CHORUS. Look now for no inchanting voice, nor fear 1065 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 lefs conjecture than when first I faw The fumptuous Dalila floting this way: His habit carries peace, his brow defiance. SAMSON. Or peace or not, alike to me he comes. CHORUS. 1071 His fraught we foon shall know, he now arrives. HARAPH Ạ. I come not, Samfon, to condole thy chance, 1076 As these perhaps, yet with it had not been, 1075. His fraught] For fraught read fraight. Meadowcourt. 1079. Men call me Harapha, &c.] This character is fictitious, but is properly introduced by the poet, and not without fome foundation in Scripture. Arapha or rather Rapha (fays Calmet) was father of the giants of Rephaim. The word Though Rapha may likewife fignify fimply a giant. Of flock renown'd as Og, for Og the king of Bafhan was of the race of the Rephaim, whose bed was nine cubits long, and four broad. Deut. III. 11. Or Anak, the father of the Anakims, and the Emims old, Deut. II. 1c, 11. a people great, and many, and tall as the Anakims Though for no friendly intent. I am of Gath, As Og or Anak and the Emims old 1080 That Kiriathaim held, thou know'ft me now 1085 Of those encounters, where we might have try'd SAMSON. The way to know were not to fee but taste. Doft thou already fingle me? I thought and Anakims; which also were account- the plain of Kiriathaim. 1090 Gyves Gyves and the mill had tam'd thee. O that fortune 1099 From the unforeskin'd race, of whom thou bear'st SAMSON. Boast not of what thou would'ft have done, but do What then thou would'st, thou seest it in thy hand. Romeo and Juliet. A&t 2. Sc. 2. Like a poor prifoner in his twisted gyves, And with a filk thred plucks it back again, So loving jealous of his liberty, "Tis almoft morning. I would Fairfax. Cant. 5. St. 42. have thee gone, And yet no farther than a wanton's bird, Thefe hands were made to fhake fharp fpears and fwords, Not And thou haft need much washing to be touch'd. SAMSON. Such ufage as your honorable lords Afford me' affaffinated and betray'd, Who durft not with their whole united powers 1110 Some narrow place inclos'd, where fight may give thee, Or rather flight, no great advantage on me; Vant Not to be ty'd in gyves and XLI. 26. The Sword of him that twifted cords. 1120. And brigandine of brafs, &c.] Brigandine, a coat of mail. Jer. XLVI. 4.—furbish the Spears, and put on the brigandines. LI. 3. Against him that bendeth, let the archer bend his bow, and against him that lifteth himself up in his brigandine. Habergeon, a coat of mail for the neck and fhoulders. Job layeth at him cannot hold, the Spear, the dart, nor the habergeon. Spenfer Faery Queen. B. 2. Cant, 6. St. 29. Their mighty ftrokes their babergeons difmail'd, And naked made each others Spalles that is fhoulders, Fairfax Some Vant-brass and greves, and gauntlet, add thy fpear, And raise such outcries on thy clatter'd iron, 1124 HARAPH A. Thou durft not thus difparage glorious arms, Their ornament and safety, had not spells Some fhirts of mail, fome coats of plate put on, and fome a babergeon. Vant-brafs or Vanthrace, avantbras, armour for the arms. Troilus and Creffida. Act 1. Sc. 6. Neftor fpeaks. I'll hide my filver beard in a gold beaver, And in my vantbrace put this wither'd brawn. Fairfax. Cant. 20. St. 139. His left arm wounded had the knight of France, 1131 Arm'd His fhield was pierc'd, his vant- Greves, armour for the legs. 1 Sam. -Hence therefore, thou nice A fcaly gauntlet now with joints Muft glove this hand. 1121. add thy Spear, &c] This is Milton's own reading: the othe H 1 |