OEDIPUS AT COLONUS
Creon
I protest to these,
Not thee, and for thine answer to thy kin,
If e’er I take thee—
Oedipus
Who against their will
Could take me?
Creon
Though untaken thou shalt smart.
Oedipus
What power hast thou to execute this threat?
Creon
One of thy daughters is already seized,
The other I will carry off anon.
Oedipus
Woe, woe!
Creon
This is but prelude to thy woes.
Oedipus
Hast thou my child?
Creon
And soon shall have the other.
Oedipus
Ho, friends! ye will not surely play me false?
Chase this ungodly villain from your land.
Chorus
Hence, stranger, hence avaunt! Thou doest wrong
In this, and wrong in all that thou hast done.
Creon (to his guards)
’Tis time by force to carry off the girl,
If she refuse of her free will to go.
