Town and in this case whatsoever they shall do or say shall befall the said personages Of the Mole THe Mole signifieth a man blind by inconvenience and labor in vain and signifies also that he which would be secret shall be disclosed by himselfe Of night Birdâ— THe Madge howlet the Owl the Bittern the Bat and all other night Bâ—rds crosse any enterprise or advancement of affayres but take away feare and terrours Onely the Bat is good to women with childe for she layes not Egs as other Byrds do but little ones and beares milk where with she nourisheth her young if these byrds are seen in a dream to enter a house to dwell there it signifies that his house shall be desolate and forsaken of the inhabitants he which goeth by sea or land and sees in his dream any of these birds he shall fall into a great tempest or the hands of théeves Of the Clock A Clock signifieth actions operations motions attempts and surprizing in any necessary things if the clock fall or breake it is ill and great danger especially to the sick it is ever better to count the houres before noone then after The Authors Conclusion of the Third Book Bâ—hold then all which wanted or which was not fit to be put in the two former books sufficiently as I suppose are comprised in the Third Booke And for this cause I thought it good to make this little Book apart lest I should have omitted those things therein contained and by that meanes some other might take occasion eyther to write another Book of this subject or adde to mine But you must know that there is nothing more tedious or difficult then to understand the diversity composition and mixtion of dreames and to prescribe Generall Rules for all kindes of dreames Séeing that sometimes nay often one may sée the same dreame and at the same time of the night or day things contrary and which have no resemblance or agréement But it is impossible that things signified by the self same dreames should differ or be repugnant among themselves if so be that the dreames foretell matters of import which shall happen For as in all other things there is an order and dependance so also is it very likely that the same falles out in dreams When therefore one shall sée in his dream things both good and evill then he must think with himselfe which were the first and which were the last For in worldly affayres sometimes even the greatest occasion of hope hath had issue and on the contrary the greatest occasions of doubt and feare have had good issue and for great evils which one hath expected one hath found but small and for little hope of good one hath found nonâ— at all So that mixt and compounded dreams are very doubtfull and cannot easily be understood or expounded which is a great griefe to many But for my part I have writ methodically and in the best and easiest order that I could that every one might take an easie course in the exposition of dreames And as Schoole-masters after they have taught their children the knowledge and property of any one letter in particular afterwards teacheth them how they must use them all together In like-sort would I prescribe certain little and easie rules and foyne them to that which hath béen said in my thrée former Books to the end that they may be the better learned and understood For to such as have had experience and long practise this will be very easie and shall suffice to instruct them in all things what they signifie to the purpose then In our first Book we said that the Head signifies the Father of him that dreamt it And in the second that the Lion signifieth the King or Sicknesse And in the Chapter of Death that it is good for poore folks to dreame that they dye when therefore any poore man having his Father rich dreames that a Lion comes to devoure or teare in pieces his head and the same poor man séemes to remain dead and without a head in his dream it is likely that his Father shall die and he shall be his hâ—yr and by this meanes shall forgoe the faintnesse of his poverty and become rich seeing that he hath neither father nor poverty that shall kéepe him downe any longer For in this dream the head representeth the father the losse of the head the death of the father the Lion the sicknesse whereof his father shall dye And death to the poore man is change of estate shewing that by riches his poverty shall be expelled In such sort one must leade himselfe to the interpretation of all diverse and mingled dreames of any whole Chapter or speech gathering together and making one onely exposition like as one Medicine is made of many hearbes and rootes To which intent I desire all courteous Readers who are desirous to peruse my Bookes not to accuse or blame them before they have diligently read and understood them For I am confident and dare affirm with great security that my Bookes will not be rejected by the learned and juditious Readers nor by those who are either studious diligent or friendly Readers The Fourth Booke of Artimedorus Of the variety and diversity of Dreams OF Dreames some are Speculative that is to say which come if one may so speak in the fashion of the spirit when the body resteth Others are Allegoricall that is to say which shew under other things those things which they would signifie and are more hard to interpret chiefly because one is in doubt whether the things will fall out as the spirit hath presented them or in some other manner understood by them wherefore first of all we must understand that the effect of Speculative dreams is brought to passe if it shall