And sometime sorteth with a herd of deer;

Danger deviseth shifts; wit waits on fear.

“For there, his smell, with others being mingled,

The hot-scent snuffing hounds are driven to doubt,

Ceasing their clamorous cry, till they have singled

With much ado, the cold fault clearly out;

Then do they spend their mouths: Echo replies

As if another chase were in the skies.

“By this poor Wat, far off upon a hill,

Stands on his hinder legs with listening fear,