Secondly, Although we concede there may be many _Unicorns_, yet are we still to seek; for whereunto to affix this Horn in question, or to determine from which thereof we receive this magnified Medicine, we have no assurance, or any satisfactory decision. For although we single out one, and eminently thereto assign the name of the _Unicorn_; yet can we not be secure what creature is meant thereby; what constant shape it holdeth, or in what number to be received. For as far as our endeavours discover, this animal is not uniformly described, but differently set forth by those that undertake it. [SN: _The Unicorn, how variously reported by Authors._] _Pliny_ affirmeth it is a fierce and terrible creature; _Vartomannus_ a tame and mansuete Animal: those which _Garcias ab Horto_ described about the cape of good hope, were beheld with heads like horses; those which _Vartomannus_ beheld, he described with the head of a Deer; _Pliny_, _Ælian_, _Solinus_, and after these from ocular assurance, _Paulus Venetus_ affirmeth, the feet of the _Unicorn_ are undivided, and like the Elephants: But those two which _Vartomannus_ beheld at _Mecha_, were as he describeth, footed like a Goat. As _Ælian_ describeth, it is in the bigness of an Horse, as _Vartomannus_, of a Colt; that which _Thevet_ speaketh of was not so big as an Heifer; but _Paulus Venetus_ affirmeth, they are but little less then Elephants. Which are discriminations very material, and plainly declare, that under the same name Authors describe not the same Animal: so that the _Unicorns_ Horn of one, is not that of another, although we proclaim an equal vertue in all. Thirdly, Although we were agreed what Animal this was, or differed not in its description, yet would this also afford but little satisfaction; for the Horn we commonly extol, is not the same with that of the Ancients. For that in the description of _Ælian_ and _Pliny_ was black: this which is shewed amongst us is commonly white, none black; and of those five which _Scaliger_ beheld, though one spadiceous, or of a light red, and two enclining to red, yet was there not any of this complexion among them.