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lord_n	beseech_v	hear_v	please_v	23,606	5	9.1368	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78453	The triumphant lady: or, The crowned innocence· A choice and authentick piece of the famous, De Ceriziers, almoner to the King. / Translated into English, out of the original French, by Sir William Lower Knight.; Histoire d'Hirlande, ou l'Innocence couronnée. English	Cerisiers, René de, 1609-1662.; Lower, William, Sir, 1600?-1662.; Gaywood, Richard, fl. 1650-1680, engraver.; Barlow, Francis, 1626?-1702, artist.	1656 (1656)	Wing C1682; Thomason E1617_2; ESTC R209636	67,915	166

Let us return to our subject Hirlanda prepares her self to lye in all her Court made Devotions and Prayers for her happy deliverance there was no person that desired not a little Master no body that begged it not of God Whilst that all things were between hope and fear in Bretany Artus who was already come to the Army suffered cruel tortures in his soul continually the Image of his dear Spouse came to seek him and to bring him new affrights from her now he flattered himself with the hope of a quick returne and annon he afflicted himself with an apprehension that he should never see her more I will not conceal from you an accident which caused him much trouble One day as he was in an ill humour more then ordinary he of his Domesticks that opproached him with most confidence having surprized him in this condition conjured him to discover unto him what caused his grief The Prince who used not to hide his heart from this Favourite confessed unto him that the precedent night he had had a dream which held him in great inquietudes I was not throughly asleep said he unto him but it seemed unto me that I saw my poor Hirlanda stretched out dead upon her bed and a cruel Vulture seized upon her belly and tore out her bowels No body appeared to succour her for though at times a very feeble motion and some languishing sighs made me believe that she lived there was about her but two Harpies which with their tallons and sight assisted that dreadful Bird whose horrible figure presenteth it selfe continually to my memory Behold the subject of my sorrow and that which afflicteth me sensibly As he continued his Discourse the Almoner who was a man very capable presented himself in his chamber from whence he endeavoured to retire when he perceived them in private conference But Artus who was touched with the curiosity to be instructed and with the desire to divert himself commanded him to enter and then having related unto him his Vision he conjured him to tell him what he thought of it The Almoner who had no lesse modesty then capacity forgate not to excuse himself beseeching his Excellence to believe that as he had alwayes despised Artemidorus he never imployed either his time or paines to study him notwithstanding he said that he would willingly adventure to tell him what Theology permitteth to believe thereof which he thought not unnecessary since oftentimes we attribute too much or too little unto Dreames Behold his Discourse My Lord Since it pleaseth your Excellence to hear what I have sometime learned upon this Subject I most humbly beseech you to believe That only my incapacity will obstruct your full satisfaction and that if I were more knowing you should be more enlightned And not to divert me from your intention I think it cannot be said that Dreames which are the motions of the soul that formes it self diverse figures or receives them should be all false illusions or infallible truths Whatsoever respect the profane have had for the vaine Science which is made of it the wisest sort of people mock equally the Superstitious and the Incredulous Aristotle whose humour is not to believe without good caution could not approve the opinion of his Master who would that all the Dreames of the night came from the Gods and therefore that they should be Celestial and Supernatural instructions for men And to speak truth as he observeth the Dogs and other Beasts dreaming as well as we there is little likelihood that such high Majesties would abase themselves to instruct Brute● Philon who alwayes professed himself a great partaker of the Platonicks makes dreams to be born in the soul from the sympathy of its motions to the course of the Universe Syneses acknowledgeth a certaine spirit which I know not that serves them for seat and carriage in the same manner as the naturallists conduct vigour and life into all the parts of man Others make them to slide from the stars and some dare boldly to assure that the fancies of our spirit are but the remembrances of the knowledges which it brings from without into our body It cannot be denied but Hypocrates hath better found out the source and principle of them when for the most part hee attributes them unto Nature and sometimes to its Author he had said all if he had added that the divels atingle themselves very often in our sleep it is true that having not distinguished the evil genius from the good we should confound these two divers causes That there comes unto us dreames from nature the experience of all the nights teacheth 〈◊〉 that God sends them often enough the holy Scripture instructeth 〈◊〉 in it Who would be so rash as to contest that those of Abraham of Isaak of Jacob and of Joseph without speaking of that other Joseph of the new Testament should not be the advertisements of heaven to these illustrious Patriarks I enterprize not to verifie that the divels make men to dreame and that sometimes to give them some beliefe of their Divinity they give them presentments of their good or evil fortunes There is not any one that knowes never so little the profane history who is ignorant of that which is related of Podalirus in the Poüille of Naples of that of Serapis in Alexandria and of Esculapius at Pergamus Who hath not heard speake of the Chappel of that Pasiphaé which was adored in the suburbs of Lacedimon and beyond Venus de Gaze where the young maids went to dream the adventures of their Lovers without doubt this infamous commerce which continues yet to this day with the divels upon the successe of marriages hath no other beginning but in these sacriligious observations of the idolaters We know but too much the impurity of these devotions for those that propose to themselves other ends then to know marriages behold the ceremony of them Those that consult the divels after they have sacrific'd a black sheep unto them wrap'd themselves round about with his skin and slept so in their temples to the end to oblige them both by their confidence and liberality to discover unto them in dreames what is to arrive unto them I confesse that these false divinities expected not alwaies that these poor blinded souls should render them such ridiculous homages as if they were provoked to prevent their merit they devanced sometimes the devotions And therefore when Socrates dreamed that he entred into the town of Phthia which was interpreted of his death because that word signified corruption his Gods used magnificence And when Odatis loved her dear Zariader and Zariader his faire Odatis without ever seeing one another but in a dream and that a while after that Infanta presented the viol of gold which was to choose her a husband to that young Prince who appeared unknown in her chamber it was an effect of their impulsion rather then of her prudence I speak not of Alexander who dreamed