happen at all For all dreames have not an effect presently or soone after the dream But the effect of Allegoricall dreames appeares sometime after either long or short as a day or two But it were fondnesse in any man to think that monstrous and impossible things should happen as the dreamer hath seene them And we must know and note that Artificers represent theyr Art amongst those which are of the same art As the Atturney which dreamt that an other Atturney was sick was a long time without Clients the Smith which dreamt that he saw a Smith which was his Neighbor carried to his grave afterwards left his owne shop and the Town wherein he dwelt But to speake of another Apollonides a Chyrurgion dreamt that in Fencing he had wounded many and by his Chyrurgery he had healed many and had great practise for the intent of Fencers is to wound but not to kill the like doth the Chyrurgion The Sick man dreaming he saw bread ready to be set in the Oven although the fruits of Ceres are ever good yet notwithstanding it signified to him a great Feaver to come because those Loaves were to be heated and baked in the
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 waâ—â— 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 â—â—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 boâ— 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
received many courtesies from you and being much ingaged unto you for your liberall acceptance of part of my former labours I once more am imboldened knowing you to be a well-wisher to the Arts and a lover of Learning to present this Treatise to your view whose very name is sufficient to defend it from the calumnious reproaches of the Câ—iticall Reader and commend it to the approbation of the juditious It is a great attempt to be induced to write and conclude of that which as it often falles out is a thing so obscure secret unknown and uncertain as dreames are esteemed to be But because I am assured and know by the dignity of your spirit that you are altogether contrary to these ignorant detractors and take no pleasure in any such custome I thought good to present you with this Translation in form of an Epitome of the second Book of Artimedorus And I intreat you to receive this little present with the same respect and countenance wherewith you received me at my being with you which was as you should have received one of your better friends In reading and renewing whereof with iudgment and experience you shall doe me a pleasure and I hope it will prove both pleasant and profitable to your self I know no greater pleasure and profit that one would seeke then to foresee premeditate and prevent affayres be they good or evill to give him order and to reioyce and comfort us in God and with our friends of the good which it signifieth and sheweth unto us in the glasse of our soul which is onely our greatest and richest treasure or to pray to him and so prevent the encounter of evils wherewith he threatneth us by dreames and Visions to the end that we might turn or lessen them by his grace and our humility in all reverence and feare of his Maiestie and power As we reade in Iob VVhy strivest thou against God because he hath not answered all thy words For God speaketh by this meanes and that meanes to him which sees not the thing to wit by Dreames in a Vision by night when sleep arrests men and they are fast in Bed then openeth he mens eyes to feare him by instructing apparitions This is a great cause that we have God or any part of his Divinity in us as the Poets say which is in this agreeable to the truth of our Faith and the Scriptures And yet some make so little account of Gods admonitions significations or threats toward us in this case that they commonly esteem it as a mockery and derision And not onely the Dreames but those also which seeke to enlighten dispute of and expound them to the honour of the Creator and profit of the creature mocking abusing and as much as in them lies overthrowing them not without iniury to God wrong to the soul of man and violence to nature I cannot better compare such people then to the Scribes and Pharisees and to Esops Dog which hindred the Oxe from eating Hay which was not good for himselfe and whereof he had no use If one should never be admonished by a Dreame or if Dreames were not oftentimes an heavenly Revelation if Dreams were not a spirituall thing to wit an operation of the Spirit one might perhaps have some cause to blame them and wrong such as are studious therein Siâ— the Translatour professeth he shall reioyce more in the number though very small of such as shall commerce and profit by this his little translation then the great number of those detractors shall trouble him And saith that before ever he saw read or possest this Book of Artimedorus he heard it well reputed of by many learned and judicious men both in Italy and in France whose approbation incited him to desire to see it and often reading thereof and proving it a long time in himselfe and others he had a second desire to translate it thereby to bring this profit to our Nation and Country-men as well as the Latins and Italians have done theirs And it is also worth your observation to take notice that the things herein contained which were written about two thousand years ago have yet at this day the sameÌ„ effects events and issues part of which I have found by Experience Whereby it appeareth that the labour diligence and knowledge in this Treatise are deep and marvellous and not lesse fruitfull in