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Jdg_14:16 And Samson’s wife wept before him, and said, Thou dost but hate me, and lovest me not: thou hast put forth a riddle unto the children of my people, and hast not told [it] me. And he said unto her, Behold, I have not told [it] my father nor my mother, and shall I tell [it] thee?
Ver. 16. And Samson’s wife wept before him.] Tears are women’s weapons or engines, and many of them
“ Ut flerent oculos erudiere suos. ” - Ovid, Amor., lib. ii.
Apollodorus in Athenaeus telleth of the harlot Phryne, that from her feigned tears she was surnamed êëáõóéãåëùò , laugh-cry; because she could easily do either.