all away it argues hope to be relieved of all his evils to vomit wormes by his mouth or upon his seat is to know his enemies and familiar wrongers and to overcome them Of Flyes Hornets and little Wormes which are ingendred in the flesh LIttle wormes are care and anger and oftentimes displeasure which one shall have by his wife or familiars Hornets are ill people which will assault and discredit the dreamer to Taverns it signifies that their wine shall spill and sowre for such great flies love and desire vineger Of Beating and Hatred FIghting with his friends or strangers is not good the sieke shall be in danger of raving and losse of sense to fight with great personages as Kings Princes and Magistrates is very bad to dreame to hate or to be hated whether of friends or enemies is ill for one may have need of all the world Of Slaughter TO sée people sacrificed or kild is good for it is a signe that our businesse is accomplisht or near the end Of the Crocodile and the Cat. CRocodiles signifie Pyrates or Robbers by Sea or murtherers and wicked persons in any sort like the Crocodile the Cat signifies the Adulterer or Harlot Of Crutches WAlking upon Crutches to the Malefactours is prison chaines and stocks to others it is sicknesse or a vagabond like life To walke upon the Sea FOr to walke upon the Sea to him which would travell as also to a servant and him which would take a Wife the one shall enjoy his Wife and the other shall have his master at his own pleasure it is also good for him which hath a law suit for the Sea represents the Judge which handles some well and others ill and the woman by reason of the moistnes and the Lord by reason of the might To a yong man this dream is love of a delightfull woman to a woman it is dissolute life of her body for the Sea is like to a harlot because it hath a fair appearance and show but in the end she brings many to evill this dream is good to all those which live and make profit upon the people and which govern any publike matter for they shall have great honour and profit For the sea is like a multitude by reason of the disorder and confusion of the waves Of Sicknesse TO be sick is good onely to those which are in captivity or great poverty for sicknesse makes active and lean and diminisheth the booy to others it is great idlenesse and want of work It is the same case to dream that you visit a sick man which you know signifyeth that the event shall happen to to him not to the dreamer For we hold that our friends neighbours and familiars are the fantasies and images which represent things that are to befall us Especially I have observed that all the good or evill things which the soul would signifie to us betimes and of greater importance she brings and represents them in our own person but those things which she denounceth more slowly and of lesse apparance she represents them by some other To make Statues or Images of men FOr to make images of men whether of earth or any other matter is good for Governours of children for they shall govern and instruct them with honour and profit And to those which have no children it is good also for they shall have some very like themselves To be fastened in a Cart and carried in it FOr to be tyed in a Cart to draw as an Horse or Oxe is sicknesse servitude and pain to every body how rich or mighty soever he be to be carried in a Cart or Coach or drawne by me 〈…〉 to have might and authority over many and to have children of good behaviour as for Travellers it is surety with slownesse To be apparelled ill favouredly IF one be ill favouredly attyred it is ill to all and signifieth abundance of mocking and flouting with ill issue of affairs this dream is only good for flaughters and Players To write with the left Hand WRiting with the left hand is to make some secret circumvention to cunny-catch deceive or defame any one Of a Father in Law and Mother in Law TO dream to sée a father in law or mother in law dead or alive is ill especially using violence or threatning using gentle spéech and good entertainment are vain hopes and deceits Sometimes they signifie voyages for the naturall father and mother represent the house the father or mother in law strangers Of our Predecessors and Successors PRedecessors as Grandfathers and other ancestors signifie care which shall turn to good or evill according to the order and circumstance of our dream Our successors being but Children is anger and pain being greater signifie support The Rat and Weasell THe Rat signifies the servant it is good to see many playing and sporting But the Weasell signifieth a bad and wicked Wife or Law or Death or gaine according to her doings goings or commings Of Durt IF you dream of Durt it signifieth Sicknesse or dishonour Of the Bason TO dream of a Bason signifieth a good Maid to drinke or eate therein is love of the Servant to sée himselfe in the Bason as in a Glasse is to have children by the Servant Of the Image