Natural history in Shakespeare's time : being extracts illustrative of the subject as he knew it / Made by H. W. Seager, M. B., &c. Also pictures thereunto belonging.
- Seager, H. W. (Herbert West), 1848-
- Date:
- 1896
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Natural history in Shakespeare's time : being extracts illustrative of the subject as he knew it / Made by H. W. Seager, M. B., &c. Also pictures thereunto belonging. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.
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![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 hghteth 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 [^.'t'.], and some Monoceron^ and j^gloceron. And Monoceron is 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 j-Egloceron is a manner of Unicorn, that is](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2100433x_0334.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
