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A25906	The interpretation of dreams digested into five books by that ancient and excellent philosopher, Artimedorus / compiled by him in Greek, and translated afterwards into the Latine, the Italian, the French, and Spanish tongues, and now more exactly rendered into English ...; Oneirocritica. English	Artemidorus, Daldianus.; Valerius Maximus.; R. W. (Robert Wood)	1644 (1644)	Wing A3799; ESTC R9580	70,119	204

tempest is good for all except to those which go into a strange Country and those which have their vocation and work abroad without shelter Little Rains and dr●ps of water is good for Plowmen to others it is little gain Great tempestuous Rains are troubles hurt and dangers except to those which are servants poore and afflicted for it argues short deliverance from theyr present evils as presently after so suddaine a Tempest comes fayr Weather Snow and yse séen in theyr time signifye nothing but that the spirit when the body sléeps remembers the cold of the day But out of time and season it is onely good for plowmen to others not for it argues that theyr businesse shall go forward coldly and forbids them to travaile Hayles are troubles and heavinesse and reveales secrets Thunder without Lightnings to servants trouble and falshood but Lightning without thunder vaine feare and without cause To sée the Elementary fire cleane pure and cleare not great nor thicke are threatnings to some Nobles and men of gea● Estates But large fire and th●eke is approach of Enemies Povertie and Famine In what place soever the fire is and from what place it comes be it from the North South East or West from that side shall the Enemies come and about those Regions shall they run or else there shall be famine but yet it is worse to dream that he carries the fire To see in your dream torches and burning flames fall from heaven signifie that Wood stacks Colonnies and trées shall be burnt it is also great and extream danger of life to him that dreams it Lightning without tempest falling near without touching the body signifyeth change of place falling before a man forbids travailing To be touched and smitten with Lightning such a dreame is good for those which would not have their sin and povertie hidden for others will reveale them to the rich and mighty men adorned with great dignity as that of a Scepter or Crown of gold it is good for the fire resembleth the gold to others this dreams signifyeth losse of goods Moreover to those which are unmarried it signifieth marriage be they rich or poore but it breaketh marriages made and maketh friends enemies for Lightning looseneth but uniteth not those that have children upon this dream shall lose them for the trée toucht with Lightning withers and loseth both fruit flower and bud to dream of Lightning makes Champions honourable and graceth Oratours and all such as would show themselves and make appearance Also it is good for him which is at Law in case of honour and renowne though losse in cases of Possessions and houses but not losse of Land to them which possesse it to those which pretend to take Possession it denies entrance Also it signifieth to him which is in a strange Country that he shall return to his owne and to which is in his owne that he shall die there you must understand it is all one to dreame you are onely toucht on the head or on the stomack or to be burned by the Lightning but take héed lest you dreame you are all burned and consumed by the Lightning for it is death to him which dreams it Also you must know that it is not good to be scorcht with lightning being with his face on the earth or lying on ones backe or being in a ship but onely being upright upon his feet or sitting in a royall and magestick Seat Of Houshold fire TO dreame you sée fire on the Harth cléere and little is good but much is ill Little and cleare is abundance of goods dead fire is Poverty And if there be any one sicke in the house it is death To hold torches and fire-brands by night is good especially to yong folks to whom most often it signifieth love with pleasure and effect But to sée another hold a torch is ill to those which would be secret A burning light in the House cléer and clean is affluence of goods to the Poore to unmarried persons marriage to the Sicke health But an obscure and troubled Light is heavinesse and death by Sicknesse A light put out is health to the sick for soon after one will light it againe A Lampe of Brasse is eyther great goods or great evils according to the disposition of the light A Lampe of Earth signifieth least hurt the one and the other reveale secrets A Lampe séene in a Ship is a signe of great joy and tranquility to Navigators Of burning houses HOuses burning with a cléer fire without falling or diminishing is Riches to the Poore and to the Rich higher Estate and Dignity But to the Houses which burn or fall or consume are ill to all and signifie death of masters children servants Parents or Friends In like sort trées burning before or within the house The doore of the house séeming to be on fire is death to