And if to weary hearts thou bring'st relief,
With quickened utterance thy news proclaim.
Creon: In dark obscurity the answer lies.
Oedipus: Who gives me doubtful succor grants me none.
Creon: It is the custom of the Delphic god
In dark enigmas to conceal the fates.215
Oedipus: Yet speak; however dark the riddle be
'Tis given to Oedipus alone to solve.
Creon: Apollo doth ordain that banishment
Be meted out to him who slew our king,