEDIPUS. 6$ M y flight > I gain'd the midft o'th' City; There , Handing on a Pile of dead and dying, I to the mad and fickly Multitude , With interrupting Sobs, cry'd out, O Thebes, O wretched Thebes, thy King, thy Oedipus , This barbarous Stranger, this Ufurper, Monfter, Is bv the Oracle , the wife Tirefus , proclaim'd the Murderer of the Royal Lajus : Jocafta too, no longer now my Sifter, Is found Complottcr in the horrid Deed. Here I renounce all tyc of Blood and Nature, For thec, O Thebes , dear Thebes, poor bleeding Thebes ! And there I wept •, and then the Rabble howl'd, And toar'd, and with a thoufand antick Mouths Gabled Revenge, Revenge was all the cry. Pyr. This cannot fail: I fee you on the Throne-, And Oedipus cait out. Creon. Then ftraight came on tAlcandcr, with a wild and bellowing Crowd, W h o m when he had wrought,- I whifpet'd him to joyn, And head the Forces while the heat was in 'cm: So to the Palace I rcturn'd , to meet The King, and greet him with another Story. But fee, he enters. Enter Oedipus, Jocafta, attended. Oed. Said you that Phorb^ is rerum'd, and yet Intreats he may return , without being ask'd Of ou<*ht concerning what wc have difcovcr'd? IOC^HQ flarted when I told him your Intent, Replying, what he knew of that affair Would give no fatisfaction to the King; Then, 'falling on his Knees , begg'd as for Life, T o be diimifs'd from Court ; he trembled too , E As |