Despite Samson's defeat and shame, Samson predicts that God will 'arise and his great name assert' by making Dagon receive 'Such a discomfit, as shall quite despoil him / Of all these boasted Trophies won on me / And with confusion blank his Worshippers' (467–71). This prediction is interesting because

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Despite Samson's defeat and shame, Samson predicts that God will 'arise and his great name assert' by making Dagon receive 'Such a discomfit, as shall quite despoil him / Of all these boasted Trophies won on me / And with confusion blank his Worshippers' (467–71). This prediction is interesting because