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
téeth is a signe of liberty to Merchants good gaine of their merchandises charges and traffickes téeth which seem to grow in such sort as if the one would excéed the other signifie sedition in the house or if they seem to move though they fall not out those which have black teeth or rotten broken teeth and dreame they lose them shall be delivered from their evils and anger Also by this dream some have lost their old folkes to have téeth of gold is good for such as study to speak well to others it is hurt in their house by fire to other sickenesse by abundance of choller to have their téeth of waxe its suddain death to have them of leade or tynn it is also shame and dishonour of glasse or wood violent death of Silver you shall get mony by eloquence to the rich it is great expence in hospitality and necessary provision to dreame to lose his teeth and recover others is change of estate into good or evill according to the quality of teeth to dreame his teeth are in his hand or bosome is losse of Children to grate his teeth against his tongue is to end his paines and miseries by his Eloquence Of vomiting of Bloud and of cholerick and melancholy humours For to vomit much bloud and of a good colour is good for him which is poore for he shall get store of money It is also very good for him which hath no children and whose kindred are in a strange Country the first shall see a childe of his own the other his kindred returning home to carrie Bloud is not good for him that would be hidden to vomit corrupt bloud is sicknesse to all to cast a little bloud in spitting foretels sedition as I have known by experience To vomit fleagme be the humor chollerick or melancholly is good for him which is in misery anguish or sicknesse for it foretels and end of all his evils To vomit meate signifyeth hurt also to vomit his bowels foretels the death of children to father and mother and to them which have no children the losse of the dearest thing they have among theyr goods to a sick person it is death Of the neck and of having many heads EUery suruncle malady or imperfection about the neck head or beard signifieth sicknesse indifferently to all To have two or 3. heads is good for him that is poore for he shall heap up stoâ—e of goods and also shall have a wife and children of a good nature to a rich man it signifies adversitie by meanes of his kindred Of being Beheaded TO dreame that he is beheaded whether justly or otherwise is ill to him which hath a father mother and children for he shall lose them Some also having had this dreame have lost their Wives Friends and Farme and others having houses have lost them And he which hath all these things shall not have good lucke with them all but as I have known by experience he shall lose that which is most necessary and which he shall estéem most dearly This dream is good for him which is accused of any crime and is in danger of death but to Changers Usurers Masters of Gallies or Merchants and all such as gathers money it signifies losse of a summe of money this dreame is good for debters He which is in a farre Country and hath this dreame shall return into his own he which is in suit for his inheritance shall obtain his suit but in a case of Trespasse or money he shall be overthrowne To have a wry Necke FOr to have the head turned so that it lookes backeward forewarnes not to goe out of his Countrey and to enterprise no affaires lest the issue be bad They which are in a farre Country shall return home To have the head of any Beast TO have the head of a Lion a Wolfe a Panther or an Elephant in stead of his own is good for he which attempteth things beyond his power and hath this dreams shall attaine to great dignitie and honour Many desiring Offices and places of credit after this dreame have obtained them to dream you have the head of a Dog Horse or Asse or such four footed beast is servitude paine and misery to have a birds head argues one shall not stay long in his Country To have his head between his hands IF one dreames that he hath his Head betweene his Hands it is good for him that hath neither Wife nor Children and to him that desires the returne of any one farre off And besides if one be carefull to kembe and trim this Head which he seems to hold between his Hands it is a signe that he shall dispose well of his businesse have an end of his evils and adversities This dreame signifies thus much if besides that Head which one holds in his hands he seems to have another naturall head of his own else not To have Hornes FOr to dream you have Oxe Hornes or any other such like violent Beasts foretels violent death and chiefly beheading it being incident to horned Beasts Of the Shoulders SHoulders thicke and fleshly are good to all men excepting them onely that are imprisoned to the first it signifies much strength and prosperity to the other that they shall be long in captivity if the shoulders be diseased lean or broken it signifies the contrary to all before said and oft times foretels the death or sicknesse of brethren Of the Breast and the Dugs TO have the Breast whole is good as also to have it Hayrie is a signe of gaine to Men but to Women it foretels Widdowhood the Dugges faire and without any evill is good and if they seeme more grosse yet by good means and grace they signifie Children and possession to come but if they be sore as full of ulcers it is Sicknesse to come The Dugges falling is death