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there was no room in his firft part, he has thought ir fit 
and neceflary to add fomewhat of thefe here ^ premitting 
fdme things concerning the genuine way of drawing Trurii 
from the Fables of the Ancients. Wherefore in his fccond 
Chapter he fpeaks of the Poetical Elogiesof thex\nrienc Po- 
etsy ofthe difficult explication of them, and of the genuine 
way^ of explicating them. Firft then he fays it's generally 
known it was a thmg commonly in ufe among the Ancient 
Writers, to explain, in a Poetical way, the origine of the 
World, the Deluge, the more famous changes of things in 
the World, Wars, Marriages, and other aff;iir^ of great 
moment : And this, that thefe things might be read with 
the greater' pleafure, and ftick more tenacioufly in the Rek- 
ders Memories: he quotes many places of the Ancients abet- 
ting' this pofition, and afcribing the Origine of Fables to 
tlwThracians:, and Samotktacians. He fays that Orfheus; 
whb' was alio 2i Thracian^ divulgd the fame Fables- to the 
JEgyptians, Greeks^ and others 5 and that, in his Argonau- 
tick^, he profeffes himfelf to have learnt thefe things from 
the remoteft Northern parts: But that after the TrojanWar 
the Learned World began to be fo blind inr the fearch and 
diligent examination of this kind of Writing; that Learned 
Men, ftudiousof thefe matters, have been driven into vari- 
ous and very contrary fentimetits. Some, whatfoever they ' 
found in the Fables^ of the Antients, thought ought to be 
drawn to the Sun, Moon, Stars, JEthr, Sea, and the like* 
Others thought the Manners, Virtues, and Vices of Meu 
were delineated after that manner. H^^^zV;^ thought raofi:^ 
patt of the jfem//& affairs were comprehended in thofe Fa- 
bles, and therefore he judg'd, in the Writings of the 
Poets, he could fee the Shadows, or Images of the things 
done by Mofes, the Patriarchs, and Prophets. After him 
Jacobus Hugo thought the Fables of the Antients were to be 
apply 'd to the affairs of our Saviour Ckrifi, and the Apo- 
ftles, and thought it not abfurd to give Chriji the Names of 
HercHles, Mercury i AfoUoi and J<ifon 3 to-the Virgin M^aryi 
