Stripp’d for the chase, give all your souls to joy!

See how their coursers, than the mountain roe

More fleet, the verdant carpet skim; thick clouds

Snorting they breathe; their shining hoofs scarce print

The grass embruis’d; with emulation fir’d,

They strain to lead the field, top the barr’d gate,

O’er the deep ditch exulting bound, and brush

The thorny-twining hedge: the riders bend

O’er their arch’d necks; with steady hands, by turns,

Indulge their speed, or moderate their rage.