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

To satisfy thy lust. Love seeks to have love;

My love how could'st thou hope, who took'st the way

To raise in me inexpiable hate,

Knowing, as needs I must, by thee betrayed? 840

In vain thou striv'st to cover shame with shame,

Or by evasions thy crime uncover'st more.

Dalila. Since thou determin'st weakness for no plea

In man or woman, though to thy own condemning,

Hear what assaults I had, what snares besides, 845

What sieges girt me round, ere I consented;