experiences and effects then in good and naturall reasons Sir I fear I have too much presumed on your patience but intreating your goodnesse to excuse my tediousnesse I rest Yours to command R. W. The Preface of the Author upon the Second Book IN my First Book I handled the understanding of the Art and the manner how we may Judge of Dreames and onely glanced at things whereof I must speake more at large in the Second and Third Book as also of all things common and usuall to man Having alwayes regard that without great need I borrow nothing of others And yet leaving nothing which may fall to my purpose unlesse it be something which hath bin well and learnedly handled by the Ancients By whose meanes it were not needfull that I should handle it lest in desiring to contradict them I should be constrained to produce untruths or in saying as they do I should seeme to have a desire to hinder their Workes and Labours from comming to knowledge The end of the Preface The Second Booke of Artimedorus His Exposition of Dreames To Watch. TO dreame that in the Night one watcheth in a Chamber signifyeth to the rich great affayres to the poore and to those which would use any subtleties or deceits it is â—ood for the first shall not be without worke and gaine the others undergoing their attempts with great subtlety shall â—ome to the height of their enterprise To go out and salute one TO dreame you are going out of the house in the morning and are not hinâ—red nor stopt is good for it signifyes â—our businesse shall have good issue but not to be able to get out nor finde issue out of the house is hinderance to those that would travail and impeachment of affayrs anâ— long sicknesse to the sick To salute his familiar friend to speak to him and embrace him is good for it signifies you shall speak and hear good news but if they be not our very familiars but onely simply knownâ— to us the dream is not so good if they bâ— our enemies if signifies we shall enter into friendship with them To kisse the dead to him which is sick signifies death to him which is in health it forbids him to speake of his affayres at that present because hâ— hath kissed the mouth of the dead notwithstanding if the dead party hath béene ouâ— pleasant and private friend it hindreth not a whit either to speak or undertake any thing Of the Apparell in generall THe habits accustomed and agréeable to the season are good as in Summeâ— a habite of Linnen
cloth and fine Wooll in Winter a new garment and of strong wooll To him onely which is at law and which is a servant desiring liberty new aâ—â— parell is bad because he must have long time to use them and refuse them again A white garment is good only to Priests to others it signifies trouble to Mechanicks it signifies they shall have no work and revealeth Malefactors to the sick it is death but the black garment it is health Notwithstanding I have often séene poore men servants and captives having dreamt they were attyred in black died This black habit is bad except to them which would doe secret things To have a garment of divers colors or scarlet for Priests jesters and Stage-Players it is good to others it signifies troubls dangers and revealing of secrets to the sick it is they shal be tormented with strong and abundant humors A robe of scarlet to servants and rich men is good signifying liberty and honour or dignity It kils the sick and brings greater poverty to the poore to many it hath signified captivity for the man clad in purple or scarlet must also have a diadem or a crown and many about him to guard his body Every such robe dyed in Scarlet is to some hurts to others an ague A womans gown is good onely to those which have no wife and which come upon stages â—o play Others after this dream lose their wife or fall into great sicknes by reason of the delicacy and effeminatenesse of those which wear such garments And yet notwithstanding in cause of rejoycing and assemblies neither gowns of divers colours nor womens gowns are bad To have a gown of the fashion of some strange nation is good luck among strangers to him which purposeth to go or remain or leade his life amongst them to others it is sicknesse and hindrance of affayrs to have a delicate and sumptuous gown is good for rich and poore for to the first their present prosperity shall continue and to the other their goods shall increase Broken and torn gowns is hurâ— and hindrance of affayrs A Coat a jacket or short cloak or shirt of woollen cloth is anger and losse of a Law suit wherefore it 〈◊〉 better to dream you lose them then you have them But the losse of any other habâ—â— is not good except to the poore servanâ—â— captives and debtors for these garments being lost argue losse of evils which encompasse them for others it is not good 〈◊〉 dream of losse or nakednesse for it signifieth losse of goods and pleasant things â— fair and brave gown and of divers colourâ— is good for a rich and joyfull woman for the one kéeps her brave for her pleasure the other divers colours argue her profit It â—â— always better to dream to have good fayr rich and cleanly garments then little and durty except to those whâ—â— exercise â—ovenly and durty trades To dreame one washeth his garments TO dreame to wash ones clothes or an other bodies is to staine and lose or escape some hurt and danger about the body or life for clothes being washed lose their uncleannesse This dreame also shewes that some body shall learne and perceive our secrets for to wash is to take and amend or correct