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

As these perhaps, yet wish it had not been,

Though for no friendly intent. I am of Gath;

Men call me Harapha, of stock renowned

As Og, or Anak, and the Emims old 1080

That Kiriathaim held. Thou know'st me now,

If thou at all art known. Much I have heard

Of thy prodigious might and feats performed,

Incredible to me,—in this displeased,

That I was never present on the place 1085

Of those encounters, where we might have tried