Edmund Spencer’s sonnet 37 and 67 from Amoretti are interesting because they reverse the conventional gender roles often seen in poems like “The Passionate Shepherd to his Love.” In sonnet 37, the speaker mentions that women’s appearance often deceives men because of how well they are presented. One example he includes is the woman’s hair which is wrapped in a net of gold, but he does not know what is hair or what is gold. Her beauty causes him to loose his power in differentiating what is real and what is not. He states, “In which if ever ye entrapped are, Out of her bands ye by no means shall get.” The woman he describes is the one who seduces or does the wooing. Men have the weaker hearts, and are depicted to succumb to the power of women’s beauty. In sonnet 67, Spencer uses the hunting metaphor that we’ve seen in “Whoso List To Hunt” by Wyatt, but he gives the woman or the dear the power. Although he believes he is hunting the dear, he is not successful until the dear returns on her own will. The dear allows him to capture her, which could be interpreted as a man cannot get a woman unless she wants him to. Because the dear makes the decision, it shows that she controls the fate of their relationship. The dear has done the hunting, and she chose him, rather than the opposite.