Now she had liers-in-wait abiding in the inner chamber. And she said unto him, The Philistines are upon thee, Samson. And he brake the withes, as a string of tow is broken when it toucheth the fire. So his strength was not known.
while buyschementis weren hid at hir, and  abididen in a closet þe ende of þe thing. And sche criede to hym, Sampson, Filisteis ben on þee! Which brak þe boondis, as if a man brekith a threed of herdis, writhun with spotle, whanne it hath take þe odour of fier; and it was not knowun wher ynne his strengþe was.