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