ones eares is good newes which shall come to us on some side contrariwise the ears beaten and chafed foretell ill newes Of Emmets going into the Eares TO Dreame of Emmeis getting into the eares is good onely to Sophisters Philosophers and Schoole-masters For the Emmets represent children which will give audience to Sophisters To others it foretels death For they are daughters of the earth and go again to the earth I know one which dreamt his two eares were filled with eares of Corn and how the Corn fell into his hands and he heard news his brothers heyr was deaâ— his heyr by reason of the eares of the corn and his brothers heyr because the ears represent brothers and sisters To dream you have Asses ears is good onely for Philosophers to others it is servitude and misery To have the ears of a Lion or Woolfe or any other cruell beast is snares and deceit by euvie Moreover fo dreame that you have Eyes or Ears signifies blindnesse or deafenesse Of the Browes THe Browes hayry and of a good grace are good to all especially to women But the browes naked and without hayre signifieth to all ill successe of businesse single combate and grief Of the Eyes TO have a sharpe sight is good generally but a troubled looke signifyeth want of money impeachment of affaires to him that hath Children it foretels they shall be sicke To be blinde of both Eyes is losse of Children Brethren Father and Mother Notwithstanding this Dreame is good for him which is in Prison and to him which is very poore For the first shall no more sée his evils about him the second shall have wherewith to ayde and pleasure himselfe As many are ready to â—end their helping hand to the blinde But this dream hinders such as are making long voyages as also forewarns him that is in a strange Country that he return not home For he that hath lost his sight can neyther sée in a strange Country nor find his own house Also this dream is bad for a soldier â—â—d also to all of the dealing trades for their affairs shall have but bad successe Also it is crosse to Navigators and such as contemplate the starres and are Wisards And if any one that is in search of a thing that is lost dreams this dream he shall never finde it To Poets this dreame is good for they had néed of great sléepe when they would write verse to Sick persons this dreame brings daily expectation for death If any one dreams he has lost one Eye all above mentioned and signifyed will befall him but in part or halfe onely Moreover thou must consider that the right Eye signifies the Sonne Brother and Father the left the Daughter Sister and Mother To have 3. or foure Eyes to him that determines to take a Wife and hath no children and desires to have it is good It is also good to an Usurer For he shall have great summes of money but to him that owes it is ill It admonisheth the rich man to kéep good guard to himselfe and his possessions by reason of some fraud and secret deceit But to a Cony-catcher and a fair woman to have more eyes is not good for he shall have more eyes which will apprehend him and she shall have many of her Clients attached about her Moreover if any one dreameth that he hath eyes in his Féet or Hands he shall so lose his Sight on one side of his body that the said side shall be diseased beaten or hurt I knew a man that dreamt that his Eyes fell into his Féet and he fell not blinde but married all his daughters to his Servants To have another mans eyes signifieth lesse of sight But if one know him whose Eyes he thinkes he hath he shall kéep his Childe or some other great treasure of his Of the Nose FOr to have a faire and great Nose is good to all for it signifies subtleâ—y of sense providence in affaires and acquaintance with great personages But to have no Nose signifies the contrary And to a sick man death for dead mens heads have no nose To have two noses is discord with his domesticall kindred Of the Cheekes TO have the chéekes fat and full is good to all especially to women but slat and full of wrinckles signifieth heavinesse Of the Jawes and Hippes THe Jawes represent Cellars Shops and other things accustomed to kéepe Merchandises or Drugges The Lippes represent those which kisse and embrace us and which are often about us as Wife Children Parents and Allyes So that if the one or the other séeme to have any harme or mischance it signifieth unto us that the affaires of our kinsfolkes are net in good plight Of the Beard TO have the Beard long thicke and unhandsome is good for him which is curious to speake well as an Embassadour an Oratour a Lawyer a Philosopher and for those who have a desire to learne Arts or Sciences If a Widdow woman dreams she hath a beard she shall have an husband which shall be kinde and bountifull if she be married then she shall lose her husband or be separated from him and govern her house alone as if she were both husband and wife together if she be not with childe or at law for if the first she shall have a son if the second she shall persever in her opinion bearing a high minde and regarding her honour as if she were a man To a yong childe this dream signifyeth death But to him which is now in his youth beginning to have a beard it is a signe he shall rise by himselfe and put himself forward of what estate soever he be The beard falling or cut away or by force plucked away by the hands of another as it signifyeth losse of Parents so also it is hurt and dishonour Of the Teeth THe upper téeth signifie the best kindred of the house and the lower teeth signifie the inferiour For you must know that the mouth representeth the house the teeth inhabitants Those of the right side the men the other the women Or otherwise the right signifie the elder the left the yonger the eye téeth them of middle age the great téeth the old folks Wherefore what kinde of téeth soever a man dreams he loseth he shall lose some such personage as that tooth signifieth But when the téeth signifyeth losse of goods by the great téeth are méant hidden treasures by the other a vessell or some other thing of little importance To such as are in debt what kinde of tooth soever fals out it certifies them that they shal acquit themselves the téeth falling all at one blow signifieth that the house shall be forsaken and abandoned of all inhabitants For such as are Sick to dreame that any tooth or téeth fall out signifieth long sickenesse but without death It were better for him to dreame that he should lose all his teeth for then he should recover the sooner For a servant to have no
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