or resemblance A Statue or Image signifieth children and the will and affection of the dreamer An Image of solid matter and not rotten is better then the painted or one of earth waxe and such like That which befalles the Image shall befall the children and affaires of the dreamer Of the Midwife A Midwife séene in a dream is revealing of secrets and hurt it is death to the sicke for she alwayes pulleth out that which is contained from her which containeth it and layeth it on the ground to those which are kept by force it is liberty often séene of her which is not with childe signifyeth sicknesse to her Of Thornes and Stings STings and Thornes are griefs impeachment care and heavinesse to many they have signified love and also injuries by wicked persons Of a Chaine A Chaine is a Wife defaining ill successe of affayres and hinderance Of Comfort IF you dreame you have comfort of any one to the rich and happy it is mishap and injury to the poore and afflicted ayde and comfort Of a wound FOr to dream to be wounded in the stomack or hart to young folkes signifieth love to old griefs and heavinesse in the palm of the right hand is debt and warre by reason of the signe which is made thereby but new skin recovered in the wound which one cals a skar is an end an issue of evils Of Debt the Creditor and the hirer THe debt and the creditor represent the life wherefore to the sick the creditor urging and constraining is great danger and receiving is death For we owe a life to nature our universall mother which she makes us restore and â—ay the creditor dying is end of heavinesse the Tennant
discourse of the Chase I have observed that it is good for all to dream they are fair and of good grace and strong and yet without excéeding common custome for to be too faire too brave and too strong is as much as to be ill favoured faint hearted and weak which things signifie death to the Sick and to Lovers ill successe and attachment for treason Of Arts Works and Exercises WHosoever in his dreame seemes to do that which he hath learned and exercised shall have good successe and is very good to all foretelling that one shall come to honour by his businesse and enterprise but if in your dream you have not good issue it signifyes the contrary If one in his dreame doth that which he hath not learned and it hath good issue in his dreame then it is good but if he finde himselfe hindred and cannot bring it to good 't is anger and let of businesse untill he be mocked To play the Husbandman or Plowman to sow or plant is good to him which seeks a wife or which hath no children for the Field is his wife the seed and trees his children the wheat males the barley females and abortives to others this dreame betokeneth sicknesse and anger if any one be sick in the house where this dream is it signifyeth death for the séed and plants are put in the earth as the dead To reape to cut to trim vines and to plough against harvest signifye that your affairs and work shal be deferred till the accustomed time of doing them To govern a ship if one have good successe and honour without perill provided that it be without doubt or pain it is good but if one be troubled with tempests or if the ship be bruised and broken it is abundance of evill which I have often known by experience to cut and sowe in leather to married folks is good It is also good for him which would marry or get acquaintance and allyes by reason of close and joyned seames But to dye leathers is ill to all and revealeth secrets To sée medicines is worst of all to be a goldsmith signifyeth harme to him which dreames it by reason of the poysons and instruments that they handle to be a graver turner or carver of images and figures is good for adulterers pratlers cooseners and deceivers because their arts shew other effects then the true To others it signifyeth honour for such with reverent works are shewed to many To worke in Iron FOr to work in Iron and strike upon the Anvile signifieth noise and suits in law the like we must judge in all other arts of the persons which dreame them And we must understand that it signifies as much as to sée the tradesmen working or their shops and tooles as to see himselfe use the same Art Notwithstanding there is difference between tooles those which cleave and break signifie discord and hurt those which unite and binde signifie profit marriage or allyance but hindrance of voyages those which scoure or smooth appease strife those which addresse and compasse signifie revealing of secrets as you may sée in Geometricians Of the Letters TO learne the letters is good for the ignorant for some good will betide them but with labour and feare But to him which knows the letters to learne them again is not good for it is the part of a child to learn now it signifies to him hindrance of affaires and ill issue onely it is good for him which desired to have a sonne for not he but his sonne shall learn If a Grecian dreams