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he thought, changed into a Vultur, beating oflP^ with his feet the Serpents kicking to him. About fcven days after he was entertained by a great Baron, to prtdife phyfick there, and being entertained phyfi- tian in that houfe, he caft down many that envied hira.
It is here to be noted that a Vultur, by (ome pe- culiar property fignifics a phyfitian ; for as a Vultur ever attends other creatures and their carkaflc:, fo the ^in of a Vultur newly killed draws other crea- tures to it (for fo they are taken in Spai)i) fo the phyfitian attends the difeafed for to cure them, or endeavours it as far as the blefTing of God and his own skill can contribute. (4) Hafmodai and Muriel in {a) the fecond Car- dinal houle is the fowrth, called the low heaven, fr)m whence is drawn the judge- ments of parents, patrimony , immoveable goods, edi ices, treafures, lands, agriculture, and fuch like. In dreams then to fee friends, efpecialy ones mother, fignifies fecurity ; for motherly dreams arc of moft circumference and adivity* Yet fomctiraes the parents appear like the 5un or Moon, a"> Jofe^h faw the Sun and Moon and 12. i'tars bow to him, which was afterwards verified in his parents ia £^7Pf. Gsn. 46. I. and 29.
But it is in this place to be obferved that the pa- rents of divers perlons, who had feen total or parr tial eclipfcshavc within a while after died or fickcn- ed; and proportionally to this is whatever may be faid of the fight of parents. So there was a certain man that in his fleep law his father falling into a deep pit, whofc father accordingly a little while after dyed. O o Here
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Here may alfo be ranked among prelages , (ome matter which is a proportionable fubjed to the p^ rents, that is, fuch athingas is of dayly u^eand rela- tion to them, and may be the portender of life or death 1' as if the horfe of a noble roan or great man (whereon he dayly rides) \vi houtany fufficient prae- vious caule chance to die cither at home or abroad fuddenly, it rignifiesfomc misfortune or danger to the Noblerrian.
Sorath andyerchiel Kuks this '^Uct. The * ^ fecond fucceeding houfe is the fifth , called H
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dren, fons or daughters, fignifies many ad- vantagious biUincfU's, and that defervedly, becaufe tis fjr our children that we undertake fo many affairs*
A certain man dreamt that Jiis own Ion was taken by his play- fellows incoa liall and clad in a garment of Laurel leaves^ and crowned with a Laurel Gar- land; He law him afterward for his high integrity and honefty crowned King.
' Othcfs dreaming they faw Crows on their chil- drens heads, forewarned them of hanging.
A certain Queen dreamed that there appeared to her oucofthe Weft pare of her Kingdom divers beafls under the forms of Lions, making towards her in the King her fons Palace, and that (he faw the Kings Ghappcl burning, and that fhe gathered together the SiintsreKques. The Queen a pi'oke, related the dream to an Oneiromsncer, who anfwered. That the King- dom fhoiild {m^^x great lofs, and that her fon ftould die in a War raifed b/ the means of ihof^ beails of
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