SAMSON AOONISTES. syj This day will be remarkable in my life By fame great ad, or of my days the latt. 1380 Cho. In time thou haft refolv'd, the marl teatime Of Samfon, this fecond meffage from our lords To thee I an bid fay. Art thou our flave, Our captive, at the public mill our drudge, And dar'll thou at our fending and command Difpute thy coming ? come without delay ; i39g Or we fhall find fuch engines to affail And hamper thee, as thou (halt come of force, Though thou wert firrnlier faften'd than a rockA. Sam. I could be well content to try their art, 1391 Which to no few of them would prove pernicious. Yet knowing their advantages too many, Becaufe they (hail not trail me through their (facets Like a wild beaft, I am content to go. Matters commands come with a pow'r refiftlefs To fuch as owe them abfolute fubjedion ; 240,51 And for a life who will not change his purpofe ? (So mutable are all the ways of men) Yet this be fure, in nothing to comply Scandalous or forbidden in our Law. Of I praife thy refolution : doff thefe Vtd By this compliance thou wilt win the lords To favor, and perhaps to fet thee free. Sam. Brethren farewel ; your company along I will not vvifh, lea it perhaps offend them To fee me girt with friends ; and how the fight 109 Of me as of a common enemy, So dreaded once, may now exafperate them I know not : lords are lordlieft in their wine; And the well feafted prieft ther.(fooneft fir'd With zeal, if ought religion feem concerted; '1410. No lefs the people on their holy-days Impetuous, infolcnt, unquenchable : Tttt Happy
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