CREON.
What is this thing that thou wouldst have me do?
OEDIPUS.
Cast me, and instantly, out of this land,
Beyond the pale of human intercourse.
CREON.
Already had I done this, but I first
Desired to ask the counsel of the god.
OEDIPUS.
The god had fully made his counsel known,
Which was to slay the impious parricide.
CREON.
So did we hold, yet in our present case
Better we deemed it to be circumspect.