to her children which dreams so and if she have none it is povertie to her selfe to have many Dugges thinking she sées them bigger then is vsuall to a woman signifies she shall follow the trade of good fellowship to be wounded in the stomacke by any familiar is ill newes to old women and to yong men or women it betokeneth glad tidings Of the hands THe hands fayre and strong shews prosperity to tradesmen to him which feares arrests or imprisonment this dream is doubtfull you must remember that before we said the right Hand signified the Father and Sonne the left the Wife the Mother Sister and servant the right may signifie such goods as are to get the left goods already gotten if therefore one dream that he loseth his right hand then he shall lose something which it signifieth In generall the hands signifie neyther good nor bad to lose all the fingers of the hand or some part signifies hurt or losse of Servants To Scriveners Orators and Attourneys it signifieth that they shall want imployment to Debtors that they shall pay more then they owe to Vsurers losse by interest
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—
I knew a man that dreamt he had no fingers and he was attached by a Creditor that leant him money without an Obligation To have more fingers then ordinary signifye the contrary namely â—o owe and not to pay Some though deceived have thought this a good dream but it is the contrary for he that hath more Fingers then naturall thinks and finds it ill And if the overplus fingers are idle they make their owner idle To have hayre which cleaves to the joyntâ—â— iâ— captivitis but if it comes on the palme of the Hand it is idlenesse especially to Labourers and Artificers To have many hands is good for an Artificer or handy craftsman for this dreamâ— tels him expressely thou shalt have so mucâ—â— work that thou shalt have need of many hands and to good men also it is good for it tels them they shall get Children Servants or money as I have knowne by experience but to wicked men it is Captivitie and that some shall lay theyr hands upon them Of the Ribs and the Navill ALl the Ribs and the inner side of the belly containing the bowels to the privities is force of body and abundance of goods and riches if they séem diseased they signifie diseases of the body and consumption of the purse The Navill is losse of father and mother to such as have them and to others banishment Of the inward parts IF you dream you are dead and sée your inward parâ—s according to their naturall order it is good to him that hath no children and to him which is poor for the one shall have children of his owne the other riches of his owne But to a rich man and him which would be close it is shame and dishonour Itâ— is evill to all when they dream that their intrailes are séene of others 〈◊〉 for it betokeneth troublesome affaires suites in law and discredit But if one dreams he is opened and yet séeth not his intrails it signifieth to him forsaking of his house losse of children and death by sicknesse It is also comfort for him that is in misery for he which â—oseth those parts which causeth pain and grâ—efe surely he shall be delivered out of distresse Moreover we must think that the heart signifieth a man and the husband of the same woman that shall dream thereof and if a man dreams thereof it is the Wife of the same man that dreams it likewise also the Lungs But the Liver signifieth the Sonne Food and the Fog The Gall chollerick and melancholly humour mony and women or Wives the Spléen pleasures laughter and vessell the Belly and guts Children for they cry oâ—â— for meat likewise they signifie Usurers The Reines signifie Brothers and Cosâ—â—s Of the Members FIrst the Members signifie the Father and the Mother the Children the wiâ—e the Friend the Brothers and Cosins also the force of the body Eloquence and knowledge for it is very fruitfull Again it signifies riches and possessions because it increaseth and diminisheth Also counsell and secrets poverty also and serâ—itude also it signifies dignity and increase of honour and therefore when one dreames that he séeth it in its estate and placeit signifies permanence of things represented and signifyed thereby also increasing diminishing and redoubling of things present to all ouely your Wife and your Friends excepted for it takes them away because a man may not impart their use to any Of the Groin and the Thighes THe Groin signifyes the same things as the Members precedent in like manner the Thighes except when they foretell small joy to the rich or rather expence in many pleasures with losse and hurt Of the knees THe knées being strong and sturdie signifye journeyes or other motions and operations of health But being weak and diseased the contrary A Trée or branch comming out of the Knée signifyes slownesse and hinderance to a sick man oftentimes death The Knees signifye the Brethren and familiar Friends and sometimes children Of the small of the Leg the Feet and the Heel THe small of the Leg the Féet and the Héels have as it were the same signification as the Knées To have many Feet is good for Merchants and Masters of Ships for they shall command many men and it signifies rest to the Master himselfe this dream is good for a poore man to the rich it is sicknesse Many men by this dream have lost their sight and Malefactors having it have béene imprisoned to put their Feet in the fire is ill too and signifyeth losse of goods children and servants to such