| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Amoretti and Epithalamion | | Sonnet LXVII. Like as a huntsman after weary chase | | Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599) |
| | | LIKE as a huntsman after weary chase, | |
| Seeing the game from him escap’d away, | |
| Sits down to rest him in some shady place, | |
| With panting hounds beguiled of their prey: | |
| So, after long pursuit and vain assay, | 5 |
| When I all weary had the chase forsook, | |
| The gentle deer returned the self-same way, | |
| Thinking to quench her thirst at the next brook: | |
| There she, beholding me with milder look, | |
| Sought not to fly, but fearless still did bide; | 10 |
| Till I in hand her yet half trembling took, | |
| And with her own goodwill her firmly tied. | |
| Strange thing, me seemed, to see a beast so wild, | |
| So goodly won, with her own will beguil’d. | | | | |
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