Friday, January 3, 2003
Amoretti Lxvii: Like As A Huntsman Comments
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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:
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Edmund Spenser
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Chris Szkaradnik
01 October 2007
i think this is a woman he might be talking about or the good 'nature' of natural things?
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7/18/2025 3:55:46 PM # 1.0.0
This poem is part of Spenser's Amoretti, which was his sonnet cycle written to the woman he eventually married. Here he is using a deer to symbolize her. That he chased her and chased her and it wasnt until he stopped and let her choose that she finally came to him.