Record it, in memorial of the fact,
The first play buried since the woollen act.
Footnote:
- On the 17th of August, 1678, the Prince of Orange, afterwards William III. marched to the attack of the French army, which blockaded Mons, and lay secured by the most formidable entrenchments. Notwithstanding a powerful and well-served artillery, the duke of Luxemburgh was forced to abandon his trenches, and retire with great loss. The English and Scottish regiments, under the gallant earl of Ossory, had their full share in the glory of the day. It is strongly suspected, that the Prince of Orange, when he undertook this perilous atchievement, knew that a peace had been signed betwixt France and the States, though the intelligence was not made public till next day. Carleton says, that the troops, when drawn up for the attack, supposed the purpose was to fire a feu-de-joie for the conclusion of the war. The enterprize, therefore, though successful, was needless as well as desperate, and merited Dryden's oblique censure.
DRAMATIS PERSONÆ.
Œdipus, King of Thebes.
Adrastus, Prince of Argos.
Creon, Brother to Jocasta.
Tiresias, a blind Prophet.
Hæmon, Captain of the Guard.
| Alcander, Diocles, Pyracmon, | } } } | Lords of Creon's faction. |
Phorbas, an old Shepherd.
Dymas, the Messenger returned from Delphos.
Ægeon, the Corinthian Embassador.
Ghost of Laius, the late King of Thebes.
Jocasta, Queen of Thebes.
Eurydice, her Daughter, by Laius, her first husband.
Manto, Daughter of Tiresias.