322 - SHAKESPEARE'’S [uNICORN. 
foot long ;. and that horn is so sharp and so strong, that 
he throweth down all, or thirleth [pierceth] all that he 
reseth [rageth] on, And this beast fighteth oft with the 
elephant. And the Unicorn is so strong, that he is not 
taken with might of hunters; but a maid is set there as he 
shall come, and she openeth her lap, and the Unicorn layeth 
thereon his head, and leaveth all his fierceness, and sleepeth 
in that wise, and is taken as a beast without weapon, and 
slain with darts of hunters. The Unicorn froteth [rubs] and 
fileth his horn against stones, and sharpeth it, and maketh it 
ready to fight in that wise. And his colour is bay, There 
be many kinds of Unicorns, for some be Rhinoceros [4g.v. ], 
and some Monoceron, and Aigloceron. And Monoceron 1s 
a wild beast, shaped like to the horse in body, and to 
the hart in head, and in the feet to the elephant, and in the 
tail to the boar, and hath heavy lowing, and an horn strut- 
ting in the middle of the forehead of two cubits long. 
And in Ind be some one-horned asses, and such an ass is 
called Monoceros, and is less bold and fierce than other 
Unicorns. And gloceron is a manner of Unicorn, that is 
