The second space or interval of time is accounted from the flood unto the first Olympiad, that is, the year of the world 3174, which extendeth unto the days of _Isaiah_ the Prophet, and some twenty years before the foundation of _Rome_: this they term _Mythicon_ or fabulous, because the account thereof, especially of the first part, is fabulously or imperfectly delivered. Hereof some things have been briefly related by the Authors above mentioned: more particularly by _Dares Phrygius_, _Dictys Cretensis_, _Herodotus_, _Diodorus Siculus_, and _Trogus Pompeius_; the most famous _Greek_ Poets lived also in this interval, as _Orpheus_, _Linus_, _Musæus_, _Homer_, _Hesiod_; and herein are comprehended the grounds and first inventions of Poetical fables, which were also taken up by historical Writers, perturbing the _Chaldean_ and _Egyptian_ Records with fabulous additions; and confounding their names and stories, with their own inventions. The third time succeeding until their present ages, they term _Historicon_, that is, such wherein matters have been more truly historified, and may therefore be believed. Of these times also have been written _Herodotus_, _Thucydides_, _Xenophon_, _Diodorus_; and both of these and the other preceding such as have delivered universal Histories or Chronologies; as (to omit _Philo_, whose Narrations concern the _Hebrews_) _Eusebius_, _Julius Africanus_, _Orosius_, _Ado_ of _Vienna_, _Marianus Scotus_, _Historia tripartita_, _Urspergensis_, _Carion_, _Pineda_, _Salian_, and with us Sir _Walter Raleigh_. Now from the first hereof that most concerneth us, we have little or no assistance; the fragments and broken records hereof inforcing not at all our purpose. And although some things not usually observed, may be from thence collected, yet do they not advantage our discourse, nor any way make evident the point in hand. For the second, though it directly concerns us not, yet in regard of our last medium and some illustrations therein, we shall be constrained to make some use thereof. As for the last, it concerns us not at all; for treating of times far below us, it can no way advantage us. And though divers in this last Age have also written of the first, as all that have delivered the general accounts of time, yet are their Tractates little auxiliary unto ours, nor afford us any light to detenebrate and clear this Truth.