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

Among illustrious women, faithful wives;

Cherish thy hastened widowhood with the gold

Of matrimonial treason: so farewell.

Dalila. I see thou art implacable, more deaf 960

To prayers than winds and seas; yet winds to seas

Are reconciled at length, and sea to shore:

Thy anger, unappeasable, still rages,

Eternal tempest never to be calmed.

Why do I humble thus myself, and, suing 965

For peace, reap nothing but repulse and hate?