3195. _artow_, art thou. _Sathanas_, Satan. The Hebrew _sâtân_ means simply an _adversary_, as in 1 Sam. xxix. 4; 2 Sam. xix. 22; &c. A remarkable application of it to the evil spirit is in Luke x. 18. Milton also indentifies Lucifer with Satan; Par. Lost, vii. 131; x. 425; but they are sometimes distinguished, and made the names of two different spirits. See, for example, Piers Plowman, B. xviii. 270-283. 3196. Read _misérie_, after which follows the metrical pause. ADAM. 3197. Boccaccio's De Casibus Virorum Illustrium begins with a chapter 'De Adam et Eua.' It contains the passage--'Et ex agro, qui postea _Damascenus_,... ductus in Paradisum deliciarum.' Lydgate, in his Fall of Princes (fol. a 5), has-- 'Of slyme of the erthe, in _damascene_ the feelde, God made theym aboue eche creature.' The notion of the creation of Adam in a field whereupon afterwards stood Damascus, occurs in Peter Comestor's Historia Scholastica, where we find (ed. 1526, fol. vii)--'Quasi quereret aliquis, Remansit homo in loco vbi factus est, in agro scilicet damasceno? Non. Vbi ergo translatus est? In paradisum.' See also Maundeville's Travels, cap. xv; Genesis and Exodus, ed. Morris, l. 207; and note in Mätzner's Altenglische Sprachproben, ii. 185. 3199. Cf. 'Formatus est homo ... de spurcissimo spermate'; Innocent III., De Miseria Conditionis Humanae, i. 1 (Köppel). 3200. So Boccaccio--'O caeca rerum cupiditas! Hii, _quibus rerum omnium_, dante Deo, _erat imperium_,' &c. Cf. Gen. i. 29; ii. 16. SAMPSON. 3205. The story of Sampson is also in Boccaccio, lib. i. c. 17 (not 19, as Tyrwhitt says). But Chaucer seems mostly to have followed [229] the account in Judges, xiii-xvi. The word _annunciat_, referring to the announcement of Samson's birth by the angel (Judges xiii. 3), may have been suggested by Boccaccio, whose account begins--'_Praenunciante_ per angelum Deo, ex Manue Israhelita quodam et pulcherrima eius vxore Sanson progenitus est.' _thangel_ in l. 3206=_the angel_. 3207. _consecrat_, consecrated. A good example of the use of the ending _-at_; cf. _situate_ for _situated_.--M. Shakespeare has _consecrate_; Com. of. Err. ii. 2. 134. 3208. _whyl he mighte see_, as long as he preserved his eyesight. 3210. _To speke of strengthe_, with regard to strength; _to speke of_ is a kind of preposition.--M. Cf. Milton's Samson Agonistes, 126-150. 3211. _wyves_. Samson told the secret of his riddle to his wife, Judges xiv. 17; and of his strength to Delilah, id. xvi. 17.