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
hath not his wife with child for then he shall have a son born like himselfe And if his wife hath such a dream she shall have a daughter But if any one being in prison hath such a dream the Devill shall stir up such accusations against him that he shall not be delivered and it is not without reason to judge the like in sicknes But to seem in a dreame to have milk in her dugs to a yong woman it signifies she shal conceive and her fruit shall come to perfection To an old woman being poor it signifieth riches being rich expence and liberality To a maid that her marriage is near for without company of a man shee can have no milk But if she bee a pretty maid and hath been long unmarried it signifieth her death For all things comming beyond the accustomed age are evill some few excepted To a poore man it is abundance of mony and possessions if hee can nourish others Moreover I have knowne by experience that this dream foretold to one that was not married a wife to one that had no children it foretold children but to a Champion and an artificer and all such as in their estate travaile move the body it signifieth sicknesse Also I knew one having wife and children who had this dream and lost his wife by death and always after himself nourished his children exercising towards them the duty of a father and mother together Of the Head TO dream you have a great Head is good for a rich man which hath not aâ— yet any great estate and dignity Also to a poore man to a Champion to an Usuâ—â—â— to a Horse-courâ—er to him that puts out money to use For first this dream foretels Principality or Dignity in which he must weare a Crowne Scepter or Diadem Secondly great riches and possessions to a Champion victory to a Broker and Usurer great heaps and sums of mony But to those who are already in dignity and to an Orator and Judges of the people this dream brings charges and reproches by the people And to him that is sick it is head-ake To a souldier it signifieth travell and pains to a servant long servitude and to him which hath chosen a calm life pain and anger But to have the Head lâ—sser then naturall proportion signifieth a thing contrary to the signification of the Head above spoken of importing difference in respect of the different quality of the men Of Long Haire IF you dream ye have fair long hayr and séem to take a pride therein signifieth good especially to a woman as also to a Wise man a Bishop a Soothsayer a King and a Prince for to such as use to let their hayr gâ—ow this dream is good because their profession permits them to kéep theyr tresses It is also good to others but not so good and it signifyeth to them only riches and those painfull not pleasant for one must stay time and in that time it may be suffer pain before long hayr will come Of Haire in ill Order LOng hayr but out of order and as it were rather hard and rough hayre of ones Beard them tresses betokeneth to all persons anger and heavines And I once saw a worthy gentleman placed in authority and happy also in al his other affairs who in a dream séemed to sée those which were under him go before him and also that they had hayr all cut rude and out of order whereupon I told him that it signified heavinesse unto him And presently after he was discharged of his Office and Authority which you may well think was grievous unto him Of Hogs Brisles and Horse haire TO dreame you have Hogs brisles is great and violent danger such as the hog is commonly subject to To have horse hayr is a signe of servitude and misery To have Wooll instead of Hairs TO have wooll in stead of Hayres foretels long sicknes and fantasies and tâ—e itch Also if having this wooll on his head he shall think that it is naturall unto him if the hayrs seeme to be changed into any other thing we must guesse accordingly that is according to the thing whereunto we think them changed To seeme to be without hayre about the face betokeneth sudden shame hindrance of present affairs But to see the hinder part of the Head in that sort is poverty and ill luck in 〈◊〉 age If any one hath the right side of his Head shaved and naked he shall lose all his male kindred and if he have done he shall sustain hurt If contrariwise the left side of his head be without hayr it is losse of Coâ—â—ns and allyes For the Head signifyeth the kindred the right side the male the left the female and so through all the body To have all the hinder part of the Head naked is good for him which goes to law for him that is fearfull for him that is shut up and detained by force for he shal flie and escape noting that one cannot catch him by the hayr fâ—ying To see himself powled or shaved FOr to sée himself powld all the head is good for Jesters that use to make men laugh and to such as are commonly shaved to all other it is evill For it betokens as much as nakednes and barrenuesse if it bring not greater evils and more at hand To Navigators it is evident shipwrack to sick persons great perill and yet not death for such as escape a shipwrack and recover after great sicknesse shave themselves but not the dead To be powled by a Barber is good 〈◊〉 to all in generall for surely no maâ— bâ—ing in any dangerous estate will powle themselves séeing thâ—se only regard such outward ornaments of the head which are without sorrow or want I therefore adde by the hands of a Barber because if any man shaves himself it betokens suddain heavinesse or very ill luck Moreover to be scratched with nailes to him that is in debt it betokens that he shall acquit himself to others it foretels hurt by them which scratch them Of the Forehead THe forehead sound and fleshly is good to all and signifies liberty of spéech strength and constancy But to dream that you have a forehead of brasse iron or stone to all takers Vintners and such as live by shamelesse gain is good and to these onely for to others it bréeds hate Of the Eares FOr to have many eares is good to him that would have any one obedient to him as wife children servants to the rich it signifies great renown of his good if the â—ares be fair and well shapen but to his ill if the ears be ill favoured or deformed This dreame is ill to a servant as also to him which hath a suit in law be he the Plaintiffe or Defendant but it is good to an Artificer or one that workes with his hands for he shall have many that will imploy him To lose the Ears betokens the contrary to all that is aforesaid to clensâ—
