Daniel Yu, Talha Aqureshi - King Oedipus (Illuminated Text) Culminating Assignment [tekst, tłumaczenie i interpretacja piosenki]

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Creon: To test me; first, go to the Pythian shrine;
Ask if the message I brought back was true
Second; prove me guilty of any compact
With the soothsayer; then take me and condemn
To death. My voice will join with yours in the sentence
But charged behind my back on blind suspicion
I will not be. To slur a good man’s name
With baseless slander is one crime--another
Is rashly to mistake bad men for good
Cast out an honest friend, and you cast out
Your life, your dearest treasure. Time will teach
The truth of this; for time alone can prove
The honest man; one day proclaims the sinner
Chorus: Good words; and fitting for a prudent man
To hear and heed. Quick thoughts are seldom safest
Oedipus: When a quick plotter’s on the move, my friend
It’s safest to be quick in counter-plotting
Am I to sit and wait for him, and lose
My opportunity while he takes his?
Creon: What do you want then? Will you banish me?

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Oedipus: By no means. I would have you dead, not banished
Creon: If you can show in what way I have wronged you--
Oedipus: Still clinging to your obstinate arguments?
Creon: Because I know you are wrong
Oedipus: I know I am right
Creon: In your own eyes, not in mine
Oedipus: You are a knave
Creon: And what if you are mistaken?
Oedipus: Kings must rule
Creon: Not when they rule unjustly
Oedipus: Hear him, Thebes! My city!
Creon: Yours? Is she not also mine?
Chorus: Sin, sirs, enough. Here comes the queen, Jocasta
She should be able to compose this quarrel
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