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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86641	A winter dreame.	Howell, James, 1594?-1666.	1648 (1648)	Wing H3129; Thomason E472_16; ESTC R205786	14,275	22

went to the next chamber abed to his mother and wold have ravish'd her but I thank God this dream of mine was not of that kind Touching the third species of dreames which are naturall dreames they are according to the humor which predominats if Melancholy sway we dream of black darksom devious places if Phlegm of waters if Choler of frayes fightings and troubles if Sanguin predominat we dream of green fields gardens and other pleasant representations and the Physitian comes often to know the quality of a disease by the nocturnall objects of the patients fancy Humane dreams relate to the actions of the day past or of the day following som representations are clear even others are amphibious mongrell distorted and squalid objects according to the species of things in troubled matters and the object is cleer or otherwise according to the tenuity or the grossnes of the vapors which ascend from the ventricle up to the brain Touching my dream I think it was of this last kind for I was discoursing of and condoling the sad distempers of our times the day before I pray God som part of it prove not propheticall for although the Frenchman sayeth Songes sont Mensonges dreames are delusions and that they turn to contraries yet the Spaniard hath a saying Et ciego sonnavaque via Yera lo que querria The blind man dreamt he did see light The thing he wish'd for happen'd right Insomuch that some Dreams oftentimes prove tru as S. Austin makes mention of a rich Merchant in Milan who being dead one of his Creditors comes to his son to demand such a sum of money which he had lent his father the son was confident 't was paid but not finding the Creditors Receipt he was impleaded and like to be cast in the Sute had not his fathers Ghost appeared to him and directed him to the place where the Acquittance was which he found the next day accordingly Galen speaks of one that dreamt he had a wooden leg and the next day he was taken with a dead Palsie in one whole side Such a Dream was that of William Rufus when he thought he had felt a cold gust passing through his bowells and the next day he was slain in the guts by the glance of an arrow in new Forrest a place where he and his Father had committed so many Sacrileges I have read in Artimed●rus of a woman that dreamt she had seen the pictures of three faces in the Moone like her self and she was brought to bed of three daughters a little after who all died within the compas of a moneth Another dreamt that Xanthus water ran red and the next day he fell a spitting of blood To this I will add another fore-telling Dream whereof I have read which was thus two young Gentlemen being travelling abroad in strange Countreyes and being come to a great towne the one lay far in the Citie the other in an Hostry without the walls in the Suburbs he in the City did dream in the dead of night that his friend which he had left in the Suburbs rush'd into his chamber panting and blowing being pursued by others he dreamt so againe and the third time he might see his friends Ghost appeering at his beds side with blood trickling down his throat and a Poyniard in his brest telling him Dear friend I am come now to take my last farewell of thee and if thou rise betimes thou shalt meet me in the way going to be buried the next morning his friend going with his Host towards the Inn in the Suburbs where he left his friend they met with a Cart laden with dung in the way which being staid and search'd the dead body was found naked in the dung I will conclude with a notable Dreame that Osman the great Turk had not many yeers since a few dayes before the was murthered by his Janizaries 1623. He dreamt that being mounted upon a huge Camell he could not make him go though he switch'd and spur'd him never so much at last the Camell overthrew him and being upon the ground onely the bridle was left in his hand but the body of the Camell was vanished the Mufti not being illuminated enough to interpret this Dream a Santon who was a kind of Idiot told him the Camell represented the Ottoman Empire which he not being able to govern he should be o'erthrown which two dayes after proved tru By these and a cloud of examples more we may conclude that Dreams are not altogether impertinent but somthing may be gathered out of them though the application and meaning of them be denied to man unlesse by speciall illumination Somnia venturi sunt praescia saepe diei By Dreames we oft may guesse At the next dayes successe THus have you a rough account of a rambling Noctivagation up down the world I may boldly say that neither Sir John Mandevile or Coryat himself travell'd more in so short a time whence you see what nimble Postillions the Animal Spirits are and with what incredible celerity the imagination can crosse the Line cut the Tropiques and passe to the other Hemisphere of the world which shewes that humane soules have somthing in them of the Almighty that their faculties have a kind of ubiquitary freedom though the body be never so under restraint as the Authors is The last Countrey that 's here aim'd at is knowne already I leave the application of the rest to the discerning Reader to whom only this Dream is address'd FINIS ●msterdam