the good wife and danger to him which dreams it To kindle the Fyre easily in the Oven or Harth is a signe of Generation but for it to goe out straight after is hurt Of Dogs and the Chase THe hayes and ginnes and all such things to ensnare and surprise beasts are ill unlesse to them which seeke Servants run away and a thing lost for then it signifieth speedy recoverie It is better to set and hold them your selfe then to see another hold them in asmuch as it is better to trouble then to be troubled Gray-hounds going to the Chase are good to all and signifie actions and imployments ensuing to such as are accused and are in suit of law they are il but returning from hunting they take away feare and hinder a workeman A houshold Dog signifyes farms servants and possessions to come an other mans dog fawning on us signifyeth craft and deceit against us by his Master byting and barking at us signifie injuries adversities and oftentimes Agues Little Ladies dogs signifie delight and pastime Of Beasts of all sorts A Sheep signifieth advancement and obtaining of goods wherefore it is good to dreame you have many of them or see them of others and feed them Especially to those which desire to handle Government and charge of people and those which have attained thereto already it is also good for Sophisters Pedaunts and Schoole-masters The Ramme signifieth the Master or the Prince and King It is good to dreame to be lifted on high surely and by plain and easie places especially for Orators Atorneys Proctors and all those which have desire to heap up gold and silver by his labour Goats signifie no good but are worse to Navigators Asses bearing charge strong and obedient are good for friendship and company and signifie the Wife companion or friend being not proud above their estate or fierce but gentle and very obedient and they are also good in all affairs and enterprises Mules are good for al works especially to husbandry only they crosse weddings and procreations If the Asses or Mules are hot or mad and

A T'ingrave a Moon or Morpheus is a Theam With Artists common as it is to dream But to Interpret Dreams as here doth passe All Workes that ever have been cut in brasse THE INTERPRETATION OF DREAMES Digested into five books by that Ancient and excellent Philosopher ARTIMEDORVS Compiled by him in Greek and translated afterwards into the Latine the Italian the French and Spanish Tongues And now more exactly rendred into English It being a work of great esteem in all Ages and pleasant and profitable to peruse for all conditions of people whatsoever In animum mentem cum qua Dii nocte loquuntur Behold their minds with whom i th' dead of night Angels themselves to have discourse delight When good dreams fall I do with Ioy pursue them When bad ones fall I pray I may eschew them The fourth Edition newly corrected by the French and Latine Copy LONDON Printed by Bernard Alsop 1644. TO THE TRULY HONOUrable Sir William Playters Knight and Baronet c. SIR THe Interpretation of Dreames is of the same Originall and Extent as is the inspiration or Divine Vertue by which they are infused That God appeared in Dreams and in the Visions of the night the sacred Text doth plentifully testifie And that GOD unto some selected men by a peculiar spirit did give the perfect knowledge of the Interpretation of Dreams the same Divine Truth doth give remarkable demonstrations I need not to declare unto you the admirable guifts of Joseph almost in the first Age of the world and of the Prophet Daniel in the second Their Interpretations in those dayes of the Dreames of the Egyptian and Assyrian Monnrchy do sufficiently declare the praescience of their spirits and how near of kinne they were to God Our Author being a Philosopher and working onely by second causes by the light of Nature had not that happy interest to be so immediately so divinely inspired SIR I make bold to present him to you in an English dresse And although by the Ignorance of Antiquity he had the misfortune to be a Heathen you shall finde him through the Excellence of his merit to be clothed in the most refined Languages of Christendome I have the rather been induced to devote this Book unto you because your Candor to the Arts and excellent Experience in the great and choise affairs of Peace and Warre is of a wide Latitude and not to be confined within the English bounds Your Experience beyond the Seas doth sufficiently declare your worth both when you travelled first by your self and when being Major Domo you afterwards took with you the lively image of your self your most noble and hopefull Son whose understanding in the knowledges both Polemicall and Politicall you increased by foraign observations and admirably inlightned it by your own example According to your noblenesse in this tempest of Warre receive this Present of the Arts and be pleased to protect revived Artimedorus And also though the Subiect be of Dreams to excuse his zeale who will ever be awake to expresse himselfe to be SIR Your most humble and devoted Servant BERNARD ALSOP The Preface SOme are of opinion that Dreames which