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

Chorus. Thy son is rather slaying them; that outcry

From slaughter of one foe could not ascend.

Manoa. Some dismal accident it needs must be.

What shall we do—stay here or run and see? 1520

Chorus. Best keep together here, lest, running thither,

We unawares run into danger's mouth.

This evil on the Philistines is fallen;

From whom could else a general cry be heard?

The sufferers then will scarce molest us here; 1525

From other hands we need not much to fear.