For warlike Toil he leaves the gameful Wood, / And fleſht his Courage firſt in Saxon Blood.
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For warlike Toil he leaves the gameful Wood, / And fleſht his Courage firſt in Saxon Blood.
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The condition of liberty not only covers the 'sandy Wilds' with 'yellow Harvests' (1.88) but also transforms the 'empty Wilds and Woods' to 'gameful Woods' (I. 95), and the tyrant hunter having become a prey, the liberated swain becomes a hunter.
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Ye vig'rous Swains! while Youth ferments your Blood, And purer Spirits swell the sprightly Flood, Now range the Hills, the gameful Woods beset, Wind the shrill Horn, or spread the waving Net.
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As such they not only made them the sport of the pulpit, which was become but a more solemn sort of stage; but every stage, and every table, and every puppet play, belched forth profane scoffs upon them; the drunkards made them their songs; all fiddlers and mimics learned to abuse them, as finding its most gameful way of fooling.
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