T Rl B E 1 J. 
The Theater ofTlants. 
Chap. 5^.. i6li 
Chaf. LIV. 
Vnicomtt five Cornu Monocerotii, Vnicorncs Horne. 
INicornes Horne likewife is a precious Iewell of highedeeme, and with Princes kept alwaves m 
!, their trealury to be tiled upon occafion for themfclves, whofe worth poore men could noteafily 
reach or attaine unto. There are divers beads that beare two homes both male and female, asthe 
Oxe, others the males oncly,as Dcere,Sheepe.&c. Some beare three homes, as certaine Oxen in 
India, as Solimu reportuh, and fome foure, as divers Rammis in (undry Countries hath beenc 
oblerved, yeccafualiy.notby kinde, and lomeagainc beare but one, whereof fomebeare it on their nofe, asthe 
Rhmoceros, and (ome in their forehead, asthe Indian wild A fie,with a whole hoofc as other Alfa have.where- 
of Arifh.ts and Pliny {peake, and Orix with a clovenhoofe, related by them alfo and Columella- asalfoccr- 
tauie Kme in ZeiU, a City in Ethiopia,mi Campb.tr , a certaine bead plentifully breeding in the Molucca Iflands 
that liveth both in the water and on land. Some other creatures alfo there are that beare but one home, as cer¬ 
taine Fiftns,breeding plentifully in the Indian Seas, whereof Vkrifto called ( which I take to be the Sea Vni- 
corne ) is one, and the Sword fids, and certaine birds in as lilww maketh mention rbutofallthefe 
creatures with one home, none are faid or found to have white homes but the Vnicorne (of the Sta as well as 
the Land) called by the Hcbrewes Rem and Reem (famoufedin the Scriptures)by Aviccn Achercbeien by fome 
other Arabian; Barkaran, by the Greekes Mmocerm, and by the Latines Vnkornm, f or fome are faid to’be black e 
othersred, deferibeth the Indian Affe to have his home to be whitifh at the bottome, reddifh at the 
toppe, and blacke in the middle •• the received opinion of che Vnicorne is, that it is a bead of the fife of a meane 
horle ( but I thinke it cannot be poflible but he muft be much greater, to beare fo large io long, and fo mailiea 
home, (uch aa are to be lecne in fundry places of Europe, (if fuch be the home of any bead; for as B'Uonim faith 
there are twenty whole homes, and as many that are not whole but broken, to be fecne in (everall places in Eu¬ 
rope, one whereof which is the greatefland mod noble, is thac which is kept in the Church of Saint Dtrnu by 
ram, which is (even foote long at the lead, fo that a tall man can hardly reach the toppe thereof with his hand, 
it weigheth 13 pound and foure ounces, no man can gra(pe it wholly in his hand, being five inches in the dia¬ 
meter or thickencfic, and an handbredth, and three inches in the circumference,it is ftraight like a torch or tlaffej 
but writhed aboutontheoutfide.fromtherighthand to the left fmooth, (moothand not bunched out, fave ai- 
the lower end next unto the head,where it is greatelf, and falling dill fmaller onto the end, of a brownilh colour 
on the outfide,but white hke Ivory within, without any line in it, and having but a ring about the outfidc, it is 
alio hollow at the bottome,a foote upwards, whereby it mayplainely be difeerned that it falleth not ofFofic 
owne accord, which maketh it to be ofthc more account ) the bead is faid to be of the colour of a Weafell or 
lomewhatmore red (yet fome fay grayilh) having a head like a Hart, the necke and maine not very Ion?, with 
thinne haires, and falling to one fide, with a fmall beard like a Goate but Idler and fhorter, the thi°hes and legs 
n °,! h ° 0fe Plrte il ,nd the taile like a Boare: but none of the auncient W riters, have made mention of 
any Phylrcall properties therein, c/Elttmt onely accepted lib. 4. c, 5 ,. who yet faith the home is blacke. The 
property of the Vmcornes home is chcifly to refid poyfon.and thebitings of venemous creatures, it is alfo given 
againd the piagiie ; and other contagious difeafes, to expell melancholly likewife, and to cherilh, exhilirate.and 
lirengthen the vitall (pints,and more noble parts. Ithathalwayes becne accounted of great worth, and not 
but for gieat perfons and Princes, for the bead being rare and feldome to be feenc or had, being iowilde and 
tierce that he is not to be made tame ( howfoever fome have written thatthey will grow milde at the fight of 
yong Maidens, and be brought to fleepe neere unto them) and the homes not robe had (in that they doe not 
in h, a w m M 0the u be,to doc) but by thedearh of , the beatl > th,t livcth fo krre remote from thefe parts,and 
in huge valt Wiiderndles among other mod fierce and wilde beads, Tigers, and Panthers, Sec. and Specially 
if the Indlans b ™t them not either for their pleafure.or to make any profit by them, the Merchants not lee- 
hl ho J m ffu thC h i?T eS 1 fa y’ mutl ncedes fae rarc and fcarce t0 be had > and of great worth and price, if they 
,y whlch keepeth them in che more high edeeme. And therefore there want not Impoders, that for lucre 
and worke Ivory, and other homes artificially into peeces of fevcrall (hapes and formes, 
here hrfni u “ h ° rne ’?° man y 'gooranc perfons, but the true and right home is in part ddcribed 
■ bul: t0 » dd c father, that the true home being broken,Iheweth to have fome thicke fouldes or coates 
one over another, the infideis white, though thcoutfide is not fo white but browniih, and a very fmooth 
game, without.any)ine veine,or curled waving therein, havingonelya circle fometimes about the cdgece 
. , Muth Vn,cornes home as they fay,is to be had with our Druggids and Apothecaries,which is in (mall 
ong round peeces, fome no thicker then ones finger or thumbeatthe molt, or leldome bigger, that is very 
white fomewhac heavy and folid, with a fmooth graine, which becaufe I cannot thinke fo much of che right 
wberher 1 ,^"^ IT* C0 bebad f° read ''y> and ‘mail > I verily beleeve it to be of the Sea Vnicorne, which 
whether it hath that efficacy that the other is faid to have I know not. 
, „ “ laf ° me 'y hat P roba . bIe t h « even ad thofehomes formedy mentioned both in France, Venice, or elfe- 
; and th « alio of our Kings, kept at IVmJ( 0 r, 0 , the Tower, is but of the Sea Vnicorne, for even fuch as 
. £ dePcrlbed waabr ° u g bc h ° me b y a Slr Vudlep 'Digger,is I take it found on che ffiore.and cad up by the Sea 
ons f and nrherv tbe N° rth ,- Well < »" d g lv “ Co °ur King Charier , who for the cryall caufed his Phyfiti- 
u V,eW r‘J and ™ kc repor ' thereof 'o b ™. And my felfe having feene it, did well perceive it 
graine - The ho n rne'w« flde ’f n || b ' tnan . ner bef “ re , faid - a " d W“ wondcrous white within a!fo,and ofa clofe firm® 
§ me ' 1116 hornc was not ful| y whole, but broken oft a little at the end,and hollow at the bottome. 