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
of none effect which hath already been proved false by many histories both divine and humane and I think it were to dispute against God and wrong to the soul of man which is indeed the mirrour of heavenly things in making it alwayes in all things unprofitable a Vagabond vain and idle seeing that when the body resteth the soul seemeth most to raign and rule in his force and vertue and in her spirituall apprehensible and intellectuall Nobility Wherefore I will agree in opinion with Socrates who saith That man whether he live or dye is in the hands of GOD who takes all his affayrs in his hand and in care disposeth there at his pleasure and forewarns 〈◊〉 by many secret and hidden waâ—â— as it pleaseth him yet let me adde this one word that dreams are much more Divine then Physiognomy Chiromancy Podomancy and Astrology as being done by the soul onely Physitians also do make account of Dreames for by them they often know the quantity of the humours which are predominant the spring and cause long or short of diseases I doubt not but some men at the first sight when they read this book will think it a vain and frivolous thing for I my selfe have often times said as much and before I had seen the Booke I â—â—ought as much But after that by long time and continuance I had compared these things with experience as well in my self as others I could no but reverence and admire boâ— the Worke and the Authour And I am of opinion that there is no juditious Reader but will yeeld unto this truth and therefore I shall forbear to produce any further proofs but commit thee to the perusall of that which followeth And rest Thy loving Friend R. W. The first Booke of Artimedorus His Exposition of Dreames Of Dreams either solely Speculative or Allegorically Significative DReames are either Speculative and agréeable to their vision as when a man dreams that the ship wherein he is doth perish and rising finds it true and saves himself with some few besides Or Allegoricall by one thing signifying another Whereby our soule doth naturally advise us that under them there is somewhat abstrus'd secret or hid First therefore I will set down the definition of a dream in generall against which to object were to love contention A dream therefore is a motion or fiction of the soule in a diverse form signifying either good or evill to come Of Dreames such as belong not to others being onely for or against those which see them and not meant against or by any other shall happen to those only which see them as to speak to sing to dance to fight or to swim But things which are about the body or outward things as beds chests moveables cloathing c. Although they be in proper and particular yet it fals out that often they come to our neighbours according to the necessity and propriety of the usage And in such sort the head signifies the father the right hand the mother the son and the brother the left hand the wife the friend the daughter and the sister Moreover all those which are done by us and in us and towards us only we must think that they appertaine to us particularly And on the contrary al such are as not done by us nor towards us nor in us shall happen to others and yet notwithstanding if they be our friends and the dreams signify good the joy shall come to us and if contrary then the contrary But if they be our enemies we ought to think and judge accordingly Of the birth IF any one dreams that he comes out of a womans belly as to be borne into the world he must judge in this force This dream is good for him which is poore for he shall have means or friends which will maintain him if he be not a trades-man of an art which requireth the work of the hand for this dream forewarns him that he shal be without work as children which have their hands bound together To him which is rich this dream signifieth that he shall have no rule in the house but others shal overrule him against his will for children are govern'd by others To him whose wife is not with child it signifieth that he shal loose his wife for children are not married nor come at women But to him whose wife is with child it signifies that he shall have a sonne in all things like himselfe And hee shall bee so like him as if himselfe were borne twice To Champions and combatants this dream is ill For children can neither goe nor run and cannot assaile any man To him which is in a far country that he shall return home as if he should return to his beginning then he shall returne home as if that hee should returne to his veginning To a sick man it signifieth death because the dead are wrapped in linnen clothes as children and laid in the ground To be big with child IF any one being poore dream that he is great with child he shall become rich and shall gather a great deale of mony If hee be rich hee shall bee in pain and care Hee which hath a wife shall loose her having no more need that she shall beare children He which hath no wife shal have a gentle one To others it signifieth sicknes But to be big with child and then to be delivered is all one for it meanes that the sick person shall dye quickly But to him that is poor and indebted induring pain and misery it is an end a discharge of all his present evils also this dreame revealeth secrets This dreame is crosse to rich usurers factors and all such as are in authority for that which they had before they shall loose But to Merchants and Sailers or to them which have ships this dream is good To many after this dream hath hapned losse of parent To have Children TO dreame that you see or have children of your own and not other mens is ill to man and wife For it foretels care and heavinesse for necessaries without the which children cannot bee nourished But the male children bring good successe daughters bring an end worse then the beginning for they are married with a dowry I know a man which dream't that he had a daughter borne and hee borrowed mony for interest and on the contrary side I knew another which dream't that hee buried his daughter deceased and it fel out that hee was constrained to pay a debt for which he was bound So then his daughter made agreement with the debt But to see other mens children is good when they are faire and well favoured for this signifieth that a good and happy time is at hand Of Children wrapped in clothes and linnen and of Milke IF any one dreams to see himselfe wrapped in clothes in fashion of little Children and to suck some womans dugges which he knoweth it argueth long sicknes if he