Burst pitiless. Loud the mainland wave is roaring.
This charge be thine: myself, a sleepless spy,
Will bring thee sure word from the hostile camp:
Safe from without, so ye be strong within. [Exit.
Eteocles.
O Jove! O Earth! O Gods that keep the city!
And thou fell Fury of my father’s curse![f11]
Destroy not utterly this Cadméan seat
Rent, razed, deracinated by the foe!
Yield not our pious hearths, where the loved speech