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SOPHOCLES’ KING OEDIPUS
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Creon. I would not say it if I did not mean it.
Oedipus. Then it is time to lead me within.
Creon. Come, but let your children go.
Oedipus. No, do not take them from me.
Creon. Do not seek to be master; you won the mastery but could not keep it to the end.
[He leads Oedipus into the palace, followed by Ismene, Antigone, and attendants.
Chorus
Make way for Oedipus. All people said
‘That is a fortunate man’;
And now what storms are beating on his head?
Call no man fortunate that is not dead.
The dead are free from pain.
