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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.