as undertake a wager of running it is good for they shall run swiftly as if they had fire on their feet Of the back THe Backe and all the hinder parts signifie old age therefore as one thinks his back and hinder parts to be so shall he be in his age Of the transmutation of the person TO be changed from little to great and from great again to bigger so that you excéed not reason is good for it is increase of businesse and goods but to be greater then common vse is death Also it is ill for an old man to be changed into a yong man or a yong man into a childe for they shall change to a worse estate but the contrary is good for they shall come to a better estate To dream to be a woman is good for a poore man and a servant for the first shall finde those which will cherish him as a woman and the second shall have lesse paine but to a rich man it is ill especially if he have government of any publike thing it takes away his office and authority because women must kéepe the house To such as exercise bodily labour it is sicknesse for women are commonly weaker then men If a woman dream that she is a man and she be not married she shall have a husband or if she have no children she shall have a sonne or shall be some way changed into the nature of a man but if she be both married and have a sonne she shall be a Widdow To a Maid servant it signifies she shall have great servitude and undergo pain as a man It is good for a harlot for she shall leave her wicked courses Again if a poor man or woman dreame that they are made all of gold they shall be rich but if they be rich they shall be circumvented For gold and silver have us Spies to a sick person it is death To be of brasse is good for a Warriour and a servant for the one shall have Victory and a Statue erected and the other shall have liberty To dreame that you are of Iron foretelleth infinite miseries To be all of Earth betokeneth death except such as live by earth as Potters To be of Stone is to receive blows and wounds if one dream he is changed into the shape of a Beast he must judge according to the beasts nature and of that I will intreat in the Second Books in my
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
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
in the Sea is not good for it betokens vain hopes But it is better to catch them or buy them any way Also it is good to eat them drest and according to their dressing you must judge as followeth To see a Fish in his Chamber is ill to a Master and to the sick A woman with childe dreaming that she hath a Fish in stead of a Childe according to the opinion of the Ancients she shall have a dumbe childe but as I have known it signifyes more often she shall have a dying childe or of little life Of Birding or hunting of Birds THe Lime-twigges and glew is the returne of those which are farre off the recovering of Fugitives or any lost thing Of the Nets and Hayes to catch Birds in we must judge as of those of wilde Beasts Of all sorts of Birds GReat Byrds are better for the rich then the poore little and tidy are the contrary To see an Eagle flying over a Stone or a Tree or in a high place is good for those which would undertake businesse but to those which are in feare iâ— is evill Also it signifyeth returne of him which is in a farre Country and if his flight be farre and at ease and pleasure it is good and signifyes that the business shall have end but not so soone An Eagle flying and falling upon the head of him which dreams it signifies his death To be mounted upon an Eagle signifieth to Kings Princes and mighty and rich personages death but to the poor it is good for they shall be welcome and received of all rich men from whom they shall draw great profit and oftentimes it signifyeth changing ones Countrey and going into another Nation the Eagle threatning signifyeth threatning of some great personage but being gentle or giving any thing or speaking hath beene found a good dream by experience the woman which dreams that she hath conceived an Eagle shall beare a childe which shall rise according to his quality to goods and honour to sée a dead Eagle is good for a servant and him which is in feare for it signifies the death of the master and the threatner to others it is hinderance of affayres The Byrd called a Gripe is good for earthen potters tanners and dyers of leather but to physitians and patients they are evill Also they signifie wicked striplings and robbers dwelling without the towne and and evill in every thing the Fawlcon and the Kyte signifye théeves and Robbers the Crow may signifie the Adulteresse and the Thiefe the Raven signifyeth hinderance of affayres an old Wife and winter Bats signifie néedy folks and trouble in vaine which the Jay also signifyeth Wilde Pigeons signifye wilde and dissolute women and tame Pigeons signifie honest women and Matrons Especially pleasure in businesse and in case of frienship company and reconciliation they are good because they flock together Cranes and Storkes séene in a flock signifie that Thieves and Enemies should be flyed from In Winter bad Weather and tempest in Summer drought But being séene alone and apart they are good for a Travailer and signifye the return of him which is farre off they be also good in case of Weddings and Procreation especially the Storke by reason of the ayde and nourishment which her little ones give her The Swan signifyeth a man Musitian and his Musieke revealeth secrets by reason of his colour