and therefore it is an ill dreame for them which are in doubt to be reproved or surprised Of Exteriour Braveries RIngs of yron about one signifie goods but with labour Also rings of gold which have stones are good for those which have no stones signifie paines without profit But alwayes massy and full rings are better then hollow which signifie deceit and falshood and greater hope then profit Rings of Amber Ivory and such like are good only for women Carcanets chains pearles preâ—ious stones and all adornings of the head and necks of women are good for women â—o widowes and maids they signifie mariage to those which have no children that they shall have and to those which have husbands and children they betoken purchases and riches for as women are provided of these deckings so shall they be stored of husbands children and goods But to men this dream signifies deceit craft and confusion in accounts of money not because of the matter but of the form and fashion Of Gold and losse of Rings FOr a man to dream he hath gold is not bad because of the matter as every one will say but contrariwise it is good as I have known by experience but oftentimes when one hath dreamt that he hath too much or an excesse and ill agreeing to the sex by reason of the fashion and figure as to men billiments chains and caxquenets in like manner as to poore me to dream of a crown of gold and plate and great piecâ—s of gold For when any one shal have such a dream the gold signifieth evill not in respect of the matter but the workmanship and figure But if the head tyres be lost broken or bruised in the dream it is losse to a woman Losse of Rings to a man signifies not onely the losse of them that had charge over his goods as the wife the tennant c. but also the losse of his goods lands and possessions or that he will not lend or give away any more to such as he hath lent and committed charge to before times to many this dream hath foretold losse of eyes for the eyes have some agréement with the rings because of the radiance of the stones but when as your dreame is eyther of hosen or shooes we must judge as of the apparell Of the Kembing ones selfe and of curled Hayre TO dreame â—o combe him or her selfe is good both to man and woman for it signifyes to goe out of evill time and affayres But to plate and curle his hayres is good onely for women and Courtiers which use it To others it is debt and impeachment for money and sometimes imprisoning and sedition Of the Looking-Glasse TO be before a Looking-Glasse and to sée themselves accoring to their true shape is good for him and her which would be married for the Glasse represents to the man his Wife and to the woman her Husband It is good also to sad and afflicted people for it signifieth they shall soon passe out of heavinesse because heaviâ— men look not in a Glasse But this dream to the sicke is death Others by this dream have gone into a strange Country to see himselfe in the glasse not such as he is signifieth he shall be made father of Bastards or other mens children But to sée himselfe more ill favoured and deformed is heavinesse and anger As also to dreame to sée himselfe in the water is death to the dreamer or some familiar friend of his Of the Ayre and that which is there done THe Ayre cléere and pure is good to all chiefly to those which have lost goods and which would make voyages The ayre troubled and cloudy on the contrary signifyeth hinderance and anger Raine without great winde or
the father of the family or Master of the Lodging Of Egges EGges to Physitians Paynters and thâ—se which sell and trade with them are good to others it is good to have little store of them and signifyeth gain but plenty of them is care pain noise or law suits Of Monsters or things against Nature YOu must understand and hold in generall that all Monsters and impossibilities according to the course of Nature are vain hopes of things which shall not fall out Of Bookes BOoks are the life of him which dreams of them to dream to eat them is good to Schoolemasters and all which make profit by Bookes and which are studious for eloquence to others it is suddaine death Of Partridges PArtridges signifie men and women but most often women without conscience ungratefull hard Of Snares SNares and detaining impeachment and sicknesse to servants they are loyalty honour and authority for which the unthankefull shall be deposed To those which are not maried they are weddings to those which have no children they are a signe that they shall hade Of Stripes IT is good to whip and scourge those only which are under us except our wife for it should be a doubt that she hath been naught others bring profit to them which beate them To be scourged of the gods of the dead or of our subjects is not good but the good of them It is alwayes good to be whipped with rods or with the hand and signifyeth profit but with leather reedes or cudgels is not good Of Stripes TO dreame to be dead is wedding to him which is to marry for death and mariage represent one another And therefore for the sicke to dreame they are maried or they celebrate theyr Weddings is a signe of death For him which hath a wife to die signifies separation from her or his companions friends or parents for the dead keepe not company with the living nor the contrary To him which is at home it signifies he shall go abroad it is a good dream for fathers for poets Orators and philosophers for the first shall have children which shall live the others shall compose workes worthy