Edmund Waller Quote

So was the huntsman by the bear oppressed,
Whose hide he sold—before he caught the beast!


'The Battle of the Summer Islands' (1645) canto 2


So was the huntsman by the bear oppressed, Whose hide he sold—before he caught the beast!

So was the huntsman by the bear oppressed, Whose hide he sold—before he caught the beast!

So was the huntsman by the bear oppressed, Whose hide he sold—before he caught the beast!

So was the huntsman by the bear oppressed, Whose hide he sold—before he caught the beast!