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But lo from forth a copse that neighbours by	A
A breeding jennet lusty young and proud	B
Adonis' trampling courser doth espy	C
And forth she rushes snorts and neighs aloud	B
The strong neck'd steed being tied unto a tree	C
Breaketh his rein and to her straight goes he	C
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Imperiously he leaps he neighs he bounds	D
And now his woven girths he breaks asunder	E
The bearing earth with his hard hoof he wounds	F
Whose hollow womb resounds like heaven's thunder	E
The iron bit he crushes 'tween his teeth	G
Controlling what he was controlled with	H
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His ears up prick'd his braided hanging mane	I
Upon his compass'd crest now stand on end	J
His nostrils drink the air and forth again	K
As from a furnace vapours doth he send	J
His eye which scornfully glisters like fire	E
Shows his hot courage and his high desire	E
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Sometime her trots as if he told the steps	L
With gentle majesty and modest pride	M
Anon he rears upright curvets and leaps	N
As who should say 'Lo thus my strength is tried	M
And this I do to captivate the eye	A
Of the fair breeder that is standing by '	-
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What recketh he his rider's angry stir	E
His flattering 'Holla ' or his 'Stand I say '	-
What cares he now for curb of pricking spur	E
For rich caparisons or trapping gay	O
He sees his love and nothing else he sees	P
Nor nothing else with his proud sight agrees	P
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Look when a painter would surpass the life	Q
In limning out a well proportion'd steed	R
His art with nature's workmanship at strife	Q
As if the dead the living should exceed	R
So did this horse excel a common one	S
In shape in courage colour pace and bone	T
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Round hoof'd short jointed fetlocks shag and long	U
Broad breast full eye small head and nostril wide	M
High crest short ears straight legs and passing strong	U
Thin mane thick tail broad buttock tender hide	M
Look what a horse should have he did not lack	V
Save a proud rider on so proud a back	V
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Sometimes he scuds far off and there he stares	W
Anon he starts at stirring of a feather	E
To bid the wind a race he now prepares	W
And whe'r he run or fly they know not whether	E
For through his mane and tail the high wind sings	X
Fanning the hairs who wave like feather'd wings	X
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He looks upon his love and neighs unto her	E
She answers him as if she knew his mind	Y
Being proud as females are to see him woo her	E
She puts on outward strangeness seems unkind	Y
Spurns at his love and scorns the heat he feels	Z
Beating his kind embracements with her heels	Z
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Then like a melancholy malcontent	A2
He vails his tail that like a falling plume	B2
Cool shadow to his melting buttock lent	A2
He stamps and bites the poor flies in his fume	B2
His love perceiving how he is enrag'd	C2
Grew kinder and his fury was assuag'd	C2
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His testy master goeth about to take him	D2
When lo the unback'd breeder full of fear	E2
Jealous of catching swiftly doth forsake him	D2
With her the horse and left Adonis there	F2
As they were mad unto the wood they hie them	G2
Out stripping crows that strive to over fly them	G2
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I prophesy they death my living sorrow	H2
If thou encounter with the boar to morrow	H2
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But if thou needs wilt hunt be rul'd by me	C
Uncouple at the timorous flying hare	F2
Or at the fox which lives by subtlety	C
Or at the roe which no encounter dare	F2
Pursue these fearful creatures o'er the downs	I2
And on they well breath'd horse keep with they hounds	D
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And when thou hast on food the purblind hare	F2
Mark the poor wretch to overshoot his troubles	J2
How he outruns with winds and with what care	F2
He cranks and crosses with a thousand doubles	J2
The many musits through the which he goes	K2
Are like a labyrinth to amaze his foes	K2
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Sometime he runs among a flock of sheep	L2
To make the cunning hounds mistake their smell	M2
And sometime where earth delving conies keep	L2
To stop the loud pursuers in their yell	M2
And sometime sorteth with a herd of deer	E2
Danger deviseth shifts wit waits on fear	E2
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For there his smell with other being mingled	N2
The hot scent snuffing hounds are driven to doubt	O2
Ceasing their clamorous cry till they have singled	N2
With much ado the cold fault cleanly out	O2
Then do they spend their mouths Echo replies	P2
As if another chase were in the skies	P2
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By this poor Wat far off upon a hill	Q2
Stands on his hinder legs with listening ear	R2
To hearken if his foes pursue him still	Q2
Anon their loud alarums he doth hear	R2
And now his grief may be compared well	M2
To one sore sick that hears the passing bell	M2
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Then shalt thou see the dew bedabbled wretch	S2
Turn and return indenting with the way	O
Each envious briar his weary legs doth scratch	S2
Each shadow makes him stop each murmur stay	O
For misery is trodden on by many	C
And being low never reliev'd by any	C
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Lie quietly and hear a little more	T2
Nay do not struggle for thou shalt not rise	P2
To make thee hate the hunting of the boar	T2
Unlike myself thou hear'st me moralize	P2
Applying this to that and so to so	H2
For love can comment upon every woe	H2

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