that he learneth Latin letters or on the contrary any Roman the Greeke letters they shall travaile and go from the one country into the other Many Romans by this dreame have had Grecians and as many Grecians Romans to their wives to reade well and truly Barbarian or strange Letters signifie that they shall goe into that Country and have goods and honour there but to read badly signifies the contrary Or that the sick man shall enter into foolishnesse and frenzie by reason of the savage and strange spéech which a raving man speaks All Letters in any language which one cannot read signifie anger and trouble for few dayes if the writing be little but for longer time if it be much Of Playes and Pastimes TO play with a top is pain and travaile whereof notwithstanding shall come good To play at Tennis signifieth long noyse and quarrels and often foretels love towards a whore for the Ball represents the whore because it hath no stay and it goeth through the hands of many Of Playes Games and Instruments IF one dreams of the trumpet to them which would fight is good and to those which have lost their Servants But it revealeth secrets by reason of the great sound but killeth the sick to servants it promiseth liberty but to winde a horne is ill and forbids to undertake any Law suit Every Instrument which one may blow signifieth trouble to dream that you play the publike Cryer may be imeâ—preted as to sound the trumpet to play upon a Réed or upon a Bagpipe is good to all to sing and play upon the Harpe at Offrings and sacrifices is good for weddings and contracting of affinity but ill for other affairs to many it signifies the Gout because of cords and nerves to play or sée plaid Tragedies signifyeth travail fighting injury and a thousand evils But to play merry playes is a merry issue of affairs to hear singing signifyes deceit to ride a horse nimbly is good for all for thy horse signifyes a woman or a friend the ship the Master and guide to governe and the good friend So then as a man findes his horse well so shall he do all this The â—art signifies as much as the horse but that to a sick person it is death as also a chariot of 4. whéeles To ride a horse through the town is good for him which undertakes to play a prize and to a sick man for the one shall gaine the prize and the other shall be â—â—aled but to ride out of town is quite contrary to lead and guide Chariots through woods and desarts is death to all at hand Of the race FOr to run is good to all except to sick persons when they dream they come well to the end of their race for it signifies that shortly they shall come to the end of their life To be put out of Office IF any one dreams he is deposed out of his place estate and dignity it is ill to all and kils such as are sicke Of Wrastling FOr to wrastle with any parent signifyes strife with him And among such as are at strife already he which dreames he is superiour shall vanquish if they strive not for beritage for in such a controversie it were better to be beaten to wrastle with a stranger is danger of sicknes if a man fight with a child and he throw him upon the ground he shall lose some
precious or the contrary so we must iudge of the things signified by them the changing of them into better is good into worse is ill so also you must judge of all other houshold stuffe the candlestick represents the wife the light or lanthorne the Master of the house or the spirit of him which dreams it or also love the andyrons signifye the life or as the harth the estate and conversation entirely and the wife the table in like manner the bedstead and cushions and all their appurtenances signifye the wife of him that dreams it and all the estate of life Vessels of wine are the ministers or servants the tressels which beaâ— up the table are the masters of the house the governours farmers and enclosers the garners butteries coffers and cabinets signifie the wife Of Oyntments and Paintings TO dreame that you are annointed and painted is good for all except wicked women For men it is ill and signifyeth shame except to those which are accustomed to use them as surgeons painters c. To dance and sing TO séeme to dance himselfe alone or onely in the presence of the householders is good for all in like sort also to sée his Wife his Children or any of his Parents dance is good for it is great abundance of mirth and goods but to him which is sick or hath any disease about him it is evill Also to dream you dance or sée dance any of your affinity in the presence of strange people and unknown is ill to al. To see a child leape and daunce is a signe that he shall bee deafe and mute If a servant or a sayler do dreame that he danceth it is evill for the first shall be beaten and the other in danger to perish in the water To him which is in captivity it is good for he shall have liberty To dreame that you dance in a high place signifieth to fall in fear and danger if he be a malifactor he