OEDIPUS AT COLONUS
Chorus
Insolence!
Creon
Insolence that thou must bear.
Chorus
Haste ye princes, sound the alarm!
Men of Athens, arm ye, arm!
Quickly to the rescue come
Ere the robbers get them home.
Enter Theseus.
Theseus
Why this outcry? What is forward? wherefore was I called away
From the altar of Poseidon, lord of your Colonus? Say!
On what errand have I hurried hither without stop or stay.
Oedipus
Dear friend—those accents tell me who thou art,
Yon man but now hath done me a foul wrong.
Theseus
What is this wrong and who hath wrought it? Speak.
Oedipus
Creon who stands before thee. He it is
Hath robbed me of my all, my daughters twain.
Theseus
What means this?
Oedipus
Thou hast heard my tale of wrongs.
Theseus
Ho! hasten to the altars, one of you,
Command my liegemen leave the sacrifice
And hurry, foot and horse, with rein unchecked,
