Chorus. She's gone—a manifest serpent by her sting

Discovered in the end, till now concealed.

Samson. So let her go. God sent her to debase me,

And aggravate my folly, who committed 1000

To such a viper his most sacred trust

Of secrecy, my safety, and my life.

Chorus. Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power,

After offence returning, to regain

Love once possessed, nor can be easily 1005

Repulsed, without much inward passion felt,