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1In
Affrica1
about the Fountain’s brink2Where Beasts Assemble, None presumes to drink
3Untill they see the stately Unicorn,
4Who stirs the Poysonous Waters with his Horn.
5Then with extended Jaws
they drink their Fill2
.6Thus
hee the Forrest Governeth3
at his Will.7Hee Scorns all Huntsmen, who can never take
8
This Gallant Beast4
till they a Mayden make9To Sit where hee doth haunt, him to allure,
10For in her lap hee’l lie and sleep secure.
11Thus hee that Scorn’d his Potent’st Enemie
12Is now inslav’d by A Virgins Eye.
13Soe Sampson though Enabled from above
14Found Death and Ruin from his Wanton Love.
15Hee that a Thousand Slaughterd with a
Jaw5
,16Beeing Blind and Captive, in A Mill did draw.
17
Soe Solloman6
allur’d by various Love18Did Leave the True and Glorious God above
19To Worship those whose Fabricke is of Dust;
20The Wisest King was thus inslav’d by Lust.
21The Strongest and the Wisest thus you see
22Fool’d by their strength and Wisdome often bee.
23Then let all Youthfull Gallants warning take
24
To choose by Reason7
, not for Fancies sake8
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