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Smile she or lowre:
So shall he least confusion draw
On his whole life, not sway'd1070
By female usurpation, nor dismay'd.
But had we best retire, I see a storm?
Sam.Fair days have oft contracted wind and rain.
Chor.But this another kind of tempest brings.
Sam.Be less abstruse, my riddling days are past.
Chor.Look now for no inchanting voice, nor fear
The bait of honied words; a rougher tongue
Draws hitherward, I know him by his stride,
The Giant Harapha of Gath, his look
Haughty as is his pile high-built and proud.1080
Comes he in peace? what wind hath blown him hither
I less conjecture then when first I saw
The sumptuous Dalila floating this way:
His habit carries peace, his brow defiance.
Sam.Or peace or not, alike to me he comes.
Chor.His fraught we soon shall know, he now arrives.