The next Thing this Critick takes notice of, is _Dryden_'s making _Cleomenes_ a _Copernican_ 2000 Years before _Copernicus_'s Time. The Rest of the Criticisms turn upon the Improbability that Don _Sebastian_ King of _Portugal_ understood Latin, tho' he never prayed to God in any other Language; or that the Emperor of _Barbary_ had ever heard of the Names of _Bacchus_, _Cupid_, _Castor_, and _Pollux_, or the Mufti of _Archimedes_, tho' we are credibly informed, that most of the Greek and Roman Learning was translated into _Arabick_; and it is well known that the _Arabians_ were the greatest Encouragers of Arts and Sciences for three or four Centuries, when they were buried all over Christendom under the Rubbish of Monkery and Barbarism; and the Revivers of Learning were obliged to them for their Translations and Comments, which were turned into _Latin_ out of _Arabick_. I have not only read of a Translation of _Aristotle_ with Comments by _Aben Rois_, and of _Euclid_ by _Nassir Eddyn_, with Notes, but of an _Arabick Ovid_, where the Fable is the Foundation of the Work, and several other Classicks in the _Arabick_ Tongue. How easy would it be to fill up such Critical Epistles as that in the _Guardian_ with as just and curious Remarks out of the best Epick Poets! How has _Chaucer_ confounded the Sacred _Scripture_ History with Pagan Fables: _There by the Fount_ Narcissus _pin'd alone: There_ Sampson _was, and wiser_ Solomon: Medea'_s Charms were there._ Dryden _from_ Chauc. _Ariosto_ does the same in the xxxii Book of _Orlando Furioso_: Joshua_'s Day seemed shorter than the same, Shorter did seem the false_ Amphytrion_'s Night._ Harrington. The same does _Tasso_, _Canto_ iv of his _Jierusamme_: _There where_ Cileno_'s foul and loathsome Rout; The_ Sphinges, Centaurs; _there where_ Gorgon_'s fell, There howling_ Scilla_'s, yawling round about: There Serpents hiss, there seven mouth'd_ Hydra_'s yell,_ Chimera _there spues Fire and Brimstone out, And_ Polyphemus _blind suporteth Hell._ Fairfax. All understood of the Hell, which is the Punishment of the Damned, according to the Christian Theology, and here confounded with the fabled Empire of _Pluto_. _Spencer_ too mixes Scripture History with the Fable: _Canto_ ix. _The Years of_ Nestor _nothing were to his, Ne yet_ Methusalem, _tho' longest liv'd; For he remembred both their Infancies._ Nay _Milton_ himself adorns the _Pandæmonium_ with Dorick Pillars, while _Adam_ and _Eve_ lived in the _Bowers_ of Paradise before Man had a House to put his Head in: --------_Pilasters round Were set, and Dorick Pillars overlaid With golden Architrave._ He also borrows the Rivers of the Hell of the Heathens for his Christian Poem: