O do not set so little by the heauens, Dreames ar diuine, men say they come from Ioue, Beware betimes, and bee not wise to late: 1610 Mens good indeuours change the wills of Fate.
Wherfore we must not trouble men with so base and absurde matter as dreames bee: especially suche foolishe things, as most times men have.
Howbeit, I doe not deny but the dreames of good men and learned, be better and wiser than theires of the wicked and more unlearned sorte.
Then Ioseph sayde vnto Pharao: both Pharaos dreames are one.
And Ioseph remembred his dreames which he dreamed of them/ and sayde vnto them: ye are spies/ and to se where the lande is weake is youre comynge.
And we told him/ and he declared oure dreames to vs acordynge to ether of oure dreames.
If I may trust the flattering truth of sleepe, My dreames presage some ioyfull newes at hand: My bosomes L[ord].
Me thought I was this night alreadie dead: 5 (Strange dreames that giue a dead man leaue to thinke) And that my Ladie Iuliet came to me, And breathd such life with kisses in my lips, That I reuiude and was an Emperour.
Let then to me such dreames more oft befall, In dreames no present witnesse can offend.
In dreames we may as great a pleasure take, As in some sort is found we being awake.
It is no dreame, nor passion of the minde, But a substantiall pleasure there doth dwell, The practike part of dreames therein we finde, Which who so doth omit, leades Apes in hell.
Which dreames indeed are Ambition: for the very substance of the Ambitious, is meerely the shadow of a Dreame Ham.
O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count my selfe a King of infinite space; were it not that I haue bad dreames Guil.
I dare saye you wyll holde your selfe reasonably wel satisfied, if youre Dreamesbe but as well esteemed of in Englande as Petrarches Visions be in Italy; whiche, I assure you, is the very worst I wish you.
Next time Ile keepe my dreamesvnto my selfe, And not be check'd Hum.
The first I warrant thee, ifdreames proue true War.
Which dreames indeed are Ambition: for the very substance[5] of the Ambitious, is meerely the shadow of a Dreame.
These Boyes know little they are Sonnes to'th' King, Nor Cymbeline dreames that they are aliue.
So she do's any thing, though I report it That should be silent: If yong Doricles Do light vpon her, she shall bring him that Which he not dreames of.
I, it stands so that I may hardly tarry so long: But I would be loth to fall into my dreames againe: I wil therefore tarrie in despight of the flesh & the blood Enter a Messenger.
Thou do'st make possible things not so held, Communicat'st with Dreames (how can this be?
Now are we neere the court of Saxonie, Where the duke dreamessuch tragicall ostents.
Chauser wrote: and for the skeles howe dreames and sweuens[189] are caused, the begynnynge of the Boke of Fame, the whiche the sayde Chauser compiled with many an other matter full of wysedome.
And he that desyreth to knowe more of dreames wrytten in our englysshe tonge, let hym rede the tale of the nounnes preste, that G.
Tibullus sayth: Dreamesin the nyght begylen, and cause fearefull myndes to drede thynges that neuer shalbe.
But yet Claudian sayeth: Dreames in sondrye wyse fygured gyueth warnynge of vnluckye thynges.
This tale sheweth that dreames sometyme come to passe by one meane or other.
Forthwith, Reuenge, she rounded thee in th' eare, And bad thee lead me though the gates of horn, Where dreames haue passage in the silent night.
For though some sort of dreames (as those that be physicall) are not greatlie to be relied vpon; yet those of the metaphysicall sort hauing a speciall influence from aboue natures reach, are not lightlie to be ouerslipped.
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