Licenced.  
ROGER L'ESTRANGE.   

The Court of Curiosity. Wherein, By the ALGEBRA and LOT, The most Intricate Questions are Resolved, and NOCTURNAL DREAMS AND VISIONS  
Explained, According to the Doctrine of the Ancients.  
To which is also added, a Treatise of PHYSIOGNOMY.  
Published in French By Marck de Vulson, Sieur de la Colombiere, Knight of the Order of St. Micheal, & Gentleman in ordinary to the French King.  
Translated into English by J. G. Gent.  
LONDON: Printed by J. C. for William Crook, at the Green Dragon without Temple-bar. 1669.   

To the LADIES Of our BRITISH ISLE.  
Ladies,  
'TIs for your Diversion, that this Treatise hath crossed the Sea, and undergone the hazard of a Voyage. If you meet here with any  Interpretation of those pleasant Dreams that soften your sweet slumbers, commend the Author; if any thing falls out contrary to your expectation, blame not the Translator, whose sole design was your satisfaction. This Tractate hath had the happiness to breathe in the air of two foreign Kingdoms with Applause; those of the most Catholic and most Christian Kings; and beyond all controversy, it will meet with no worse Entertainment in a third, I mean that of the Defender of the Faith, whose Subjects come short of none of the Europeans in civility. I confess that in this small spot of ground, there grow no Rhetorical flowers; Here are no Ingenii lascivientis flosculi; no Excrescencies of Lasciviating Wit; for the subject will not admit of a florid stile: yet I'll be bold to affirm, here's that which stamps the Impression of beautiful upon the World, and renders the whole Universe Amiable, Variety. Inest sua Gratia parvis, is a Sentence that carries as much Truth as Antiquity in the womb of it; and Nature hath ever been so provident, as to supply the want of Bulk in minute things, with an Exact Symmetry, and Comely Proportion. And herein Art (her Chiefest Ape) doth nearly imitate Her: for indisputably there was more Artifice and subtlety manifested in the smaller proportion of Regiomontanus his Iron fly, then in the larger Dimensions of his Wooden Eagle.  
The Author in his discourse upon this Subject, intends no Rigorous Imposition upon your faith, nor to Commit a Rape upon your Belief; for such Arts, as this of Oneiropolie, have no other foundation to support them, but the instable Basis of Conjecture. This was not invented to unhinge the Brain, or torture the Fancy; but rather to Divert, and Exercise in your Ladyships that pleasant Ague of the Diaphragm, Laughter. The most refined Wits that ever I met with in this our Modern Age, when tired out in the eager pursuit after sublimer learning, as the noble Recerches of Philosophy, or dark Intrigues of State-Politie, have ever had recourse to some such Innocent Divertisement, which like Hellebore purgeth away Melancholy, the Epidemique distemper of the sedentary Student. Well may I therefore, with modesty, trace the footsteps of such Eminent Authors, and plead that old saying for taking up this new Subject (for I presume there are few Tracts of this nature in any Language, and fewest in our Own.)  
Quod decuit Tantos, cur mihi turpe putem? The Rough-draught of this Translation, was the Product of some of those Horae subsecivae that were snatched from the Hurry of a Tumultuous City-employment, and since licked into that shape wherein it is now presented to your Ladyships, under the quiet calm of a Rural Recreation. I have met here with some Gallicisms, or French Idioms, which were so peevish and sullen, that they would not, by any means, be persuaded to speak plain English; in so much that I was constrained to force them to appear in the most familiar Terms, and usual expressions of our Language. The Alphabetical Table of Dreams is inverted, because they would not follow in the same order in English as they did in French, but I have neither added to, nor diminished the number of them, and so consequently have done the Author no injury, having only in some particulars deviated from his Method, for the Reader's advantage. As for that additional piece of Physiognomy; which is the very study of the Complexion, I need say but little in vindication of it. 'Tis a known Proverb, Fancies Index Rerum: the Character and sentiments of the Mind, are plainly and fairly legible in the Countenance; nor will it ever enter into my thoughts, that you can possibly have any Aversion for an Art, whose chiefest subject is that Part your Ladyships are so curious, by all Artificial Embellishments and Auxiliatory Helps imaginable, to preserve. But lest I be accused of too much Rudeness for detaining you so long in the Porch of this Palace, I will now open the Portal, and give you free admittance into this Court of Curiosity; where, that the Entertainment may in some measure Answer your Expectation, it is the earnest desire of  
Your Ladyships most obedient Servant, J. G.   

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The Use of the following Figure, in order to the finding out of the Answers to the Questions proposed.  
YOu must lay your fingers on one point of the Figure following, and count till you come to Twelve, either upward or downward, on the right or left side; and then reckon the number of points that remain to the very and of the corner of the Figure, and no further: and retaining in your memory the remainder over and above the number Twelve, then go to the Question proposed, and count downwards from the same number which you had remaining; and then look for the number in the Answers according to the number you meet with after you have done counting at the Questions; and then come to the Answer for the Question according to the first number retained in your memory. For Example: If the Person that is Curious toucheth that point with his finger which is marked with the figure 2, then drawing downwards as those small points show you, you must count till you come to Twelve, and then reckon the three that remain to the right corner at the lover end of the Figure; and so come to the Question, which was this, Whether a Person shall have many Friends; which is the seventh Question: so that reckoning the three that remain, you proceed till you come to Nine, which signifies the ninth Number, and the third Answer; which is this: You shall have many Friends.  
Again, for the same Question: Suppose you touch at the Figure 3, and count upwards (as you see the pricks go) till you come to the corner, there remain five, with you are to reckon from the Question, accounting always the Question itself to be one; and that will bring you to 11, which is the Number of the Answers: then five the number remaining, as before, directs you to the same Figure in that Number, where you find this Answer: You shall have true Friends.  
Note also, that if you choose any of the Questions towards the end, you must (after you have counted all to the bottom) begin at the beginning again. For Example: Suppose you choose the 49 Question, Who shall overcome in a Duel? and you touch at 4 in the Figure; you must count as you see the pricks, and there remain seven: than you turn to the Question before, where you reckon from 49; and because you can reckon but four of the seven to the bottom, you begin again at one; so that you find three the number in the Answers, and seven in that Number, as before, where you have this Answer: They will have no advantage one of another. And so of the rest.   

The TABLE Of QUESTIONS To be Proposed.  

1 What success shall a Person have in his Love?  
2 Whether the party you imagine, really loves you?  
3 Whether love once separated, shall ever be reunited.  
4 By what means an affection may prove successful.  
5 Whether love will continue, or no?  
6 Whether love shall be obtained?  
7 Whether a Person shall have many Friends?  
8 From what Persons one may expect kindness and friendship?  
9 Whether he be your real Friend, that you think is so?  
10 Weather you shall Court several Persons?  
11 Whether you shall be in favour with Grandees.  
12 Whether you shall be married, or enter into Religious orders, and so turn Monk or Friar?  
13 Whether the Marriage in hand, will be concluded?  
14 Of what temper will the Husband prove?  
15 Of what humour will the Wife be?  
16 What fortune shall a Person have by marriage?  
17 Whether the married couple will have Children?  
18 Whether want of Children be the Man's fault or the Woman's fault?  
19 Whether or no a Woman be with Child?  
20 Of what she is with Child.  
21 Whether she be a Maid or no?  
22 Whether a Person win or lose.  
23 Whether you will overthrow your Adversary at Law?  
24 At what game a Man will win or lose.  
25 Whether a Man shall gain or lose by merchandising?  
26 Whether one shall recover a debt?  
27 Whether the theft shall be discovered?  
28 Whether a Person shall get an Estate?  
29 Whether the Secret committed to a Person hath been revealed?  
30 Whether one shall have a faithful Servant?  
31 Whether news are true or false?  
32 Whether the dream portends good or evil?  
33 Of what reputation a Person is?  
34 What the Person, that is absent, thinks of?  
35 What Vices a Person is subject to?  
36 What Virtue he excels in?  
37 What day will be lucky or unlucky?  
38 What Element will be advantageous or prejudicial to you?  
39 What course of life a Person shall lead?  
40 Whether the Child shall be short or long lived.  
41 Whether a Man be the true Father of a Child?  
42 Whether a sick Person shall recover or not?  
43 Whether a Man shall be in Office or Place?  
44 Whether a Person will be prosperous or successless?  
45 Whether the change of ones condition will prove for good?  
46 Whether you shall obtain the thing desired?  
47 Whether the year will be barren or fruitful?  
48 Whether there shall be Peace or War?  
49 Who shall overcome in a Duel?  
50 Whether two Enemies will be reconciled?  
51 Whether a Voyage or journey will prove prosperous.  
52 Of what distemper a Person will die?    

The Several Answers to the Questions proposed  

Numb. 1.  
1 His love will continue till death.  
2 Of the small Pox.  
3 You will have a pleasant voyage or journey.  
4 That will prove but a counterfeit reconciliation.  
5 He that hath a good cause shall overcome.  
6 There are strong endeavours on foot to be break the Peace.  
7 The year will produce great store of Oil.  
8 Some envious person will cross your desire.  
9 This alteration will better your condition.  
10 He will have an unhappy end.  
11 He will be in office in his younger years.  
12 Bleeding & purging will be the death of him.   

Numb. 2.  
1 Thou art entirely beloved.  
2 His love will not continue long.  
3 Of some dangerous wound.  
4 Thou wilt make a troublesome journey or voyage.  
5 Their reconciliation will prove their ruin.  
6 He that is injured shall be worsted.  
7 They endeavour extremely to promote a War.  
8 This year Oil will be scarce.  
9 Flatter your Confident, and you obtain your desire.  
10 This change will impair your condition.  
11 He shall prosper in well-doing.  
12 He will be in Office, but it will be in his declining age.   

Numb. 3.  
1 They will be more firmly reunited then ever.  
2 They have no affection at all for you.  
3 He will prove constant in his Love.  
4 Of the Stone.  
5 Thy journey or voyage will prove dangerous.  
6 Those that endeavour a reconciliation manage it not handsomely.  
7 They will have no advantage one of another.  
8 'Twill prove a bloody War.  
9 This year will not prove very fruitful.  
10 All things cross your desires.  
11 This alteration will set you at rest.  
12 He will become miserable by ill-donig.   

Numb. 4.  
1 You will accomplish your design by dissimulation.  
2 They will never be re-uinted.  
3 They love thee for thy beauty.  
4 He will be inconstant in his love.  
5 Of the Retention of seed.  
6 Thou wilt run some risk in thy journey or voyage.  
7 Every one will seek his own advantage in this Reconciliation.  
8 They will be both slightly wounded.  
9 Those that negotiate the business betray both parties.  
10 This year will not be very barren.  
11 All things favour your wishes.  
12 This change will be your destruction.   

Numb. 5.  
1 That affection will be of long continuance.  
2 By a fervent and well-grounded passion.  
3 Their reconciliation will prove cordial.  
4 They love you for their own ends.  
5 His love is free and discreet.  
6 Of too great an amorous passion.  
7 Thou wilt meet with Thiefs.  
8 They will never be Friends, unless some great man interpose.  
9 They will both run the hazard of their lives.  
10 This Peace will prove advantageous to us.  
11 This year will afford good pastures.  
12 The advice of some Relation obstructs the obtaining of your desire.   

Numb. 6.  
1 Thou shalt accomplish thy design.  
2 This affection will soon decay.  
3 By excessive Liberality.  
4 Their Reconciliation will not be real.  
5 Thou art entirely beloved.  
6 His love is feigned and indiscreet.  
7 Of a Pleurisy.  
8 Thou wilt have fair weather in thy journey or voyage.  
9 Some secret love will hinder their reconciliation.  
10 The flaxen will disarm the brown-haired Man.  
11 This Peace will be disadvantageous to us.  
12 This year will afford few or no good pastures.   

Numb. 7.  
1 Thou wilt have a good Friend.  
2 Thou wilt never accomplish thy design.  
3 A year will be the outmost date of his love.  
4 Through hopes of a Match.  
5 Their love will be more fervent then formerly.  
6 Jealousy will destroy their affection.  
7 Of the Plague.  
8 You will have bad weather in your journey or voyage.  
9 They will be reconciled in the Passion-week.  
10 The brown will wound the flaxen-haired Man.  
11 War will be better for us then Peace.  
12 This year will prove fruitful.   

Numb. 8.  
1 You may expect much from your Father.  
2 You will have no true Friends.  
3 You will gain his friendship, but not his love.  
4 It will be much, if their love continue six months.  
5 By a sheep's eye, Letters and Caresses.  
6 Their Reconciliation will not last long.  
7 There is more Courtship then Love.  
8 Jealousy will preserve their affection.  
9 Of an Apoplexy.  
10 Hasten your voyage or journey, lest you repent it.  
11 A common Enemy will reconcile them.  
12 The Challenger will wound the person challenged.   

Numb. 9  
1 He is your real Friend.  
2 You can expect nothing from your Father.  
3 You will have many Friends.  
4 You will neither gain his friendship nor love.  
5 The love of the Lover will be permament.  
6 By giving cause of jealousy.  
7 They will agree well for some time.  
8 He loves more than you do.  
9 Too much caressing destroys his affection.  
10 Of old Age.  
11 Delay your journey or voyage for a time.  
12 They will never be such real Friends as formerly.   

Numb. 10.  
1 One sweetheart will put a period to his desires.  
2 He is no real Friend.  
3 You may expect much from your Mother.  
4 You will never want Friends.  
5 You will obtain the last favour.  
6 The Shee-Paramour will continue her affection.  
7 By a sweet violence.  
8 They will seemingly agree together, with an tention to deceive one another.  
9 They love you only for your means.  
10 His love is maintained by caressing.  
11 He will die by some accident.  
12 The waters will prove contrary to you in your voyage.   

Numb. 11.  
1 You will obtain his favour.  
2 Multiplicity of Friends will take up his thoughts.  
3 His friendship is firm and constant.  
4 You can expect nothing from your Mother.  
5 You will have true Friends.  
6 You will never gain the last favour.  
7 The love will end in the party loving.  
8 By respect and esteem.  
9 If they meet privately, they will agree.  
10 Their love extends to many more besides.  
11 A new affection will destroy the old one.  
12 He will die a natural death.   

Numb. 12.  
1 He will be married without dispute.  
2 You will never gain his love.  
3 Every new Moon a new love.  
4 His friendship is not to be relied upon.  
5 You may expect much from your Children.  
6 You will have pretended Friends.  
7 You will never enjoy her without great difficulty.  
8 The female Friend will continue her love.  
9 By a counterfeit coldness.  
10 If they discourse together, 'twill be worse for them.  
11 They begin to be weary of your love.  
12 The gaining that persons love, requires much circumspection.   

Numb. 13.  
1 That marriage will be solemnised.  
2 He will never be married.  
3 You will gain her favour by frequent services.  
4. So many Looks, so many Loves.  
5 He loves you for his Interest.  
6 You can expect nothing from your Children.  
7 You will have Friends that will assist you.  
8 You will gain her affection without much trouble.  
9 His love is at an end, and yet he colour's it handsomely.  
10 By great confidence.  
11 A third person must reconcile them.  
12 Too much passion will destroy your love.   

Numb. 14.  
1 Your Husband will prove a very honest man.  
2 This will never be a Match.  
3 This Person will be a Nun.  
4 You will win them by flattery.  
5 Three Friends, and one love.  
6 He loves without any self-ends.  
7 You will be assisted by the friendship and means of your Friends.  
8 Your Friends will be over-burthensome to you.  
9 You lose your time, for you will never gain her.  
10 Their love continues, and yet they seem nor to love.  
11 By slandering of him upon another's account.  
12 They will all lose their labour that endeavour a reconciliation.   

Numb. 15.  
1 This Wife will be very chaste.  
2 Thy Husband will prove a debauched person.  
3 The marriage is delayed.  
4 This person will not be a Nun.  
5 You will never have them, do what you can.  
6 Two affections, during his whole life.  
7 He loves thee better than any other Friend.  
8 You will find neither friendship nor assistance from your relations.  
9 You will gain Friends that will acknowledge your love.  
10 You will be caressed, but not really loved.  
11 Your love in the end will prove injurious to you.  
12 By the apprehension of an alteration.   

Numb. 16.  
1 This will prove a very fortunate Match.  
2 Your Wife will prove dishonest.  
3 Your Husband will love you entirely.  
4 Your marriage is crossed by a second person.  
5 He will be speedily married.  
6 You will be out of favour.  
7 He can love but for a day.  
8 He prefers other Friends before you.  
9 You will find more friendship at the hands of strangers, then of your Nearest relations.  
10 Your Friends will prove ingrateful to you.  
11 Your care will be sufficiently rewarded.  
12 Your love will end without contention o● hatred.   

Numb. 17.  
1 They will have Children.  
2 Your marriage will prove unfortunate.  
3 Your Wife will be a good Housewife.  
4 Your Husband will not love you at all.  
5 The Irresolution of parents will spoil the Match.  
6 It will be long ere he marries.  
7 Build not your hope upon the favour of great Men.  
8 Two Loves at once.  
9 He hath been formerly a closer Friend to you then he is at present.  
10 You will find friendship from those you have obliged.  
11 You will have Friends that will never forsake you.  
12 Your hopes are vain; for you will never enjoy her.   

Numb. 18.  
1 The Husband is Impotent.  
2 They will have no Children.  
3 Your Husband will be made a Cuckold.  
4 Your Wife will be an ill housewife.  
5 Your Husband will prove a debauched Gamester.  
6 A great Estate will break off the Match.  
7 This Woman will be a religious Nun.  
8 You spend your time in vain, for you will never gain her favour.  
9 Many Loves at once.  
10 He is more your Friend now then ever.  
11 One only Friend will be very helpful to you.  
12 Your Friends will desert you, when you have most need of them.   

Numb. 19  
1 This Woman is certainly with Child.  
2 This Woman is barren.  
3 They will have none but Boys.  
4 This woman will be a Cuck-quean.  
5 Your Wife will have a good report.  
6 Your Husband will do his business effectually.  
7 Want of Estate destroys this Match.  
8 This Person will not fancy a Religious life.  
9 You will be in favour when you have given over your suit.  
10 Too many Friends will do you an injury.  
11 He loves you and confides in you.  
12 It will be your fortune to have many Friends.   

Numb. 20.  
1 She is with Child of a Boy.  
2 This Woman is not with Child.  
3 They will never have Children, because h● is too active, and she too slow.  
4 They will have none but Girls.  
5 They will agree extraordinary well togethers  
6 Your Wife will have a very ill report.  
7 Your Husband will always have a Mistress.  
8 The inequality of your conditions will brea● off the Match.  
9 This Person will make some trial, both of married and religious life.  
10 Rely upon the favour of Grandees.  
11 He will hardly be in love as long as he lives.  
12 He loves thee, but confides not in thee.   

Numb. 21.  
1 She is a Maid, and free from scandal.  
2 She is with Child of a Girl.  
3 She is with Child, & will be safely delivered.  
4 She is too forward, and He too remiss.  
5 Their Children will live.  
6 They will always be wrangling.  
7 Your Wife will dote upon you.  
8 Your Husband will debauch all your maid-servants.  
9 Some vice he is supposed to be guilty of, retards the Match.  
10 It will be done to your Relations, but not to your own satisfaction.  
11 The favours you receive from him will make you envied by others.  
12 She will hardly get a true friend, as long as she lives.   

Numb. 22.  
1 You will prove a Gainer in all your undertake.  
2 She is no Maid.  
3 She will be brought to bed of a brave Girl.  
4 She is with Child, and will hardly be delivered without going in danger of her life.  
5 The heat of his reins makes him unfruitful.  
6 Their Children will not be long-lived.  
7 The Husband will have a Mistress, and the Wife a Gallant.  
8 Your Wife will eat you out of house & home.  
9 Your Husband will dote upon you.  
10 This Match will be made up by a faithful friend; in whom you confide.  
11 This person will enter into Religious orders out of spite.  
12 You will never be really in favour, but only in appearance.   

Numb. 23.  
1 You will overthrow your Adversary at Law.  
2 You will be a Loser in all things.  
3 She was a Maid, till twelve years of age.  
4 She hath had two Children.  
5 This Woman hath not been long with Child.  
6 The heat of the womb makes her barren.  
7 The first Child she hath will be a Boy.  
8 They will live happily together.  
9 Your Wife will be very true to your bed.  
10 Your Husband will beat you.  
11 This Match will be made up by the mediation of some person or other.  
12 This Person will marry to please his fancy.   

Numb. 24  
1 You will lose at Dice.  
2 You will be overthrown at Law.  
3 Your gains will enrich you.  
4 She and her Shee-companion have both lost their Maidenheads.  
5 She will miscarry of a Son.  
6 This Woman is farther gone with Child than you imagine.  
7 This Man doth not manage his business briskly.  
8 The first Child she hath will be a Girl.  
9 They will live very uncomfortably together.  
10 Your Wife will be whorish.  
11 Your Husband will endeavour as much as in him lies to please you.  
12 The Match will be made up between both parties, without the assistance of a third person.   

Numb. 25.  
1 Trade as a Mercer, and you will be a great Gainer.  
2 You will win at Dice.  
3 You will gain both by principal and interest.  
4 Thy Losses will beggar thee.  
5 She hath deflowered herself.  
6 She will miscarry of a Daughter.  
7 She counterfeits herself with Child, but is not really so.  
8 This Woman is without life or soul.  
9 All the Children begot in marriage will prove the Husbands.  
10 They will grow rich.  
11 Thy Wife will have Gallants.  
12 Thy Husband will always contradict thee.   

