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Samson Agonistes.
And aggravate my folly who committed
To such a viper his most sacred trust
Of secresie, my safety, and my life.
Chor.Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power,
After offence returning, to regain
Love once possest, nor can be easily
Repuls't, without much inward passion felt
And secret sting of amorous remorse.
Sam.Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end,
Not wedlock-trechery endangering life.1020
Cho.It is not vertue, wisdom, valour, wit,
Strength, comliness of shape, or amplest merit
That womans love can win or long inherit;
But what it is, hard is to say,
Harder to hit,
(Which way soever men refer it)
Much like thy riddle, Samson, in one day
Or seven, though one should musing sit;
If any of these or all, the Timnian bride
Had
