1 Two hunters, friends, a forest went,
2 And each to hunt an able deer.
3 But friendship more than effort spent,
4 For a single fawn live forest near.
5 And that doe, being caught by one,
6 Was, for one, cause enough-
7 To make fast friends thus undone,
8 And future discourse rough.
9 The fawn, to one, was cause for woe,
10 And the hunters, friends, would thus bemoan:
11 When hunting both one single doe,
12 Its better hunters hunt alone!