shall be hangd To ieast to move laughter and to counterfeit others signifieth to deceive somebody To dreame you sing well and in measure is good for Musitians indifferent to others But to sing without harmony is a signe of impeachment of affayrs and poverty To singe by the way is good especially if you follow a caâ—â— For it signifieth you shall live honestly and merrily But to sing at the â—ath is ill and signifieth losse of voice Many by this dreame have been condemned to captivity in the prison or gallyes To sing in the market or publick places is shame and dishonor to the rich and imputation of folly to the poor Of Crownes of all flowers CRowns of flowers in season are generally good Crowns of whithered Lilyes are bad for al. Of violets in season are good out of season bad the white worse then the blew Crownes of roses in season are good for all but the sicke and those which hide themselves for the first shall dye because roses whither quickly the other shall be manifested and revealed because roses smell Crowns of French marigolds are good for all especially for them which are at law for they have a colour which lasteth Crowns of flower-de-luces defer affayres with hope Crowns of cresses Fetherfew the flower called patience and Margeram are ill to all for most often they signifie sicknes A crowne of Parsly or of smalage is death to the sick Crowns of palme or of the olive-tree signify mariage of a maide of the same house or linage the palme a Sonne the olive-tree a daughter The foresaid Crowns signifie good estate and dignity to a champion and to any of lowe estate which desires them A crowne of oke and bay signify as much as the palme and one of Mirrhe as much as one of the olive-tree Crowns of wax are ill for all especially for the sick Crowns of wooll signify poysons and prisons of Salt or brmistone signâ—â—â—es to suffer hurts or trubles by men of might and authority A Crown of gold is ill for a servant if he have not the rest I meane the Robes of a King and the Signiory after him it is also evill for him which is poore for it is beyond his estate to the sicke it signifyes death shortly for gold is pale and heavie and cold and in all poynts like the dead also it revealeth secrets for he which carrieth a crown of gold is well marked But I have known by experience that this crowne presented by a dreame hath brought honour and profit to the rich and mightie and to Magistrates and Judges To be crowned with Onyons is profit to him which séems to have such a crowne but hurt to those which are about him To sleepe TO dreame that you sléep or slumber signifyes impeachment of affaires and is ill to all except those which are in doubt or expectation of some danger for this dream delivers them from paine and care but to dream that you wake againe importeth action and operations To sléepe in the Church to the sicke is health to the sound man siâ—â—â—esse or great businesse To sléepe in the way or in the Church-yard is death to the sick and hinderance to others To say or heare say Farewell HE that dreameth he takes his leave of any one and biddeth him farewell it is good if he hath a Son Friend or Kinsman undertaking a voyage at Sea or making a journey into the Country for it foretelleth they shall have a speedy return and good successe in their undertakings Also if any one séemeth to bid you farewell it is good for him that dreameth it if he hath a suit in Law or if he undertaketh any designe that may bring in profit Likewise if a Batcheler dreames this dreame when he goeth about to obtain his Mistresse it foretelleth that he shall assuredly obtain her Certain Observations collected by the Translatour IF one dreameth that he sées his Beard fayre long and thick the fire fayre and cleare on the Harth his â—ose and Shoes new well knit and cleane the Rain fall on him or about him to sée some little péece of gold or silver or his purse in his hand to walke pleasantly and delightfully on the way without hinderance to see or eats some little quantity of Egges or Pease or sodden Pork and swéet Apples they signifie good successe in affayres or some profit for to redound to the dreamer within four or five dayes When one shall have hinderance of affayres or ill successe in any thing he shall see or sound Bels Trumpets or sing Sonnets be shall see hold or eate Cherries Wallnuts or Hazle Nuts or shall remove Gravell he shall likewise see Physitians or Attourneyes or speak with them When one dreameth that he comes down a ladder or that he sees his Hose or Shoes broken it betokeneth that he shall have losse of Mony The end of the First Booke TO HIS WORTHY FRIEND Mr. William Bayly R. W. Wisheth Prosperitie in this World and Happinesse hereafter SIR HAving
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
