From forth this loathfome prifon-house, to abide May ever tend about thee to old age 925 With all things grateful chear'd, and so supply'd, It fits not; thou and I long fince are twain: To bring my feet again into the snare 930 Where once I have been caught; I know thy trains To fence my ear against thy forceries. If in my flower of youth and strength, when all men 940 Helpless, thence casily contemn'd, and scorn'd, 945 To thine, whofe doors my feet fhall never enter. 950 SAMS. SAMS. Not for thy life, left fierce remembrance wake My fudden rage to tear thee joint by joint. At diftance I forgive thee, go with that; Bewail thy falfhood, and the pious works It hath brought forth to make thee memorable Among illuftrious women, faithful wives : Cherish thy haften'd widowhood with the gold Of matrimonial treafon: fo farewel. DAL. I fee thou art implacable, more deaf To prayers, than winds and seas, yet winds to feas Thy anger, unappeasable, ftill rages, 955 960 Why do I humble thus myfelf, and suing 965 For peace, reap nothing but repulfe and hate? In Dan, in Judah, and the bordering tribes, 970 975 980 I fhall I fhall be nam'd among the famousest 985 Smote Sifera fleeping through the temples nail'd. 990 Nor fhall I count it hainous to enjoy The public marks of honor and reward, Conferr'd upon me, for the piety Which to my country I was judg'd to' have shown. I leave him to his lot, and like my own. CHO. She's gone, a manifest serpent by her fting Discover'd in the end, till now conceal'd. SAMS. So let her go, God fent her to debase me, And aggravate my folly, who committed To fuch a viper his most facred trust Of fecrefy, my safety, and my life. 995 1000 CHO. Yet beauty, though injurious, hath ftrange After offenfe returning, to regain Love once poffefs'd, nor can be easily Repuls'd, without much inward paffion felt And fecret fting of amorous remorse. [power, 1005 SAMS. Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end, Not wedlock-treachery indangering life. CHO. It is not virtue, wifdom, valor, wit, Strength, comeliness of shape, or ampleft merit ΠΟΙΟ That C That woman's love can win or long inherit ; But what it is, hard is to fay, Harder to hit, (Which way foever men refer it) Much like thy riddle, Samfon, in one day If any Thy paranymph, worthlefs to thee compar'd, Nor both fo loosly disally'd Their nuptials, nor this laft fo treacherously 1015 1020 In choice, but ofteft to affect the wrong? 1030 Of conftancy no root infix'd, That either they love nothing, or not long? 1035 Once join'd, the contrary fhe proves, a thorn A cleaving mischief, in his way to virtue 104.0 With dotage, and his fenfe deprav'd To folly' and fhameful deeds which ruin ends. Favor'd of Heav'n who finds One virtuous rarely found, That in domestic good combines : Happy that house! his way to peace is smooth : 1045 But virtue, which breaks through all opposition, 1050 And all temptation can remove, Moft fhines and most is acceptable above. Therefore God's univerfal law Gave to the man defpotic power But had we best retire, I see a storm? SAMS. Fair days have oft contracted wind and rain. CHO. But this another kind of tempest brings. SAMS. Be lefs abftrufe, my riddling days are past. CHO. Look now for no inchanting voice, nor fear The bait of honied words; a rougher tongue Draws hitherward, I know him by his ftride, The giant Harapha of Gath, his look Haughty as is his pile high-built and proud. Comes he in peace? what wind hath blown him hither I lefs conjecture than when firft I faw The |