Numb. 26.  
1 Thou wilt be paid all thy debts.  
2 Thou wilt prove a loser, if thou dealest in silks.  
3 Thou wilt win at Whisk.  
4 Thou wilt gain by the principal, but not by the interest.  
5 Thou wilt have great losses by War.  
6 She is a Maid, but no Virgin.  
7 She is with Child of a Son begot by her Gallant.  
8 This Woman is with Child, and will miscarry.  
9 This Man was weakened before he was married.  
10 All the Children, begot in marriage, will not be the Husbands.  
11 They will spend all they have.  
12 Thy Wife will prove a little whorish, yet she'll manage her business with discretion.   

Numb. 27.  
1 The Theft will de discovered.  
2 The Debtor will never pay thee.  
3 Thou wilt prosper by trading to Sea.  
4 Playing at Whisk will undo thee.  
5 You will be overthrown, but have your charges borne.  
6 You will receive great losses at Sea.  
7 She lost her Maidenhead.  
8 She is with Child of a Daughter begot by her Gallant.  
9 This Woman is big with nothing but a mole, or imperfect birth.  
10 This Woman, when a Maid, made use of physic.  
11 They will have but one Child that will live.  
12 They will be forced to part.   

Numb. 28.  
1 You will inherit a plentiful Estate.  
2 It will be long ere the theft be discovered.  
3 You will lose all the profit that should accrue to you by that debt.  
4 Trading by Sea will be disadvantageous for you.  
5 You will win at Tick-tack.  
6 You will be overthrown, and forced to pay Costs.  
7 You will gain by Horseflesh.  
8 I question her being a Maid, and have reason for't.  
9 She is with Child of a Son that will prove vicious.  
10 This Woman will be brought to bed of a Tympany.  
11 The Husband is of too cold a constitution.  
12 They will have many Children living.   

Numb. 29.  
1 This Person hath dislosed your secret.  
2 You will never enjoy any Inheritance.  
3 The Theft will never be discovered,  
4 You will never gain any thing but by Law.  
5 You will gain by trading in Corn and Wine.  
6 You will lose at Tick-tack,  
7 You will be dismissed the Court of your suit, your charges born.  
8 You will lose by Horseflesh.  
9 She hath mischief in her heart.  
10 She is with Child of a Daughter that will prove excellent company.  
11 This Woman will soon be with Child.  
12 This Woman is of too hot a temper.   

Numb. 30.  
1 You will have true and faithful Servants.  
2 This Person will never reveal your secrets.  
3 Be submissive to him, and you will enjoy his Estate.  
4 Promise a reward, and you will have what you lost.  
5 You run a great hazard of being made a bankrupt.  
6 You will be a loser by trading in corn & wine  
7 You will win at Cribbage.  
8 Your Sentence will be conclusive and advantageous.  
9 Trading in horned beasts will prove gainful to you.  
10 If she be a Maid, 'tis against her will.  
11 She is with Child of a Son, that will be a grief to her.  
12 This Woman will never be with Child by her Husband.   

Numb. 31.  
1 The News that is currant abroad is true.  
2 You will never have any service from him worth speaking of.  
3 She returned no answer, though desired.  
4 Be as submissive as you can, he will never make you his Heir.  
5 This Theft was done but in jest.  
6 If you be not careful, you will not find wherewithal to pay your debts.  
7 Traffic by Sea.  
8 You will lose at Cribbage.  
9 You will have the Decretal order of the Court.  
10 You will lose by trading in horned beasts.  
11 Her Maidenhead is more trouble some to her then her Gown.  
12 She is with Child of a Daughter, that will bring her to shame.   

Numb. 32.  
1 This Dream presageth nothing but good.  
2 The News abroad is false.  
3 He is not fit for your service.  
4 This Shee-confident is corrupted by gifts.  
5 Your Brother will deprive you of that Inheritance.  
6 He that robbed you, is your domestic servant.  
7 A former Creditor will make you lose your debt.  
8 Trade not to Sea.  
9 You will win at Tennis, and Pell-mell.  
10 You will have an order of Court that will be troublesome to execute.  
11 You will be a great gainer by suits at Law.  
12 It itched, she scratched it, and so lost her Maidenhead.   

Numb. 33.  
1 It is very probable he will prove honest.  
2 This Dream brings no good with it.  
3 The News is partly true.  
4 He will be an affectionate Servant.  
5 Your secret is discovered, look to yourself.  
6 Your Sister will deprive you of that Estate.  
7 Threaten hard, and you will find what you lost.  
8 Your debt will be but half-paid.  
9 Dealing as a Lapidary will prove to your advantage.  
10 You will lose at Tennis, and Pell-mell.  
11 You will get an order of Court, but there will be an Arrest of Judgement.  
12 You will be a great Loser by suits at Law.   

Numb. 34.  
1 Her thoughts are wholly taken up with Love-toys.  
2 He is reputed a wicked Man.  
3 This Dream will prove true.  
4 The News is partly false.  
5 His Service is more pleasing then profitable.  
6 They made him confess more than was desired.  
7 One of your Relations will deprive you of that Estate.  
8 Shame keeps back the Thief.  
9 You will only be frustrated in your expectation.  
10 Trading as a Lapidary will undo you.  
11 You will win at Gleek.  
12 You will be overthrown at Law, and amerced.   

Numb. 35.  
1 She is addicted to drunkenness,  
2 She studies to deceive some person or other.  
3 He is looked upon as a stout Man.  
4 This Dream is but a fable.  
5 The truth is quite contrary to report.  
6 His service is not free.  
7 Your secret is ready to be disclosed, if you look not to it.  
8 You will lose this Estate by your folly.  
9 The Thief is fled.  
10 You most satisfy yourself with goods for that debt.  
11 You will grow rich by procuring.  
12 You will lose at Gleek.   

Numb. 36.  
1 She is very discreet.  
2 She is apt to be moved to anger.  
3 She thinks of merry-making.  
4 He is looked upon as a Fool.  
5 This Dream must be interpreted in the best sense.  
6 This news is reported with design.  
7 He will continue your Servant a long time.  
8 Cajole your Confident, or he will discover all.  
9 Bestow somewhat of yours upon him, and you will enjoy what is his.  
10 The Thief is a Person of quality.  
11 If you had not good security, you would lose all.  
12 Love will prove your ruin.   

Numb. 37.  
1 Monday will be a lucky day to him.  
2 She is Lecherous.  
3 She is very chaste.  
4 See studies how to be revenged.  
5 He is held one of the most subtle Men of the age.  
6 This Dream must be interpreted quite contrary.  
7 There is something of truth in it.  
8 He will never continue long in your service.  
9 Threaten her, or she will reveal your secret.  
10 Caresse her, and you will inherit her Estate.  
11 A whole Jubilee will not discover the Thief.  
12 Pay yourself with what they proffer you.   

Numb. 38.  
1 The Cause will go for you.  
2 You will prove a Loser in all your Deal.  
3 She was a Maid, till twelve years of age.  
4 She hath had two Children.  
5 This Woman hath not long been gone with Child.  
6 The heat of her womb makes her barren.  
7 The first Child she hath will be a male.  
8 They will live very contentedly together.  
9 Your Wife will be very chaste.  
10 Your Husband will beat you.  
11 This Match will be made up by the mediation of some person.  
12 This Woman will marry to please her own fancy.   

Numb. 39  
1 She will spend her days in pleasure.  
2 Fire will prove very in injurious to him.  
3 Tuesday will be a prosperous day to him.  
4 She is very charitable.  
5 She is apt to scandalise persons.  
6 She thinks to hook in an Estate.  
7 He is taken to be a careless person.  
8 This Dream foretells some great mischief.  
9 In few days you will better understand the business.  
10 He will be a careful Servant, but not to be trusted.  
11 He seems to oppose, but see that he do not fall quite off at last.  
12 If you are present at his death, without boubt you will be his Heir.   

Numb. 40.  
1 This Child will be long-lived.  
2 His life will be full of afflictions.  
3 The water will be always  to him.  
4 Tuesday will ever be an unlucky day to him.  
5 She is a very understanding Woman.  
6 She is extraordinary vainglorious.  
7 She thinks of marrying.  
8 He is judged to be a Person that will be disturbed at a small matter.  
9 This Dream threatens your person.  
10 These matters are disguised by those that relate them.  
11 He will prove a bad Servant, and will steal from you.  
12 She hath spoiled all by her tattle, thinking to conceal it.   

Numb. 41.  
1 This Child is the Mother's Husbands.  
2 This Child will be short-lived.  
3 His life will be full of afflictions.  
4 He will run some risk by water.  
5 Tuesday will be a fortunate day to him.  
6 She is a Woman of great equity.  
7 She is very jealous.  
8 She thinks of making love.  
9 This Person is looked upon as a Cheat.  
10 This Dream threatens some Friends of yours.  
11 These things are divulged to surprise persons.  
12 This domestic Servant is a mere spy in a family.   

Numb. 42.  
1 The party that is sick will recover.  
2 This Child is not the Mother's Husbands.  
3 This Child will die in the Cradle.  
4 He will lead a very voluptuous life.  
5 The air will never injure him.  
6 Wednesday will be an unfortunate day to him.  
7 She is of a sweet and affable disposition.  
8 She is very envious.  
9 She thinks of nothing.  
10 This Man is judged a very knowing person.  
11 This Dream relates to your Estate.  
12 You must make as if you believed it, but nothing will come on't.   

Numb. 43.  
1 He will succeed his Father in his Offices.  
2 The party that is sick will not recover.  
3 This Child is legitimate.  
4 This Child will not outlive his Childhood.  
5 His life will be crossed with a thousand discontents.  
6 The air is his most potent Enemy.  
7 Thursday will be a prosperous day to him.  
8 She excels in humility.  
9 She is very idle.  
10 She thinks of performing some exploit.  
11 This person is taken for a very rational Man.  
12 This Dream hath diverted you from changing your design.   

Numb. 44.  
1 He will be very fortunate.  
2 He will not succeed his Father in his Offices.  
3 He will recover, yet be always sickly.  
4 This Child is a Bastard.  
5 This Child will bury both Father and Mother.  
6 His life will be very happy.  
7 He will get an Estate by the increase of his Land.  
8 Thursday will be an unprosperous day to him.  
9 She excels in fidelity.  
10 She is a very troublesome person.  
11 She is studying how to answer a Letter.  
12 This Person is held a good Companion.   

Numb. 54.  
1 This change will be honourable.  
2 He will be very unfortunate.  
3 He will have good Offices.  
4 He will recover, but die of a Relapse.  
5 This Child is very suspicious.  
6 This Child will not outlive the Father.  
7 He will lead a very contentious life.  
8 The Earth will be unfruitful, notwithstanding his Husbandry.  
9 Friday will be a happy day to him.  
10 She is a real friend.  
11 She is a Thief.  
12 She is intent upon her devotion.   

Numb. 46.  
1 Your desire will be fully accomplished.  
2 This alteration will be shameful to you.  
3 He will be fortunate in the Enjoyment of wealth.  
4 He will never have any Office or Charge.  
5 The party that is distempered will recover sooner than is imagined.  
6 This Child hath many Fathers.  
7 This Child will be overlaid by his Nurse.  
8 His life will be very peaceable.  
9 He is in danger of burning.  
10 Friday will be an unfortunate day to him.  
11 She excels in solidity of judgement.  
12 She hath her Religion to choose.   

Numb. 47.  
1 This year will prove very fruitful in all things.  
2 You will never obtain your desire.  
3 This alteration will be advantageous to you.  
4 Poverty will make you miserable.  
5 He will discharge himself well of his Offices.  
6 This Person that is sick will not recover so soon as is imagined.  
7 The Mother knows very well whose Child this is.  
8 This Child will outlive all his Brothers and Sisters.  
9 He will spend his life in litigious suits at Law.  
10 The winds will be mischievous to him.  
11 Saturday will be a successful day to him.  
12 She is accomplished with all manner of perfection.   

Numb. 48.  
1 This Peace will continue.  
2 This will prove a very barren year.  
3 If you be industrious, you will obtain your desire.  
4 This change will be disadvantageous to you.  
5 He will be fortunate in his Charges and Offices.  
6 He will not discharge himself well of his Offices.  
7 This sick person will die, because his disease is not known.  
8 This Child hath a better Father than his Mother's Husband.  
9 This Child will go near to die of worms.  
10 She will live with her own relations.  
11 He runs the hazard of drowning.  
12 Saturday will be an unsuccessful day to him.   

Numb. 49.  
1 The great Man will overcome the little one.  
2 This peace will not continue long.  
3 This year will be fruitful in Corn and Wine.  
4 Desist from your design; for it is to no purpose.  
5 This will be a profitable change to you.  
6 He will have no success with his Charges and Offices.  
7 Your Offices will be very helpful to you.  
8 The party diseased will recover, if his distemper be known.  
9 This is Father's own Son, whatever the world thinks to the contrary.  
10 This Child will die of Convulsion-fits.  
11 She will lead her life among strangers.  
12 You must have a care of being hurt by a stone.   

Numb. 50.  
1 These two Enemies will at last be reconciled.  
2 The little Man will beat the great one.  
3 This year will not end without War.  
4 This will be a scarce year for Corn and Wine.  
5 You will obtain your desire in part.  
6 This alteration will prove disadvantageous to you.  
7 He will prosper in the beginning of his life.  
8 His Charge will undo his family.  
9 Multiplicity of Medicines will kill him.  
10 His Mother's Husband did not beget him.  
11 This Child will live till all his friends are weary of him.  
12 She will never be perfectly in health.   

Numb. 51.  
1 Your journey or voyage will be prosperous.  
2 These two Enemies will never be reconciled.  
3 The young Man will get advantage of the old one.  
4 This will prove a quiet year.  
5 This year will produce store of fruits.  
6 Your desires & expectations will be frustrated.  
7 This alteration will be shameful to you.  
8 He will make an happy end.  
9 He will have Offices conferred upon him by way of gratification.  
10 Abstinence will cure him.  
11 This Child will not be known but by means of a Jubilee.  
12 This Child will be in danger of death at seven years of age.   

Numb. 52.  
1 Of a continued favour.  
2 Your journey or voyage will be unsuccessful.  
3 Their reconciliation will not continue long.  
4 The old Man will get advantage of the young one.  
5. This peace is not very well settled.  
6 This year will be barren in fruit.  
7 You will accomplish your desires, notwithstanding the obstructions you meet with.  
8 This change will make thee disesteemed.  
9 The beginning of his life will be unhappy.  
10 He will purchase Places with money.  
11 Bleeding and purging will cure him.  
12 This Child's Mother saith he is her Husbands and we must believe it.     

A TREATISE Of NOCTURNAL DREAMS & VISIONS, With their Interpretations, According to the Doctrine of the Ancients.  
Published in French By Marck de Vulson Sieur de la Colombiere, and Knight of the Order of S. Michael; AND Translated into English By J. G. of the Inner Temple, Gent.  
LONDON: Printed by J. C. for William Crook. 1669.   

A TREATISE OF Nocturnal Dreams and Visions, AND Of their SIGNIFICATIONS, According To the Opinion of the Ancients.  
DReams and Visions are infused into men for their advantage and instruction. Wherefore God promiseth in the sacred Pages, that he will pour out his Spirit upon all flesh, 
Joel c. 2.  that their sons and daughters shall prophesy: The old men dream dreams, 
Act. c. 2.  and the young men see visions. And both sacred and profane Histories are so fully furnished with variety of examples concerning the true event of many Dreams, that it would argue incredulity and ignorance in natural causes, not at all to credit them. Hypocrates is of opinion, that whilst the body sleeps, the spirit is awake, and transported unto all places where the body could have access; and that it sees and knows all things which the body could know and see when awake, and toucheth all that it could touch: In short, that it hath all the operations that the body, now asleep, can be capable of when awake.  
There are five sorts of Dreams, that have different names according to their different qualities. The first is a Dream: The second a Vision: The third an Oracle: The fourth a Fantasy, or vain imagination: The fifth an Apparition.  
That is called a Dream, which discovers the truth under a hidden Figure; as when Joseph interpreted Pharaoh's Dream of the seven lean King that should devour the seven fat ones; and the same of the ears of Corn, etc.  
A Vision is no other than this; when a man really sees awake, that he did asleep; as it happened to Vespasian, when he saw the Chirurgeon that drew out Nero's tooth.  
An Oracle is a revelation or advertisement made to us in our sleep, by some Angel or other Saint, to perform Gods Will according to their information; as it happened to Joseph the Husband of the holy Virgin, and the three Magi.  
The Fantasy or vain imagination happens in that instant when the affections are so vehement, that they ascend up to the brain, during our sleep, and meet with the more watchful spirit: then what the thoughts are employed about in the day, we fancy in the night; so an Inamorato, who in the daytime thinks on his Mistress, in the night, when asleep, he meets with the same thoughts: 
— Nam mens humana quod optat  
Dum vigilat, sperans, per somnum cernit id ipsum.  
Cato.  So when a person thinks to meet with any thing, oftentimes it falls out, that in the nighttime he Dreams he hath met it. It happens also that he that fasts all day dreams at night that he is feeding; if he had any thirst in the daytime, in the night he dreams of drinking, and is very much delighted with it. And the Miser and Usurer dreams of Bags, nay, will discourse of them in his sleep.  
An Apparition by the Greeks called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, a Phantasm, and is no other than a Nocturnal Vision that presents itself to weak Infants and ancient men, who fancy they see Chimaeras approaching to intimidate or offend them.  
Of these five sorts of Dreams, the three former have some appearance of truth, but the two last are altogether fallacious.  
Yet you must observe this of all the Dreams, that those that leave no impression upon the memory are insignificant: and those which we remember, must be, if good and true, about daybreak, or at the least after midnight; for till then all the senses and faculties of the body are busied about digestion; and the spirit being disturbed by the vapours that arise from the meat, and seat themselves in the brain, the Dreams are to little or no purpose. Yet Artemidorus affirms, that he that is sober and undisturbed, may dream at all times, even in the day, and there may be a certain event of them.  
Some Authors make a threefold division of Dreams, viz. into Dreams of Natural, Animal, and Celestial things. Natural things are those by which Physicians judge of the humours; dreams of things Animal, are such as owe their being to the passion and the trouble that the spirit was infested with in the daytime; and the Celestial are advertisements of things that are Divine; as that of the Statue which the King of Babylon imagined he saw in his sleep, which is so accurately portraicted by the Prophet Daniel.  
There are but few that have the gift of tru●● Dreams; and they fewer, that understand their interpretation, there being much to be observed tha● is not vulgarly understood. There are two principal kinds of Dreams, viz. Speculative or Contemplative, which require our consideration, because their event is every way agreeable to the Dream● as we read it happened to a Prisoner in the little 
* The name of a Prison in Paris.  Chastelet at Paris, who dreamt that whilst the● were putting the halter about his neck to hang him, that he saw an unknown person that came to his rescue with a sword, and took off th●● rope; which the next day happened accordingly: for the Judge having pronounced sentence of death, and committed him to the Executioner; he was rescued by some persons that came incognito, employed by his friends to that purpose.  
The second is Allegorical, or significative, because it happens not according to the Dream, but by a riddle; as when we dream of seeing an Angel, that signifies revelation, or good news; to see a Serpent that endeavours to do mischief, signifies envy, and tribulation from envious persons.  
Speculative Dreams have an immediate event, but the Allegorical not so soon; for there is a days time or two, between a Dream, and the Event thereof, so that sometimes a man may deceive himself in this, viz. whether he must attend the success according to the Dream, or judge it will fall out contrarily; which is understood only by learned and prudent Interpreters. Sometimes there are monstrous Dreams, which ought not to be listed in the number of those that are speculative; they are such as cannot possibly happen, as when you Dream that you fly, have horns, go down into hell, these are of the nature of those that are Allegorical, which carry a different signification.  
Dreams are proportioned according to the condition of the party Dreaming: Thus those of Eminent persons, be they good or bad, will be great, viz. if good, they signify great benefit; and on the contrary, great misery. If the Party that Dreams be of a mean condition, the Dreams with their events will be means also; if poor, their Dreams will be very inconsiderable: for the Rules of Dreaming are not general, and cannot satisfy all persons one way; but sometimes according to times and persons, they admit of various interpretations.  
They that Dream of acquainting a second person with business that belongs not to their profession or trade, that happens to themselves; but when they seem to give any advice touching their own trade or profession, that happens to others; and he that Dreams he practiseth what he heard, that is an extraordinary good sign, and he will prosper in his trade or profession. A Grecian Physician Dreaming that he did advise another not to marry a wife that was a Roman, it happened that this Physician espoused a Roman Dame, that brought him much trouble. Heraclides the Tragedian being at Rome prepared for a disputation about the Art of Tragoediography, Dreamed in the night, that he was to maintain a dispute with the Tragedians and Judges; and yet notwithstanding on the morrow he was overcome in the dispute.  
Sometimes our Dreams have a true event, though diametrically opposite to our hope and desire. Amilcar the Carthaginian General, besieging a Town in Sicily, dreamed he heard a voice, that assured him he should sup in the Town to morrow; which wrought upon him so effectually, that he did hope and believe he should take it that day; and to that end having given order to his Soldiers for a general assault, a dissension arose among the variety of nations that made up the composition of his Army, so that the Town taking advantage of this opportunity, sallied out, and attaquing that place where Amilcar then was, took him Prisoner, and conducted him to supper in their Town; and so his hope was frustrated, but not the Dream.  
The Valiant and Resolute, as also the learned understanding persons in the affairs of this world, whose spirits are distracted neither with hope or fear, are not so inclinable to Dreams and Fantasies, as the timorous, ignorant, and those of the vulgar, who fancy nothing all night but what took up their thoughts in the daytime.  
Now it is convenient to produce examples of all sorts of Dreams that have a true event. The first sort is called a Dream.  
Joseph the Son of Jacob Dreamed that his Brother's sheaves made obeisance to those he had made: and again he had another Dream; The Sun, Moon and eleven Stars seemed to worship him; which was true; For being by God's grace and favour established Governor of all Egypt, He furnished his Brethren with corn for their sustenance, during the famine, together with his Father and Mother; and after his discovery of himself, he bestowed on them great possessions, and gave them the Land of Goshen to dwell in. King Pharaoh's Butler, being imprisoned, Dreamed in the night, that he saw a vine with three branches that flourished by degrees, and after it had blossomed the ripe grapes appeared, and he seemed to have the King's Cup in his hand, and that he pressed the grapes, and strained out the wine, which overflowed the Cup he presented to the King. Joseph interpreted this Dream, and said that the three branches were the three days that the Butler was still to remain a Prisoner; which time expired, King Pharaoh would be mindful of him, and re-establish him in his Office to serve him as before: which had a true event.  
The King's Baker, 
Gen. 40.  who was a Prisoner at the same time, Dreamed that he carried three Baskets of meal upon his head, and that in the uppermost there were all sorts of Viands that could be praepar'd by the Baker's art, and that the birds eat of it. Joseph in like manner interpreted this Dream, and said, that the three Baskets signified three days, at the end whereof King Pharaoh would cause this poor Baker to be hanged: which had an event suitable to the predication.  
The same King Pharaoh Dreamed that he was standing near a River out of which there came seven well-favoured and fat Kine, which were devoured by seven other meager and ill-favoured to the sight. The same night he Dreamed also and Phancied that he saw seven full ears of corn which were swallowed up by seven other dr●● and withered ears. Joseph interpreted it thus that the seven fat Kine, 
Gen. 41.  and the full ears of corn signified seven years' plenty in the Kingdom of Egypt; and the seven meager Kine and ill-favoured ears of corn did denote seven years of deart and famine, during which time they shoul● consume all that was gathered up in the seave● years of plenty. Which fell out so, according t● the explication.  
These four Examples will be sufficient concerning Dreams that are made under hidde● figures, the truth whereof is manifestly apparent being explained by art, or divine inspiration.  
The second sort, known by the name of 〈◊〉 Vision, happens frequently. We read that Vespasian being with the Emperor Nero in the Island o● Achaia, saw in a Dream an unknown person who acquainted him that his good fortun● should commence, when Nero should have 〈◊〉 tooth drawn. The first person he met after h● was awake, coming out of his Chamber, was 〈◊〉 Chirurgeon, that told him he came just at tha● time from drawing one of Nero's teeth: shortly after Nero died, and Galba also; and so consequently Vespasian, having made his advantage of the dissension between Otho and Vitellius, was created the succeeding Emperor.  
Emionides the Poet, having interred a dread corpse, which he found on the Seashore; the night after he Dreamed that that same body appeared to him, and advised him not to venture to Sea; which engaged him to remain on the shore; and his Associates setting sail in order to a Voyage, unfortunately perished by a Tempest.  
Septimus Severus Phancied that he saw the Emperor Pertinax break his neck by a fall, and that his horse made towards him, whereon he mounted; which fell out truly; Severus being chosen Emperor in his place.  
Jacob the Patriarch had a Vision in a Dream, of a Ladder, which placed on the earth, 
Gen. 28.  the top thereof reached to Heaven, and the Angels did ascend and descend; and the Lord leaning on the Ladder, promised Jacob and his posterity the place whereon he slept, and that all the families of the earth should be blessed in his seed: which happened according to his Vision.  
The Emperor Constantine leading the Army which he had raised against Maxentius, saw in a Dream, a beaming and resplendent Cross, and heard a voice, which told him, that in that sign he should overcome his Enemies; so that he caused a Cross adorned with gold and precious stones to be carried on the day of the battle, and committed the custody of it to the valiantest in his Army; and under these h●ppy pressages, he totally defeated the Army of Maxentius, who was killed upon the place.  
The third sort of Dreams is called an Oracle; as that which happened to Joseph the Husband of of the most holy Virgin, who being with child, was divinely advertised by an Angel, to conduct the Virgin Mary, 
St. Math. ch. 1.  and her Son Jesus, into Egypt, with all possible diligence, that they might avoid the cruelty of Herod, who destroyed all the young Children.  
The three Magis or Sages of the East, 
St. Math. ch. 2.  after they had worshipped our Saviour Jesus Christ in the Manger, the Angel appeared to them in a Dream, and acquainted them that they must steer some other course in their return, and avoid passing by the place where Herod resided.  
As to the Fantasies and Apparitions, a thousand examples may he produced; we shall all over this Treatise treat very amply both of the one and the other. And because we endeavour a methodical relation, we will first discourse of those Dreams that are of things natural, which own their original to the humours that are analogous to the four Elements; afterwards we shall mention Dreams of things animal, and consequently of the Celestial.  