of memory Moreover I have made experience that this is a good dreame for those which are in heavinesse or feare for the dead have no more feare and heavinesse Also to those which are in suit for inheritance and which would buy lands for the dead are Lords of the earth In other Law-suits this dreame is not good but for sick it heales them for the dead are sicke no more it is all one to dreame that you are dead or that you are caried and buried for dead to dream to be buried quicke is not good for often it signifyes prison and captivity Be it good or evill that death signifyes if one dreams that he is killed by an other mans hands that good or evill shall come by his means if one dreams he kils himselfe the dreamer shall have that good or evill which death signifyeth by himselfe Death by sentence of Justice makes our goods or evils greater to be hanged or strangled by another or by himself is trouble and anguish it is also change of place and house to be burned quick signifyes as much as to be scorched with Lightning whereof we have spoken above but properly to the sick it is a signe of health to yong folks calamities concupiscence and heats of youth to be crucified is good to those which would go to sea and to the poore but to the rich the contrary to the unmarried it is weddings to servants liberty it is also change of place to be crucified in the town is to have such an estate and office as the place requires where one dreams he is to have combat with beasts is good to the poore and signifyeth goods whereby they may nourish themselves and entertaine a traine to the rich it is anger and injuries To many this hath béene a token of sicknesse it is liberty to servants if they dream they are killed by the beasts Of carrying another or being carried FOr to carry another is better then to be carried inasmuch as it is more honour to give then to take For he which carrieth representeth him which doth good or a pleasure and he which is carried him which receiveth to be carried by a woman a childe or a poore person is meanes of profit and supportment It is good for a servant to be carryed by his Master and for the mean man to be carryed by the rich Of the Dead ONly to see the dead without any other accident or speech is to be in the same estate and affection wherein the aforesaid dead persons were towards us For if they were our benefactors the dream signifyeth good and joy to vs and so on the contrary it is excéeding bad when the dead séem to cary away and take from us apparell goods money or victuals for it seemeth death to the dreamer or to some of his parents or friends if the dead give us victuals money or apparell it is a good dream but to such as they give none it is another case I knew a man which dreamt that his wife being dead made all the beds in his house and the next day after many of his greatest friends fell sicke Of Money and Treasures SOme say that to dreame of money and all kinde of coyne is ill But I have tryed that little money of Brasse and Bullion signifieth heavinesse and angry words But money of silver words and talk of great affayres of gold farre greater â—t is also better to dream to have little silver then much because that one cannot employ great heapes without payne and fare to finde treasure hid in the earth if the treasure be little the evill shall be little if great the evils great with anger heavinesse or death for they open the earth for the dead as well as for the treasure Of Weeping TO weepe and grieve whether it be for any friend departed or for any cause it is joy and myrth for some good act and not without reason for our spirit hath some affinity and resemblance with the exteriour ayre which invyroneth us As therefore ayre is always subject to change from fayre weather to tempests and from tempests to fayre weather and a calm so it is likely that our spirit changeth from heavinesse to joy and again from ioy to heavinesse And therefore also to be merry is a signe of heavinesse But the party must have some cause of sadnesse otherwise to be sad without cause were a signe you should be sad for a cause Of a Tombe FOr to have a sepulchre or tombe or to build one is good for a servant for he shall have liberty and to him which hath no childe for he shall have one that shall survive him also it is often a signe of mariage and getting of lands it is a good dream in generall both to rich and poore but graves falling or fell
or So journer signifieth as the creditor sometimes the creditor represents the daughter which demands her dowry to marry To be a Foole or Drunkard FOr to dream to be a foole is good to him which would undertake any businesse for fools and mad-men do that which come into their brain It is good also for Marshals and Shrieves which would have authority over the people for they shall have great report and honour It is also good for those which would governe and teach children for children do willingly follow fooles it is also good for the poore for they shall have goods for Fooles catch of all sides and all hands to the sicke it is health for folly makes men go and come not sléepe and rest But to dreame to be drunke is very bad to all for it signifieth great folly It is only good to such as are in fear for the drunken fear or doubt nothing Of Letters sent TO see Letters and that which is written within signifyes that one shall have disposition to things therein contained but to see them onely and not the Contents is good newes For in every Letter there is health Good morrow God have