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Because thou wast most delicate	A
A woman fair for men to see	B
The earth did compass thy estate	C
Thou didst hold life and death in fee	B
And every soul did bend the knee	B
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Sidenote Wherein the corrupt spirit of privilege is symbolized by Delilah and the People by Samson	D
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Much pleasure also made thee grieve	E
For that the goblet had been drained	F
The well spiced viand thou didst leave	E
To frown on want whose throat was strained	F
And violence whose hands were stained	F
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The purple of thy royal cloak	G
Made the sea paler for its hue	H
Much people bent beneath the yoke	G
To fetch thee jewels white and blue	H
And rings to pass thy gold hair through	H
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Therefore Delilah wast thou called	I
Because the choice wines nourished thee	B
In Sorek by the mountains walled	I
Against the north wind's misery	B
Where flourished every pleasant tree	B
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Sidenote Delilah hath a taste for ease and luxury and wantoneth with divers lovers	J
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Thy lovers also were as great	C
In numbers as the sea sands were	K
Thou didst requite their love with hate	C
And give them up to massacre	K
Who brought thee gifts of gold and myrrh	K
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Sidenote Delilah conceiveth the design of ensnaring Samson	D
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At Gaza and at Ashkelon	D
The obscene Dagon worshipping	L
Thy face was fair to look upon	D
Yet thy tongue sweet to talk or sing	L
Was deadlier than the adder's sting	L
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Wherefore thou saidst I will procure	M
The strong man Samson for my spouse	N
His death will make my ease secure	M
The god has heard this people's vows	O
To recompense their injured house	N
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Thereafter when the giant lay	P
Supinely rolled against thy feet	Q
Him thou didst craftily betray	P
With amorous vexings low and sweet	Q
To tell thee that which was not meet	Q
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Sidenote Delilah attempteth to discover the source of Samson's strength Samson very neatly deceiveth her	K
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And Samson spake to thee again	D
With seven green withes I may be bound	R
So shall I be as other men	D
Whereat the lords the green withes found	R
The same about his limbs were bound	R
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Then did the fish god in thee cry	S
The Philistines be upon thee now	D
But Samson broke the withes awry	S
As when a keen fire toucheth tow	T
So thou didst not the secret know	T
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But thou being full of guile didst plead	U
My lord thou hast but mocked my love	V
With lies who gave thy saying heed	U
Hast thou not vexed my heart enough	W
To ease me all the pain thereof	V
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Now in the chamber with fresh hopes	X
The liers in wait did list and then	D
He said Go to and get new ropes	X
Wherewith thou shalt bind me again	D
So shall I be as other men	D
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Sidenote Samson retaineth his intellect and the lustihood of his body and again misleadeth the subtle craft of Delilah	Y
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Then didst thou do as he had said	Z
Whereat the fish god in thee cried	A2
The Philistines be upon thy head	Z
He shook his shoulders deep and wide	A2
And cast the ropes like thread aside	A2
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Yet thou still fast to thy conceit	Q
Didst chide him softly then and say	P
Beforetime thou hast shown deceit	Q
And mocked my quest with idle play	P
Thou canst not now my wish gainsay	P
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Then with the secret in his thought	B2
He said If thou wilt weave my hair	C2
The web withal the deed is wrought	B2
Thou shalt have all my strength in snare	C2
And I as other men shall fare	C2
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Seven locks of him thou tookest and wove	D2
The web withal and fastened it	E2
And then the pin thy treason drove	D2
With laughter making all things fit	E2
As did beseem thy cunning wit	E2
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Sidenote Delilah still pursueth her designs and Samson beginning to be somewhat wearied hinteth very close to his secret	A
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Then the god Dagon speaking by	S
Thy delicate mouth made horrid din	D
Lo the Philistine lords are nigh	S
He woke ere thou couldst scarce begin	D
And took away the web and pin	D
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Yet saying not it doth suffice	F2
Thou in the chamber's secrecy	B
Didst with thy artful words entice	F2
Samson to give his heart to thee	B
And tell thee where his strength might be	B
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Pleading How canst thou still aver	K
I love thee being yet unkind	G2
How is it thou dost minister	K
Unto my heart with treacherous mind	G2
Thou art but cruelly inclined	G2
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From early morn to falling dusk	H2
At night upon the curtained bed	Z
Fragrant with spikenard and with musk	H2
For weariness he laid his head	Z
