1768—1779]
OEDIPUS AT COLONUS.
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An. Nay, then, if this is pleasing to the dead, with this we must content us. But send us to Thebes the ancient,1770 if haply we may hinder the bloodshed that is threatened to our brothers.
Th. So will I do; and if in aught beside I can profit you, and pleasure the dead who hath lately gone from us, I am bound to spare no pains.
Ch. Come, cease lamentation, lift it up no more; for verily these things stand fast.
