To Dagon, as their god who hath delivered

Thee, Samson, bound and blind, into their hands,

Them out of thine, who slew'st them many a slain.

So Dagon shall be magnified, and God 440

Besides whom is no god, compared with idols,

Disglorified, blasphemed, and had in scorn

By the idolatrous rout amidst their wine;

Which to have come to pass by means of thee,

Samson, of all thy sufferings think the heaviest, 445

Of all reproach the most with shame that ever