arise of Naturall and Carnall affection are likewise to be interpreted As an Vsurer to dream of gold or any other carnall men when they dreame of such things as their natures are prone and subject unto But our Authour Artimedorus doth not agree with them in their opinion but saith dreames of any importance or which come of God are farre different from their effect and the experience of them And contrariwise he affirmes that those Dreames which are shapen to our affections and thoughts are to speak ingenuously as much as nothing and wee must take no heed of them And surely I am confident that an ordinary Whoremaster an avaritious Extortioner an envious person or an ambitious man a flatterer or dissembler or a common and notorious drunkard do not commonly see any good dreame or any dreame that tendeth to the honour or profit eyther of himself his friends or of the Common-wealth But it oftentimes commeth to passe that an honest pure chaste and vertuous man because he is exempt from humane fragility I thinke may and shal often see and interpret dreams and Visions To the safety honour and profit of himselfe his friends and the Common wealth For asmuch as his spirit is lesse bound tyed and soyld with the fellowship of the body In the Holy Scripture we have experience both in the Old and new Testament Ioseph the Sonne of Iacob and Ioseph the husband of the Virgin Mary Saint Peter in the second of the Acts repeateth the Prophesie of Ioell whereby he sheweth that it was no new thing if God sent Visions and Dreams There are other places in the Holy Scriptures which I shall forbear here to insert these being sufficient to prove the antiquity of them Touching humane Histories you may see much of the issue and experience of dreames Virgils Mother when she was with childe of him dreamed that she saw a branch of Lawrell growing and she brought forth a Poet to whom given a Lawreat Crown Also Hecuba Queen of Troy when she was with childe of Paris dreamt that she should bring forth a fire brande which should at once consume the whole Country and it afterwards proved true for the said Paris of whom she was delivered was cause of the ruine burning and destruction of Troy which was interpreted by his sister Cassandra to whom they gave no credit whereupon the mischief ceized not onely upon the King and Queen father and mother of the said Paris but also upon all the Kingdome whose miserable destruction is reproved to this day Socrates dreamt that he saw a little Swan in his lap whose feathers grew and presently spreading his wings and flying on high sang a sweet and harmonious song And the day following Plato came to him to be his Scholler who by his learning and knowledge soard high and by his eloquence sang sweetly King Astiages dreamt when his daughter was with childe that there would arise from her nature a Vine growing so fast that the boughs thereof should overshade the Regions of his Dominions which afterwards fell out accordingly for she bore Cyrus the great King of Persia which was the Master and Lord of all those Countries I might besides alledge Philip of Macedon father to Alexander the great whose dreame Alexander the Philosopher expounded and according to which Exposition it fell out Also Cicero Haniball Calphurnia and many others which had Dreams and Visions by night whose effects came to passe as great and divers Histories do verifie But for brevities sake I shall forbeare to instance any more particulars lest I should offend my Reader with presuming too much upon his patience Lesse I would have said but was loth to leave the curious unsatisfied And to conclude it seems to me great arrogancy in any man to say that all Visions and Dreames are vain and

of none effect which hath already been proved false by many histories both divine and humane and I think it were to dispute against God and wrong to the soul of man which is indeed the mirrour of heavenly things in making it alwayes in all things unprofitable a Vagabond vain and idle seeing that when the body resteth the soul seemeth most to raign and rule in his force and vertue and in her spirituall apprehensible and intellectuall Nobility Wherefore I will agree in opinion with Socrates who saith That man whether he live or dye is in the hands of GOD who takes all his affayrs in his hand and in care disposeth there at his pleasure and forewarns 〈◊〉 by many secret and hidden wa●● as it pleaseth him yet let me adde this one word that dreams are much more Divine then Physiognomy Chiromancy Podomancy and Astrology as being done by the soul onely Physitians also do make account of Dreames for by them they often know the quantity of the humours which are predominant the spring and cause long or short of diseases I doubt not but some men at the first sight when they read this book will think it a vain and frivolous thing for I my selfe have often times said as much and before I had seen the Booke I ●●ought as much But after that by long time and continuance I had compared these things with experience as well in my self as others I could no but reverence and admire bo● the Worke