The Stately Unicorn (Emblem 14)

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