tree always green and sound and by all antiquity dedicated to the Goddesse Minerva reputed the goddesse of Wisdome A certain man dreamt that his servant whom he loved above all the rest was changed into a torch or flame and he lost his sight and was led and guided by that servant A servant dreamt he saw a starre fall from heaven and another come out of the earth and flye up to heaven his Master died and his Masters son rose up into his masters place A Brother having his sister rich and sick dreamt that before her doore grew a Figge-trée from whence he gathered seven black Figs and eate them his sister deceased seven dayes after and made him her heyre A man dreamt he cast his skin and renewed it as a serpent and the day after he died for the soul which must leave the body represents such like visions to it in a dream Another dreamt that his father drew his sister being married from her husband and gaveÌ„ her in marriage to another and he died soon after for his father represented God the creator and heavenly father of our souls thâ—s sister represented the soule of him that dreamt it which sister being separated from her spouse and given to another seemed to say that she should be separated from her body and should live and converse elsewhere signifying that the soules of those which dye do nothing but only change their place A man dreamt that he was great with childe and that he was delivered of two black daughters and he lost both his eyes or the sight of them for his two eye-lids which covered his eyes fell down A sonne being farre from his country dreamt that his own mother bare him again he returned into his own Country found his mother sick and was made her heyr by her death and will This dreame signified as much to him to wit that by his mothers meanes he should come from poverty to riches One dreamt that he ate his bread stéeped in honey and he thereupon gave his minde to the study of Philosophy and thereupon got wisedome honour and goods The honey therefore by his sweetnesse signified the sweetnesse of wisdome and the bread wealth Another dreamt that from his stomack there came eares of Corne and that there was one which pluckt them out he had two sonnes which soone after him dyed The end of the fifth Book of Artimedorus AN EPITOME OUT OF VALERIUS MAXIMUS Concerning Dreams Of the Emperour Augustus and Calphurnia AS Artorus Physitian to the Emperour Augustus say in his bed the Night before the Armies of the Romans namely the Host of Augustus and Mark Anthony on the one party and the Bands of Brutus and Cassius on the other were to figot the Battell in the Philippick Fields Pallas presented her selfe to this said Physitian commanding him to tell Augustus that although he was very sick he should not fail but be present at the battle Which Augustus understanding that he were very sick he should not faile but be present at the battle Which Augustus understanding he left his Tent being carried in a Litter though he could not fight for the victory presently the souldiers of Brutus ' army sarprised his Pavillions and although Augustus had resolved not to stir out of his Tent by reason of his sicknesse neverthelesse by the admonition of his Physitian by this meanes he saved his life for the souldiers of Brutus aymed chiefly at his Tent supposing to have found him there But because this Emperour was subtle wise and advised in all his actions the example of his adâ—pted father and predecessor Julius being yet fresh in his mind perswaded him to obey the dreame of his Physitian For he wel knew that Calphurnia the wife of Julius Caesar had séen in her sléep the night before he was slain that he lay wounded in her armes and bosome with many wounds by reason of which horrible dream she intreated him not to be â—een the day following at the Court but he not willing to give eare to a womans dream thought rather to go to the Senate and sate in Parliament where he was put to death being miserably wounded with more then twenty wounds Of Publius Decius and Manlius Torquatus Consuls of Rome THe Uision which appeared in sleep all in the same night to Publius Decius and Manlius Torquatus was of great admiration and manifest issue For then when these two Consuls pitched a Field near the Hill Vesuvius viz. when the Latins left the side of the Romans To each of these two Consuls sléeping appeared a man and told them that of the one Army theyr Captain should be slain and of the other a great company should be discomfited but the chief of that Hoste that would assail the Troops of the Enemies and vow to suffer death fâ—r the rest they should have the victory Hearing this newes and waking rom their sléep these Consuls made a covenant together that what wing soever should first séem to stoop under the burthen of the battaile the captain of that band so discomfited should lay downe his life for his country and although neyther the one nor the other feared this advenâ—â—re yet the chance fell upon Decius for his Troops began to be out of heart which he seeing cast himselfe in the middle of his Enemies with his sword in his hand and was slain So the