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A81567	The divine dreamer: or, a short treatise discovering the true effect and power of dreames; confirmed by the most learned and best approved authors. Whereunto is annexed the dreame of a young gentleman, immediatly before the death of the late earle of Strafford.	Gonzalo.	1641 (1641)	Wing D1720; Thomason E157_6; ESTC R22994	7,143	21

that hee had great neede of taking some bloud from him by meanes whereof he was cured of the plurisie Others dreamed that they were bathing themselves in a Bath of hot water The Physitian prognosticated upon this dreame that the Patient must be freed from this disease by judicatory swimming which thereon followed and thereby he won great reputation whosoever dreameth that he is pressed with a great burthen there is no doubt but his animall faculties are oppressed by a great multitude of humours contrariwise such as dreame they flye in the aire runne leape and dance denoteth a light body exempt from the superaboundance of vitious humours Such as dreame that they are in dunghills and such like filthy places they must needes bee possessed of noysome humours but they to whom it appeares that they are conversant in pleasant sweete and delightfull places good humours doe abound in them and it is a signe of health Besides these forenamed dreames I will not here insert that there are none but such as are grounded upon naturall causes but on the grace of God especially hee giveth advice to some men to expresse such things for the benefit good of others as hapned to Galen the Physitian who had a man under his care that had an artery in his ancle bone halfe cut in sunder whereby hee lost all his bloud before any remedy could be applyed to him hee writeth that hee was advertised in his sleepe that hee should cut the artery in sunder and the ends would retire to each side and so locke together againe when hee awaked hee executed what his dreame had represented to him by that meanes hee cured the man We read likewise of an Angell that appeared in the form of the goddesse Pallas to Antonius Physitian to Augustus admonishing him that though Augustus was sicke yet hee should not faile to bee present in the battell which was on the morrow to be given by Brutus and Cassius and that he should there abide in his tent which he would have done but that the Physitians perswaded him to the contrary for it came to passe that the enemies souldiers wonne the tents where questionlesse they had slaine Augustus if hee had beene present there So by this dreame he prevented his death wonne the day and remained sole Monarch of the Roman Empire under his Reigne was borne the Redeemer of the World Quintus Curtius declares in the life of Alexander that when he maintained his siege before the City of Tyre hee being entred for succour of the Carthaginians who said they were descended of the Tyrians concluded to raise his siege as dispayring ever to surprize it but in a dreame a Satyre appeared unto him after whom hee followed as hee fled before him into his Chamber His Interpreters told him that this was a certaine forewarning to continue his siege for longer daies before the City and that hee should surely take it which fell out to be true and this long before had beene foretold by a Prophet who said that a Greek should governe in the Country The Scriptures are full of Dreams whereby divers Princes have beene admonished both for their owne and peoples welfare as Abimelech King of Gerar who was possessed of Abrahams wife supposing she had been his sister onely hee was fore-warned sleeping that hee should attempt nothing against her modesty lest he incurred the judgement of God and he obeyed Another Egyptian King by Dreames which Ioseph interpreted to him whilest hee was in prison found neverthelesse the assistance of God to shun his owne ruine and the death of his people by a barrennesse in his Kingdome which should continue for seven yeares after as many years of rest by reason whereof he made such provision of graine that he had sufficient to serve the people during those fore-told seven yeares whereas else hee had wanted provision for his people Katherine de Medicis Queen of France and wife to Henry the second dreamed the very same day before the said King was wounded to death that shee saw him very sickly holding downe his head as he walked downe the streets of Paris being followed by an infinite company of his people that lamented for him hereupon shee most earnestly intreated him and as is said with wringing hands upon her knees not to adventure into the ranke of Tilters on that day but hee giving no heed to her words the last day of the feasting for the marriage of Madam Margret sister to Emanuel Phillibert Duke of Savoy for her honour and turning to breake a Lance against a bold and valiant Knight to wit the Count of Montgomery happened to bee wounded for in the Lances breaking on both sides a shiver or Splinter entred by the sight of his Helmet and strucke very farre into his head The King died soone after of this wound aged about 40 yeares leaving his Kingdome lamenting his losse wee may observe the dreame of this great Princesse and how it happened whereof doubtlesse God gave premonitions by his good Angell both for her good and the whole realme of France but the King more desirous to follow the vanities of the world then the good advertisements of his wife by his decease the people of France suffered many calamities His son Henry 3. three dayes before he was murdred at S. Cloa beheld in a dream all his royall ornaments to wit his linnen vesture Sandals Dalmatium robe mantle of azure Sattin Crown and Scepter bloudy and made foule with the feet of religious men and other people and that he himselfe was angry with the Sexton of the Abby of S. Dennis albeit all good advice was given him according to the danger of his dreame stands securely upon his guard yet so it fell out as a thing permitted by heaven that hee could not avoyd that fatall chance but was slain whatsoever strong guard was there about him Calphienia wife to the adopted father of Caesar having dreamed that she beheld Caesar slaine and massacred gave him notice thereof but he instead of converting of it to his benefit dispised the dreame and went to the Senate house the day following where the dreame sorted to wofull effect I cannot omit the dreame and revelation of Ioane d'Arke the Virgin that dreamed that shee her selfe should be the only meanes to put Charles the seventh in possession of his Kingdome After he had acquainted her father and mother with her dreame she is brought to the Lord Baud●icate and habited like a man is presented to the King The matter seemed ridiculous to the King he takes upon himselfe the habit of a Country-man this Maid being brought into the Chamber goeth to the King and salutes him with a modest countenance and delivered to him the charge which shee had received of the God of heaven and told him that shee should be the meanes to place the Crowne upon his head and relieve Orleance that was besieged by the English The King was perswaded to give her a Troope

