96 CURIOUS CREATURES. 



thorough the inconveniences of old age, which they 

 leave unto the Hunters, Nature renewing an other unto 

 them. 



" The home of this beast being put upon the Table 

 of Kinges, and set amongest their junkets and bankets, 

 doeth bewray the venome, if there be any suche therein, 

 by a certaine sweat which commeth over it. Concern- 

 ing these homes, there were two scene, which were two 

 cubits in length, of the thicknesse of a man's Arme, the 

 first at Venice, which the Senate afterwards sent for 

 a gift unto Solyman the Turkish Emperor : the other 

 being almost of the same quantity, and placed in a 

 Sylver piller, with a shorte or cutted * point, which 

 Clement the Pope or Bishop of Rome, being come unto 

 Marssels brought unto Francis the King, for an excellent 

 gift." . . . They adulterated the real article, for sale. 

 " Petrns Bellonius writeth, that he knewe the tooth of 

 some certaine Beast, in time past, sold for the home of 

 a Unicorne (what beast may be signified by this speech 

 I know not, neither any of the French men which do 

 live amongst us) and so smal a peece of the same, being 

 adulterated, sold ' sometimes for 300 Duckets.' But, 

 if the home shall be true and not counterfait, it doth, 

 notwithstanding, seeme to be of that creature which the 

 Auncientes called by the name of an Unicorne, especially 

 AZlianus, who only ascribeth to the same this wonderfull 

 force against poyson and most grievous diseases, for he 

 maketh not this home white as ours doth seeme, but 

 outwardly red, inwardly white, and in the Middest or 

 secretest part only blacke." 



Having dilated so long upon the Unicorn, it would be 

 a pity not to give some idea of the curative properties of 



1 Another name for short vide Cully pipe Cutty sark. 