Of the FIRE.  
WHen a man Dreams he sees Fire, that signifies the issue of his choler; and ordinarily they that Dream of Fire, are active, choleric, and furious. A Man that Dreams he is burnt by Fire, that prognosticates a violent Fever.  
He that Dreams he sees a moderate Fire in his chimney, without smoke, or the crackling of sparks, it signifies that he which Dreamed is in perfect health, and that his inclination sways him to that which is good and rational; sometimes also it signifies riches: some are of opinion that it denotes a feast, or rejoicing among relations and friends.  
On the contrary, when one Dreams that he sees a great sparkling Fire with much smoke, that signifies anger, debates, or some bad news, which he that Dreams will soon be sensible of.  
When one Dreams of seeing a Fire extinguished, that signifies indigence, necessity, ill fortune, and want of money: and if any distempered person Dreams that the Fire is put out, that praesageth his death.  
When one Dreams that he sees a clear, shining, lighted candle upon a table or cabinet, that is a good sign to the Sick, it denotes recovery and health: and if he that Dreams be unmarried, it signifies that he will speedily marry, that he will have success, and prosper in his undertake, and that he will gain credit: the same interpretation may be made of a Lantern or flaming Torch.  
He that Dreams he sees a Candle, Lanterns or Torch extinguished or darkened; that signifies unto him sadness, sickness and poverty.  
He that Dreams he is in a Ship, and sees a clear light afar off, shall be assured of a fai● wind, shall receive no damage by tempests, and shall arrive happily at the Haven.  
When one Dreams in the night, that he holds a burning Light or Torch in his hand, it is a good sign, and chief to those that are young; for it signifies that they shall enjoy their loves, accomplish their designs, overcome their Enemies and gain honour and goodwill from all persons.  
To Dream you see a burning Light in th● hands of another, signifies that the mischief don●● will be discovered, and the party punished, and that there will be no possibility of excusing o● concealing it. When the light is extinguished it signifies the contrary.  
When one Dreams that he sees one or more houses burning with a clear pure Fire that is not violent, nor sparkling, and that those house● are neither consumed nor destroyed; that signifies to the necessitous, goods, riches, and Inheritances; to the rich it praesageth honours, charges and dignity: But if you spy them burning with a smoky violent or sparkling Fire, and that they seem to fall and be consumed; that denotes the contrary, viz. adversity, trouble, Lawsuits, shame, misfortune and death to the Dreamer. Queen Hecuba, wife to King Priam, being with child of her Son Paris, Dreamed that she went with a burning Torch, that would consume the City or Troy; which was a prognostic of the ruin of her Empire; of her own, and the death of all her relations.  
When a man Dreams that his bed is on Fire, and that he perisheth; that signifies damage, sickness or death to his wife; and if the wife Dreams it, the same may happen to her Husband.  
When one Dreams that he sees Tapestry or other movables of a Hall burning, and that they are consumed; that prognosticates damage or death to the Master of the House.  
When one fancies in a Dream that he sees the Cabinet or Cupboard that belongs to the Mistress if the House burning, that signifies sickness or death to her.  
If one Dreams that the Kitchen is one Fire, that denotes death to the Cook, the men or maidservants, or one of them.  
When a man believes the shop is on Fire, and that it is consumed by the Fire, that signifies loss of Goods and Possessions.  
If one Dreams, that he sees the out-windows of the forepart of the house burning, and that they are consumed, that signifies the death of Brethren; if they are those of the backpart, it is the death of Sisters, or of one of them.  
When one Dreams that the Gates burn and are consumed, that signifies death to the Mistress of the House, and sometimes to him that Dreams.  
If one believes he sees the Bedposts on Fire without being consumed, that signifies good fortune to the male-childrens, as Euripides the Philosopher testifies.  
To see the top of the House on Fire, and consumed, denotes loss of Goods, Lawsuits, o● the Master of the house his Friends.  
If one Dreams that he kindles a Fire, and that it burns immediately without trouble, or a candle or Torch, that signifies that the Children begotten will be fortunate, and honour their Mother.  
If a Woman Dreams that she kindles or lights the Fire, it is a sign she is with child, and that she will be safely delivered of a fortunate child, whether it be a Boy or a Girl.  
When one Dreams of kindling a Fire with much ado, and that it extinguisheth presently, it denotes damage and dishonour to the wife, and he that Dreams, who often proves the cause of it.  
He that Dreams he sees a Castle quite burned down and consumed, it signifies damage, sickness or death to the Master thereof: and he tha● Dreams a City is on Fire and consumed, that denotes famine, war or pestilence to the said City.  
He that Dreams he sees a man publicly burned, it signifies loss in merchandizing o● sickness.  
He that Dreams he sees his  burned and consumed, it signifies vexation, injury, reproach, overthrowing at Law, and loss of friends.  
He that Dreams he sees a stack of corn burned and consumed, it signifies famine and mortality but if it consumes not, it denotes fertility and great riches to him that Dreams.  
He that Dreams he sees himself burning in the Fire, and suffers pain thereby, it signifies envy, displeasure, choler, and debates. He that Dreams he holds a Torch made of straw, and carries it in public, it signifies joy, honour, and the safe management of Affairs.  
He that Dreams he burns his finger, it signifies envy and sin.   

Of the AIR.  
THey that Dream they see the Air clear and serene, shall be beloved and esteem ' by all persons; and those that are their enemies, and envy them, shall be reconciled into them.  
According to the observation of Physicians; they judge the person to be sanguine and full of blood, that is accustomed to Dream of the Air. Some eniment Authors affirm, that to Dream of seeing the Air clear and free from clouds, it signifies that the theft or thing lost shall be discovered, and that one shall overcome his Enemies; that he shall overthrow at Law, be respected and esteemed by all, and that he shall make a successful voyage or journey, if he be upon any such design: in brief, all good things are denoted by a clear and serene Air.  
But on the contrary, if one Dreams that the Airs is cloudy, dark and troubled, that signifies sadness, sickness, melancholy, and obstruction of business: in short, such a Dream signifies the contrary of what is before signified by a pure and clear Air.  
When one Dreams he is in a calm Air, that signifies that his life and manners shall be good, peaceable, and acceptable to all company; and that the businesses and voyages or journeys he undertakes shall succeed according to his desire.  
If one Dreams he sees a soft shower, without storm, tempest, or great winds, that signifies to Labourers gain and profit; and quite contrary, to Merchants it denotes obstruction, loss and spoil of their Merchandizes; and the same to Artisans and Mechanics.  
Dreams of great and long continuing rain, hail, tempests, and thunder, signify afflictions, troubles, dangers, losses and peril: to the poorer sort, they signify repose; for during the storm they are shut up, and at rest.  
When one Dreams of Ice and Snow in winter, that hath no signification; for the spirit represents to the memory the cold of the preceding day; but if it be in another season, that denotes a good Harvest to Husbandmen, and that the earth will abound in all things: To Merchants and other men of employment, it signifies hindrance in their negotiations and voyages; and to soldiers, that their designs will be frustrated.  
To Dream of hail, signifies sorrow and trouble, Yet it signifies also, that the most hidden secrets shall be revealed and made known.  
To Dream you see a thunderbolt fall near you without a tempest, signifies that he that Dreams shall be constrained to fly, or quit his country, and dwell elsewhere; and this is understood particularly of Grandees. If one Dreams that thunder falls upon his head, or on the houses, that signifies loss of life and Goods.  

Of the Celestial Fire.  
TO Dream one sees a moderate, pure and shining Fire in the Heavens, signifies the menaces of some Prince or great Lord.  
To Dream one sees a great Fire in the Heavens, signifies an assault by Enemies, poverty, desolation and famine; and on what part soever the Fire falls from Heaven, that denotes that the evil or Enemies will proceed from thence; and if we Dream that the said Fire flies and descends on all parts, that is still worse.  
To Dream you see burning Lights or Torches, branches and trees on Fire, descending from Heaven, it signifies Wars, Quarrelling, Sterility, as also danger to him that Dreams, that he shall be violently hurt in the head, that he shall be beheaded, or have his brains beaten out by a fortuitous chance, or some strange accident.    

Of the WATER.  
THey that Dream they frequently see others, or do often dip themselves in the Water, according to the Naturalists, are of a phlegmatic constitution, and subject to defluxions and catarrhs.  
To dream that you see Riverwater clear and calm, praesageth good to all persons, and principally to Travellers, Lawyers and Judges.  
To Dream one sees Riverwater troubled, signifies that one shall be threatened by some great Lord, or out of his Master's favour; and that Lawyers shall be in great trouble, and subject to censure.  
To Dream of being in an impetuous River, and not to escape, signifies danger to the person of him that Dreams, sickness caused by defluxions, and delatory Lawsuits.  
To Dream of swimming in a great River, signifies future peril and danger.  
To Dream you see a clear River run by your Chamber, praesageth the arrival of some rich and liberal person, who will advantage the Dreamers; but if the Water be troubled, and that it seemed to spoil the moveables of the Chamber, then that signifies to those of the family violence, quarrels, and disorder occasioned by Enemies.  
A rich man that Dreams he sees a rivulet of clear Water run by his house, will be suddenly chosen into some charge or office, in which he shall receive honour, joy and profit, and will prove a refuge and Asylum to the oppressed.  
To Dream you see a rivulet that is troubled, signifies loss and damage by Fire, Lawsuits and Enemies.  
It is a good sign to dream you see a Pit full of fair Water in a field where there is none at all; for he that Dreams will be a thriving man, and suddenly married, if he be not so already, and will have good and obedient Children.  
To Dream you see a Pit whose Water overflows the banks, that praedicts loss of substance, the death of Wife and Children; and if the Wife have the same Dream, that denotes her death, or the loss of her substance.  
To Dream that you see a little Pond, signifies that you will enjoy the love of a beautiful woman; and the same if a woman Dreams it; she shall have her desires accomplished.  
To Dream that you are in Boat upon a River, Lake or Pond of clear Water, that is very good, and signifies joy, prosperity and success in affairs.  
If a sick Person Dreams that he sees a River or Fountain of clear running Water, that praesageth his recovery; but if the water be troubled and muddy, it signifies the contrary.  
If a young Man Dreams he draws Water out of a clear Well, that signifies he will be speedily married to a fair Maid, that will bring him a portion; if the Water be troubled, he will be disturbed by her, and suddenly fall sick.  
If he seems to give others clear Well-water to drink; by this Maid's means he will enrich, or afflict them, if the Water be troubled.  
If any one thinks that his River, Pond or Fountain is dried up, that signifies poverty; or death.  
If any one Dreams that he sees Water flow from a place where there is no possibility it should come, that signifies care; torment and affliction. If he imagine that he hath taken up some of that Water, the mischief will be of a longer continuance, according to the quantity he hath drawn; if it seems to him that it is dried up and gone, the misfortune will also be at an end.  
He that Dreams he drinks warm Water, is in danger of receiving praejudice by an offended Enemy, and the party will be afflicted more or less according to the degree of the heat of the Water; for as fresh Water is a good, so hot or boiling Water is a bad sign.  
When one Dreams he sees a Bath, that signifies affliction or grief.  
If a person Dreams he goes into a Bath, and that he finds it too hot, he will be troubled and afflicted by those that belong to his family; which trouble will be proportionable to the heat of the Water in the Bath, whether more or less.  
If it seems to him that he hath only pulled off hi● , without going into the Bath, he wil● have some disturbance, but of no long continuance.  
If one Dreams he goes into an extreme col● Bath, the same signification is to be given of it as when it is too hot.  
But if it be temperate, and as it ought to be it is a good Dream, praesaging prosperity, pleasure, joy and health.  
If one Dreams he hath carried Water in a garment, linen cloth, or any other thing, o● in a broken Vessel that could not hold Water, that denotes to the Party loss and damage, and that he will be deceived by those whom he hath entrusted with his Estate and Substance, or else that he will be robbed by his domestic Servants.  
If he Dreams that the Water he hath drawn into these things is not spilt, than he will praeserve his Estate, though with much difficulty● but if the Water be spilt, he shall lose it.  
If he fancies that he hath hid the Vessel and Water under ground, he will fall to decay, and will be in danger of being made a public spectacle, and of dying a shameful death.  
If one Dreams that he hath a glass full of Water given him, that signifies his speedy marriage, and that he will have Children by his wife. For whatsoever is of glass, is applicable to the wife; and Water signifies abundance and fruitfulness.  
If the Glass seems to be broken, and the Water unspilled, that signifies the death of the wife, but the life the Child; and so contrariwise.  
If a Minister Dreams he gives his people clear Water to drink, it signifies that he will teach them the word of God faithfully, and will be Instrumental to their salvation; if the Water be troubled, he will teach them heretical and false doctrine.  
If any one Dreams that he hath spilt Water in his House, that denotes care and affliction, according to the quantity of the Water.  

Of Navigation.  
IF any one Dreams that he is walking in a Boat, and recreating himself without fear, he will have comfort and success in his affairs: but if the Water be rough and tempestuous, it falleth out contrarily.  
To Dream of being in a Ship or Boat in danger of oversetting and Shipwreck, it is a sign of danger; unless the party be a prisoner or captive, in that case it denotes liberty and freedom.  
To Dream one sees a Sea-Haven, signifies that he will have joy, profit and good news.  
To Dream you see an Anchor, signifies assurance, and certain hope.  
To Dream one sees the cordage of a Ship, signifies news from Debtors or Factors.  
To see the Sea sky-coloured, and moderately waving, signifies joy, and performance of business with facility: but if the Sea be calm, it signifies obstruction and delatoriness; and when it is tempestuous, it Denotes tribulation, losses and adversity.  
He that Dreams he falls into the water or into the Sea, and that he awakes starting, that signifies that he either doth or will court a married woman, and will spend his days, substance, honour and fortune with her; and that he cannot without great difficulty disengage himself from the hands of those that envy him, and are his Enemies.    

Of the EARTH.  
If any one Dreams that he hath good Lands well enclosed bestowed upon him, with pleasant pastures, he will have a handsome Wife, according to the seeming goodness of the Land.  
But if the Land seemed spacious and not enclosed, that denotes pleasure; joy and riches, suitable to the extent of the Land.  
If it seemed that the said enclosed Lands had fair gardens, Fountains, Fields, pleasant groves and Orchards adjoining thereunto, that signifies, he will marry a discreet, chaste and beautiful Wife, and that she will bear him very handsome Children.  
If he saw the Land sown with wheat, that signifies money and profit with care and industry.  
If he saw it sown with any kind of pulse, that denotes affliction and trouble.  
If he saw it sown with Millet, that signifies vast riches to be gained with ease, and much delight.  
If a Monk or Friar Dreams any such thing, than it is taken for the riches and contentment of the mind.  
If you Dream you see the Earth black, that signifies sorrow, melancholy, and weakness of the brain.  
To Dream that you see the Earth quake, signifies that your affairs and life are in danger of being lost.  
To Dream that the whole Earth quakes, signifies an Edict from the King, that will astonish all the Inhabitants of the Kingdom.  
If you Dream that the House shakes, it is an Edict simply against the House: it presageth also loss of Goods, and suits at Law.  
If the walls, doors and top of the House fall by reason of the Earthquake, that denotes the destruction and death of the chief persons in the House.  
If a King or any other Prince Dreams that his Palace or Throne is overturned and beaten down by an Earthquake, he will suddenly die, or lose his Kingdom.  
If any one Dreams that a mountain is fallen upon a Valley, that signifies that some great Lord will oppress and destroy Good men.  
If any sees a Town that he knows, sunk by an Earthquake, that is a prognostic of famine. War and desolation, by the Indignation of the Prince; but if he knows not the Town, tha● signifies that the Nation at enmity with the King shall be destroyed by the same means.  
To Dream you see great Ditches or precipices, and that you fall into them, signifies that he that Dreams will suffer much injury, hazard his person, and his goods be in danger by fire.  
To Dream of kissing the Earth, signifies sadness and humility.  
To Dream of being in a meadow, is a good sign to Husbandmen and shepherds, and to others it denotes obstruction of business.  
To Dream that you are in a fair, strait, level and pleasant way, signifies joy, prosperity and good success; and a bad way the quite contrary.    