and ruinated are the contrary Of the dead reviving and dying again THe dead reviving are troubles and hurt for we must thinke as if the thing were indeed what trouble there would be if the dead should revive which would re-enter into the fruition of theyr goods and that would be anger and great losse to those which enjoyed them after theyr death the dead dying again signifyeth the death of those which beare theyr name being theyr near kindred and affinitie if they seeme to dye twice A potion or mortall bit signifyeth the same that death In like sort every beast that one shall finde under the bed which things signifie to die shortly Of Weddings SEeing that marige and death have some affinity as the one signifying the other I purpose in this place to speake thereof To mary a Maid to him which is sick is deathe it is good for him which would enterprise any good businesse for he shall have good issue and he which hopeth for any good shall obtain it for he which marieth gets some good or dowry by his wife to others it is trouble and divulgation for without this men make no Weddings but if one takes an old woman he shall pursure not new but old affayres not without profit if any one sees his wife maried to another it is change of affayrs and actions or else separation if the woman dreams she is maried to any other then her husband she shall be separated from him or sée him dead as some say But I have found this not always true but onely when the wife is not with childe or hath no children or hath no inheritance to fell for if she be with childe she shall beare a sonne whom she shall see married and by this meanes not her selfe but her sonne shall be maried to another And â—he which hath any good to sell shall sell it and shal make a contract of covenant as one doth for mariage Of the Swallow and Nightingall THe Swallow signifieth no evill if she makes no attempt which denounceth some evil or if she appeare in no other then her naturall colour but she signifieth good work and principally weddings and musicke and promiseth a huswâ—â—ely wife and a house keeper for the Swallow liveth and makes her Nest with us under the same roofe the Nightingall signifyeth as the Swallow only lesse good for he is not so familiar with us To flye TO dreame to flye a little height from the Earth being upright is good forasmuch as one is lifted higher then those that are about him so much greater and more happy shall he be It were better for him not to be in his Country for it signifyeth wandring or not resting or returning to his Country to flye with wings is good generally for all to servants it is liberty to the poore riches to the rich office and dignity to flye very high from the Earth and without wings is feare and danger as also to flye over the houses and through the stréets and fore-knowne wayes it is trouble and sedition to flye into heaven is for servants to enter into rich houses and especially the Court to those which would be secret it is ill for all the world sées the heavens to flye with the Byrds is to kéep company with strangers and pain and punishment to Malefactours It is alwayes good after having flown on high to desceâ—d low and after that to wake but it is best of all to flye when one will and come down when one will for it is a signe of facility and good disposition in affayres But to flye by constraint as being pursued by men spirits or beasts is not good for they are great angers and dangers to flye backwards is not ill to those that would sayl for commonly in a ship which goeth her course without tempest the people take their ease and lye backwards to others it is want of work and businesse for those which lye so are idle to the sick it is death it is very ill to desire to flye and cannot or to flye with the head lowermost and the feet upward and what kinde soever the sick flye it is death for we defend that the soules departing from the body flye into heaven with a great flight as little Byrds do to flye is ill for those which have a trade or handy-craft which requireth no removing out of his place it is good for captives Many by this dream of flying have become blinde because they fear to fall to flye in a chayre or bed or being set in any underprop for the better sustaining of himselfe is great sicknesse but it is not so ill to him which should travaile for it is a signe that he should travail with his family with his tooles and moveables in a Cart or Coach Of such as are worty to be believed THose which in a dreame tell us any thing and are worthy to be believed are in the first place sent from God for to lye in a thing that agrees not with God next Sacrifices for these are pleasing to God Then Kings and Princes for every thing which ruleth hath power and might of God After them fathers Mothers and Masters for they are as Gods giving us first our life and after our forme of good life The next Prophets and amongst them such as are not given to lying nor deceiving as Sooth-sayers Astrologians and Interpreters of Dreames Then the dead For those which lye do it eyther for feare or for hope of good But the dead neither feare us nor expect any good at our hands After children old folkes and beasts are worthy of belief in whatsoever they declare unto us in our dreames No others are to be believed except those which live well and solitarily The Conclusion of the Authour upon the Second Book IF peradventure any of those which shall have had my Bookes in theyr hands suppose that I have put any thing in eyther Booke which I have not known by experience he abuseth himselfe But having seene and understood the preface of this Book he shall know my purpose and intent Moreover if any one have an opinion contrary to any speech by me recited because it shall have as I thinke some probabilitie he must know for answer that I know already that he will finde whereof to speake and that which shall be very likely which I my selfe can doe also but I seek not to complain as those which seeke applause and favour at Theaters or which set theyr words to sayl But alwayes I call to witnesse for me Experience and the rule of Reason wherefore I have here set down nothing at all but what I have gained with much travaile and industry by Experience For I have done no other thing day and night but meditate and spend my spirit in the judgement aâ—d interpretation of dreames But I must request one little favour of the Reader that he would neyther adde nor diminish any thing of my present worke If
