582 SAMSON AGONISTES: Sam. Love-quarrels oft in pleating concord end, Not wedlock-treachery indang'ring life. Cho. It is not virtue, wildom, valor, wit, 1010 Strength, comelinefs of thape, or ampleIt merit 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) lots Much like thy riddle, Samfon, in one day Or fev'n, though one fhould muting fit. If any of thefe or all, the Timnian bride Had not fo loon preferr'd Thy paranymph, worthlefs to thee compar'd, 1020 Succ:fflr in thy bed, Nit- both fo loofely difallay'd Their nuptials, nor this laft fo treacheroufly Had thorn th fatal harveft of thy head. Is it for that fuch outward ornament 1025 Was laviffi'd on their fex, that inward gifts Were left for hafte unfinifh'd, judgment fcant, Capacity not rais'd to apprehend Or value what is belt In choice, but ofteft to affea the wrong ? 103o Or was too much of fell-love mix'd, Of confiancy no root infix'd, That either they love nothing, or not long ? Whate'er it be, to wifeft men and belt Seeming at firft all heav'nly under virgin veil, 3035 Soft, modal, meek, demure, Once join'd, the contrary the proves, a thorn Intel-tine, far within defenfive arms A cleaving mifchief, in his way to virtue Adverfe and turbulent, or by her charms 1040 Draws him awry inflav'd With
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