Of vegetative, sensitive and rational Creatures.  
THere are three sorts of Creatures; the vegetative, sensitive, and rational: the Dreams of which three we will successively handle one after another.  

Under the vegetative Creature is comprised Trees, Plants, Flowers and Fruits, that receive their nourishment, vigour, growth and maturity from the Earth and the Sun.  
To Dream of holding or smelling odoriferous flowers in their season, signifies joy, pleasure and consolation.  
To Dream of seeing and smelling flowers out of season; if they are white, that signifies obstruction in business, and bad success in his erterprises; if yellow, the impediment will not be so considerable; and if they be red, the difficulty and nuisance will be extreme; and for the most part it signifies death.  
To Dream of seeing and smelling Roses in the season of the year, is a good sign to all persons, except those that are distempered, and that through fear conceal themselves; for they are in danger of death or great sickness: and if the dream be when Roses are out of season, it signifies the contrary.  
To Dream that you smell of Marjoram, Hyssop, Rosemary, Sage, and other herbs of the same nature, signifies labour, trouble, sadness and weakness; Physicians only excepted, to whom such Dreams are propitious.  
If any one Dreams that he sees, holds, or smells of Lilies out of their season, it signifies the hope of the thing desired will be frustrated.  
If one Dreams that he sees or smells upon Laurel, the Olive or Palm, if she be a woman she shall bear Children; if a Maid, she will be suddenly married; if it be a man, it signifies amity, joy, prosperity, abundance, and good success in his enterprises.  

Of Potherbs and those that are Medicinal.  
IF any one Dreams that he eats or smells of such Roots as have a strong smell, as Radishes, Garlic, Onions, Leeks and the like, that signifies a discovery of hidden secrets, and domestic jars.  
To Dream that one eats Herbs of which Salads are made, as Lettuce, Sorrel, Porslane, and others that may be eaten raw; that signifies trouble and difficulty in the management of affairs.  
Ta Dream of eating medicinal Herbs, as Beets, Mallows, Bourage, and the like, signifies freedom from trouble, and expedition of business, because they make the body soluble.  
To Dream of eating Coleworts, signifies vexation. The French Navew-gentle and Cucumbers denote vain hope. Some are of opinion, that when sick persons Dream of melons or cucumbers, that it is a prognostic of recovery, by reason of their humidity.   

Of Corn, and other Grain.  
TO Dream that you see Corn eared, and that you gather it, signifies profit and riches.  
To Dream you see stacks of Corn, signifies profit and abundance to the Dreamer: and on the contrary, to see a small quantity, signifies famine and necessity.  
To Dream of eating white-bread made of wheat, signifies profit to the rich, and damage to the poor, and on the contrary, to Dream of eating course-bread, denotes to the poor profit and gain, to the rich losses.  
To Dream of eating barley-bread, signifies health and content.  
To Dream of eating broth, is a good sign, and signifies profit and gain.  
To Dream that one sees a barn stored with corn, signifies, either that you shall marry a rich wife, overthrew your adversary at Law, that you shall inherit Land, or grow rich by trading or gifts: it signifies also banqueting or merry-making.  
To Dream of eating pease well boiled, denotes good success and expedition of business.  
To Dream of eating Beans, signifies trouble and dissension.  
To Dream of Lentils, signifies corruption; of Rice, denotes abundance or obstruction. The Millet signifies poverty and indigence.  
To Dream you see or eat Mustardseed, that is a bad sign, unless it be to Physicians, to whom such dreams are advantageous.   

Of Trees, and their Fruit.  
TO Dream that one sees a stately Oak, signifies riches, profit and long life.  
To Dream you see an Olive-tree with Olives, denotes peace, delight, concord, liberty, dignity, and fruition of your desires.  
To Dream of gathering Olives off of the ground, signifies labour and pains.  
To Dream you see a Laurel-tree, is a token of victory and pleasure; and if you be married, it denotes the inheritance of possessions by your wife.  
To Dream you see a Cypress-tree, that denotes death, affliction, and obstruction in business.  
To Dream you see a Pine, Medler or Service-tree, signifies idleness and remissness.  
To Dream you see Appletrees, and eat sweet Apples, signifies joy, pleasure and recreation, especially to women and maids; sour Apples denotes contention and sedition.  
To Dream that one sees and eats Almonds, Walnuts and Hazle-nuts, signifies difficulty and trouble.  
To Dream that you see Figs in season, signifies joy and pleasure; and out of season, the contrary.  
To Dream you see a Vine, signifies abundance, riches and fertility; for which we have the example of Astyages, King of the Medes, who dreamed that his Daughter brought forth a Vine; which was a prognostic of the grandeur, riches and felicity of Cyrus, who was borne of his Daughter after this Dream.  
To Dream of eating ripe Grapes at any time, signifies cheerfulness and profit.  
To Dream that one sees or eats Oranges, signifies wounds, grief and vexation; those that are ripe, signify the same thing.  
Peaches, bastard-Peaches, Apricocks their and such kind of Fruit in season, denotes to him that Dreams he sees or eats them, content, health and pleasure; but if you seem to eat them out of season, they signify vain hopes, and bad success in business.  
To see or eat ripe Pears, signifies joy or pleasure; if they are sour or wild, the contrary.  
If one Dreams he sees a Mulberry-tree, that signifies fertility, abundance of goods and Children.  
To Dream you see Nut-trees, Almond-trees, and that you eat their Fruit, signifies riches and content, gained with labour and pains; to dream that you find Nuts that have been hid, signifies you will find some treasure.  
To Dream you see all sorts of trees very green or blossoming, is a sign of joy, comfort and recreation; but if you dream they are dry, or without leaves, rooted up, burned on thunderstruck, that denotes annoy, fear, displeasure and grief.  
If one Dreams that he hath gathered the Fruit of some Old-tree, that prognosticates you will be heir to some ancient persons.  
If one Dreams that he hath gathered the Fruit of a Pomegranate-tree, he shall be enriched by some rich person; but if the Pome-granates b● not ripe, that denotes sickness, or affliction b● some persons that are wickedly disposed.  
If any one Dreams, that the Fruit he hat● gathered is rotten, that signifies adversity, or lo●● of Children.  
If one Dreams that he climbs a great Tree, h● shall be promoted to some honour or dignity, an● have the command over other persons.  
And when any one Dreams that he is fall●● from a Tree, and that he hath been scratched b● Thorns, or otherwise prejudiced, that signifie● he shall lose his Offices, and be out of favour wit● Grandees.    

Of the sensitive Creature, under which Birds, creeping things and fourfooted Beasts are comprised.  
TO Dream you see an Eagle in some hig● place, that is a good sign to those tha● undertake some weighty business, and especially to Soldiers.  
If one Dreams that an Eagle lights upon hi● head, it signifies death to the Dreamer; and th●● same, if he dreams he is carried into the air by an Eagle.  
If a Woman Dreams that she brings forth an Eagle, that foretells that the Child she go●● withal will be a great person, and that he will have many under his command.  
If one Dreams he sees a dead Eagle, that signifies death to great Peers, and profit to the poor.  
To Dream you see Birds of prey or faulconry, to the rich it signifies increase, riches and honour; and to the poor, the quite contrary.  
If any one Dreams he sees a Raven, it presages mischief, and chief to the Husband, who will be discontented by his adulterous Wife: and if the woman dreams, it prognosticates affliction occasioned by the Husband, who will forsake her to Court others.  
To Dream you see a Crow, signifies expedition of business.  
To Dream you see a Stare or Starling, signifies some small discontent.  
To Dream you see Pigeons, is a good sign, to wit, that you shall have delight and content at home, and success in affairs abroad.  
To Dream you see Cranes or Storks in flocks in the air, that foretells the approach of Enemies and Thiefs. In winter it signifies bad weather.  
To Dream you see two Storks together, signifies marriage, and procreation of good and helpful Children to their parents.  
To see a Swan, signifies joy, revealing of secrets, and health to the Dreamer; but if it sings, it foretells death.  
To Dream of a Swallow, signifies that a man shall have a discreet wife; and according to the opinion of some, good news, and good luck to the house wherein they build their nests. The Nightingale signifies the same thing.  
To Dream of seeing Bees, signifies profit to Countrypeople, and trouble to the Rich: yet if they dream they make their honey in any part of the House or Tenement, that signifies dignity, eloquence, and good success in business.  
If you Dream that you are stung by a Bee, and especially by Wasps, that signifies vexation and trouble occasioned by envious persons.  
To Dream you see many Birds, signifies Assemblies and suits at Law.  
To see or hear a Cock crow, signifies joy and prosperity.  
To see two Cocks fight, denotes quarrels and fight.  
To Dream you see a Peacock, is a sign you marry a handsome wife, that you grow rich, be in great honour, and beloved by the King and Grandees.  
To Dream of a Hen and her Chickens, signifies loss and damage.  
To Dream that a Capon or Hen crows, signifies sadness and trouble.  
To see Patridges, is a sign that a man shall have to do with women that are malicious, ingrateful, and void of conscience.  
Quails signify bad news at Sea, Debates, Quarrels, Piracy, Ambuscadoes and Treachery.  
All sorts of Grasshoppers, signify impertinent praters, bad Musicians, and also poor people that steal about the Country.  
If a distempered person Dreams it, it foretells no good.  
All sorts of Night-birds, as the Owlet, great Owl, Bittor and Bat, are a bad Omen, and those that dream of such Birds must undertake no business that day.  
To Dream of Eggs, signifies gain and profit; but if there be a great number of them, it denotes care and Lawsuits.  

Dreams of things Animal.  
TO see Dragon, is a sign you shall see some great Lord, your Master, or a Magistrate; It signifies also riches and treasures:  
To Dream you see a Serpent turning and winding himself, signifies danger and imprisonment; It denotes also sickness and hatred.  
To Dream you see a Serpent, it signifies you will be deceived by your wife.  
To Dream that you kill a Serpent, is a sign you will overcome your Enemies and those that envy you.  
To Dream you see Scorpions, Basilisks, Lizards, the Scolopendra, or Caterpillars, signifies ill luck, and misfortune by secret Enemies.  
To Dream of Earthworms, signifies Enemies that endeavour to ruinated and destroy us.  
If any one Dreams he sees and catcheth large Fish, it signifies gain and prosit, according to the quantity he takes; if the Fish are small, it signifies sadness.  
To Dream you see Fish of divers colours, to the sick it signifies poison, and to those in health injuries, contention and grief.  
To Dream you eat great Fish, signifies defluxions, catarrhs and melancholy.  
To Dream you see fishing-nets, signifies rain or change of weather.  
To see or find dead Fish in the Sea, signifies vain hope.  
A Woman with child that dreams she is delivered of a Fish in stead of a Child, shall (according to the opinion of the Ancients) be deliver●● of a dead or short-lived Child.  
Frogs signify flatterers, indiscreet and ignorant Babblers.   

Of fourfooted Beasts.  
IF you Dream you see a Lion▪ that signifies discourse with the King, or some great Captain or other valiant Warrior.  
If any one Dreams he combats with a Lion, that signifies a quarrel, and that he shall engage with some resolute Adversary: and if he dream's he came off Victorious, he shall be inevitably so.  
If one Dreams that he is carried on the back 〈◊〉 a Lion, that signifies protection from the King or some great Prince.  
If one Dreams that he is afraid of a Lion, i● signifies that he shall be sensible of the King's anger: and if the party that dreams be of the blood Royal, some danger upon the King's accomp●● threatens him; but however, he shall be freed, because the Lion only struck him with fear.  
If any one Dreams that he hath eaten Lion's flesh, the King will enrich him, and bestow honour and power upon him.  
If any one Dreams that he hath found the skin, Liver or marrow of a Lion; if he that dreamed be a King, he will find the treasures of his Enemies; if he be a vulgar person, he will suddenly grow rich.  
If a King Dreams that a Lion is brought to him bound, he will take some great Enemy of his.  
If he Fancies that he hath a tame Lioness in his Palace with her young ones, if signifies that the Queen and his Children will be a great comfort to him, during his life, and succeed him after his death.  
The Dream of Olympia Alexander's Mother. The Queen Olympia being big with Alexander the Great, Dreamed that King Philip her Husband had sealed up her womb with a seal engraven with a Lion: which did prognosticate the valour, magnimity and conquests of the said Alexander.  
Of the Leopard. Dreams of Leopards have the same interpretation as those of Lions; only that they are more subtle and malicious than the Lion, who is always generous.  
Of the Elephant. If one Dreams he sees an Elephant, that, according to Artemidorus, signifies fear and danger; and according to Albumazar, it signifies the party to be a rich man; for he saith, if any one dreams he is carried on an Elephant, he shall enjoy the Estate of some great Prince, or Lord. And on the contrary, Artemidorus saith that he was acquainted with a rich and healthful woman in Italy, that dreamed she road on an Elephant; and that she died shortly after.  
If one Dreams that he gives an Elephant any thing to eat or drink, it is a sign he shall wait upon some great Lord, to his advantage.  
Of the Bear. If one Dreams that he hath seen a Bear, that signifies a rich, puissant, inexpert, cruel and audacious Enemy.  
Of the Wolf. The Wolf signifies an avaricious, cruel and disloyal person; in so much that if any one dreams he hath overcome a Wolf, he will conquer an Enemy that hath the same qualities▪ and quite contrary, if he hath been bitten by 〈◊〉 Wolf, he shall receive prejudice by a cruel and disloyal Enemy.  
The Wolf also signifies the year.  
Of the Fox. If one Dreams that he fights with a Fox, h● shall be engaged with a wary crafty adversary.  
If one Dreams he hath a tame Fox, the interpretation is the same with the former.  
If one Dreams that he hath a tame Fox a● home, he shall love some ill-natured woman, by whom he will be bewitched; or some domestic that will cajole his Master by his subtlety.  
White Wolves, Polecats, Weasels and Squirrels, signify the same thing, with little or 〈◊〉 difference.  
Of the wild Boars. The wild Boar signifies a pitiless and furious Enemy, well furnished with all things necessary.  
If any one Dreams he hath hunted or taken 〈◊〉 wild Boar, he will chase or take some Enemy that hath the same qualities as the wild Boar.  
If any one Dreams he hath the head of a wil● Boar brought him newly taken by hunting, that predicts that he will soon obtain his desire o● his most powerful Enemy.  
Of Swine. Swine denote idle and lazy persons, who live● doing nothing, who during their nasty idleness think of nothing, but how to pray upon other folks goods, that they may live at ease. They signify also covetous persons, who are no way useful in their generation wilt they live, and advance their Heirs after their decease.  
Of the Dog. Dogs denote fidelity, courage and affection, when we dream of such as belong to us; but if we dream of those that belong to strangers, it signifies infamous Enemies.  
To Dream that a Dog barks and tears our garments, that signifies some enemy of mean condition slanders us, or endeavours to deprive us of our livelihood.  
If a King or Prince Dreams that several Dogs are brought him out of divers countries, that signifies that he shall list several Soldiers to fight against his Enemies; for the Indians and Persians have always taken the Dog for an army, when Kings dream.  
Of the Cat. The Cat signifies a cunning Thief; so that if any one dreams he hath encountered a Cat, or that he hath killed one, he will commit a Thief to prison, and prosecute him to death.  
If he Fancies that he eat Cats-flesh, he will have the goods of the Thief that robbed him; if he dreams he hath the skin, than he will enjoy all the Thiefs goods.  
If any one Dreams he fought with a Cat that scratched him sorely, that signifies sickness or affliction.  
Of the Ape. All sorts of Apes or Monkeys, signify malicious, weak, strange and secret Enemies.  
Of the Hart and fallow Dear. If any one Dreams he hath killed a Hart, and that he had the head, or skin, that signifies he will inherit the Estate of some old man, or that he shall overcome fugitive, deceitful, timorous and irresolute Enemies. Fallow Dear have almost the same signification.  
Sheep, shee-Goats, Cows and Horses. To Dream you see or have many Sheep, Weathers, Shee-goats, Cows and Horses, signifies wealth and plenty.  
Cows in Scripture signify the years.  
The Ram: If any one Dreams that he hath been run at by a Ram, it is a sign he shall be afflicted or checked by his sovereign Prince.  
Of the Ass The Ass denotes a good Servant or Slave, that is profitable to his Master; it signifies also a foolish and ignorant person.  
Of the Mule. The Mule signifies malice and foolish imaginations. Artemidorus saith it signifies sickness to him that dreams he saw one.  
Of the Ox and the Bull. The Ox signifies a profitable Servant to his Master, and the subject brought under the yoke of obedience. As for the Bull, he signifies some great persons; so that if any one Dreams that he received hurt, prejudice, or good by a Bull, assuredly he will receive it from some great Lords.  
Of the Horse. The Horse is a good sign; insomuch that if any one dreams he saw, took, or mounted a Horse, that is a happy omen to the Dreamer.  
If any one Dreams that he is mounted on a stately Horse, nimble, full of metal, and well harnessed, he will have a handsome, noble and rich Wife, provided the Horse be his own; if it belongs to another, he will receive comfort, Estate and honour by some Woman that is a stranger.  
If any one Dreams he is mounted on a Horse or Mare, and that he passed a place without making his Horse resty by mounting, he shall gain honour, dignity and fame.  
If any one Dreams he rides upon a Horse that hath a great and long tail, it is a sign he will find many friends to assist him in his undertake.  
Some say that it Promiseth him a noble Woman, by whose means he will be successful in his affairs proportionably to the greatness of the tail.  
And quite contrary, if he thinks his Horse's tail is cut, than his Friends, Servants or Soldiers will fail him when he stands in most need of them.  
If his Horse halt, he will meet with obstruction in his designs.  
If any one Dreams that another rides his Horse without his consent, it signifies that some person or other will Gallant his Wife, and be taken in the fact.  
Some Authors are of opinion, that if any one Dreams he is mounted on a nimble, sprightly, active and well-managed Horse, he will be honoured by the vulgar, and esteemed by Grandees.  
If that he Dreams he too violently spurred the Horse, and forced him to what he did, he shall be advanced to charge and dignity, and shall have honour proportionable to his endeavours.  
In King's Dreams, the white Horse is applicable to the Queen's person, who shall be beautiful and virtuous.  
The King's Horse being black, signifies a debauched rich Woman.  
If any one Dreams that he saw a young generous Mare come into his House well harnessed; it is a sign he will be suddenly married to a beautiful, young and rich Gentlewomen, that will be delightful and comfortable to him. If it be an ill-shapen Mare without a saddle, that denotes a shee-Servant or Concubine, that will bring nothing with her.   

