An Introduction to the Prose and Poetical Works of John Milton / Comprising All the Autobiographic Passages in His Works, the More Explicit Presentations of His Ideas of True Liberty.

by John Milton

Then, with more cautious and instructed skill,

Again transgresses, and again submits;

That wisest and best men, full oft beguiled,

With goodness principled not to reject 760

The penitent, but ever to forgive,

Are drawn to wear out miserable days,

Entangled with a poisonous bosom-snake,

If not by quick destruction soon cut off,

As I by thee, to ages an example. 765

Dalila. Yet hear me, Samson; not that I endeavour