Whilst thou the insidious net didst spread	Z
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Sidenote Samson being weakened by lust and overcome by Delilah's importunities and guile telleth her wherein his great strength consisteth	B
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Nor wouldst not give him any rest	I2
But vexed with various words his soul	J2
Till death far more than life was blest	I2
Shot through and through with heavy dole	J2
He gave his strength to thy control	J2
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Saying I am a Nazarite	I2
To God alway nor hath there yet	I2
Razor or shears done despite	I2
To these my locks of coarsen jet	I2
Therefore my strength hath known no let	I2
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But and if these be shaven close	K2
Whereas I once was strong as ten	D
I may not meet my meanest foes	L2
Among the hated Philistine	D
I shall be weak like other men	D
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He turned to sleep the spell was done	D
Thou saidst Come up this once I trow	T
The secret of his strength is known	D
Hereafter sweat shall bead his brow	D
Bring up the silver thou didst vow	D
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Sidenote Samson having trusted Delilah turneth to sleep whereat her minions with force falleth upon him and depriveth him of his strength	B
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They came and sleeping on thy knees	M2
The giant of his locks was shorn	D
And Dagon being now at ease	M2
Cried like the harbinger of morn	D
To see the giant's strength forlorn	D
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For he wist not the Lord was gone	D
I will go as I went erewhile	J2
He said and shake my mighty brawn	D
Without the captains file on file	J2
Did execute Delilah's guile	J2
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Sidenote Sansculottism as it seemeth is overthrown	D
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At Gaza where the mockers pass	N2
Midst curses and unholy sound	I2
They fettered him with chains of brass	N2
Put out his eyes and being bound	I2
Within the prison house he ground	I2
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The heathen looking on did sing	L
Behold our god into our hand	I2
Hath brought him for our banqueting	L
Who slew us and destroyed our land	I2
Against whom none of us could stand	I2
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Sidenote Samson being no longer formidable and being deprived of his eyes is reduced to slavery and made the sport of the heathen	D
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Now therefore when the festival	J2
Waxed merrily with one accord	I2
The lords and captains loud did call	J2
To bring him out whom they abhorred	I2
To make them sport who sat at board	I2
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Sidenote After a time Samson prayeth for vengeance even though himself should perish thereby	S
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And Samson made them sport and stood	I2
Betwixt the pillars of the house	N
Above with scornful hardihood	I2
Both men and women made carouse	O
And ridiculed his eyeless brows	O
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Then Samson prayed Remember me	B
O Lord this once if not again	D
O God behold my misery	B
Now weaker than all other men	D
Who once was mightier than ten	D
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Grant vengeance for these sightless eyes	O2
And for this unrequited toil	J2
For fraud injustice perjuries	O2
For lords whose greed devours the soil	J2
And kings and rulers who despoil	J2
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Sidenote Wherein by a very nice conceit revolution is symbolized	I2
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For all that maketh light of Thee	B
And sets at naught Thy holy word	I2
For tongues that babble blasphemy	B
And impious hands that hold the sword	I2
Grant vengeance though I perish Lord	I2
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He grasped the pillars having prayed	I2
And bowed himself the building fell	J2
And on three thousand souls was laid	I2
Gone soon to death with mighty yell	J2
And Samson died for it was well	J2
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The lords and captains greatly err	C2
Thinking that Samson is no more	P2
Blind but with ever growing hair	C2
He grinds from Tyre to Singapore	P2
While yet Delilah plays the whore	P2
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So it hath been and yet will be	B
The captains drunken at the feast	I2
To garnish their felicity	B
Will taunt him as a captive beast	I2
Until their insolence hath ceased	I2
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Sidenote Wherein it is shown that while the people like Samson have been blinded and have not recovered their sight still that their hair continueth to grow	T
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Of ribaldry that smelleth sweet	I2
To Dagon and to Ashtoreth	B
Of bloody stripes from head to feet	I2
He will endure unto the death	B
Being blind he also nothing saith	B
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Then 'gainst the Doric capitals	O2
Resting in prayer to God for power	K
He will shake down your marble walls	O2
Abiding heaven's appointed hour	K
And those that fly shall hide and cower	K
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But this Delilah shall survive	Q2
To do the sin already done	D
Her treacherous wiles and arts shall thrive	Q2
At Gaza and at Ashkelon	D
A woman fair to look upon	D