you in his kéeping Farâ—â—â—ll and such like Of Plants and Trees comming out of the Body FOr to dream that any plant comes out cut of our body is death or cutting to him which is meant by that part from whence the plant arifeth Of the Scab Leprosie and Itch. SCabs Leprosie and Itch are signes of Honour and Riches to the poore to the rich and mighty they are Offices and Dignities It is also revealing of secrets But to see another leprous and scabby is anger and care For all ugly and ill favoured things make sad their spirit which looke on them To cast stones or to be stoned TO cast stones at any one is to assaile him with words and injuries but to be stoned and hurt with stones is to hear and suffer injuries for stones represent injurious spéeches Oftentimes it is a journey or flight for he which is assailed with stones must fly when there are many which cast stones this dream is good for him which hopeth for mony or profit and comodity by many Of Grashoppers GRashoppers or Crickets signifie Musitians To such as are in necessity they neyther signifie friends nor support but onely words and talke of theyr affayres to such as are in feare they are threats without effect to the sicke they signifie thirst and death To suffer as another TO be in pain and suffering as another is to be accessary and partaker of his offence and pain For sicknesses and imperfections of the body have reference to the passions and affections of the soul Of Dung FOr to see Dung is good for those which live upon the common People and which reape gaines by them and to such as are of base estate It is also good for those which have charge of publike affayrs It is good for the Poore to sleep on a Dunghill for he shall get and heape up store of money to the rich it is Publike estate office and honour For the common People alwayes carry and cast their superfluities on the Dunghill To be fouled with Dung by any friend is enmity with him and injury by him but by any stranger it is great hurt to come Of Prayers and Requests PRayers and requests of alms all beggars poore and miserable are care and anger to those which dreame thereof for none requesteth of another without affliction and none that are afflicted have reason and consideration by reason whereof they are importunate and cause trouble and hindrance and if they receive money for almes it is a signe of great perill and hurt and death to the Dreamer or to some friend of his Poor folks or Beggars entring into the house and carrying away any thing whether they steale it or it be given them signifie very great adversity Of the Key A Key seene in a dreame to him which would marry signifyeth a good and handsome Wife or a good Maid It is crosse to a Traveller for it signifieth he shall be put back and hindred and not received it is good for such as would take in hand or effect other mens businesses Of a Cooke TO see a Cooke in the house is good for those which would marry for mariages are not made without a Cook it is also good for the poore for they shall have goods and ability to kéep a good and long table to the sick it is inflamation heat and teares it is also revealing of secrets for a Cooks apparell is white and is seen of many Of Chesse play TO dream that you play at Chesse is gain by lying and deceit to see another play is that he shall sustain losse by craftinesse Of Butcherâ— BVtchers which knock downe kill cut and divide beasts and after sell them signifie danger and hurt and death to the sâ—ck for it is their calling to divide and sell dead beasts to such as are doubtfull it is greater doubt to captives and bondmen it is issue of their evils Of an Inne-keeper AN Inne-kéeper which kéeps a publike Inne signifieth death to the sick he therfore representeth death because like as death so he entertaineth all persons to others it is trouble and heavinessâ— danger and travell The Inne signifieth the same as the Inne-kéeper To be kept and detained TO be kept and detained by any one is impeachment of affayres and continuance of sicknesse to the Sicke Notwithstanding to those that are very low and near theyr end it is recovery of health and continuance therein For the kéeping represents life which shal be prolonged but deliverance dissolution and losse is quite contrary and death to enter into prison and captivity of bonds either willingly or by force is great sicknesse or anger Sergeants and Hangmen are captivity heavinesse and revealing of secrets to malefactors Of Holy Evens Joyes and Banquets made by night HOly Evens and Festivals by night are good for such as would marry or make mariages and such as seek company and affinity to the poore they are a signe of goods to the sad and fearfull end of heavines and fear for none watch willingly all night in daneing good cheere and myrth but those which are joyfull to whoremasters and harlots it is revealing of theyr deeds to the rich and wealthy they are trouble and divulgation Of places of Assembly PLaces of Plea the Market Theaters High-wayes and great places in a Town and Suburbs and Churches are troubles and confusions by reason of the multitudes of people which resort to the foresaid places A market filled with goods and folks is good for those which traficke but an empty Market the contrary Of Statues BRasen statues being very big séen moving in a dreame are riches and revenews But excéeding great ones and moving like Monsters are great terrours and perils because one cannot see them without frighting Statues also represent Magistrates and Governors of the