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I, though the state forbid, will bury him.

Thyself then shalt thou bury with thy dead.

'Tis glorious that two friends lie side by side.

Seize ye this girl, and hale her within doors!

Never! for I will not unclasp this corpse.

God hath decreed, girl, not as seems thee good.

Yea—hath decreed this, Outrage not the dead!

Know, none shall spread the damp dust over him.

Nay!—for Jocasta's, for his mother's sake!

Vain is thy labour: this thou shalt not win.

Suffer at least that I may bathe the corpse.