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Then, go down to hell and love them if you must. While I live, no woman will rule me.

Enter Ismene from the house, led in by two attendants.ChorusLook, here comes Ismene from the palace, shedding the tears of a loving sister. A cloud over her eyes mars her red-flushed face,and it breaks into rain on her comely cheek.CreonYou who were lurking like a viper in my own house and secretly gulping up my life’s blood, while I was oblivious that I was nurturing two plagues, two revolutions against my throne—tell me now, will you also affirm your share in this burial, or will you forswear all knowledge of it?IsmeneI performed the deed—as long as she concurs—and I share and carry the burden of guilt.