SECT. X. Many absurd things in the Books of Ma∣humetans.
BUT on the other side, it would be long to relate how many things there are, contrary to the truth of history; and many things very ridiculous in the writings of the Mahumetans. Such is that fable of a fair and beautiful Woman, that learned a solemn charm or Song of some Angels that were drunk, whereby she was wont to ascend into the Sky, and likewise descend again; and a∣scending once a great height into Heaven, she was caught of God, and there fixed, and made that Star which is called Venus.
Like to this, is that of a mouse in Noah's Ark, that was bred of an Elephant's Dung: and a Cat of the breath of a Lion.
More specially, that most notorious fiction, concerning Death to be changed into a Ram, that must remain in the middle space between Heaven and Hell: And the Fable of sweating out their good chear in the other life: When likewise (they imagine) there shall be whole