Being séene of the sick it signifyeth health but if he sing death for he never sings but near death Of Flyes BEes are good to Plowmen and to such as thereby get profit to others they signifye trouble by reaâ—â—◠〈◊〉 the noyse they make and wounds by reason of their sting and sicknesse by reason of their honey and waxe Fluttering upon ones head they are good to him which should be a Thiefe or Captain to others they signifye evill especially death before people or souldiers To shut in these flyes and also to kill them is good to all only except to Country men and Plowmen To Sayle TO dream to sail well is good for all but to be in a tempest upon the River or Sea is ill and signifyeth heavinesse and danger To suffer shipwracke the ship being overwhelmed or broken is most dangerous to all except those which are detained by force for to them it signifyeth releasing and liberty It is alwayes best to saile in a great ship which hath charge Also it is better to saile by sea then by land To have a minde to saile and not to be able is hinderance of affayres to see from the land ships on the sea sailing at their ease is good for all and signifieth to travail or to return from travail or Messengers and newes from sea Ships going fro◠〈◊〉 Haven to sea signifye goods and slow aâ—â—yres but arriving to the Haven the contrary for the artificiall haven signifyeth alwayes our friends and benefactors the Rocks those whom we love by constraint the anchors surety but hinderance of voyages the ropes which keep the ship at land are debts and impediments the mast signifieth the master of the house or Galley to see any part of the ship on fire and burn signifyes danger lest she break on that side or danger to him which by that side of the ship is meant Of Husbandry THe Plough is good for marriages procreation and affayres but it requireth time the yoak is good if not to servants wherefore it is better for them to see it broken the sythe is hurt for it cutteth all and signifyeth the time of halfe a year the saw signifyeth the woman and her profit the cutter of the plough the wood the fan and five is hurt departure and losse the cart is the life of him that dreams it to dream to cut vines or reap out of time signifyes that your busines shall be slacked to such time as men use to cut vines and mow sheaves of corn or like grain are also hindrance for this is not ready meate Holes in the earth ridges or secret places of the earth where grains are sowed or hidden signifie the wife the life and the goods of him which dreamt it Hedges pales ditches set for limits and confines of inheritances are ill and yet to such as are in fear they signifye surety they hinder travailing but in other affayrs signifye ayd friends and support in necessity Of Trees THe Oaks are people and also folks the Olive trée is the wife the combat principality and liberty and therefore it is good to see it flourishing well bearing fayr and ripe fruit in season to beate downe Olives is good for all but servants to gather olives on the ground or tread upon them is pain and anger the Bay trâ—e is a rich and fayr wife it is also ill successe of affayrs because it is bitter but as for physitions Poets and Divines it is good for their art The Cypresse trée is patience and lingring Pine trees and bodyes of fyrre tress have reference to Patrons and
Mariners because that thereof men make ships and also Rosen to others it signifyeth sloth and feare Orange trées Pomegranate trees Apple trées and Pear trées must be accounted of as their fruits wherof we spoke in our first book in the spéech of meates Pine trées black Poplars Elmes Ashes and other such like are good onely for Soldiers Joyners and Carpenters To others they are povertie because they are trees without fruit Béech and Myrtle trées are wanton women and are good for those which would undertake any such businesse and for the sick to others they are paine and labour Of the Dung. COw Dung Horse-dung and all others except mans is good onely to a Plough-man to others it is heavinesse and hurt It hath been proved by experience that it is profit to such as are of meane Estate To sée great store of mans dung is great evill especially to be fowled therewith is most evill to lay his dung in his Chamber is great sicknesse or divorce of his wife or friend or change of Lodging It is very great danger to dream to ease ones belly in the Church in the Market or Hot-house is shame hurt and revealing of secrets but to ease ones belly well with ease and much in a privie Chamber-pot is good for all it is a signe of allegiance and discharge of care and businesse I have knowne it good also to ease ones selfe by the Shore in the Fields paths Rivers and ponds and the like to dreame of a Cupboord Of Flouds Ponds Fountaines and Welles RIvers having their waters cleare and cleane sliding gently are good for servants and those which have Law-suits and such as would travail for they signifye the Masters and Judges which doe as they will and also Travailers because they run daily But if the river be durty and violent it is contrary the threatning of Masters and Judges and hindrance of journeyes ' Lis yet worse if the River seemes to carry Houses and inheritance of him which dreams it or himselfe either and abundance of evill if it carry him even to the sea It is also ill to be upon the River whose waves run against the person and he cannot get out for with pain shall one suffer and support the evils that he hath hath he never