"This grisly beast, which lion hight by name,
The trusty Thisby, coming first by night.
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Did scare away, or rather did affright."
A line riming with the first appears to be lost. Some read 'by name hight,' making a triplet; but I cannot agree with them.
"Here come two noble beasts in, A lion and a man."
Theobald reads moon for 'man.' The correction is ingenious, but not certain. I have, however, adopted it.