Of the Rational Creature, and his parts.  
MAn is that Creature, whom the Deity hath enriched with his most signal favours, having endued him with a rational soul, which is a ray of his Divinity; and this hath obliged all Philosophers to give him such excellent titles. Plato styles him the miracle of miracles; Aristotle, the sociable creature, born for society; Theophrastus, the Exemplar of the Universe; Cicero, the Divine Creature; Pliny, the Epitome of the World, and Nature's Minion: and all unanimously with one consent have called him the little World, as comprehending within his own being, all that is most beautiful or admirable among the other Creatures that people the earth: but the names and praises that the sacred Pages bestow on him, are far beyond the language of humane rhetoric; that he was framed and made according to God's Image, that he is his Masterpiece, his living Temple, the Object of his Love and Grace, and his Viceroy constituted over the whole Frame of Nature. These are eulogies that transcend all expression.  
And because the subject of his Dreams are more frequently employed about his own similitude, than any other thing that falls within the compass of his imagination, we will give you an exact delineation of all his dependencies, and begin with 〈◊〉 nativity, in the next place discourse of his education, and then of his form and parts.  
If a Woman Dreams she is delivered of a Child, and yet is not big with Child, it is a sign she will happily accomplish her designs.  
If she be a Maid, it signifies Banqueting, joy, Revelling and Nuptials; and sometimes fear and grief of the Mother.  
If a Man Dreams he is big with Child, that signifies wealth, gain and profit which will soon fall to him.  
When a Man Dreams he sees a Woman brought to bed, that denotes unto him joy and prosperity.  
If a Man Dreams that his Wife is big with Child, and that it really proves so, it is a sign the Child will live, and that she will have a Son that resembles the Father.  
He that Dreams he comes out of his Mother's womb, will in a short time be freed from some unlucky business, and raised to preferment.  
If any one Dreams he reenters his Mother's womb, if he be in a remote Country, that denotes a speedy return into his Native Country.  
He that Dreams he sees two or three Children born, shall have cause of joy, and success in his business.  
And when you Dream of a monstrous or unnatural birth, as if a Woman, in stead of a wellshap'd-Child, should he delivered of one that had two heads, four feet, four hands, or a tail, or some such thing extraordinary, or that she was delivered of a Cat, Serpent, Basilisk, Rat or other animal; that is a bad Hiero●●●phick, that betokens no good to the Dreamer; and he ought cordially to recommend himself to God, that he would preserve him from those misfortunes that threaten him. If it be a Woman that hath such a Dream, many Authors affirm, and Anselmus Julianus in particular (who is the Author to whom we are obliged for most of our Interpretations) that she shall have good success and comfort, shall be rich, and generally beloved, and shall prosper in all her undertake.  
When one Dreams that he hath many small Children, and that they seem to him to run about the House, and yet notwithstanding he hath none, that signifies that is will be very difficult for him ever to have any, and that he that dreams will have many cares and obstructions in his affairs.  
He that Dreams he sees an Infant wrapped in swadling-cloaths, and sucking the nurse, that signifies a chronical and dangerous distemper, unless his Wife be with Child: for if so, it signifies that the Child will be short-lived: And if it be a Woman that dreams, it is a sign that she is, or will shortly be with Child of a Daughter, unless she be sick, or her Husband dies.  
If any one Dreams he hath a head bigger than ordinary, and very highly raised, that signifies dignity and Prelateship, or at least some charge or office where he shall be obeyed and esteemed; and sometimes it signifies victory over Enemies, and overthrowing Adversaries at Law: and to Merchants and Bankers, heaping up of riches, and recovering of treasure; If a sick person dream thus, it prognosticates a contumacious and violent fever.  
To Dream one hath a small, light or sharp head, signifies want of spirit, servitude and disgrace.  
To Dream one hath the head of a Moor, signifies voyages and journeys to remote parts, and dispatch of business.  
According to the Tradition of the Indians and Persians. To Dream that one is beheaded, according to the tradition of the Indians and Persians, and that the head is separated from the body, that signifies liberty to prisoners, health to the sick, and comfort to those in distress; to Creditors payment of debts. To Princes and great Personages, it presageth all good fortune, and that their cares and fears will be turned into joy, and confidence in their Servants and subjects.  
If any one Dreams that a person of his acquaintance beheads him, he will share with him in his pleasure and honour.  
If any one Dreams that a young Child who hath not yet attained to the age of his youth, hath cut off his head; if the Dreamer be sick, he will not live long; if in health, he will get honour. If a Woman with Child Dreams thus, she will bring forth a male-Child, and her Husband will die suddenly; for he is her head.  
If any one Dreams his head is half cut off, the things  will be fulfilled but by halves.  
If any one Dreams that his throat is cut with a knife; he will be injured by some person or other.  
If he Dreams he cuts the throat of some of his acquaintance, he will do him some injury; if he be ignorant of it, it will be done to a stranger.  
If any one Dreams that he is beheaded as a Martyr for Religion, that man will arrive to a great height of honour, and his soul will be happy in Heaven.  
According to the Egyptian tradition, if any one dreams he beheads an armed man, he will be entertained in the service of some great Person, wherein he will signalise himself.  
Of Wounds. If any one Dreams that he hath received from one of his acquaintance some blows with a sword in the foreparts of his body, if blood be drawn, he that is hurt shall receive some extraordinary kindness from him that struck; if the blood be not drawn, the advantage and delight shall be the more inconsiderable.  
If any one Dreams that he is wounded with a sword, in such sort that he is in danger of his life, that is a sign that he will receive several courtesies and good turns from him that wounded him, according to the proportion, number and largeness of the wounds.  
If any one Dreams that his King or Prince strikes him with his sword, in anger; that signifies he shall be advanced and honoured by his Prince, according to the extremity of his anger.  
If a King or any other Person Dreams that he was struck standing with a sword or knife, by one of mean condition, he will be in danger of death or servitude.  
If a Woman Dreams she is struck with a sword, or that she herself either out of courage, or in her own defence, struck any one; she will be honoured; and if married, have a male-Child.  
Of the complexion of the countenance. To Dream one sees a very handsome head and face, that signifies joy, content and health.  
Also, if a Woman Dreams that she sees a comely man, it prognosticates the same thing.  
To Dream one sees an unknown person of a brown complexion, it is a sign of glory, honour, good success, and dispatch of business.  
If one Dreams he sees a very brown Woman, that signifies a very dangerous disease.  
If you imagine you see a Woman unknown, with long and comely hair, it is a very good sign, as well for the Woman, as the man that dreams; and it denotes amity, joy and prosperity.  
If a man Dreams his hair is long, like a Woman's, that signifies cowardice and effoeminacie, and that he that Dreams will be deceived by a Woman.  
Of the Hair To Dream one sees a Woman without hair, signifies famine, poverty and sickness.  
To see a Man bald and without hair, signifies the contrary.  
To see a fresh, taking, smiling countenance, is a sign of friendship.  
To see a meager pale face, is a sign of annoy, poverty and dearth.  
To see hair interwoven together, signifies annoy and grief, and sometimes injuries and qua●●rels.  
To see extraordinary black hair, short an● curled, signifies sadness and grief.  
If any one Dreams that he cannot pass th● Comb through his hair while he is Combing, an● that he hath much ado to untangle them, th● denotes Lawsuits and great trouble.  
To see hair well combed, a head well dressed signifies friendship, and deliverance from a man worst business.  
He that Dreams his head is shaved, or his bear● trimmed, will be in danger of losing a great pa●● of his Estate, of being sick, or run the risquee losing his life by some ignominious death.  
To see his hair shed, signifies annoy, and lo●● of his Estate.  
If the King, Prince or great Lord Dreams th●● he hath a comely great head of hair, he will b● victorious over his Enemies, will gain much reputation, and reduce many Provinces to his Dominion.  
If he Dreams his hairs are grown white, hi● Treasures will be diminished, and almost total●● exhausted.  
If his hair seems to be longer and blacker the●● ordinary, his wealth and honour will increase.  
If he thinks that his hair is cut or plucked off, his Estate, and the number and forces of his State and Army will decrease according to the same proportion.  
If any one Dreams that his beard is grown bigger than ordinary, he will grow richer than he was formerly.  
If any one Dreams that his hair is grown more thin than it was formerly, it is a sign of affliction and poverty.  
If it seems a matter of great difficulty to pull off his hair, that denotes he will do his utmost endeavour to avoid misery.  
Of Perfumes and Odours. If one Dreams he perfumes his head with Oils, Essences or sweet-sented powders, that signifies he that dreams hath too great an esteem of himself, that he will be vainglorious and haughty in his demeanour to his Associates: If it be a Woman, she will deceive her Husband, and wear the breeches.  
If one Dreams his hair is frizzled and decently ordered, so as to be of opinion that he is very comely; it signifies that he who dreams will be in some danger of his person either by sickness or other ways.  
According to the tradition of the Indians and Persians, those that dream that their head or the other parts of their body are perfumed with oils, perfumes; or sweet-sented powders, will live in good repute among their neighbours, and be acceptable to all persons: and as for my own particular; I rather incline to this then the precedent opinion.  
If any one Dreams he hath an ill savour, he will be odious to all people, and that according to the proportion of the ill sent.  
If any one Dreams he is presented with sweet perfumes, he will receive some welcome news, according to the proportion of the scents in quality and quantity; and will gain profit, advantage and honour among his acquaintance.  
If a person Dreams that he makes odoriserous perfumes, and bestows them among his friends he will be the messenger of good tidings which will prove advantageous to him, and those with whom he entertains discourse.  
Of the Forehead. If any one Dreams he hath a large forehead, that signifies an ingenious spirit; and if it be very high, it is a sign of a solid judgement: it also denotes power and wealth to him that dreams.  
To Dream that you have a brow of brass, copper, marble or iron, that signifies irreconciliable hatred against your Enemies.  
Some Authors are of opinion, that such a Dream is advantageous to Victuallers and Gabelers.  
If any one Dreams his forehead is broken o● hurt, his wealth will be discovered, and in danger of losing; that betokens fear and apprehension to him that dreams.  
If one Dreams he hath a great and well-fleshed forehead, that signifies freedom of speech, strength and constancy.  
Of the Nose If any one Dreams his nose is larger than ordinary, he will become rich and powerful, and will be provident and subtle, and well received among Grandees; but to dream a man ●s deprived of his nose, signifies the contrary.  
To Dream one hath two noses, that signifies discord and quarrels.  
If any one Dreams that his nose is grown so big, that it is grown deformed and hideous to the sight; he will live in prosperity and abundance, but never gain the love of the people.  
If any one Dreams his nose is stopped, so as that he hath lost his scent; if he be a King, he is in some imminent danger from him that hath the greatest authority about his person.  
If he be a private person that hath this dream, he is in danger of being deceived by his Wife, who will commit adultery with one of his friends or servants.  
If it be a Woman, her Husband will deceive her.  
Of the Ears To Dream a Man hath many Ears, signifies that he will gain the love of his Servants and subjects, and will be served and obeyed faithfully by them.  
To Dream that a man picks his Ears, signifies the same thing.  
To Dream his Ears are full of come, signifies an Estate will fall to him by his parents.  
To Dream one hath Asses-Ears, signifies servitude.  
To Dream one hath the Ears of a Lion, or of any other cruel Beast, signifies treachery or deceit from his Enemies and those that envy him.  
If one Dreams that his Ears are become comelier, and larger than ordinary, he will find that he will be in prosperity and gain honour to whom he communicates his secrets.  
If any one Dreams his Ear is hurt or slit, he will be offended by some that belong to him, or by some friend of his to whom he hath entrusted his secrets.  
If it seems that his Ear is quite cut off, he shall be utterly deprived of their friendship.  
If any one Dreams his Ears are stopped, if he be a King or Prince, he will despise the requests and petitions of his subjects, and will endeavour to have them subscribe to his will, upon all accounts.  
If he be a private person that hath Dreamed thus, it is a sign he will alter his resolutions, and that he will deceive those that confide in him; if it be a Woman, she will be debauched.  
Of the Eyes. The Eyes are the windows of the soul; and the Ancients represent by them, faith, the will, and the light of the understanding.  
If any one Dreams he hath lost his sight, he will violate his word, or else he or some of his Children are in danger of death, or he will never more see his friends again.  
If any one Dreams that he is grown blear-eyed, he will commit some heinous crime, and afterwards repent of it; he is also in danger of losing his Estate.  
To Dream he hath a good and quick sight, it is an extraordinary good dream; and he, whose it was, shall succeed in his erterprises: but a troubled and weak sight, signifies want of money, and bad success in business.  
Of the Ey-browe and Eyelids. If any one Dreams his Ey-brows and Eyelids are more comely and lage than they use to be, it is a sign he will be honoured and esteemed by all persons; that he will prosper in courtship, and grow rich.  
If one Dreams that the hair of his Ey-brows or Eyelids is shed, it will fall out contrary.  
Of the Mouth. The Mouth is the rampart, house and door wherein all the internal parts of humane bodies are enclosed.  
If therefore any one Dreams that his Mouth is wider than ordinary, his family will be enriched, and become more opulent then formerly.  
If any one Dreams he hath a stinking breath, he will be despised by all people, and hated by his Servants.  
If any one Dreams that his Mouth is shut up and closed, in such sort that he cannot open it, nor eat, he is in danger of a sudden death.  
Of the Cheeks. To Dream one hath plump cheeks, and of a vermilion tincture, it is a good sign; and their affairs, that dream so, will prosper.  
To have them lean and pale, signifies the contrary.  
Of the Lips To Dream that one hath red handsome lips; is a sign our Friends enjoy their health; and to have them dry and chapped, the contrary.  
Of the Beard. If any one Dreams he hath a comely great Beard, it is a sign he shall be pleasant in his discourse, and find out the intricacy of the matter proposed, and prosper in his undertake.  
If a Maid Dreams she hath a Beard, she will be speedily matched to her content: if she be married, such a dream threatens her with the loss of her Husband, or that she shall be separated from him, and be constrained to govern her house singly, as if she were a man: if it be a Woman with Child, she shall have a Son.  
If one Dreams he hath lost his Beard, or imagines that somebody hath pulled it up by the roots or shaved it, that betokens loss of Relations, Estate and Honor.  
Of the Teeth. The Teeth are taken in Dreams for the nearest relations and best Friends a Man hath; the foreteeth are applied to Children, Brethren, and other near relations: the upper-teeths signify. the males, and the lower the females.  
If therefore any one Dreams he hath lost or spoiled one of his Teeth; by that is to be understood, that some near relation is dead.  
But if on the contrary one Dreams that his Teeth are more comely, firm, and whiter than ordinary, that signifies joy, prosperity, good news, and friendship among relations.  
If a person Dreams one of his Teeth is grown longer than the rest, he will be in trouble by some of his Relations.  
The upper Eye-tooth signifies the Father, and the 〈◊〉 th●r the Mother.  
A●●emidorus saith, that the Teeth on the right side signify Men, and those on the left Women: but it is contrary to the opinion of the Indians, Persians and Egyptians.  
The great Teeth signify Friends or relations a degree removed, and have the same signification as the rest.  
If any one Dreams that one of his great Teeth is lose, or grown black, or that it pains him, one of his said Friends or relations will be sick, or in trouble.  
If any one Dreams his Teeth are grown more comely, white and firm then usual, he will reap joy, delight, content, and profit from his said relations and friends.  
If one imagines he is cleansing his Teeth to make them white, he will bestow money upon his said relations and friends.  
If some of the Teeth exceed the rest, so that the Dreamer is hindered from speaking and eating; that signifies contention among relations, and suits ●t law for Inheritances.  
Of the Neck The Neck signifies power, honour, riches, and Inheritances of what sort soever.  
To Dream that the Neck is become greater and larger than ordinary, and yet so that it seem not thereby deformed; if it be a King, he will take delight and pleasure in his Courtesans, will hear good news from his Armies, and have success in his affairs. If he be a private person, he will be honoured for his good deeds, and grow richer than he was. The slender Neck signifies the contrary.  
If any one Dreams that his Neck is tied, or otherwise squeezed by the hand, it is a bad sign to the Dreamer, and he will be subjected to him that had his hand upon his Neck.  
To Dream the Neck is awry, so as that the head leans more on one side then on the other, is a sign of misfortune, shame and loss.  
To Dream the Neck is swelled by a humour, or Aposteme, signifies sickness.  
To Dream one hath three heads upon one Neck, signifies Dominion, Power and Honor.  
If any one Dreams his head is cut off by Robbers and Murderers, that signifies loss of Children, Relations, Estate or Wife; and the same to the Wife, the loss of her Husband: but if he dreams he loseth his head by Sentence or Judicial proceed, it is a sign of his deliverance from all trouble and mischief: nevertheless this Dream signifies the contrary to Receivers, Coiners, Farmers and Merchants.  
To Dream your throat is cut, and you not dead, signifies hope, and good success in business.  
To Dream that one beheads a Man, signifies assurance of affecting business, or revenge upon your Enemies.  
To cut off the head of a pullet or green-goose, signifies joy and recreation.  
To Dream one hath the head of a Lion, Wolf or some other cruel Beast, is a good sign to the Dreamer, and he will accomplish his designs with honour; will overcome his Enemies, and be feared and honoured by those that are related to him.  
To Dream one hath his head in his own hands, signifies loss of Wife or Children. If the Dreamer be not married, it is good luck, and if he thinks he adorns and dresseth his head, his business will succeed happily.  
Of Horns. If any one Dreams he hath Horns on his head, it signifies Dominion, Grandeur and Royalty: nevertheless some Authors say, that to Dream one hath the Horns of an Ox, or of any other furious creature, that denotes anger, pride, temerity, and violent death by the hand of Justice.  
To Dream you see a man with Horns on his head, signifies he is in danger both of the loss of his person and Estate.  
Of the Shoulders. If any one Dreams he hath large shoulders, and that they are more brawny than usual; that signifies good luck, strength and prosperity: yet such a Dream is bad for prisoners; for to them it denounceth annoy and grief, and that they are in danger of enduring much pain in those parts.  
To Dream that the shoulders are full of pain, or that there is some nail, tumour or swelling in them, that signifies trouble and displeasure from relations.  
Of the Breast and Paps. To Dream that your Breast is clear and well, signifes' health and joy.  
To have hairy-Brests, and the paps covered with hair, to a man it is a sign of gain and profit, to a woman loss of her Husband.  
If a man Dreams he hath Breasts as big as a woman, that denotes effoeminacy and cowardice, or else trouble and grief occasioned by the sickness of Children.  
If a young married woman Dreams that her Breasts are full, and spinning out with milk; that signifies she is with Child, and that it will be a perfect birth, and come to good: if she be an ancient woman that Dreams thus, she will have wherewithal to support her; if she be rich, that signifies she will bestow some money upon her Children, who will rejoice therewith; if a virgin dreams thus, she is near her marriage.  
If a woman Dreams she hath sore Breasts, she is threatened with death.  
If she Dreams her Breasts are dried up and lank, and that they are no longer hard, but hang down, that signifies that her Children will die; and if she have none, she will grown indigent, and will often shed tears through grief and affliction.  
If a woman Dreams she hath many Breasts, that signifies she hath as many Gallants.  
If any one Dreams that his friend strikes him over the Breast with a sword; to those that are old it signifies bad news, but friendship to those that are young.  
To Dream that the Breasts are full of blood, and raw all over, signifies loss of Children and barrenness.  
If any one Dreams that his breast is grown more large and plumper, he is long lived, and will grow rich according to the proportion of the largeness or plumpness thereof.  
Of the Arms. If any one Dreams that his Arms are grown bigger and stronger than ordinary, that signifies he will have joy and profit by his Brothers or his Sons means, and that he will become rich.  
If a woman Dreams it, her Husband will increase in estate and authority.  
To Dream one hath strong Arms, signifies good fortune, deliverance from sickness or Imprisonment.  
To Dream one's Arms or elbows are full of scabs, or other ulcers; that signifies annoy, sadness, and bad success in business.  
If any one Dreams his Arms are broken or grown lean; if he be a King or great Prince, some overthrow will happen to his Army, or some disaster to his State; or, as we have said, his Son or Brother will fall into some distemper or affliction. The same Dream denotes affliction, sickness and poverty to the Children or Brethren of private persons.  
If a woman Dreams so, she is in danger of being a widow, or at least of a separation from her Husband.  
The muscles of the Arms are applied to Servants.  
If any one Dreams his Arms are hairy, he will grow richer then formerly.  
Some Authors attribute the right Arm to the Father, Son, Brother and Friend; and the left to the Mother, Daughter, Sister, she-Friend, and the faithful Maid-Servants.  
To Dream your right Arm is cut off, that signifies the death of the Father, Son, Brother or Friend of the Dreamer: if it be the left, the same judgement as is above mentioned shall be given.  
To Dream both the Arms are cut off, signifies Imprisonment or sickness.  
Of the Hands. The Hands by the Learned are called the Servants of reason, the instruments of instruments, and the Symbol of humane fidelity.  
If any one Dreams his Hands are comelier and stronger than ordinary, he will be employed in some important affair; which he will bring to an happy issue, and gain honour and advantage thereby; and his Servants will love and serve him cheerfully and faithfully.  
If any one Dreams that his Hand is cut off, or that it is grown lean and dry, or that it hath been burned, he will lose his most faithful Servant: if he hath no Servant, he will not be able to work, but grow poor. If a woman dreams thus, she will lose her Husband, her eldest Son, or fall to decay.  
If any one Dreams his Hands or Fingers are grown slenderer than ordinary, he will find that his Servant cheats him, and hath no affection for him.  
If any one Dreams he works with his right Hand, that is a sign of good fortune to him and his family; if with the left, that denotes bad luck: nevertheless, some attribute the Arm and the right Hand to the Father, Son, Brother and Friend, and the good success that may befall them; and the left Arm signifies the Mother, the Daughter, the Wife, the Maidservant, the Manservant, and the Estate already gained.  
To Dream the Fingers are cut off, signifies loss of Friends or Domestics.  
To Dream one hath six or seven Fingers on a Hand, sifnifies friendship, new acquaintance, good fortune, and Inheritance or Benefits.  
To Dream the Hand is hairy, signifies trouble and imprisonment.  
To Dream you have clear and white Hands, among the rich it signifies friendship, and among the poor idleness and necessity.  
To Dream one hath the Hand-gout; to the youthful it signifies fear and dread, accompanied with the danger of his person; and to the ancient, it denotes poverty and languishment.  
To Dream one hath many Hands, signifies good luck, strength, wealth and abundance.  
Nevertheless this Dream is destructive to high-way-men; for they will be under the arrest of Justice, and punished as malefactors.  
To Dream one hath handled fire without any hurt or damage, that signifies to the Dreamer, that those that envy him, and are his adversaries, will be incapable of prejudicing him according to the custom of the world, and that he will obtain his desires.  
To Dream that you strike another with your Hand, and that you give him a box on the ear, or a blow with the fist, that signifies peace and love between a Man and his Wife; and if he that Dreams be unmarried, it is a presage that he will soon Court some Lady for whom he hath a great respect, and that he will vanquish his Enemies.  
If a Woman Dreams that she beats her Husband, that signifies fear; but yet she is beloved by her Husband: if she dreams she strikes her Gallant, that signifies she is not secure, and that her Lover will by some accident or other come to trouble.  
If any one Dreams he holds a sword in his Hand, and strikes strangers, that signifies victory, assurance, and good success in his affairs; if it be with a stick, it signifies command and profit.  
If any one Dreams he hath gold-rings on his fingers, that signifies dignity, good fortune and felicity.  
Of the Nails. If any one Dreams that his nails are longer then usually, that signifies profit; and the contrary, loss and discontent.  
If any one Dreams that his Fingers-ends or nails are cut off; that signifies unto him loss, disgrace, and contention with his relations and friends.  
If any one Dreams that his nails are pulled off, he is threatened by misery and affliction of all sorts; and is also in danger of death.  
Of the Belly. If any one Dreams his belly is bigger and fatter than ordinary, his family and Estate will increase proportionably according to the greatness of his belly.  
If one dreams that his Belly is grown lean and shrunk up, he will be joyfully delivered from some bad accident.  
If any one Dreams that his Belly is swelled, and yet notwithstanding empty, he will become poor, though he be rich in the esteem of many people in the world.  
If any one Dreams he is extraordinary hungry, and that his appetite craves sustenance, he will be ingenious, laborious, and eager in getting an Estate, and will grow rich proportionaby to the greatness of his hunger.  
If any one Dreams his thirst is quenched when thirsty, and that he hath drunk his fill of water; if the water did appear clear, fresh and acceptable to him; he will live jovially, and become very wealthy: if the water be troubled, lukewarm, stinking and dirty, he will end his days in sickness and affliction.  
If any one Dreams his belly aches, he will be afflicted in his family, and have many cares upon him.  
Of the Navel. If any one Dreams he hath a pain at his navel, if the grief be great, he will receive bad news of his Father and Mother, who will be in danger of death; if he hath neither Father nor Mother, he will lose his Estate that came to him by the Father and Mother, in the same proportion as the pain is, or else will be forced to forsake his native Country.  
Of the Privities If any one imagines in a Dream, that he sees those parts vigorous and well, it signifies that his relations and Friends are in a prosperous condition, that the Estate and possessions of the Dreamer are secured, and that they augment and increase with his honour.  
If he Dreams that they grow less, and that he is not well in those parts, it is quite contrary, and sometimes it menaceth the party with infamy and shame.  
The same interpretation is also to be given of the secret parts of the Woman.  
If any one Dreams that those parts are grown bigger and stronger, he will be renowned, and raised to dignity, and beget male Children: if it be a Woman's Dream, she will bring forth Daughters, and will ever have the reputation of a virtuous Woman.  
If a King Dreams thus, he will be long-lived, and have a proper Man to his Son that will succeed him.  
If a Woman sleeping Dreams that she hath laid hold of the privities of a man, she will bring forth a male Child, who will raise his family.  
If any one Dreams that part is cut off, his Son shall die, and he himself be in danger of dying soon after, or of falling into poverty.  
If any one Dreams that part is grown long beyond measure, he will have a Son that will create him all the content imaginable, and will be virtuous and renowned over the whole world; and the Dreamer will gain honour through his Wife's means.  
If his Dream be contrary, he will be reduced to a low condition, being put out of his Office and Dignity, and his Children will grow sickly and miserable.  
If any one Dreams that those parts have been discovered, and seen publicly, the Law will take hold of him, he will become infamous, and his craft and mischiefs be detected.  
If any one Dreams that part is maimed, he will be overcome by his Enemies, and his Children will be subject to Chronic diseases.  
Of the Thighs. The Thighs represent the Relations: if any one Dreams both his Thighs are broken, or beaten black and blue, he will die in a foreign Country alone, without the assistance of his Relations.  
If a Maid Dreams so, she will be married to a stranger, and lead her life in some remote Country, far distant from her Relations.  
If she be a Wife, she will become a widow, and lose her Children.  
If any one Dreams that his Thighs are grow● bigger and stronger than usual; if he be a King, he will have occasion of joy from his domestics, his Army, Servants and Subjects; for it is not the custom to say to the King, Your parents, etc. because God hath bestowed upon him power and dominion over all persons indifferently.  
If a private person Dreams the like, his Relations will be raised to some dignity, and it will prove honourable and advantageous to him: if it be a Woman, she will have comfort by her Children.  
If any one Dreams that he hath received a wound on the thigh, he will not accomplish his desires, but be disturbed by his Relations.  
To Dream that you see the fair and white Thighs of a Woman, signifies health and joy.  
If a Man Dreams that he hath his Thighs well-proportioned, it signifies a happy voyage.  
Of the Knees. The Knee denotes the labour and travel of Man; therefore if any one Dreams that he himself, or any other person hath hurt his Knee, he will be disturbed and disquieted in the exercise of his calling, and hindered in his vocation by malicious and envious Persons.  
If any one Dreams that his Knees are cut or dried up, so that he cannot well walk, he will be reduced to poverty, not being able to work, and constrained to live in a very low condition.  
If it seems that his Knees are grown well, and that he hath recovered his strength, and can walk; his ill fortune and calamity will be altered, and he will grow rich, and live with content.  
If he Dreams by the strength of his Knees he is able to run swiftly, he shall be happy in all his undertake.  
If she be a Woman, she will be ready and willing to obey her Husband, and be very careful to govern her family.  
If a man Dreams his Knees are weary, that signifies sickness.  
If any one Dreams that he is kneeling, that denotes devotion and humility, and sometimes vexation and trouble in business.  
To Dream the Knee is swelled and pains you, that signifies sickness, pain, loss and bad success, or obstruction in business.  
Of the Legs To Dream your Legs are scabby, or itchy, signifies fruitless perplexity and care.  
To Dream your Legs are in good case and perfectly well, signifies joy and good fortune, that you will be prosperous in your voyage, journey and business.  
To Dream that the Legs are swelled or cut off, signifies the loss or damages of servants and our best friends, who will either fall sick or die.  
Of the Feet If any one Dreams he hath three or four feet, he is in danger of being crippled in the Legs or Feet by some defluxion, or some other accident; for those that are in such a condition use crutches or staves to support them, or else lie down on a bed that hath four Legs; nevertheless this Dream is advantageous to Merchants, and those that traffic by Sea.  
To Dream a man hath fire at his Feet, is a bad sign.  
To Dream that a Man is nimble-footed, and that he danceth well, signifies joy and amity.  
To Dream the Feet are cut off, signifies pain and damage.  
To Dream your Legs are cut off, signifies pain and damage.  
To Dream you see the Feet of your little Children, signifies joy and profit, good health, pleasure and consolation.  
To Dream you have a Fistula in your Foot, signifies assistance in business.  
To Dream your Feet are dirty and smell rank, signifies tribulation, or a venereal distemper.  
To Dream you are near a River or Fountain, and that you wash your Feet, signifies humility and good success, and sometimes catarrhs and defluxions.  
To Dream you kiss the Feet of another, signifies repentance, easement, contrition and humility.  
To Dream you see a Serpent, or some other mischievous creature, that will by't your Feet, signifies envy; and if the creature bites shrewdly, that signifies sadness and discontent.  
To Dream that any one doth scratch the soles of the Feet, signifies loss by flattery.  
To Dream that any one batheth your Feet with wholesome herbs, or perfumes them with good scents, signifies honour and joy from servants.  
If any one Dreams that his Leg or Foot is out of joint, or broken, it signifies that your servant will receive loss and damage, or die, or that he will be retarded in his voyage or journey, and will meet with obstructions.  
If any one Dreams that he is grown lame, that denotes infamy and disgrace; or if he be a prisoner, it foretells the punishment of his faults; or if rich, loss of his goods by fire.  
To Dream that you walk on your Knees for want of Feet, that signifies poverty, and loss of goods and servants.  
To Dream one hath a wooden Leg, signifies an alteration of your condition, from good to bad, or bad to worse.  
Of the Back To Dream you see your Back, signifies ill-luck and old age.  
To Dream a Man's Back is broken, hurt or scabby, signifies that his Enemies will get the better of him, and that he will be scoffed at by all persons.  
Of the Buttocks. To Dream one sees his own Buttocks, signifies infamy.  
To Dream you see the buttocks of a Woman, signifies luxury and carnal pleasure.  
To Dream you see your buttocks grown black, signifies shame and damage.  
Of the Ribs. The Ribs signify Women; the upper and larger Ribs, women that are born legitimate, the lower are the female relations and allies.  
If any one Dreams that he hath his upper Ribs broken or sunk, he will have some dissension with his wife, which will redound to his disgrace and displeasure.  
If he Dreams his lower Ribs and broken, he will be afflicted by his female relations and kindred.  
If any one Dreams his Ribs are grown larger and stronger than ordinary, he will take delight in his wife, or receive good success and advantage from him that hath the charge of his Estate and affairs; for the Ribs being as it were the walls and ramparts of the body and principal inward-parts, they are applied to those that have the charge of the house; and if they receive any damage, that is attributed to the same persons.  
Of the Hips If any one Dreams his Hips are grown larger and stronger than usual, he will be very joyful and healthful; and if he marries, will have lovely Children.  
To Dream the same thing of the reins and backbone, signifies altogether the same thing as the Hips; and farther, that he will take delight and comfort in his Wife, or his Heirs.  
To Dream the Hips are broken, and that you cannot walk, that denotes affliction, sickness and loss of Children.  
If any one Dreams that his Hips are black and blue with whipping, or blows with a stick or sword, that presageth his death in a short time, or at least that he will hate his Wife, and have several grievances.  
If he Dreams his Hips are cut half through, his hope in his Wife and relations will be utterly lost.  
Of the Flesh in general. If any one Dreams he is increased in Flesh, he will gain gold and wealth, according to the quantity of his Flesh: if he dreams he is grown bigger and fatter, he will enjoy riches, and delight in rich and sumptuous apparel.  
On the contrary, if any one Dreams that he is grown lean and thin, if he be rich, he will grow poor, or at least conceal his wealth, and will seem to be in a mean condition; if he be poor already, he will die out of poverty and necessity: if she be a Woman, her Husband, allies and relations will hate her.  
If any one Dreams his Flesh is grown spotted, or black like a More, he will deceive those he trade's withal by Lying and craft; if she be a woman that dreams thus, she will be taken in adultery, and put away or repudiated by her Husband.  
If any one Dreams his Flesh is grown yellow or pale, he will be in danger of falling into the distemper of a long continuing fever.  
If any one Dreams his Flesh is full of Scabs, Tetters, or Corns, he will grow rich proportionably to the said Scabs.  
To Dream the body is full of louse, and the flesh incommodated by their eating into it, that signifies that the Dreamer will hereafter get both gold and silver.  
If any one Dreams he hath eaten the Flesh of a Man or Woman, he will enrich himself by injuries and reproach.  
Of the Entrails. If any one Dreams he hath voided his Entrails at the Fundament, some of his family will be engaged abroad in some quarrel, which will cause his damage and affliction.  
If any one thinks Dreaming that he hath eaten up his Entrails, he will gain by the death of some of his Domestics; if he dreams he hath eaten the intestines of another, he will enrich himself by the Estate of another.  
Of the Liver. If any one Dreams that he is indisposed in his Liver, or that it is burnt, or dried up, his Estate and wealth will be wasted, and he himself die suddenly; for the Liver is the source of blood, and the blood in dreams is taken for gold and riches.  
If any one Dreams he hath seen or found the Liver of any of his Enemies, and carried it away, he will overrule those that wish him ill, and be master of their treasure.  
Of the Marrow. The Marrow hath the same interpretation as the Liver.  
Of the Lungs. If any one Dreams he hath found the Marrow, Liver or Lungs of a Bull, He-goat, Ram, or any other horned-beast, he will enjoy the goods and Estate of some person of quality, that is in great honour, to whom he shall be heir; for the horns signify dignity and soveraingntie, whence it is that horns represent crowns.  
If any one Dreams that somebody hath plucked out his lungs, or that he is hurt or ill-disposed in that part, his designs will be frustrated, and run the hazard of some great danger, and lose the most useful and profitable servant in his family: for the Lungs moderate and refresh the heat of the heart, and represent servants.  
Of the Heart. The Heart in man is the same thing as the Sun in the Firmament, and gold in the Earth; and therefore is the noblest part of the Microcosm, first living and last dying; wherein are enclosed, as in a fortress, courage, resolution and generosity.  
If any one Dreams he hath the pain of the Heart, it is a sign of some dangerous distemper approaching, according to the proportion of the pain which is imagined to be felt in the Heart.  
If any one Dreams that he hath no Heart, and that he lost it, it is a sign of sudden death, or that he will utterly fall under the power of his most mortal Enemies.  
To Dream your Heart is more lively, large and vigorous then ordinary, is a sign of long life, that you will overcome your Enemies, and be prosperous in your erterprises, and feared by all persons.  
The Heart, in the opinion of some, in dreams signifies man, and chief the Husband; so that if a woman dreams she is ill in, or hurt at her Heart, the evil denounced by that dream will happen to the Husband: If it be a Maid that dreams thus, the evil will happen to her Father, or Servant, if she hath one: the Lungs have the same signification: the Liver signifies the same: the Gall signifies a Son or Brother.  
Of the Gall If any one Dreams that his Gall is broken in his body, that signifies that he will be angry with some of his Domestics, and that he will hurt them; and if he be a married man, he will have some great contest with his wife; and will also be in danger of losing his money by gaming or Thiefs.  
Of the Spleen. The Spleen denotes the pleasure and content that is between friends rejoicing.  
If any one Dreams his Spleen is enlarged and very healthful, he will be invited to some Feast, Comedy, Ball, Dancing, Walk, or some good Company or other, which will afford him very much content and diversion.  
If on the contrary he imagines his Spleen is oppressed, swelled, or that he is ill in that part, some business or other of great importance will fall into his hands, which will bring him great care, vexation and disturbance.  
Of the Brain. The Head is the Citadel wherein the Brain is environed, which is the Dungeon of the faculties of the Soul, and by its wise conduct hath Dominion over all the other parts of Man: so that if any one Dreams his Brain is well, and freed from all defluxions and ill humours, he will be an able Counsellor to Kings and Princes, will govern himself prudently, and will perfect his designs with honour and profit: if on the contrary, he imagines his Brain is ill disposed, and overcharged with humours that cause pains, he will be unfortunate in his Counsels and erterprises, will pass for an inexpert and imprudent person, and run into many dangers.  
Of Nakedness. To Dream you see a Man naked, signifies fear and terror.  
To Dream you see a naked Woman, signifies honour and joy, provided she be fair, clear-skined and handsome.  
But if on the contrary you Dream you see a naked Woman that is crooked, old, wrinkled, or otherwise ill made, and black withal; that signifies shame, repentance and ill luck; but if a Man dreams he sees such a Woman painted, the evil will be the less.  
If one Dreams he sees a naked Woman painted or in a statue of marble, Gold, Silver or brass, and that the portraiture or statue be taking and pleasing to the Ey, that signifies good luck, and success in business.  
If a Husband Dreams he sees his Wife naked, it signifies deceit.  
If a Wife Dreams she sees her Husband naked, it signifies assurance and success in her erterprises.  
To Dream one sees his Lady of pleasure naked, signifies peril and danger by the craft and deceit of the Woman.  
To Dream one sees his friend or servant naked, signifies discord and falling out.  
To Dream that a Man sees himself naked, signifies sickness or poverty, and most commonly shame by means of some other person.  
If any one Dreams he is naked in a Bath or in the Stews with a person he fancies, it signifies joy, pleasure and health.  
To Dream you see a naked More, or some other black person, signifies sadness, melancholy and damage.  
If a Woman Dreams that she lies stark naked in her Husband's arms, and yet it is no such thing, that presageth sadness to her by ill news: but when the Husband hath the same dream, it signifies amity, joy and profit.  
When a Woman Dreams she is in bed with a More, or else with a deformed person, whom she scorns and hath an aversion for, that predicts sickness or discontent: if the Husband dreams the same thing, that signifies sickness or death to his Wife or Mother.  
To Dream that a Man is naked in bed with a handsome Woman, signifies deceit; and with a handsome Man, pain, trouble, loss, damage and deceit.  
To Dream one seethe or discourseth with his Father, Mother, Wife, Brother, Sister, or some other of his relations and friends, though they are dead, that signifies it is an advertisement for them to mind their affairs, and to behave themselves like good people in this world.  
Of the  or Garments. If any one Dreams he hath a suit, hat, or pair of new boots on, and that they please him● that signifies joy, profit, and good success in business.  
If a Gentlewoman Dreams she is dressed in a French-hood, or any other Head-tire of a Towns-woman, that prognosticates damage and dishonour.  
If a Citizen Dreams she hath her head or body Dressed like a Gentlewoman or Lady, that signifies honour, as well to herself as her Husband.  
If a Man or Woman Dream they are meanly clothed, it signifies trouble and sadness.  
To Dream one is married, signifies sickness or melancholy.  
If a Man Dreams he is wedded to a deformed Woman, that signifies death, or some great discontent: if to a handsome Woman, that denotes joy and profit.  
To Dream one hath gloves on his hands, signifies honour.  
If any one Dreams his  are all filthy with dirt or other ordure, or that he hath bad , tattered, and much worm, that signifies sin, blame and shame in the world.  
To Dream your  are embroidered all over with gold or other kind of embroidery, signifies joy and honour.  
To Dream one hath a crown of gold upon his head, signifies favour with his Sovereign Prince, and that he shall be honoured and feared by many, and receive many presents.  
To Dream one is adorned with flowers and posies, signifies a short-lived joy and content.  
To Dream one is well booted, or hath good shoes on, signifies honour and profit by Servants.  
The contrary signifies damage, disdain and honour.  
To Dream one walks in the dirt, or among thorns, signifies sickness.  
To Dream one walks in the water of some Torrent, signifies adversity and grief.  
To Dream one shall be clothed with scarlet, that denotes dignity, places of honour, and great authority.  
To Dream one's hat is torn or dirty, signifies damage and dishonour.  
If one Dreams he hath swell, warts, or pustules in his body, that signifies he will become rich by the revenue of his Lands, or by the interest of his money.  
If any one Dreams that his flesh is swelled by some aposteme or ulcer, that must be understood of riches, according to the interpretation of the swelled parts.  
For the head is applied to the Master, the neck to him that Dreams; the teeth, or at least the jaws, gums and cheeks, signify relations, friends and allies; the shoulders, to Mistresses or Concubines; the arms, to Brothers, or the most affectionate relations; the ribs, to Women; the hands, to Servants that have the chiefest authority in the family; the legs and feet, to the life of him that dreams, or his chief Servant.  
If any one Dreams he is become leprous, meazled, or full of the pox, that denotes profit and wealth with infamy: if it be a woman that hath this dream, she will be acquainted with some great Lord, or at least with some generous person, who will bestow a good estate upon her.  
Some Authors affirm, that to Dream such a dream, signifies that one shall be scoffed at and despised by all persons by reason of some woman; but that however he shall obtain his ends.  
If any one Dreams that he receives a blow with a sword by some of his Acquaintance, he will have reason to be pleased with him; if it be by an unknown person, he will make peace with his friends, and get advantage thereby.  
If any one Dreams that his wound is healed, he will boast of his valour, and gain honour by it in the opinion of the world.  
If any one Dreams he hath the plague, his hidden store he will be discovered, and will run the risk of losing it.  
Of Furious and mad Man If any one Dreams he is a Demoniac, or otherwise possessed by some evil spirit, he will receive benefits from his Prince, and be long lived.  
If one Dreams he hath seen the Devil, that he was tormented, or otherwise that he was much frighted, that signifies that the Dreamer is in danger of being checked or punished by his Sovereign Prince or some Magistrates.  
And quite contrarily, if one Dreams he strikes the Devil or some Persons he believes to be possessed, and that he fancies he overcomes them; it is a sign that he that dreams thus shall overcome his Enemies, and vanquish them with glory and satisfaction.  
If any one Dreams that he is turned Idiot and mad, and is guilty of public extravagancies, he shall be long-lived, a favourite to his Prince, and gain pleasure and profit by the people.  
If a Woman Dreams she is become foolish, and is publicly guilty of folly and impudence, it is a sign she will have a Boy, who in time will grow great: if she be a Maid, she will be speedily married, and that to an honest Man.  
Of Drunkards. To Dream one is Drunk, is increase of Estate, and recovery of health; but when one dreams that he is drunk without drinking any Wine; it is an ill omen, and he runs the hazard of being disgraced by some bad action, and of being punished by Law.  
If a Man Dreams he is drunk with Sack, Muscadel, or some other sweet and pleasant drink; it is a sign he will be beloved by some great Lords, and grow rich thereby.  
If a Man Dreams he is drunk with pure Water, he will boast causelessly of his wealth, and vaunt of another persons strength.  
If any one Dreams he is drunk and vomits, he will run the hazard of losing his Estate by the violence of his Prince, who will force him to an account of his means ill gotten; or if he be a Gamester, he will lose all he hath formerly won.  
If any one Dreams that being drunk, he is very much pained at heart, and in his Entrails, that is as much as to say, that his Domestics or Servants will rob him of his money, or destroy his fortune without his knowledge.  
If any one Dreams he is grown lean and wasted, he will be disturbed and have suits at Law, of some other ill business, that will occasion the loss of his Estate; or else he is in danger of falling sick: nevertheless if a Woman Dreams that her tongue is grown less and learner then ordinary, that signifies unto her honour, wisdom, prudence and discretion, by which qualifications she will be honoured and esteemed by all persons.  
We have discoursed before in the 43 page of beheading, now we must explain the other sorts of punishment.  
If any one Dreams that by sentence or judgement he was condemned to be hanged, and that he imagines it was really executed, he will be dignified according to the height of the Gibbet or Tree whereon he was hanged.  
If the Dreamer be sick or afflicted, he will be freed from the disease, and in the end have joy and contentment.  
If any one Dreams he condemned another to be hanged, that signifies he will be angry with him whom he imagined he condemned; but in a small time after, he will place him in honour and dignity, which he will abuse.  
According to the Interpretation of the Persians and Egyptians, he that Fancies he is hanged, broken on the wheel, whipped or burned by sentence of Law, he will be rich, honoured and respected for some time; but if he imagines that he was hanged or burned by a fire that did quite consume him, he will inevitably perish in the end.  
If any one Dreams that being to be hanged he was delivered and came down to the bottom of the Gibbet, that person will lose his Estate and dignity.  
If any one Dreams he hath eaten the flesh of a Man hanged, he will be enriched by some persons, but it shall be by Foul practice and some secret crime.  
Of Death and the Grave. If any one Dreams he is dead, he will be subjected to some great Prince, will grow rich, and long-lived, though not without much envy.  
If it seems that he is put into a grave and buried, that presageth he will die in a mean condition; yet some believe (groundedly upon experience) that to dream one is dead and buried, he that hath such a dream shall recover an Estate, according to the proportion of the quantity of earth that is laid upon him.  
If a person Dreams he sees one that is dead, and that he believes him to be alive, that signifies he is saved, and that we must do what he faith; nay farther, it signifies assurance of the dispatch of business, and God's blessing, who takes care to send us visions for our good, and for the salvation of body and soul.  

