Part of Du Bartas English and French, and in his owne kinde of verse, so neare the French Englished, as may teach an English-man French, or a French-man English. With the commentary of S.G. S. By William L'Isle of Wilburgham, Esquier for the Kings body.

12 Now. The like is seene in many bookes of late times and ancient, that treat of the Kingdomes, Countries, and people of the world: for many labour more to come neare Noes Arke, and to finde there the foundation of their Townes, and names of their first Princes, then about other more certaine and sure grounds. And they had rather forge names, and deuise matter of their owne head, than leaue to packe huge volumes full of tales, witnessing the strange vanity of mans braine. The Poet condemnes this foolish ambition, and by good ••••ght: all the matter, when it is at the best, being very doubtfull and vnprofit••ble: for man was placed on the earth to thinke rather on the seruice of God, than so to trouble his head with curi∣ous out-search of his ancestors names.

13 Of that suppos'ed Berose. Who so desires to know that the Berose late printed is false, supposed, and cleane contrary to the right Chaldean, cited

often by Ioseph in his Antiquities against Apion, let him reade the fourth booke of Goropius his Origines Antuerpianae. And so let him thinke also of Manetho, Metasthenes, Fabius Pictor, Sempronius, Myrsilus Lesbius and others packt, as they are, into one volume, by some one that thought to doe great matters by abusing so the Readers, and holding them in amuse by false de∣uises from further search of the truth. I will not here set downe the words of Goropius, who at large discouers the forgednesse of this new Berose and his followers: let it suffice to haue pointed at the place. The true Berose was one of the Priests of Bel, and at the commandement of Antiochus the third, who succeeded Seleucus, wrote three bookes of the Chaldean Historie: so saith Tatianus, Ioseph, and Clemens Alexandrinus. Some fragments of his we reade in Ioseph against Apion, and they make flat against that other Berose published in our time.