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First Line: Like as a huntsman after weary chase
Last Line: So goodly wonne, with her owne will beguyld.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin
Variant Title(s): "lyke As A Huntsman After Weary Chace,"";
Subject(s): Free Will & Determinism


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 fearlesse 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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