Of Games.  
THe Spirit of Man being more inclined to things that recreate then the contrary, he dreams oftener of Plays and Pastimes then serious actions.  
The Game of Chess and Tables is the representative of a Field prepared for a battle; the two Gamesters are the two Generals of the Armies, and the Tables and Chess-men are the soldiers that make up the two Armies: wherefore if any one dreams that he plays at Chess with an acquaintance, it is a sign he will fall out with somebody that he knows; and if he imagines in his dreams that he wins, he shall be victorious over his Enemies; and on the contrary, if he dreams he loseth, he will be overcome and worsted in the combat.  
If the Dreamer imagines that he hath taken many Men in play, that foretells he will take many of his Enemy's prisoners.  
If a King or General of an Army dreams he hath lost his Chessboard, or that it is broken, or stolen from him, he will lose his Army either by the Enemies Assault, or else by plague or famine.  
To Dream one plays at Cards or Dice, signifies deceit and craft, and that he is in danger of losing his Estate by some wicked persons.  
To Dream you play at Tennis, signifies travel and pain to gain wealth by contention and injury.  
To Dream you have won at Dice, is a sign that some Inheritance will fall to you by the death of some of your relations; for Dice are made of dead men's bones.  
Of Plays. To Dream you see a Comedy, Farce, or some other recreation, signifies good success in business.  
To Dream you see a Tragedy acted, signifies labour, loss of friends and estate, with grief and affliction.  
To Dream you see persons dance at a Ball, or that you are engaged in a Ball, signifies joy, pleasure, recreation and inheritance.  
To Dream one plays, or sees another play upon a Lute, Violin or other musical Instrument, signifies good news, concord, and a good correspondency between Man and Wife, Master and Servant, Prince and Subjects.  
To Dream one plays or sees another play upon the Virginals, Claricords, or Organs, signifies the death of relations, or funeral-obsequys.  
To Dream one danceth at a wedding, signifies sickness.  
To Dream one hears Bells ring, signifies an alarm, murmuring, disturbance and commotions among citizens.  
To Dream you play tunes on small Bells, signifies discord and disunion between subjects and servants.  
If any one Dreams he sings, that signifies he will be afflicted and weep.  
To Dream you hear singing musically, or playing in consort upon Instruments, signifies consolation in adversity, and recovery of health to those that are sick.  
To Dream you play, or hear playing on wind. Instruments, as Flutes, Flajolets, large or small Bagpipes, the Clarion, and other such Instruments, signifies trouble, contention, and being overthrowin at Law.  
To Dream you hear Birds sing, signifies love, joy and delight.  
To Dream you hear Hens cackle, or Geese cry, signifies profit, and assurance of the dispatch of business.  
If any one Dreams he plays at any of those plays with which company use to divert themselves; as at Questions and Commands, Cross Purposes, Blindman-buff, Hot-cockles, Barleybreak and many others; it signifies prosperity, joy, pleasure, health, and concord among Friends and Relations.  
Of Running If any one dreams he runs, it is a good sign; especially if he imagines he runs away, and flies for fear of another, that signifies security; and when one believes he runs after his Enemy, that denotes victory and profit.  
To Dream people run one against another, signifies wrangling and disorder; if they are little Children, that speaks joy and fair weather; nevertheless if those Children are armed with sticks or staves, that foretells War and dissension.  
To Dream you see a Hare or Hart running, signifies great wealth gained by address, and subtlety of spirit.  
To see a Horse running, signifies prosperity and accomplishment of desires.  
To see an Ass run, signifies misfortune: when a sick body dreams he runs, it is a very bad sign.  
And when a Woman dreams she runs, that foretells disgrace and damage.   

