Canto

 1     5|    tresses gathered in a golden net,~Shaded with tassels of
 2     6|    though nor hook nor sweeping net she bore,~What fish she
 3     7|      casting now for fish, with net or book,~Disturb their secret
 4     9|        malice, thought~He had a net wherewith I might be caught.~ ~
 5     9|         may within the circling net be brought;~Such cunning
 6    13|     about and said: "Lo! in the net~Another bird for whom it
 7    15|    intends,~Takes pleasure in a net, by cunning hands~Contrived,
 8    15|       For him to drive into the net, below~The sand, the griesly
 9    15|        eschew:~He runs into the net, which closing round,~Hampers
10    15|    steel had Vulcan wrought~The net of old, and with such cunning
11    15|        air he took her with the net.~ ~ LVIII~The nymph (it
12    15|      river meets the brine:~The net was treasured in Canopus,
13    15|         divine:~Whence with the net the impious thief returned,~
14    15|          and farm conveyed;~The net as well; than which no quainter
15    15|        giant, and next gave~The net, in which he took the unwieldy
16    23|      fowler's lore,~Hampered in net or line; which, in the thought~
17    23|      fowler, ere he spreads his net,~Does, to prepare the champaigne
18    25|  garment drest,~And in a golden net confined my hair.~I gravely
19    43|         bird;~Who fell into the net wherein the dame~Herself
20    45|      have made his way~Into the net, and of his own accord,~
21    45| reckless bird~Into the fowler's net hath made him soar;~That
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