and the Authour And I am of opinion that there is no juditious Reader but will yeeld unto this truth and therefore I shall forbear to produce any further proofs but commit thee to the perusall of that which followeth And rest Thy loving Friend R. W. The first Booke of Artimedorus His Exposition of Dreames Of Dreams either solely Speculative or Allegorically Significative DReames are either Speculative and agréeable to their vision as when a man dreams that the ship wherein he is doth perish and rising finds it true and saves himself with some few besides Or Allegoricall by one thing signifying another Whereby our soule doth naturally advise us that under them there is somewhat abstrus'd secret or hid First therefore I will set down the definition of a dream in generall against which to object were to love contention A dream therefore is a motion or fiction of the soule in a diverse form signifying either good or evill to come Of Dreames such as belong not to others being onely for or against those which see them and not meant against or by any other shall happen to those only which see them as to speak to sing to dance to fight or to swim But things which are about the body or outward things as beds chests moveables cloathing c. Although they be in proper and particular yet it fals out that often they come to our neighbours according to the necessity and propriety of the usage And in such sort the head signifies the father the right hand the mother the son and the brother the left hand the wife the friend the daughter and the sister Moreover all those which are done by us and in us and towards us only we must think that they appertaine to us particularly And on the contrary al such are as not done by us nor towards us nor in us shall happen to others and yet notwithstanding if they be our friends and the dreams signify good the joy shall come to us and if contrary then the contrary But if they be our enemies we ought to think and judge accordingly Of the birth IF any one dreams that he comes out of a womans belly as to be borne into the world he must judge in this force This dream is good for him which is poore for he shall have means or friends which will maintain him if he be not a trades-man of an art which requireth the work of the hand for this dream forewarns him that he shal be without work as children which have their hands bound together To him which is rich this dream signifieth that he shall have no rule in the house but others shal overrule him against his will for children are govern'd by others To him whose wife is not with child it signifieth that he shal loose his wife for children are not married nor come at women But to him whose wife is with child it signifies that he shall have a sonne in all things like himselfe And hee shall bee so like him as if himselfe were borne twice To Champions and combatants this dream is ill For children can neither goe nor run and cannot assaile any man To him which is in a far country that he shall return home as if he should return to his beginning then he shall returne home as if that hee should returne to his veginning To a sick man it signifieth death because the dead are wrapped in linnen clothes as children and laid in the ground To be big with child IF any one being poore dream that he is great with child he shall become rich and shall gather a great deale of mony If hee be rich hee shall bee in pain and care Hee which hath a wife shall loose her having no more need that she shall beare children He which hath no wife shal have a gentle one To others it signifieth sicknes But to be big with child and then to be delivered is all one for it meanes that the sick person shall dye quickly But to him that is poor and indebted induring pain and misery it is an end a discharge of all his present evils also this dreame revealeth secrets This dreame is crosse to rich usurers factors and all such as are in authority for that which they had before they shall loose But to Merchants and Sailers or to them which have ships this dream is good To many after this dream hath hapned losse of parent To have Children TO dreame that you see or have children of your own and not other mens is ill to man and wife For it foretels care and heavinesse for necessaries without the which children cannot bee nourished But the male children bring good successe daughters bring an end worse then the beginning for they are married with a dowry I know a man which dream't that he had a daughter borne and hee borrowed mony for interest and on the contrary side I knew another which dream't that hee buried his daughter deceased and it fel out that hee was constrained to pay a debt for which he was bound So then his daughter made agreement with the debt But to see other mens children is good when they are faire and well favoured for this signifieth that a good and happy time is at hand Of Children wrapped in clothes and linnen and of Milke IF any one dreams to see himselfe wrapped in clothes in fashion of little Children and to suck some womans dugges which he knoweth it argueth long sicknes if he