them together reigning three a above three thousand | [years before the fall of Nineveh. ] | [S]o then wee need not wonder
that the Egyptians have made the Kings in the first Dynastie of their Monarchy
(that w^ch was seated at Thebes in the days of David Solomon & Rehoboam) so
very ancient & so long lived, since the Persians have done the like th to thei[r] kings
who began to reign in Persia \Assyria/ two hundred y[e]ars after the death of Solomon
[Much less need we wonder that the Greeks have made their first kings a little older
then the truth. ] And the Syrians of Damascus have done \the [like] to/ their kings Adar & |Hazael|
who reigned [9]0 or 100 years after the death of Solomon, & yet the [Syrians]
worshipped |ing| them as ancient Gods \& boasting of their antiquity &/ not knowing, saith Iosephus that they
were but modern. And whilst all these nations have magnified their An
tiquities so exceedingly, we need not wonder that the Greeks & Latines have
made their first kings a little older then the truth.