And wilt thou still obstruct the public weal?
Creon: Where foul the cure, 'tis grievous to be cured.
Oedipus: Thy tidings speak; or, by thy pains subdued,
Thou soon shalt know what angered kings can do.
Creon: Kings hate the words whose speech they would compel. 520
Oedipus: In hades shalt thou pay thy life for all,
Unless thou tell the secrets of the fates.
Creon: Nay, let me hold my peace. No smaller boon
Was ever sought.
Oedipus: More often than by speech,