Anonymous: Samson Destroying the Pillars of the Philistine Temple, ca. 1600. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Display Cabinet (with figure of Delilah cutting Samson's Hair), 1620s. Getty Museum. The Women at the Tomb (with scene from Samson and the Lion), Unknown German, c. 1170s. Getty Museum Samson Destroys the Temple, Unknown German Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Literature In the 14th century in Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales", in the Monk's tale, Samson is described. His name is also used to describe the sound of a drunkard's snoring in the Pardoner's tale. In 1656, the Spanish crypto-Jew, Antonio Enríquez Gómez, published Sansón Nazareno: Poema heróico, a Spanish-language heroic epic version of the Samson story. In 1671, John Milton made him the sympathetic hero of his blank verse tragedy Samson Agonistes. In 1724, Moshe Chaim Luzzatto wrote the first Hebrew play ever written on the subject of Samson. Benjamin Franklin is credited with the witty quatrain: "Jack, eating rotten cheese, did say, / Like Samson I my thousands slay: / I vow, quoth Roger, so you do, / And with the self-same weapon too." In 1842, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow published his poem "The Warning", included in his Poems on Slavery - in which the poet warned Americans of a coming violent outbreak because of Slavery and compared the Black slaves with the chained Samson who pulled down the Gaza Temple. In 1847, Charlotte Brontë compared Rochester to Samson in Jane Eyre: "The caged eagle, whose gold-ringed eyes cruelty has extinguished, might look as looked that sightless Samson." In William Makepeace Thackeray's 1848 novel Vanity Fair, the characters Becky Sharp and Rawdon Crawley are compared to Samson and Delilah. In 1926, Vladimir Jabotinsky published his historical novel, Samson (see "Israeli culture" above for details). The Biblical setting served Jabotinsky as a metaphor for contemporary Zionist politics and the current situation in Mandatory Palestine. The book earned Jabotinsky a credit on the 1949 Hollywood movie Samson and Delilah. 2 In 1952, Ralph Ellison made reference to Samson in his novel Invisible Man saying, "Whoever else I was, I was no Samson. I had no desire to destroy myself even if it destroyed the machine; I wanted freedom, not destruction." In 1971 the Marvel Comics character Doc Samson debuted in The Incredible Hulk. He is a psychiatrist who is exposed to gamma radiation that causes his hair to grow long and green.