Delila quotes

• "Yet hear me Samson; not that I endeavour to lessen or extenuate my offence"
• She asks that her transgression is "weigh'd" not with "aggravations surcharged" but with "allowance counterpoised" - legalistic language
• "How cunningly the sorceress displays her own transgressions, to upbraid me mine!"
• "if tears may expiate (though the fact more evil drew in the peverse event then I foresaw) [...] timerous doubt hath led me on." - feminine submissive rhetoric
• "I shall be nam'd among the famousest of women [...] who to save her country from a fierce destroyer, chose Above the faith of wedlock."