Antigone
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Why this delay then, when thou knowst my
To thee as hateful are as thine to me? \ [words
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Therefore dispatch ; I cannot live to do
A deed more glorious ; and so these would all
Confess, were not their tongues restrained by fear ;
It is the tyrant's privilege, we know.
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To speak and act whate'er he please, uncensured.
Antigone. Sophocles. Thomas Francklin (Translator). London. 1758–1759.