The opening of his mouth; but suddenly,

110 Seeing Orlando, it unlink’d itself,

And with indented glides did slip away

[112] Into a bush: under which bush’s shade

A lioness, with udders all drawn dry,

Lay couching, head on ground, with catlike watch,

115 When that the sleeping man should stir; for ’tis

The royal disposition of that beast

To prey on nothing that doth seem as dead:

This seen, Orlando did approach the man