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the We(t part of her Kingdom, and that many Inhabitants and much Nobility (hould be deftroy- cd.
Befidcs the foregoing dreams, there arc other pre- fages which more certainly prefigurate the deftrudi- on of Kingdoraes, Children, tnd Regions, then any dream can.
So a Gallowes or Gibbet newly built with the help of all hands, by forac high wind quite overthrown (before there is any motion of War) and by the vio- lence of the wind crufliing to pieces the dead bo- dies of thofe that have been hanged, denotes death to feme King, and the deftru witnefs Arndldtis VtlU &c,
:^ >{c THphthartharaih and Hamaiiel are com- >K raanded to proted th is part of theEarth'The >t^ fecond of the Cadent Houfes is the (ixth,cal- ^ >K led by the Artrologers /// Fflrt/i^«5; whence the judgement is direded concerning health or(ickners,difeafe&indirpofitions, as alfoof fervants and Beafts. That therefore .omewhat may here be faid of health and ficknefs ; ( though every where bebrein the general objcds of dreams relating to Phyllcal matters, we have fpoken fufficicntly)it is to be noted , that thofe dreams which are dreamed ac night refltding on the adlon^ of the day in an honeft mat- ter, and reprefenting foraewhat like the adions of the day, are ever good to a man ; for they fignify health, and are a fign that a mans mind is conllaut to the adi- ons, and what he did in the day , and that his reafon and will arc good friends , and that he is not detained by a fulnefs or emptinefsjor any other outward thing, whereby the operations of his mind (hould receive a- ny hinderance. Go 2 But
2CO The Tewpleefwif dome. Book 2.
But when the dreams are contrary to the adions of the day, and fight with them , it denotes a perturba- tion ot the body , and confequentiy ficknefs. In like manner all things (that arc pure) that feem to hang out of heaven, fignifie good health* Things appear- ing troubled, black, dark? and not.perfpicuous, figni- fics ficknefi, Hi^p. lib. de Jnfomtf,
Servants are commonly torcfcen & forefignified by the hands ] f©r a (crvantis, asjt were, the hand o/ his Mafter, as being a moving Organ, though a fcpcrated member. Hence Ariflotle was in the right, i . P(>lit. 4. o fion ; and every one that ferves, is an organ to be pre- ferred before all. The hands moreover are theTer- vants of the members : for which reafon the wife In- terpreter fhall spply them tofervants, flaves, maids, and Minifters.
If living crestures appear in dreamjjtheir fignificati- on is according to their propriety , compared to man ; or according to the ordinary ufe that man makes of them.
5oan Oxcfignifitshu a hound, bunting • a houfliould dog, fidelity, as toDo- meftick atfaires ; Sheep, 5wjne, Geefe , Ducks, and fuch liketame creatures, fignifie lubflance an^icloath- ing; and loin othcrcaf;.s the judgment of the dream isarcording to icslevcralcircumftanccs , yet with this difference ever , that the relation to man be obfer- ved ; in which rcfped, an Eagle doth commonly de- figna King ; a i^aulcon a Duke; a Lyon, an Empe- rour, prince, or King; and fo of the reft , as you may read in Tnndwus Cjeom,mcj,
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