Like as a Huntsman
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,
When I all weary had the chase forsook,
The gentle deer return’d 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:
Till I in hand her yet half trembling took,
And with her own goodwill her firmly tied.
Strange thing, me seem’d, to see a beast so wild,
So goodly won, with her own will beguil’d.
-Edmund Spenser
Unknown words- weary- tired , chase-going behind for hunt, hounds- hunter, panting- breathing with short, beguiled- enchant or charm someone, pursuit- run behind , vain- empty બડાઈખોર , assay- to check, forsook-left , quench- crush શાંત પડવું , milder- હળવા, સુખકારક , bide-remain, trembling- shiver , firmly- fixed nishchit, beast- animal, beguil'd - charm
