VENOM.] NATURAL HISTORY. 325 



and upon silk the aforesaid horn, and if so be that it be 

 true the silk will not be a whit consumed. 



Topsell^ "Four-footed Beasts," pp. 551-9. 



WE are so far from denying that there is any Unicorn 

 at all, that we will affirm there are many kinds thereof. In 

 the number of quadrupeds, we will concede no Jess than 

 five ; that is, the Indian ox, the Indian ass, the rhinoceros, 

 the oryx, and that which is more eminently termed Monoceros 

 or Unicorms. Some in the list of fishes ; and some 

 Unicorns we will allow even among insects [here follow 

 two folio pages of argument about the origin and genuine- 

 ness of the horns]. 



Sir Thos. Browne, " Vulgar Errors," bk. iii. ch. xxiii. 



\Fynes Moryson, in his "Itinerary," describes "two whole 

 Unicorns' horns, each more than four foot long, and a third, 

 shorter," which were in the Treasury of St Mark at Venice 

 (part i. bk. ii. ch. i.), and " great Unicorns' horns, and the 

 chief kinds of precious stones " in Naples (ibid., ch. ii.).] 



THE Unicorn is hunted for his horn, 

 The rest is left for carrion. 



Middleton and Rowley, " A Fair Quarrel," iii. 2. 



OF the Unicorn none hath been seen these hundred years 

 last past. Purcha? "Pilgrims," p. 502 (ed. 1616). 



[But the ingenious gentlemen who edited the " British 

 Apollo" would not go so far as to deny (in 1710) the exist- 

 ence of the Unicorn.] 



Urchin. 



TEMPEST, i. 2, 326. 



V. Hedgehog. 



Venom. 



SOME [beasts] have slaying tongues and venomous, through 

 malice and wodeness of the humour that hath mastery there- 

 in ; as the tongues of serpents, adders, dragons, and of a 

 wode hound, whose biting is most venomous, his tongue 