Of some other humane Actions.  
TO Dream one trades with a stranger in wool, signifies profit; in iron, loss and misfortune; in silk, satin, velvet, and other fine silks, profit and joy; in linen cloth, the very same.  
If any one Dreams he gathers up gold and silver, that signifies deceit and loss.  
To Dream one carries wood upon his back, or that he is bucking or starching of linen, blows the fire, turns the spit, and other things of mean concernment, signifies to the rich servitude, to the poor profit.  
To Dream one makes Pies, Cakes, Tarts or Confets; signifies joy and profit.  
To Dream one makes tapestry, draws pictures, or dies stuffs, that signifies joy without profit.  
To Dream one comforts the sick, prescribes them remedies and medicines, signifies profit and felicity.  
To Dream one makes Shoes or Slippers; to the Rich that signifies decay and poverty, to Artists it denotes the contrary.  
To Dream one shaves or cuts another's hair, that signifies profit to him whose hair we seem to cut, and to the Dreamer misfortune.  
To Dream one manures and cultivates the Earth, it signifies melancholy to those that are not of such a condition, and to Laborers it signifies gain, and a plentiful crop.  
To Dream you ride with a company of Men, is very lucky and profitable: but with Women, it signifies misfortune and deceit.  
To Dream one is in woods or in meadows, and keeps Beasts; to the rich that signifies disgrace and loss; and to the poor and peasantry, it signifies profit.  
To Dream that one is in a Tavern, and feasting with his companions, signifies joy and comfort.  
To Dream you piss against the wall, and in truth it falls out sometimes that we do so indeed in such a dream, that signifies assistance of, or assistance in business.  
To Dream you do your business in the fields, signifies joy, profit and health.  
To Dream you take birds, signifies pleasure and profit.  
To Dream you shoot in a bow, signifies comfort; discharge a gun, profit, deceit, and grief through anger.  
To Dream you read Romances, Comedies, or other diverting books, signifies joy and comfort.  
To Dream you read serious books, and of some sublime Science, signifies benediction and wisdom.  
To Dream you writ letters to your friends, or receive letters from them, signifies good news.  
To Dream you walk in the night, signifies trouble and melancholy.  
To Dream you play the Mason, or cause a house to be built, signifies molestation, loss, sickness, or death.   

Of Christian and Heavenly Exercises.  
TO Dream one is at Church, and prays to God devoutly, signifies joy and comfort.  
To Dream you make vows and offerings to God, signifies love and dilection.  
To Dream that you see God's face, so as he communicated himself to Man, and that he seems to stretch forth his arms while we invoque him; signifies joy, comfort, grace, the blessing of God, and good success in business.  
To Dream you see some Angel or Saint, signifies consolation, and advertisement to live well and repent of our sins: this denotes also good news, increase of honour and authority.  
To Dream that you do nothing but talk idly at Church, and are drawn aside by bad thoughts, signifies envy and sin.  
To Dream you see an Apparition or Spirit that seems of a comely aspect, and attired in white, that signifies joy and consolation: if he be deformed and black, it signifies deceit, and tentation to sin.  
To Dream you see a white Pigeon flying, which is taken in the sacred scripture for the Hieroglyphic of the holy Ghost; signifies consolation, devotion, and good success in undertake; provided they be done for the glory of God, and the good of our neighbour.  
To Dream you see an Angel fly ov●r you or your House, signifies joy, consolation, benediction and good news.  
To Dream that one speaks to the Holy Virgin, signifies consolation, recovery of health, and all good fortune.      


Of the Sun.  
THe Sun is the most lively image of God among inanimate creatures, and the holy Writ calls it the Throne or Palace of God; and as God is the principle of all foecundity, so is the Sun to this inferior World; which hath obliged some to bestow upon it the name of the Earth's Husband, and Father of Gold, which is the most perfect thing that is found and drawn out of the bowels of the Earth, by reason of that well proportioned temperament, which is known to Philosophers by the name of temperamentum ad pondus. The Sun hath been also called the Ey and Heart of Heaven, the Spirit and Reason of the material World, the eternal Animal, the Animated Star, the Ey that never sleeps, the Ay of Justice, Father of Light and Generation. The Sun represents unity, truth, light, fruitfulness, sovereign Majesty, heat, abundance and riches, because he is (as hath been said) the Father of Gold, and ripens all the Fruits of the Earth.  
To Dream you see the Sun come out of the Sea, or rise in our Horizon, signifies good news, and success in your designs.  
To Dream you see the Sun set, signifies the contrary: yet some believe that it denotes good fortune to the party that Dreams.  
If a Woman hath such a dream, it signifies she'll have a Son.  
To Dream you see the Sun, signifies dispatch of business, and revelation of things secret; to the sick it denounceth health, to the prisoner liberty, and a cure to him that is hurt in the Ey.  
To Dream you see the Sun clouded, red or hot, signifies obstruction in business, death to your Children, or danger to your own person, or sore Eyes; but such a dream is good to those that will conceal themselves for some crimes, o● for fear of their Enemies.  
To Dream that the Sun descends upon your House, signifies danger by fire.  
To Dream you see the Sunbeams come into your bed, when in bed, that signifies sickness by a favour; but to dream she entirely shines all over your Chamber, signifies gain, profit, felicity and honour: this presageth likewise to married people, that they will have a Son who will be honourable.  
To Dream you see the Sun obscured, or disappear, is a very bad dream, unless it be to those that have a mind to be unknown by reason of their offences; for to others, for the most part, it signifies death, or at the least loss of sight by some accident, or by some defluxion.  
To see the Sun shine about your head, signifies to malefactor's grace and pardon; and to those that are at liberty, it denotes honour and glory among their acquaintance.  
To Dream you enter a house where the Sun shines, signifies the getting an Estate.   

Of the Moon.  
IF any one Dreams he sees the Moon shine, that signifies his Wife loves him extremely, and that she is well; it also denotes the getting of silver: for as the Sun represents gold, so the Moon doth silver; and as gold is taken for the heart of the world, so is silver for the brain.  
To Dream you see the Moon darkened, signifies the death or sickness of ones Wife, Mother, Sister, Daughter, loss of money, or danger in a voyage or journey, especially if it be by water; or else it signifies a distemper in the brain or Eyes.  
To Dream you see the Moon darkened, and grow clear and bright again, signifies profit to the Woman that dreams, and to the Man joy and prosperity: the Moon first clear and afterwards clouded, presageth the contrary.  
To Dream you see the Moon in the form of a full and white face, that signifies to the Virgin speedy marriage; to the married Woman, that she will have a handsome Daughter: If the Husband dreams it, it signifies that his Wife will have a Son. Such a dream is prosperous to Goldsmiths, Merchants, Jewellers and Bankers.  
To Dream you see the Moon at full, is a good sign to handsome women of their being beloved by those that view them, but it is bad for such as conceal themselves, as Thiefs and Murderers, for they will be certainly discovered; yet it signifies death to the sick, or to Mariners.  
To Dream the Moon shines about your bed, signifies grace, pardon, and deliverance by means of some Woman.   

Of the Stars.  
TO Dream you see the sky serene, and the Stars clear and twinkling, signifies prosperity and advantage in a voyage or journey, good news and gain by all you do; and contrarily, to see them dusky and pale coloured, signifies all sorts of mischief.  
To Dream you see the Stars disappear, signifies loss, and great vexation and cares to those that are rich, and death to those that are poor, such a dream is only good to those, that have committed some heinous offence, or study to commit it; for they may do it without any fear.  
To Dream you see the Stars fall athwart the top of the House, signifies sickness, or that the House will be uninhabited, or burned by accident.  
If one Dreams he sees the Sars shining into the House, it signifies that the chief person of the family will be in danger of death.  
To Dream you see several happy Comets, or other Stars with streaming tails, signifies future evils by War, Pestilence and Famine, with are the scourges wherewith God chastiseth mortals.   

Of the Rainbow.  
TO Dream you see the Rainbow in the East, is a good omen to the poor and sick; for the former will recover their estates, and the later their health: and if you dream you see it in the West, to the rich it is a good, to the poor a bad sign.  
To Dream you see the Rainbow directly over your head, or near you, signifies change of fortune, and most commonly the death of the Dreamer, and ruin of his family.    

Of things Infernal.  
IF any one Dreams that he sees the Devils, it is a very bad sign; for such a vision cannot bring along with it any good tidings; to the sick it foretells death, and to the healthful it signifies melancholy, anger, tumults, and violent sickness.  
And to Dream one sees Hell as it is described, and that he hears the damned Souls groan and complain through the extremity of their torments; it is an advertisement that God sends to the Dreamer, to the end he may amend his life, and that repenting of his sins, he may throw himself upon God's mercy.  
If any one Dreams the Devil speaks to him, that signifies tentation, deceit, treachery, despair, and oftentimes the ruin and death of him that dreams.  
To Dream one is carried away by the Devil, it is a worse Dream; yet I find that no dream delights the Dreamer so much as this; for being awaked, he is ravished with joy that he is freed from so great an evil, for which he ought to return God thanks, and beg of him that he would be pleased to send him his good Angel to guard him, and fight against that wicked Spirit, which stands always sentinel to surprise us.  
To Dream you see a Serpent or seaven-headed Hydra, signifies sin and temptation.  
To Dream you see the Dog Cerberus, whom the Poets feign to be the Porter of Hell, signifies sin, and arrests by Sergeants.  
To Dream you see the damned plunged in the 〈◊〉 and flames, and suffer great torture, signifies sadness, repentance, grief, and a melancholic distemper.  
To Dream you see the Devil, as he is drawn by Painters and Poets, vizt. black and hideous, with horns, claws, and a great tail, signifies torment and despair.  
To Dream you see Harpies, which are infernal creatures, half-Women and half-Serpents, or else furies, such as the Poets feign them to be; that signifies tribulation and pains occasioned by envious persons, and such as seek our ruin, shame or death by mischief and treachery.  
To Dream you are descended into Hell, and returned thence, to those that are great and rich it signifies misfortune, but it is a good sign to the poor and weak.  
To Dream you see a dead Man that saith nothing, signifies that he that dreams will be subject to the same passions and fortune as the party deceased had when alive, if he know him.  
If any one Dreams that a dead Man takes away his garments, robs him of his money or food, it is a sign of death to him, or to some of his nearest relations and friends.  
To Dream a Man that is alive and in health is dead, that signifies trouble, tribulation, and being overthrown at Law.  
To Dream you see a Man die a second time that is already dead, signifies the death of your nearest relations of the same name and Surname.  
To Dream you are erecting a Tomb, that signifies marriages, weddings, and birth of Children; but if the Dreamer imagines that he sees the Tomb fall to ruin, that signifies sickness and ruin to him that Dreams, and his family.  
If any one Dreams he is dead, he will be subject to some great Prince, and become rich, though he be much envied.  
If it seems to him that he is buried and interred, he shall have as much wealth as he hath earth laid over him.  
If any one Dreams he is buried alive, he is in danger of being unhappy and unfortunate during his life.  
If any one Dreams he had to do with a dead Woman, he will be loved and maintained by some great Lady.  
To Dream that one goes to the funeral and Internment of any one of his Relations or Friends, or of some great Lord, is a good sign to the Dreamer, who undoubtedly will get an Estate by means of his Relations, or else marry a fortune to his own content.   

DREAMS Interpreted ALPHABETICALLY.  

A.  

To Dream that you  
ARe clothed with Silk, signifies honour.  
Are Drunk, signifies sickness.  
Are girt with an old girdle, signifies labour and pains.  
Are enchanted, signifies secrets and sorrows.  
Are kissed by Men of great quality, signifies consolation.  
Are stark naked, signifies loss and damage in your Estate.  
Are turned Physician, signifies cheerfulness.  
Are turned into a Tree, signifies sickness.  
Are unsettled in your thoughts, signifies joy.  
Ascend a Ladder, signifies honour.  
Ascend a very high mountain, the same thing.  
Ascend up to Heaven, signifies grandeur.    

B.  

To Dream that you  
 yourself in a clear Fountain, signifies joy.  
 in stinking water, signifies shame and false accusation.  
Bestow a knife upon any one, signifies injustice and contention.  
Bestow a ring upon any one, signifies damage.  
By't your nails, signifies wrangling & vexation.  
Blot or tear your paper, signifies the well-ordering of business.  
Bray or pound pepper, signifies melancholy.  
Build a Church, or erect an Altar, that some person of your kindred or family will be made a Priest.  
Build a House, signifies comfort.  
Burn a House, and see it burning, signifies scandals that will be thrown upon you, and loss of Estate.    

C.  

To Dream that you  
CArry a Bow, signifies desire or torment.  
Carry a Crown of gold in your hand, signifies honour and dignity.  
Carry a Falcon upon your fist, and walk with it, signifies honour.  
Carry hot Bread, signifies accusation.  
Carry a young Maid, signifies joy.  
Catch Sea-fish, it is a bad sign.  
Cleanse a Well, or fall into it, signifies injury.  
Come out of a Coach, signifies being degraded from great honour; and disgrace upon a criminal account.  
Command any one, signifies trouble.  
Commit adultery, signifies future debates.  
Cut barley-bread, signifies rejoicing.  
Cut Bacon, signifies the death of some person.  
Cut your fingers, or see them cut by another, signifies damage.    

D.  

To Dream that you  
DEscend a Ladder, signifies damage.  
Destroy any place, signifies deceit.  
Discourse with the King, signifies honour, when absent.  
Discourse with your Brethren, signifies vexation.  
Discourse with Jesus Christ, signifies consolation.  
Discourse with the Virgin Mary, signifies joy.  
Discourse with great Lords, or to go into any place with them, signifies honour.  
Dispute with Philosophers, signifies profit and gain.  
Do good to any one, signifies jollity.  
Do the Act of Marriage, signifies danger.  
Draw out your Teeth, signifies death.  
Drink clear water, is a good sign.  
Drink hot water, signifies sickness.  
Drink Milk, is an extraordinary good sign.  
Drink Sophisticated wine, the same.  
Drink stinking water, signifies violent distempers.  
Drink Vinegar, signifies sickness.  
Drink white-Wine, signifies health.    

E.  

To Dream that you  
EAt Apples, signifies choler.  
Eat Bacon of salt-meats, signifies murmuring.  
Eat Beans, signifies sickness.  
Eat Carrion, signifies sadness.  
Eat Cheese, signifies profit and gain.  
Eat Fleas; signifies disquiet.  
Eat Man's flesh, signifies labour and trouble.  
Eat Roots, signifies discord.  
Eat Roast-meat, signifies falling into sin.  
Eat a Salade, signifies evil, or sickness that will happen.  
Eat Salt-meat, signifies a disease.  
Eat Silver, signifies wrath and anger.  
Eat Variety of meats, signifies loss.  
Eat white-Bread, signifies gain.    

F.  

To Dream that you  
FAll in the Dirt, signifies treachery, or disturbance by some person or other.  
Fall into the Water, signifies death or danger to your person.  
Fall into a clear Fountain, signifies honour and gain.  
Fall into a Pit or ditch, signifies the loss of a cause or suit at Law.  
Fall into a troubled Fountain, signifies accusation.  
Fall on the ground, signifies dishonour and scandal.  
Fall upon a Bridge, signifies obstruction.  
Feed, or bring a Lamb to the slaughter, signifies torment.  
Feed Oxen, is a good sign.  
Feel a burning, signifies danger.  
Feel a heat, signifies grief.  
Fell Trees, signifies loss.  
Fight with Serpents and Adders, signifies the overthrow of Enemies.  
Find a Bird's-nest, is a good sign.    

G.  

To Dream that you  
GAther Apples, signifies vexation from some person or other.  
Gather black Grapes, signifies damage.  
Gather Flowers, signifies mirth and jollity.  
Gather white-Grapes, signifies gain.  
Give any thing to one that is dead, signifies loss.  
Give, or take physic, signifies living in poverty.  
Go a hunting, signifies some accusation.  
Go to Mass, signifies honour and joy.  
Go over a broken Bridge, signifies fear.  
Go over a Ditch upon a small plank, signifies deceit by Lawyers.    

H.  

To Dream that you  
HAndle or chew Gold, signifies anger.  
Have grey Hairs, signifies gain, profit and joy.  
Have a little Beard, suits and controversies at Law.  
Have a long Beard, signifies strength or gain.  
Have long Hairs on your Head, signifies honour  
Have a new suit of , the same.  
Have new Shoes and Stockings, signifies comfort.  
Have old ones, signifies sadness.  
Have a new Girdle, signifies honour.  
Have an old worn Girdle, signifies damage.  
Have a red Garment on, signifies blood, 〈◊〉 bleeding.  
Have Rods in your hand, signifies jollity.  
Have a Staff in your hand, signifies sickness.  
Have two Heads, signifies company.  
Have weak Arms, signifies torment.  
Have your Arms dried up, is a very ill sign.  
Have your Beard shaved, signifies tribulation.  
Have your Hair cut, signifies loss.  
Hear an Ass bray, signifies damage.  
Hear Beasts, signifies gain.  
Hear Bells ring, signifies disgrace and trouble.  
Hear Birds chirp, is a good sign.  
Hear Clocks strike, signifies infamy.  
Hear a Cock crow, signifies prosperity.  
Hear Dogs bark, and to be disturbed thereat, signifies the overthrow of Enemies.  
Hear Hens cackle, or that you catch them, signifies joy.  
Hear a Raven croak, signifies sadness.  
Hear a Shaking, signifies deceit, which will happen to the Dreamer in the place where he dreams.  
Hear the sound of Organs, signifies joy.  
Hear, or see Thunder, signifies injurious language by the evil tongues of envious persons.  
Hear your Wife scold, signifies great torment.    