Romans had the triumphant and desired Uictory against the Latines bâ— the death of one of their chief Captains following this dream Of Cicero TUlly being banished Rome by the conspiracy of his Enemies went to a Uillage and in his sléep seemed walking by desart places to meet with Marius then Consull and his Troopes who demanded of him why he was so sad and the cause why he haunted those desarts and was so transported into an unknowne way and after he had understood the many injuries which Tully had undergone he tooke him by the hight hand and gave charge to the principall of his Officers to leade him to his Chappell telling him he should heare there some good newes of the restoring of his estate which fell out in like manner For in that Chappell which Marius had caused to be built the Senators sate in counsell concerning the return of Cicero and it was so concluded that he should return safe and sound without any charge or dishonour Of Caius Gracchus AS Caius Gracchus slept he dreamt he saw his Brother Tyberius telling him that he should be killed as himself had beene before Many heard that he made account of this dreame especially before he was made Tribune of the people in which Office he received his death agréeable to his brothers Of Arthur Rous. THere being a prize to be plaid at Syracusis Arthur Rous a Roman Knight dreamt the night before that a Carrier of Nets or a Fisher should kill him The day after he was at the Combate and told his dream to the Defendants It fell presently after that near the place
dreamt that he was covered with his friends gowne but it was ill successe for in the same gowne with which he dreamt he was covered after that he was slain by the people of Farnabasa according to the appetite of Lysandra Of two Arcadians ALthough this dreame ensuing be longer to repeat then the former it is worthy our memory for the evidence and truth thereof Two friends of Arcadia travelling together came to Megara the one of them repayred to a house of his acquaintance the other lodged in a Tavern The first dreamt that Night that the other prayed him to come helpe him against the treason of his Hoste and if he would make haste be might deliver him of great danger wherein he was After which vision he rose and set forward to go to this Inne afterward by ill luck he began to repent him of his purpose thinking it was in vain to go so by night to such a Taverne so he returned to his bed and began to dreame againe that he thought his companion was wounded to death by his Host and prayed him that though he did not come to save his life yet he would revenge his death by all meanes telling him that his body thus murthered by his Host was at that instant carried right to the Gate of the Towne covered with Dung in a Cart whereupon the poor man was so much moved with this dream that he rose and went to the gate of the Town and there found the Cart which he had séen in his sleep and after he had stayed it laid his hand upon the choller of this Inne-keeper followed the suit and the crime being confessed the Inne-kéeper was executed by sentence of death FINIS A Table of the five Bookes of Artimedorus Of the first Booke OF Dreames Speculative and Allegoricall Page 1. To dreame of the Birth pag. 3. To be great with childe pag. 4. To have children pag. 5. Of children wrapped in clothes and of milk ibid. Of the head pag. 7. Of long hayres pag. 8. Of hayres ill in order ibid. Of hogs bâ—istles and horse hayre pag. 9. To have wooll instead of hayre ibid To see himselfe shaven pag. 10. Of the forehead ibid. Of the Eares ibid. Of Ants entering into the Eare. pag. 12. Of the Eye-browes pag. 13. Of the Eyes ibid. Of the Nose pag. 15. Cheeks pag. 16. Jawes and lippes ibid. Of the Beard ibid Of the Teeth pag. 17. Vomtting of Blood and of cholerick and melancholy humours pag. 19. Of the neck and of having many heads pag. 20. Of being beheaded ibid. To have a wry Necke pag. 21. To have the head of any Beast pag. 22. To have his head between his hands ibid. To have Hornes pag. 23. Of the Shoulders ibid. Of the Breast and the Dugs ibid. Of the hands pag. 24. Of the Ribs and the Navill pag. 26. Of the inward parts ibid. Of the Members pag. 27. Of the Groine and the Thighes pag. 28. Of the Knees ibid Of the small of the Leg the Feer and the Heel pag. 29. Of the back ibid. Of the transmutation of the person pag. 30. Of Arts Works and Exercises pag. 32. To work in Iron pag. 33. Of the Letters pag. 34. Of Playes and Pastimes pag. 35. Of Playes Games and Instruments ibid. Of the Race pag. 37. To be puâ— out of office ibid. Wrastling ibid. Of Combatting pag. 38. To â—athâ— and go into the Hor house ibid. Of Drinkes pag. 39. Hearbes Roots and Grains in Poâ—â—age pag. 40. Of Bread pag. 42. Flesh and Fish ibid. Cakeâ— Capers and Olives pag. 43. Of Fruits ibid. Houshold-stuffe pag. 44. Of oymtments and Paintings pag. 45. To dance and sing ibid. Of Crownes and flowers pag. 46. To sleep pag. 