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Sonnet 67 "Lyke as a huntsman after weary chance"

Lyke as a huntsman after weary chace,
  Seeing the game from him escapt away:
  sits downe to rest him in some shady place,
  with panting hounds beguiled of their pray.
So after long pursuit and vaine assay,
  when I all weary had the chace forsooke,
  the gentle deare returnd the selfe-same way,
  thinking to quench her thirst at the next brooke.
There she beholding me with mylder looke,
  sought not to fly, but fearelesse still did bide:
  till I in hand her yet halfe trembling tooke,
  and with her owne goodwill hir fyrmely tyde.
Strange thing me seemd to see a beast so wyld,
  so goodly wonne with her owne will beguyld.



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