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the Names M^'^, Alcmenay Venus. The Name, of .^^^^ 
to ?eter^ of Pollux to Paul^ and other Names of Pagan 
Deities to others of the Apoftles. But, fays our Author, 
It is not here the bufinefs, whether any man may ef&ce, 
or give to another a foreign Name, when both have the 
fame Virtue and Fortunate Succefs : But the point of the 
matter lyes in the true Country of the Gods, that is, of the 
firft Kings of the North, and their paffing thence into the 
reft of the World, and in the fearch of the true Origine of 
their Names ^ which he conceives fairly to have made a{> 
pear to be Gothick» And he gives what follows, as a more 
fafe Guide to all Searchers into Antiquities. 
. J. That a man renders that Tongue familiar to him, in 
which are comprehended the things done by the Hcrots^ 
K-jngs or People to be defcrib'd: for finceeach man has got 
his. firft Titles or Praifes in his Country Language, whea 
thefe are brought to Foreigners, unlefs they arc accurately 
imderftood, they will precipitate men, how learned focver 
otherwife, into, moft grofs errors. Of this he gives an In- 
ftance in the word Jupiter^ whofe force and fignification 
being underftood by few GreeV and Latin Writers, they 
interpreted it various ways 5 whereas it's only their 
Country that has retain d this word as a Regal Title, frorai 
the moft remote memory of their Anceftors, the Gothick 
word being Jofur^ Jo denoting the Earth, and Fur^ or Fa^ 
durj Father, Prince^ or King. 
X That a man read with diligence and accuracy all Au- 
thors that are to be gotten, and comjiare them together. ^ 
That he faithfully and foberly infpedJ: the Argument 
itfelf, it having befen ufual with the Poets to fport them- 
felves with divers Significations of the fame Word, as the 
nature of the Argument required, of which he gives fome 
Inftances. • 
In his third Chapter he treats of the Fables of the Scalds^ 
that is, of their Poets, which, together with their Gods, 
that is, with^ their Kings, paft to the Greel^j^ . Mgyftians^ 