any one thinkes that he can adde he may aswell make another Booke If he thinkes any thing superfluous let him use that onely which he shall finde good leaving the rest for others The End of the Second Booke THE TRANSLATOVR TO HIS Cosin John Bureaux WHat others have thought of my present Translation I know not but I am confident you will not mislike but take it in good part And because I have made experience of your humanity and good nature which takes delight in all good and vertuous things especially of this nature I have thought good to addresse this third Book of the Interpretation of Dreames written by Artimedorus with which I hope you will passe the time with your friends and shall finde therein conjoyning it with experience and comparing your dreams with the exposition of this Book recreation not without admiration as I my self have done before you For certainly it is an admirable thing and more then may be found again in the world to come to the end of a thing so confused and strange as dreams are For my part Cosin and friend I will assure you that it hath wrought a matter of importance in me concerning evils or good according to my quality whereof God hath advertised me eyther troubling or comforting me for which I have thanked him when he comforted me and prayed to him when he troubled me And by this means I have alwayes found my self well and in this manner have I reaped profit by dreames which also you will do by exercising your self henceforward if I mistake you not I will repeat to you a chance which fell out some yeare after I had this Book It is certain that some four or five moneths before my wife Fleurea bore me my son Gasbart whom God blesse which is the first and last fruit of her and I ◠often and sundry times dreamt that I saw a Mulbery tree bearing Mulberies and this was before that ever I once thought or knew that this book of Artimedorus said it But because that so often my spirit represented to me this Mulbery tree I was moved and as it were constrained to seek for it I took this Book and read therein He which sees a Mulberry tree right and bearing fruit it signifieth linage and generation unto him And following his speech I would often say to certain of my friends that I believed I should have by my wife a childe which should live and not dye at her birth as my daughter did I could in this case alledge many other cases and dreams whose issue have faln out in all points according to the exposition of Artimedorus but for brevities sake I will omit them hoping that you will beleeve as much and take this instead of more the effect whereof your selfe knew lately to happen to the great joy and delight of me and my friends But I must advise you that as touching the effects of dreams you must not ever seek them or hope for them at the same time that you dream them for many times they come to passe four five or sixe moneths after you dreamt them I must likewise give you notice that this third Book of Artemidorus is as a Book set apart and separated from the other two which appeareth by the Authors conclusion in the end of his Second Book and indeed this Book was composed long time after the other For the Author seeing that in the two former Books there wanted some things which the diligent and curious Readers might desire laid on an heap and gathered together the things contained in this third Book which he would not adde to the two former for the reason which he giveth in the end of the second Book nor yet would make it a Book by it self but rather gives it the same title Because it so depends upon the two former that in some specches they may seem to be repeated again unlesse one have the better judgement But without cause he repeats nothing for it is eyther for amplification or diversity of Exposition Farewell The End of the Translatours Epistle The Third Booke of Artimedorus His Exposition of Dreames Of Play at Dice or Tables TO dreame to play at Dice or Tables is noyse and debate for money It is alwayes good to win to the sick it is ill if one gives over in play the Dice or Tables simply séene in a dreame is sedition and noyse but losse of them is end of noise and sedition to sée a childe play at Dice or Tables and Counters is not ill to a perfect man it is ill to play at Dice except he hope for some succession by the death of another for the Dice are made of the bones of the dead Of theft Sacriledge and Lying TO dreame that one steales is not good except to him which would deceive an other By how much rirher and safely garded the thing is which one dreames he steales so much the greater danger it is to the dreamer for it is likely the dreame subiects the dreamer to the same paine that the law doth theeues To commit a sacriledge in a dreame is most ill to all except to Sacrificers and Prophets for by custome they receive and devide che first fruites of oblations and are alwaies nourished by their Gods and take not all openly To tell a lie in a dreame is not good except to Players and iesters which practise it it is lesse evill to lie to strangers then to his owne countrymen for it signifieth great missfortunes yea though one dreame to lie to his friends in things of very small importance Of quailes and Cooks QVailes are messengers bringing ill news from sea they crosse affinities friendships and mariages for they signifie noise and seditions and death to the sicke if they crosse the sea They are also crosse to voyages for they signifie ambushes and treasons because they are spied when they stye and often fall into the hands of fowlers and hunters Cocks which fight are also noise and trouble Of Ants. TO sée Ants with wings is not good for it argues hurt or a dangerous voyage other Ants which are diligent and industrious are good for plough-men for they signifie fertility For where there is no grain there you can finde no Ants they are also good for such as live upon the common good and reape profit by many and to the sick when they come near the body for they are called industrious and cease not to labour which is proper to such as live but when they range about the bodies of the patients it is death because they are the daughters of the earth and cold and black Of Lice and Long Wormes TO dream to have some little quantity of Lice and to finde them upon his body or gowne and kill them signifies that one shall be delivered from care and heavinesse But to have a great quantity is long sicknesse captivity or great poverty for in such cases lice abound And if one cast them