so great a courage The great flouds are rigorous Judges angry masters presses of people assemblies and noyse by reason of the violence and murmuring whereof it is good to passe them on foot or swimming to swim in a River or pond is to fall into great inconvenience it is ever better to swim without stay to the shore then to be asléep in swimming A clear River running into the house is the comming of some rich man by whom one shall reap great profit but a troubled and violent River and removing of moveables in the house is the violence of some enemy A River tunning out of a rich mans house signifyes that he shall have authority in the town and be very bountifull and liberall To the poor man it is douâ—t of his Wife or others of the house which he shall hardly rule to see other then River water enter into the house troubled and durty is doubt of fyre but being fayr and clear it is gain possessions and money In the like sort is it to set in his ground or house a Well which was not there before and it also signifieth wife or children to those which have none to see a Well full of water in the house is good if it be open above and strangers draw not out of it for that should be losse of wife children or goods the pond being great signifyes the same that the River but that it signifyes hindrance of travailing but being little or mean is a rich and pleasant wife loving her pleasures It is very good to sayle in a Pond or River but not to swim Fountains and Springs abounding with good water are good to all especially to the Sick and poore announcing to them health and Riches but dry is clean contrary Of Fennes Mountains Marishes Pathes and Woods MArshes and Fens are good onely to Shepheards to others they are impeachments Mountains Uallyes Woods and Plains are heavinesse fears and troubles stripes to servants and malefactors and hurt to the rich it is always better to crosse over them and not to stay there or number in the way Large plain and easie pathes are fore-runners of health and sâ— on the contrary Of Law and places of Pleading and of Physitians PLaces of Pleading Judges Attorneyes and Proctors are trouble anger expense and revealing of secrets If the sick man dreames he obtaines his suit he shall come to better estate if otherwise he shall dye and if he which is in suit dream that he sits in the Judges seat he shall not be overthrowne but rather his adverfary Physitians séene in a dream to him which is in law signifie the same that Attorneys and proctors Of High Estates and Dignities TO dream to be a King or Emperor to the sick is death for as the King so also death is subject to none to him which is in health it is losse or separation of parents and friends for the King hath no companion to a Malefactor it is surprising and discovering of his fault for the King is knowne and encompassed with his Guard the scepter crown and habit or ornament royall signifie as much the poore man which dreams he is a King shall do worthy déeds whereof he shall have honour without profit the servant shall be at liberty it is very good for â— Phylosopher Poet or Soothsayer for there is nothing more frée and royall then a worthy spirit to dream to be a Captain to those that are accustomed therto is good to the poore it is trouble and defaniation to the servant liberty to be a Towne-Clarke is to do another mans worke with pain void of profit to the sick it is death to the servant it is good government of the house faith and authority To be a Major or Bayly of the Town or to have charge and government of children and women are troubles and angers to have commission and power over the living is good for physitians and those which are studious of the government of life and health to others it is trouble and defamation to give alms and generall distributions to the sicke is death and dissipation of goods to the whole trouble and defamation to good men being poore it is good betokening goods and advancement comming to them for without goods one cannot give such Almes Also it is good to Players and Moris-dancers for it signifyeth to them honour and praise When one maketh the foresaid Alms and distribution to dream that one takes his part is good but not to take it or receive it is good to none but evidently signifyeth death for the dead receive no more Any dignity which requires carrying of gold and purple is death to the sick and discredit to others To
be made a Bishop is good for all onely except those which would be secret to be chief of the House assembly or Congregation is pain anger and oftentimes hurt any state belonging to a man which a woman dreameth she hath it signifyeth to her death and the contrary Of Warre of the Army and Election of men at Armes WAr and affayres of war are troubles and anger to all excepting Captains and souldiers and such as live by it for to such it is gaine Arms which cover the body are great surety as the Buckler Helmet Corslet and such like other which one tosses and brandishes as the Pike the Lance the Arrow and Dart signifye debate and sedition the Woodknife or Sword is courage force and vertue the Buckler and Helmet have also reference to the wife who shall be eyther fayre and rich or poore and ill favoured according to the quality of the harnesse To chuse men of war or souldiers to the battaile is death to those which are some way sick and often to old folkes to others it is businesse and angers change of place flights and voyages to the idle and poore it is work and profit