48. To say or heare say Farewell pag. 49. Certaine observations collected by the Translatour ibid. Of the second Book To Watch. pag. 59. To go out andsalute one ibid. Apparell in generall pag. 60. To dreame one washeth his garments pag. 63. Of Exteriour braveries ibid. Gold and losse of Rings pag. 64. Of Kembing ones selfe and of curled haire pag. 65. Of the Looking-Glasse pag. 66. Of the Ayre and that which is there done ibid. Houshould fire pag. 70. Of burning-houses pag. 71. Of Dogs and the Chase ibid. Of Beasts of all sorts pag. 72. Of creeping Beasts pag. 76. Of Fishing pag. 77. Of Froggs pag. 78. Great Monsters or fishes of the Sea ibid. Of Dive-dappers and Cormorants pag. 79. Of dead Fishes ibid. Of Birding or hunting of Birds pag. 80. Of all sorts of birds ibid. Of Flyes pag. 83. To Sayle ibid. Of Husbandry pag. 84. Of Trees pag. 85. Of the Dung pag. 86. Of Floods Ponds Fountaines and Wclles pag. 87. Of Fennes Mountaines Marishes Pathes and Woods pag. 89. Of Law and places of Pleading and of Physitians pag. 90. Of High Estates and Dignities ibid. Of Warre of the Army and Election of men at Armes pag. 92. Of single Combat pag. 93. Of the Sunne pag. 94. Of the Moone pag. 95. Of the Strres pag. 96. Of the Rain-bow pag. 97. Of Clouds ibid. The Windes pag. 98. Earth-quakes and gaping of the Earth ibid. The Ladder the Step a Case a Milstone a Pestle and the Cock ibid. Eggs pag. 99. Monsters or things against Nature ibid. Of Bookes ibid. Of Partridges pag. 100. Snares ibid. Of Stripes ibid. Of Death pag. 101 Carrying another or being caried pag. 103. Of the Dead ibid. Mâ—ny and Treasures pag. 104. Of Weeping ibid. A Tombe pag. 105. Of the dead reviving and dying againe ibid. Of Weddings pag. 106. Of the Swallow and Nightingall pag. 107. To flye pag. 108. Of such as are worthy to be believed pag. 110. Of the Third Booke Of Play at Dice or Tables pag. 117. Of theft Sacriledg and Lying ibid. Quailes and Cocks pag. 118. Of Ants. pag. 119. Lice and Long Wormes ibid. Of Flyes Hornets and little VVormes which are ingendred in the flesh pag. 120. Of Beating and Hatred ibid. Of Slaughter pag. 121. Of the Crocodile and the Cat. ibid. Of Crutches ibid. To walke upon the Sea ibid. Sicknesse pag. 122. To make Statues or Images of men pag. 123. Fastned in a Cart and carried in it ibid. To be apparelled ill favouredly pag. 124. To write with the left Hand ibid. A Father in Law and Mother in Law ibid. Predecessors and Successors ibid. The Rat and VVeasell pag. 125. Durt Of the Bason ibid. Of the Image or Resemblance pag. 126 Of the Midwife ibid. Thornes and Stings ibid A Chaine pag. 127. Comfort ibid. A wound ibid. Of Deabt the Creditor and the hirer ibid. To be a Foole or Drunkard pag. 128. Of Letters sent pag. 129. Plants and Trees comming out of the Body ibid. Scab Leprosie and Itch. ibid. To Caâ—â— stones or to be stoned pag. 130. Grashoppers ibid. To suffer as another ibid. Dung pag. 131. Prayers and Requests ibid A Key A Cooke pag. 132. Chesse play Butchers pag. 133. An Inne-keeper ibid To be kept and detained ibid Holy Evens Joyes and Banquets made by night pag. 134 Places of Assembly ibid Of Statues Of the Mole pag. 135. Night Birds ibid The Clock pag. 136. Of the Fourth Booke Of the variety and diversity of Dreames pag. 140 Of Stuffe pag. 142. To meet folkes ibid of the first Estate and fortune pag. 143 To judge that he whom we think is our Enemy is our friend and the contrary ibid To see or meet Tradesmen or any pleasant Maid or woman pag. 144 To see little children or yong men to wit of meaâ— age or old â—o lâ—â—eâ— pag. 145 Trees and Plants comming forth soone or late Also of living Creatures ibid Walles Foundations and old trees pag. 146. Of Chariors ibid. Of flattery ibid. To be sold pag. 147 To buy 〈◊〉 To get ibid. Poverty pag. 148. Things which one dreams to befall little children beyond their age ibid. Hoâ—â— that which is signified by one thing is also oftentimes the signifier of the same thing pag. 149 Concerning vomiting ibid. For to see or have often the same dreams ibid. Concerning Vesâ—els and Instruments pag. 150 Of Parentage pag. 152 Things which Encompasse ibid. Imperfect or half finished Works pag. 154 Concerning Towns ibid. If it be possible at the same time to have both good and bad dreams pag. 155 That our Brethren signifie our Enemies pag. 166 Funerall Banquets reviving and mounting to Heaven pag. 157 Within what time dreams come pag. 158 The Fifâ—h Booke Containing certain Examples of Dreames with their effects which followed pag. 159 Of the Emperour Augustus and Calphurnia pag. 163 Of Publius Decius and Manlius Torquatus Consuls of Rome pag. 165 Of Cicero pag. 166 Of Caius Gracchus pag. 167 Of Arthur Rous. ibid. Of Haniball of Carthage pag. 168 Alexander the Great pag. 169 The Poet Simon des pag. 170 King Croesus pag. 171 King Astiages and Cyrus the first pag. 172 Of Amilcar pag. 173 〈◊〉 Alcibiades and of the two Arcadians pag. 174 FINIS