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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 less than 
five; that is, the Indian ox, the Indian ass, the rhinoceros, 
the oryx, and that which is more eminently termed Monoceros 
or Unicornis.. 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 (zdca@., ch. ii.).] 
Tue Unicorn is hunted for his horn, 
The rest is left for carrion. 
Middleton and Rowley, ** A Fair Quarrel,” iii. 2. 
Or the Unicorn none hath been seen these hundred years 
last past. Purchas “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 
