Creon (cont.)
I’ll tell thee straight, or with thee pass within.
Oedipus
Speak before all; the burden that I bear
Is more for these my subjects than myself.
Creon
Let me report then all the god declared.
King Phoebus bids us straitly extirpate
A fell pollution that infests the land,
And no more harbour an inveterate sore.
Oedipus
What expiation means he? What’s amiss?
Creon
This stain of blood makes shipwreck of our state.