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 * Har.I come not Samson, to condole thy chance,

As these perhaps, yet wish it had not been, Though for no friendly intent. I am of Gath, Men call me Harapha, of stock renown'd As Og or Anak and the Emims old That Kiriathaim held, thou knowst me now If thou at all art known. Much I have heard Of thy prodigious might and feats perform'd Incredible to me, in this displeas'd, That I was never present on the place Of those encounters, where we might have tri'd Each others force in camp or listed field: And now am come to see of whom such noise Hath walk'd about, and each limb to survey, If thy appearance answer loud report.
 * Sam.The way to know were not to see but taste.
 * Har.Dost thou already single me; I thought

Gives and the Mill had tam'd thee; O that fortune Had brought me to the field where thou art fam'd  Rh