The sovereign Lion bade her fear no more.[130]

Encouraged thus, she brought her younglings nigh,

Watching the motions of her patron's eye,

And drank a sober draught; the rest, amazed,

Stood mutely still, and on the stranger gazed;

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Surveyed her part by part, and sought to find }

The ten-horned monster in the harmless Hind, }

Such as the Wolf and Panther had designed.[131] }

They thought at first they dreamed; for 'twas offence