THE DIVINE DREAMER OR A short treatise discovering the true effect and power of Dreames Confirmed by the most learned and best approved Authors Whereunto is annexed The Dreame of a young Gentleman immediatly before the death of the late Earle of STRAFFORD Printed in the yeare 1641. TO THE VERTVOVS CARINDA MADAM IT was your pleasure not long since to admit me into your Ladiships presence where I tooke the boldnesse to begin a discourse of the Planets and to declare the power of them which conference d●d arise from the death of Sir Thomas Wentworth who departed this world in his Clymactericall yeare A friend of mine being at the place of execution heard a pittifull Lady warble forth a mournfull duty and as soone as her eyes beheld his head parted from his shoulders she uttered these words with teares in her eyes O what wit treson harmes which being examined were the true letters of Six Thomas Wentworth without adding or taking away of a letter Well might she confidently affirme what she said since none will deny but that the cutting off the head spoyles the wit I have according to your Ladiships command sent you this dream of the Lord of Strafford in regard formerly you have been pleased to lend an eare to my tedious relation the which is included within a small treatise stiled the Divine Dreamer together with the service Of your Servant GONZALO The severall Heads 1 THE definition of a Dreame 2 How Dreames presage good or bad fortune 3 That sad Dreames and joyfull proceed from a good and bad diet 4 That Dreames doe predestinate sicknesse and diseases and that by severall causes 5 That some Dreames are as well grounded upon the grace of God as naturall causes 6 That some Princes have been admonished by Dreames both of their owne and peoples welfare 7 A Dreame of Sir Thomas Wentworth Lord Strafford wherein his nature and fortune is gathered from his name and title and made knowne by a Dreame The Divine Dreamer IN the first place I shall set downe the definition of a Dreame A Dreame is that which appeareth to us while we are sleeping not by the function of the eyes but by imagination Some Dreames leave a man joyfull and well disposed at a thing Contrariwise there are others sad and offensive that for divers dayes after such dreames procure a melancholy languishing both in Soule and Body making a man unable to receive any delight Many have presaged by these dreames both of good lucke and bad which soone after should happen unto them Some ignorant people have not spared to say that they are the soules of deceased persons or Angels that doe advertise men of such things as shall ensue unto them My purpose is not to discourse if the soules of the deceased have at any time returned into the world I leave that to be decided by learned Divines but will discourse of the causes naturall both concerning pleasing dreames and such as are turbulent and offensive Dioscorides Pliny and Galen say that there are divers kindes of meates which doe ingender and cause sorrowfull dreames as Beanes Pease Coleworts Garlicke Onions Leekes Chesnuts and all opening roots the flesh of a Boare or old Hare and Beefe all water-fowles as Duck Goose and the like All troubled wines nor is there any doubt to be made but that commonly according to such meates as wee use in our feeding raising humours answerable to their severall qualities that dreames are begotten of the same nature All these meates before mentioned with many others which I have omitted doe ingender evill humours and are cholericke phlegmaticke and melancholy It is necessary then that the body that hath been used to such kindes of meates should likewise bee of the temper of the said humours and that the manners and actions of the soul should follow the temperature of the body Galen is of opinion and hath written a booke thereof expresly Likewise such men as have sustained some great losse either in their honours body goods parents kindred or friends and oftentimes in their dreames they have very strange fearfull and mournfull apparitions For many times it comes to passe that men dreame in the night time seeming to speake see understand negotiate in the precedent dayes affairs or else on some thing whereto they beare much affection But by meates that are easily digested causeth pleasant dreames Such as eate anniseeds after supper or when they are going to bed or have fed with Saffron or dranke with Burrage or Balme he will not onely have a subtill spirit but also will dreame very acceptable things There is a certaine Unguent prepared by Apothecaries which is called Populeon in regard of the juice of Poplar leaves if the temples be rubbed therewith and chafed with the liver veines the branches of the great Arteries and the soles of the feet it is not onely the provocation of sound sleepe but it causeth also delightfull and facetious dreames Cicedamus saith that himselfe made an oyntment compounded in this manner the fat of young infants taken out of their graves the single of Persley of Aconitum of Pantaphilon wherewith if some women and weake persons had chast their braines it is almost incredible to speake what and how many things they did perswade themselves to see one while matters of delight as Theaters Gardens Fish-ponds Ornaments the like so they imagined they lay with him or her of whom they were most desirous Otherwhiles they seemed to see Kings and Magistrates with their guards and attendants yea all the glory and pompe of mankinde with many other excellent things as wee see in paintings farre greater then ever Nature made them At other times they did see heavy sights as Ravens Scritchoules Prisons Dens and Torments Having spoken concerning the qualities of Dreames occasioned and proceeding from sustentation and also some things externally applyed I will now speake of such as doe predestinate sicknesse and diseases and that by naturall causes Hippocrates saith that if a man doe dreame that he seeth f●…e it noteth the Dreamer to bee abounding in Choler or of a Cholericke humour and disposition whereby hee is very apt to fall into hot and burning diseases Hee that dreameth he seeth smoake or mists or profound darknesse is much disposed to melancholy sicknesses To dreame of raine and moysture betokeneth the abounding with good humours To dreame of storme haile or ice signifieth the redundance of phlegme to be most cold the constitution of the aire hath such power over humane bodies that it impresseth both in the body and the soule the present qualities and dispositions thereof Galen declares that a man dreamed that his left thigh was transformed into a Marble stone and within a short while after by a dead Palsie hee lost utterly the use of that member A Wrastler dreamed that he was in a vessell full of bloud and so deepe therein that scarcely the top of his head could bee seene Galen gathered by this dreame