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When she was dressed, she asked me to go with her
And join a chace, down in the Wood of Holms:
I said I would. We went, and found a throng
Of nymphs arrived; when lo! I know not whence,
A most enormous wolf dashed right among us,
His jaws all bathed in blood. Sylvia like lightning
Fits a large arrow to a bow I had,
And draws and strikes him sheer upon the head.
He plunges back into the woods; and she,
Holding a lance in ready fierceness, follows.
And join a chace, down in the Wood of Holms:
I said I would. We went, and found a throng
Of nymphs arrived; when lo! I know not whence,
A most enormous wolf dashed right among us,
His jaws all bathed in blood. Sylvia like lightning
Fits a large arrow to a bow I had,
And draws and strikes him sheer upon the head.
He plunges back into the woods; and she,
Holding a lance in ready fierceness, follows.
AMYNTAS.
Oh dolorous beginning! What, ah me!
Will be the end?
Oh dolorous beginning! What, ah me!
Will be the end?
NERINA.
I with another lance
Followed her track, but far enough behind,
Not being so swift. As soon as they had reached
The inmost part of the wood, she disappeared.
I with another lance
Followed her track, but far enough behind,
Not being so swift. As soon as they had reached
The inmost part of the wood, she disappeared.
