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14 And yet we find that people have the same antipathy against divulgers of bad tidings, as they that drink bitter and distasteful potions have against the cups wherein they drank them. Elegant therefore is the dispute in Sophocles between the messenger and Creon: MESSENGER. By what I tell and what you hear, Do I offend your heart or ear? CREON. Why so inquisitive to sound My grief, and search the painful wound? MESSENGER. My news afflicts thy ears, I find, But ’tis the fact torments thy mind.Soph. Antigone, 317. Thus they that bring us bad tidings are as bad as they who are the authors of our misery; and yet there is no restraining or correcting the tongue that will run at random.