That same group speaks the final lines of this work, which note that the servants of God come away from the "great event" of this work in a state of "calm of mind all passion spent."  
The preface to this work notes that Augustus Caesar began a play about Ajax and that Gregory Nazianzen wrote a play called Christ Suffering, and further points out that Saint Paul inserted a verse of Euripides into one of his epistles.  One group of characters in this work consists of "friends and neighbors" of the title character who come from "Eshtaol and Zora's fruitful vale" to visit him.  That same group speaks the final lines of this work, which note that the servants of God come away from the "great event" of this work in a state of "calm of mind all passion spent."  A character named Harapha berates the weak title character, the son of Manoa, who dies after the pillars of Dagon's temple come down.  FTP, name this drama about a powerful Danite who was tricked by Delilah, the last major work by John Milton.
The preface to this work notes that Augustus Caesar began a play about Ajax and that Gregory Nazianzen wrote a play called Christ Suffering, and further points out that Saint Paul inserted a verse of Euripides into one of his epistles.  
Samson Agonistes