JOCASTA.
What is the news, whence is thy embassage?
MESSENGER.
From Corinth, and the tidings on my lips
May please, must please, and yet perchance may pain.
JOCASTA.
What can it be that has this double power?
MESSENGER.
The denizens of yonder Isthmian land
Will make thy lord their king, as rumour goes.
JOCASTA.
What? Is old Polybus their king no more?