text:  Again the suppliant bereaved and woebegone wives have awaited Theseus's coming "in the temple of the goddess Clemency " than which nothing can be more classical; and the manner in which at his return home from his victorious war upon the "Amasones " the sorrowful company receive him kneeling by two and two clothed in black along the highway might persuade you that Sir Matheu had read the OEdipus Tyrannus and successfully imitated OEdipus's dolorous and picturesque reception in the streets of Thebes by the kneeling plague-smitten population of the city