Monosceros est beste, un corn ad en la teste, pur ceo ad si a nun. de buc ele ad facun. par pucele eat prise, or oez en quel guise, quant hom le volt cacer et prendre et enginner, si vent horn al orest u sis repaires est; la met une pucele hors de sein sa mamele, e par odurement monosceros la sent; dune vent a la pucele, si baiset sa mamele, en sun devant se dort, issi vent a sa mort; li hom survent atant, ki l'ocit en dormant, u trestut vif le prent, si fait puis sun talent. grant chose signefie, ne larei nel vus die. Monosceros griu est, en franceis un-corn est: beste de tel baillie Jhesu Crist signefie; un deu est e serat e fud e parmaindrat; en la virgine se mist, e pur hom charn i prist, e pur virginited, pur mustrer casteed, a virgine se parut e virgine le conceut. virgine est e serat e tuz jurz parmaindrat. ores oez brefment le signefiement. Ceste beste en verte nus signefie de; la virgine signefie, sacez, sancte Marie; par sa mamele entent sancte eglise ensement; e puis par le baiser ceo deit signefier, que hom quant il se dort en semblance est de mort: des cum home dormi, ki en cruiz mort sufri, ert sa destructiun nostre redemptiun, e sun traveillement nostre reposement. si deceut des diable par semblant cuvenable; anme e cors sunt un, issi fud des et hum, e iceo signefie beste de tel baillie. _Bestiaries_ and _Computs_ (the French title of the Chronologies) were for some time the favourites with didactic verse writers, but before long the whole encyclopaedia, as it was then understood, was turned into verse. Astrology, hunting, geography, law, medicine, history, the art of war, all had their treatises; and latterly _Tresors_, or complete popular educators, as they would be called nowadays, were composed, the best-known of which is that of Walter of Metz in 1245. [Sidenote: Moral and Theological verse.]