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 Smile she or lowre: So shall he least confusion draw On his whole life, not sway'd 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. 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.

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