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You rather ought, Oh father, to consent Unto my death, since that my death may bring Unto this town both peace and victory. "Ne can I purchase more praiseworthy death "Than for my countries' wealth to loose my breath. "You know deer father, that this life of ours "Is brittle, short, and nothing else in deed "But tedious toil and pangs of endless pain: "And death, whose dart to some men seems so fell, "Brings quiet end to this unquiet life. "Unto which end who soonest does arrive, "Finds soonest rest of all his restless grief. "And were it so, that here on earth we felt "No prick of pain, nor that our flattering days "Were never dashed by forward Fortune's frown, "Yet being born (as all men are) to die, "Were not this worthy glory and renown, "To yield the country soil where I was born, "For so long time, so short a time as mine? I can not think that this can be denied. Then if to shun this haughty high beh st, Mine only cause, Oh father, does you move, Be sure, you seek to take from me your son, The greatest honour that I can attain: But if your own commodity you move, So much the less you ought the same allow: For look, how much the more you have in Thebes, So much the more you ought to love the same: Here have you Hemone, he that in my stead (Oh my deer father) may with you remain, So that, although you be deprived of me, Yet shall you not be quite deprived of heirs. Although I, father, ought obey your hests, Yet evil were not to this yield your will. O, tender pity moves me thereto. "Yet wise is he, that does obey the Gods. "Whose life they take, they give him life also. Nay them to obey, that will I shall not live. "Who lives (father) here without a fault? But God it seeth that every secret seeth. We know it then, when he reveals the same. By diverse means his secrets he discloseth. You may of me, as of your self dispose, And since my life does seem so deer to you, I will preserve the same to your avail, That I may spend it always to your will. And where, or in what place shall I become? You may command, and I ought to obey. Where Dodona does fit in sacred chair? And who shall guide my wandering steps? Who shall give sustenance for my relief? But when shall I eft soon my father see? First would I take my congé of the Queen, That since the day my mother lost his life, Hath nourished me as if I were his own. Behold father, I go. You dams oh Thebes. Pray to almighty Jove for my return, You see how mine unhappy star S me driven To go my country from, and if so chance, I end in woe my prime and lusty years Before the course of Nature do them call, Honour my death yet with your dreary plaints, And I shall eke, where so this carcase come, Pray to the Gods that they preserve this town. Yet worthy were not that unworthy change. Not you, but me, the heavens call to die. I father ought; so ought not you, to die.
Plot summary
Plot — Jocasta
Oedipus unknowingly murdered his father and married his mother Jocasta; on learning the truth, he blinded himself. His sons imprisoned him and agreed to alternate annually as kings of Thebes: Polynices went into exile while Eteocles took the first turn on the throne; but Eteocles refused to give it up at the end of his year in office, and Polynices has besieged Thebes in association with the King of Argos. Jocasta intervenes as their mother, and persuades Polynices to enter Thebes and meet Eteocles under truce. Eteocles will not hand over power, but offers to accept his brother back as a private citizen. Jocasta is unable to reconcile her sons, and Polynices’ forces prepare for battle. Eteocles names Creon as his successor, and asks him to marry Antigone to his son Haemon. Creon consults Tiresias, and learns that Thebes is doomed to destruction in divine revenge for Jocasta’s incest; only the death of his other son, Menoeceus, can save the city. Keen to die for his country, Menoeceus refuses to go into exile as his father wishes, reports the prophecy to Eteocles, and kills himself. Meanwhile, the battle is indecisive, and Eteocles and Polynices agree to settle their dispute in single combat. Jocasta and Antigone are too late to stop them killing each other: arriving to find them both dying, Jocasta stabs herself with Polynices’ dagger. The besieging army is massacred by the Thebans. Antigone brings the three bodies back to Thebes and tells her father what has happened. Creon declares himself King of Thebes and gives order for the funerals of Jocasta and Eteocles, but demands that Polynices, as an enemy of the city, should remain unburied. Antigone protests, pleads, and refuses to marry Haemon, threatening to kill him and then herself should Creon try to force her. Creon banishes both her and Oedipus. She helps her blind father to touch the dead bodies, and he asks her to see that Polynices is buried.