which shall befall them for the souldier is not idle nor without praise to a servant it is honour and estimation Of single Combat SIngle Combat signifieth noyse or Law suits which resemble the paines and labour of the Combatants the Armes of him which flyeth signifie to go to Law of him which pursueth signifie to call one to law Sometimes I have knowne that this dreame hath many times forefold Marriages Of the Sunne TO dream the Sun riseth shining and clear is good to all and also setting so it signifyeth gaine operation protection and liberty to servants but to such as would be secret is ill for it discloses and discovers all In like sort if it rise towards the East it reléeveth the sicke after he hath béene very low and signifies that sore eyes shall not make blinde the patient and the returne of him which is farre off Also it is good for him which would travaile towards the East to others in all affayrs it is crosse If the Sun séemes to rise in the South or North you must judge thus the Sun being darke or bloudy or as it were murmuring with anger or heate is ill to all and signifieth sorenesse of eyes sicknesse and children And yet it hath béene found good to them which are in doubt and which would be secret the Sun descending upon the earth or any house is a signe of danger by fire Entring the Chamber and threatning is great sicknesse or burning But if it speaketh or maketh any good signe it is abundance of goods The Sun vanishing away or hiding and absenting it self is ill to all except to those that would be secret most often it is losse of sight or death of a childe it is alwayes better to sée the Sun-beames entring the house then the Sun it selfe for the beames are abundance of goods the sun abundance of evils which one cannot suffer no more then he can endure the light or great heate of the Sun neare him The Sun giving or stealing away any thing is losse and danger Of the Moone THe Moon is the Wife Nurse daughter or Sister of him which dreames thereof and signifies money riches Merchandise and trafficke also Navigation the eyes of him which dreames and the Master or Mistresse And therefore if the Moon turn her selfe into good and joy it is good and honour by those whom it represents and on the contrary To see himselfe in the Moon is the son of the man the daughter of the woman that dreames it this dream also is good for exchangers usurers and takers of receit for Uictuals Also it is good for those which would shew themselves and appeare but it discloseth the hidden and puts sicke men and Marriners in danger of theyr lives what good or evill the Sun signifieth the same signification hath the Moone also but lesse or more to the woman then to the man Of the Starres TO see all the starres clear and fayre is good for a travailer and for all businesse and for secrets in which they agrée not with the Sunne or Moone Those stars or Planets which are causes of cold signifye anger and dangers but those which cause fayre and calme weather are prosperity and Riches Those which are the cause of the winter shortest day are change into evill or the worst of the Summers shortest day into good or better Such stars as vanish and goe out of the skie are poverty and forsaking to the rich for you must imagine that the skie signifyes the house of him that dreams the stars his goods and possessions to the poore this dream signifies death It is only good for them which have attempted some great evils whosoeuer dreams that the starres vanish out of the skie his hayres shall fall from his head Starres falling upon the earth or vanishing is losse of parents or friends great or little according to the quality of the starres To rob the stars is not good for it hath faln out that after this dream the dreamers thereof have committed sacriledge and for it have been apprehended and punished To eat the stars also is not good except to Astrologians and Sooth-sayers to whom it signifieth gain to others death to sée the starres under the eaves of thē house is that the house shall be forsaken consumed or burnt or that the master of the house shal die the comets beams and burning rayes and other like things séen in a dream signifie as their nature Of the Rain-bow THe Rain-bowe on the right hand is good on the left ill and we must judge the right or the left according to the Sun and in what quality soever it appeareth it is a good signe to any one that is afflicted with poverty or any other affliction for it changeth the time and ayre Of Clouds WHite clouds is prosperity moūting from the earth on high is a voyage the return of the absent and revealing of secrets Red or inflamed is ill issue of affayrs smoaky dark or obscure is ill time or anger Of the Windes GEntle windes are good violent are wicked and evill people troublesome tempests of winde are perils and troubles Of Earth-quakes and gaping of the Earth THe earth trembling is change of estate and affayrs but openings déep pits concussions and turning upside down of the earth are injuries death and losse of goods Onely this dream hath béen tried good to those which purposed to travell and which were indebted Of the Ladder the Step a Case a Milstone a Pestle and the Cock. THe Ladder is a signe of travelling the steps are advancement Some say they are danger A case or frying pan is hurt and a woman which is given to talk The Milstone signifieth end of great and angry matters and a good and loyall servant the pestle is the man the Morter the woman the Cock is