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Show Io6 OEDIPUS. But fee 1 we're landed on the happy Coaft; And all the Golden Strands are cover'd o'er With glorious Gods, that come to try our Caufe: Jove, Jove whofe Majefty now finks m e down, H e w h o himfelf burns in unlawful Fires, Shall judge, and fhall acquit us. O , 'tis done-, Tis fixt by Fate, upon Record Divine: And Oedipus {hall be now ever mine. [Dies. Oed. Speak, Hxmon ; what has Fate been doing there ? What dreadful Deed has mad Jocafta done ? H*m. The Queen her felf, and all your wretched Off-fpring, Arc by her Fury flain. Oed. By all m y woes, She has out-done m c in Revenge and Murder; And I fhould envy her rhe fad applaufe: But, O h ! m y Children! O h , what have they doncj This was not like the Mercy of the Hcav'ns, T o fet her Madnefs on fuch Cruelty : This ftirs m e more than all m y Sufferings, And with m y laft Breath I muft call you Tyrants, Hxm. What mean you , Sir? Oed. Jocafta ! lo, I come. O , Lajus , Labdacus, and all you Spirits O f the Cadmean Race, prepare ro meet m e, All weeping rang'd along the gloomy Shore; Extend your Arms t'embrace m e ; for I come* May all rhe Gods roo from their Battlements Behold and wonder at a Morals daring; And , when I knock the Goal of dreadful Death, Shout and applaud m e with a clap of Thunder: Once more, thus wing'd by horrid Fate , I come Swift as a falling Meteor,- lo, I flye , And thus go downwards, to the darker Sky. [Thunder. He flings himfelf from the Windov.. The Thebans£<i/£fr about his Body. Hay*. OEDIPUS. l6r J^^OA0ph,CV °tdi^ is «ow uo more! O curs d effect of the moft deep Defpair! henc?: ^ CQI?plaints' ^ ** hk Body The dreadful fight will daunt the drooping Thebans* W h o m Heav'n decrees ro ra.fe with Peace and Glo r Yet by thefe terrible Examples warn'd, * Ihe iacred Fury that aliarmsthe World Let none, tho'ne'er fo Virtuous, Great and High, Be judg d entirely bleft before they die. f I N I S. E P I. |