I.  

To Dream that you  
Embark in a small Vessel, signifies sickness.    

K.  

To Dream that you  
KIll a Man, signifies assuredness of business.  
Kill your Father, is a bad sign.  
Kiss a Person, signifies loss.  
Kiss a Person deceased, signifies long life.    

L.  

To Dream that you  
LOok upon your Hands, signifies sickness.  
Lose your Eyes, signifies the death of some good Friend.  
Lose your Keys, signifies anger.  
Lose your Teeth, signifies honour.  
Lose your Teeth, signifies also, the death of some near relation, or intimate Friend.  
Lie with a Whore, signifies certainty in dispatch of business.  
Lie with your Mother, the same.    

M.  

To Dream that you  
MAke Candles, signifies rejoicing.  
Make a Breach, signifies molestation.  
Make an Ointment, signifies vexation and trouble.  
Make your Will, is a bad sign.  
Manage business of great concernment, signifies obstruction.  
Marry your Sisters, signifies danger.  
Marry a Wife, signifies loss.  
Marry, signifies damage, and sometime death.    

N. and O. have nothing.   

P.  

To Dream that you  
PLay with a Dog, is a good sign.  
Pluck the Hair off of your Head, signifies loss of Friends.  
Put up prayers and supplications to God, signifies happiness.    

Q. hath nothing.   

R.  

To Dream that you  
REceive audience of the King, signifies gain.  
Receive a gift of the King, or some Prince, signifies great joy.  
Receive obstruction by an Adversary, signifies Expedition of business.  
Ride on a white, grey, or dappled Nag, signifies prosperity.    

S.  

To Dream that you  
SAil in a Ship, or you see Ships sailing, is a good sign.  
See an Ass, signifies malice.  
See an Ass sitting upon his Crupper, signifies laboriousness.  
See the Air serene, is great gain.  
See the Air cloudy, signifies expedition of business.  
See Antinous, signifies contention.  
See Trees, or are climbing them, signifies future honour.  
See withered Trees, signifies deceit.  
See Trees bearing fruit, signifies gain and profit.  
See Trees without blossom, signifies expedition of business.  
See Silver eaten, signifies great advantage.  
See Candles burning, signifies anger or contention.  
See Candles that are not lighted, signifies a reward for something you have done.  
See Ravens flying, signifies complaint and sadness.  
See burning Coals, signifies shame and reproach.  
See dead Coals, signifies expedition of business.  
See a Cross carried along, signifies sadness.  
See Cream spilt upon you, signifies the infusion of some grace by the Holy-Ghost.  
See a Raven fly over you, signifies danger and damage.  
See white Horses, signifies joy.  
See black Horses, signifies sadness.  
See Horses Place, signifies mirth.  
See red or rone-colored Horse; signifies prosperity.  
See Horses of several colours, signifies expedition of business.  
See a Gelding, signifies accusation.  
See a Horse mount, signifies prosperity.  
See Dragons, signifies gain.  
See Fire fall from Heaven, signifies strange things that will ensue.  
See armed Men, is a good sign.  
See Men in arms come against you, signifies sadness.  
See armed Men fly, is a sign of Victory.  
See your Beard dry, signifies joy.  
See your Beard pulled up by the roots, signifies great danger.  
See the Moon Pale, is joyfulness.  
See the Moon fall from the Firmament, signifies sickness.  
See the Moon decrease, signifies the death of some Prince, or great Lord.  
See the Moon died with blood, signifies travel, or pilgrimage.  
See the Moon darkened, signifies sadness.  
See the new Moon, signifies expedition of business.  
See two Moons appear, is increase of honour.  
See Ships full freighted with goods, signifies prosperity.  
See Ships endangered by a Tempest, signifies peril.  
See a troubled River, signifies annoy, and discontent.  
See a River flow into your House, signifies plenty of riches.  
See a River flow out of your House, signifies that your life is in danger, or some loss that will accrue by injury done to you.  
See a clear River glide along, signifies security.  
See the King or Queen, signifies honour and joy.  
See red Roses, signifies joy and recreation.  
See yourself become a Husbandman, signifies great toil.  
See yourself hurt with iron, signifies damage.  
See yourself fight with the Devil, signifies gain.  
See yourself turned Woman, signifies sickness.  
See yourself turned into a Hen, signifies disquiet.  
See yourself sitting or lying in a Church, signifies change of apparel.  
See yourself changed into a Tree, signifies joy and profit.  
See yourself sick, signifies sadness, or imprisonment.  
See your Picture drawn, signifies long life.  
See yourself in a Bath, signifies anguish.  
See yourself thrown into a Fire, signifies sickness, or violent heat occasioned by a fever.  
See an Eagle fly over your head, signifies honour.  
See Birds fight, signifies adversity.  
See Birds fly over your head, signifies prejudice by Enemies.  
See blackbirds, signifies tribulation.  
See a swarm of Flies, signifies Enemies and unreasonable persons that will scandalise you.  
See a Lamb or young Kid, signifies extraordinary comfort.  
See fire burning, signifies a deluge, or change of place.  
See one command, signifies anger and authority.  
See fat Oxen, signifies a fruitful year.  
See lean Oxen, signifies scarcity of provisions, and famine.  
See Oxen ploughing in the field, signifies gain.  
See black Oxen, signifies danger.  
See Oxen go to water, is a bad sign.  
See Maids that are singing, signifies weeping.  
See the Beam of a house fall, signifies the death of some Grandee.  
See the top of your house burn, signifies the death of your Lord, Wife, or Friends Wife.  
See Tapestry or Pictures, signifies treachery, deceit and cozenage.  
See a Giant, or a large sized Person, is a good sign.  
See the body of our Lord, signifies honour.  
See Shee-goats or Wolves, signifies that you will be robbed.  
See one beheaded, signifies sickness.  
See the Meat you have eaten, signifies loss.  
See a comely countenance, unlike your own, signifies honour.  
See a black Face, signifies long life.  
See a Fountain spring up in your house, signifies honour and profit.  
See Fountains, or believe that you are enchanted, signifies sadness.  
See Children born, signifies damage.  
See an Oven burning hot, signifies change of place.  
See your deceased Brothers and Sisters, signifies long life.  
See a Woman naked, signifies the death of some person.  
See your Mother living, signifies joy.  
See her dead, signifies misfortune.  
See your Friends or Relations dead, signifies joy.  
See Breasts full of milk, signifies profit.  
See a Hen with her chickens, signifies damage.  
See a Hen lay eggs, signifies gain.  
See a Bed well furnished, signifies joy.  
See broken Eggs, is an ill sign.  
See it rain, signifies great riches.  
See live-Fish, is an all sign.  
See fishing Nets, signifies rain.  
See the Sun clear, signifies assuredness among great Persons, who will accomplish their designs.  
See the Sun in a cloud, signifies danger to the said great Persons.  
See the Stars of Heaven, signifies loss to the Emperor, or your own Lord.  
See the Sun and Moon fall together, is an ill sign.  
See old Shoes, signifies loss.  
See your  burned, is an ill sign.  
See darkness, signifies sin.  
See a Flock of Birds, signifies suits at Law.  
See yourself in black , signifies joy.  
See Persons hanging on a Gibbet, signifies damage and great afflictions.  
See many Serpents, signifies that you will be deceived by a Woman.  
See old Folks, is a bad sign.  
Shoot in a Bow, signifies honour.  
Sing Hymn or Psalm, signifies hindrance of business.  
Study the Sciences, signifies cheerfulness.    

T.  

To Dream that you  
TAke away a Maid by force, signifies poisoning.  
Take away a Woman, signifies change of place.  
Take Bees, signifies profit and gain.  
Take Blood, signifies a pain in the fundament.  
Take Hold of ones nose, signifies fornication.  
Take hold of the Privy-members, signifies that you have lost the faculty of procreation.  
Take a Sparrow-hawk, signifies gain.  
Take your  to put them on, signifies loss.  
Talk with an Enemy, signifies you must have a care of him.  
Talk with your son, signifies damage.  
Tame wild Beasts, the same thing.  
Taste sweet things, signifies subtlety.  
Trade in Swine or Lead, signifies sickness.  
Tread grapes, signifies the overthrow of your Enemies.    

U.  

To Dream that you  
UNcover or discover an Altar, signifies joy.  
Undo a Man, signifies sadness.    

W.  

To Dream that you  
Walk apace, or run, signifies gain.  
Walk in a Forest, signifies trouble.  
Walk in a Garden, signifies joy.  
Walk upon holy Ground, is a good sign.  
Walk upon Thorns, signifies the destruction of Enemies.  
Walk when your feet are sore, signifies fasting.  
Walk with fourfooted Beasts, signifies sickness.  
Wash your beard, is sadness.  
Wash your face, signifies repentance of your sin.  
Wash your feet, signifies molestation, and disturbance.  
Wash your Hands, signifies disquiet an vexation.  
Wash your Head, signifies deliverance from danger.  
Wash yourself in the Sea, signifies loss and damage.  
Wear a Crown of gold upon your Head, signifies wrangling or contention.  
Wear or have a particoloured Crown, signifies the temperature of the weather.  
Worship God, signifies joy.  
Writ on Paper, signifies accusation.  
Writ on, or read in Paper, signifies News.    

X. Y. Z. have nothing.    

THis (courteous Reader) is all I can acquaint you with concerning Dreams, making it my request, that you would not pin your faith upon them so far, as to create any disturbance within yourself thereby. It is said that Dreams, for the most part, are but fables; and I often find this Proverb true: and when you understand that meats are the cause that Dreams are good or bad, joyful or sad, pleasant or disturbing, you will then be satisfied that they fall out as well by accident as necessity; and consequently, that you ought not wholly to depend upon them. Those Dreams that may have a true event, proceed from wise and sober Persons, that are gifted with a settled mind and solid judgement: for they that are of a contrary temper, can have no Dream that deserves an interpretation, or that can possibly happen. The Affections and afflictions discompose the mind, and have more power to make it extravagant Sleeping then waking. Too large a quantity of Meat or Wine, or the depraved quality infused into them by a thousand kind of sauces and ingredients which are added thereunto, or otherwise, not being taken at certain Hours, all these things debilitate and stupefy the body, disturb the mind, and produce confused and extravagant Dreams, which are altogether insignificant, and which should rather oblige the wise Interpreters and Explainers of them to censure such Dreamers, then to afford them any hope of good success. So that you should judiciously discover the condition you are in when you Dream, before you give credit thereunto.    

A TREATISE OF PHYSIOGNOMY.  
Published in French By the Sieur Marck de Vulson, Knight of the Order of S. Michael; AND Translated into English By J. G. of the Inner Temple, Gent.  
LONDON: Printed by J. C. for William Crook. 1669.   

A TREATISE OF PHYSIOGNOMY.  

THis Treatise must necessarily prove advantageous and beneficial, not only because it concerns every individual person, but also because there are few men of what quality or condition soever, but are interested in things of this nature. The Divine, Philosopher, Physician both of soul and body, the good Christian in the regulating of his inclination, the Gentleman that earnestly desires an honest and agreeable conversation, may gather from hence something which may prove an additional advantage to him in his profession; in fine, every person may hereby attain to the knowledge of himself, which is to be valued above all treasures and riches imaginable. The Divine is here concerned, because that those extraordinary Agitations that are laid open to his view, which anticipate reason, do oppose virtue, seduce the will, and consequently are the chiefest causes of sin. Wherefore the Doctor in Divinity that treats of our ultimate end, and the means to obtain it, ought necessarily to extend his knowledge to subjects of this nature. The Philosophers both natural and moral, are deeply concerned, and bend their minds to this subject. The Natural Philosopher, who contemplates on the Nature of Man, enters into the discourse concerning their Actions, without which it is impossible to attain the knowledge thereof. The Moral Philosopher persuading men to Virtue, and dissuading them from Vice, demonstrates how out disordered appetite ought to be kerbed by the greatness of our resolution and moderation: And I do here declare their nature and subtlety, in what sort of people they are most vehement, and in whom also moderate.  
The devout Preacher that perfectly understands by these symptoms the age, sex, nature and property of those persons with whom he converseth, may beyond all dispute create strange alterations in the minds of his Auditory. I remember a Preacher in a famous City, who had so great an influence upon the affections of his Auditors, that he could at his pleasure draw abundance of tears from them, and upon the change of his discourse convert their grief into joy. The reason is this, because that he himself being much addicted to that kind of passion, and exquisite in the art of moving his Auditory thereunto, he could persuade to whatsoever his fancy led him. The same benefit may be made by all Orators, as Ambassadors, Lawyers, Magistrates, Captains, and all others, that would persuade a multitude: Much might be said of this matter, but I will touch it briefly elsewhere, as also the remedies suitable to the defects we shall find or judge of by our art.  
And as this Treatise is of great advantage to the Physician of the Soul, it is no less to the Physician of the Body; for there is no violent affection but creates some extraordinary alteration in one of the four humours of the Body. And all Physicians agree in this, that of all extrinsic causes of distempers, one is, (and that none of the most inconsiderable) the violence of some extraordinary passion: for although it hath unhinged their brains, as well as the Natural Philosophers, to find out the cause how an operation lodged in the understanding can alter the body, and move the humours from place to place; yet they all concentre in this opinion, that they are the product of a certain natural Sympathy, and the subordination of one part to the other; and that the Spirits and Humours treat their passions as Lords and Masters. So that the Physician understanding what passion causeth the disease, may very well infer from thence what humour abounds; and consequently, what is to be purged, what remedies to be applied, and how it may for the future be prevented.  
If all these Professions praementioned have a share in this discourse, the good Christian indisputably, whose life is a war-fare upon earth, he who makes it his chief study to extirpate vice and cultivate virtue, he who pretends to be piloted by reason, and not to be tyrannised over by any preposterous affection; This person (I say) can better dive into, and meditate upon this matter; he can soon find out where these Serpents and Basilisks nestle, which draw out the precious blood of his soul; he can discern where the thorn is fixed that pierceth his heart; in fine, he will find out his domestic enemies that always disturb his peace, molest him in prosperity, and debase him in adversity; make him dissolute in pleasure, and desperate in sorrow; furious in passion, trembling in fear, and languishing in hope. It was under such temptations as these, that St. Paul did punish his body, 1 Cor. 9.27. Castigo corpus meum & in servitutem redigo. I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection. These were the members that the Apostle exhorts us to mortify here upon earth; saying, Mortificate membra vestra quae sunt super terram. Seeing then how the life of a spiritual man ought to be employed in the expugnation of these importunate Jebusites, doubtless it is a matter of great concernment for him to understand the nature of his enemies, their stratagems and daily incursions, even to the chiefest Citadel of his Soul, I mean the Spirit and Will.  
Nor is the Christian alone concerned in the exact knowledge of his passions, but also the Gentleman and prudent Politician by prying into the nature and quality of his affections, and restraining their irregular motions, will be Master of a most complaisant deportment and presence, and by this means may gently insinuate himself into the friendship of other men. When he travels into foreign parts, he may discover to what passion the people are most inclinable: for as I have found by experience, there is no Nation in Europe but hath some extraordinaay affection, as Pride, Anger, Uncleanness, Inconstancy, Gluttony, Drunkenness, Idleness, or some such passion. It is a matter of great moment in society, to understand the inclination of the company you associate with; and that conversation cannot but be agreeable, where the passions of the parties are moderated. I will say nothing of Magistrates, who may by Physiognomy understand the disposition and inclination of their Inferiors and Subjects.  
But to close up all, the subject of this Treatise I am upon comprehends the principal object which the ancient Philosophers ever aimed at, and wherein they placed the greatest part of their felicity; that was, Nosce teipsum, Know thyself: which knowledge consists in the exact experience that every man hath of himself in particular, and an universal knowledge of men in general.  

The way for a Man to know himself.  
IT is very requisite and necessary that he that will take upon him to judge others, should above all things truly understand his own inclination, and by what passions his soul is most swayed; for there is no man that enjoys the benefit of the common air, but is more inclinable to one passion then another. Now the means to attain to such a knowledge, are these. First, a strict observation of your natural constitution; for the choleric are subject to impetuosity, the melancholic to sadness, the sanguine to pleasure, and the Phlegmatic to sloth and drunkenness. Then, consider what company you most fancy, they are the mirror wherein you may take a survey of your own self; for every individual person affects him that most resembles himself.    

Of the Disposition of Nations.  
THe Heart being the seat of our passions, the spirits and humours concur, assist, and incline it to such operations. Hence we may draw an undeniable and advantageous consequence, that persons are subject to different passions, according to the disposition of the heart, body, and the humours thereof; and that the same passions affect divers persons variously: for, as we see fire prey upon iron, wood, powder, or tow, in a different manner; for in wood it is kindled with some difficulty, and not easily extinguished; Tow is suddenly fired, and as readily put out; but Iron is heated with great difficulty, and with as great difficulty quenched; Gunpowder is catcht at in a moment, and can never be put out, but consumes: So you will meet with some men that are not easily provoked to anger, and yet with much facility moved to mirth; and such for the major part are Phlegmatic: many English men are of this temper. Others are suddenly passionate, and appeased in a moment: this is usual in the Sanguine; and there are more French of this humour, then of any other Nation. Others are with much difficulty offended, and afterwards will hardly be reconciled: The Italians and Spaniards are often found of this temper. Some are all fire, inflamed in a moment, and quit not their endeavours of revenge, till their hearts are almost consumed with anger. This confirms the old Proverb, Animi mores corporis temperamentum sequuntur; The disposition of the soul follows the temperament of the body. And as in diseases of the Body every wise man understands best his own grief, so in distempers of the mind every one knows best his own inclination, which the Virtuoso subjugates by his reason.  
We may confidently and inoffensively conjecture, by the testimony of approved Authors, that the People and Nations which inhabit the several parts of this vast Universe, have strange and opposite dispositions. As the Northern Inhabitants are usually bigger, stronger, and fit for labour than the Southern, whose bodies are weaker, but their spirits more subtle. But you must understand, that those of the middle Region, who lie between the North and South, are not subject to extreme heat or cold, and yet able to undergo both. We will briefly discourse of every one in particular.  

Of the Nature and constitution of the Southern People.  
AS to their bodies, they are cold and dry, of a small or middle stature, their eyes black, and like the Northern people, are strong and stout, so that the weak constitution of these is supplied by the extraordinary endowments of the mind. They are taxed with cruelty: peruse the History of Africa, Leo Afer, and the dissensions of the Carthaginians; for to give them their due, all tortures had their original from them, as Impaling, Exoculations, Excoriation, breaking upon the Wheel alive (which the French ever detested; but by reason of horrid treasons committed among them, they borrowed these punishments of their Neighbours) and to the end that no person should imagine that this cruelty is the product of their education, which nearly approacheth to the nature of the Americans, who banquet it among the dead carcases of their enemies, and quaff their blood. If any person objects, that the same or like cruelty is committed by the people of the North; I will entreat him to take it into his consideration with this difference, which is, that the Northern people are transported to fury by the heat of their courage, and openly pursue their revenge, where being provoked; and their passion allayed, they are easily appeased; but those of the South are not suddenly moved, but being once urged, they are not without difficulty reconciled. In their exploits of war, they always ground their hope upon Policies and Stratagems, ●orment their conquered enemies with great indignity and cruelty, even in cold blood; a brutish and sordid temper, which partly proceeds from an instinct of fury, that bad education and the inveterate desire of revenge creates in their nature; but to speak more properly, augmented by the inequal distribution of humours, and those humours by the inequality of the Elements: those elements are balanced by a celestial influence, and the bodies of men transported by those Elements; the Blood infused into the Body, the Life into the Blood, the Soul into the Life, and the Understanding into the Soul; which though freed from passion, yet through her proximity, she cannot but participate of her Neighbour's imperfection; this people having many of their humours exhaled by the heat of the Sun, melancholy, which is most predominant in them, remains, and like the sediment or lees of wine, is the more exasperated by their perverse disposition; men of this constitution are altogether implacable. For, this people is addicted to study and contemplation (which suits well with their melancholic humour;) They have afforded excellent Authors and Inventors of many Noble Sciences, as Natural History, the Mathematics, Religion, the Influence of the Planets, and other things.   

Of the Northern People.  
THey are tall of Stature, big, phlegmatic, sanguine white, and flaxen-haired, sociable, of a strong voice, the skin hairy, great eaters and drinkers, and less inclined to contemplation, by reason of the abundance of humours which distemper their spirits, and obstruct their faculties. Yet they have invented, though uninstructed, some famous Arts, as Printing, Artillery, the casting of Metals, and other Mechanic Arts; and being the Sons of Mars, they always loved Arms, the levelling of Mountains, turning the Currents of Rivers; wholly addicting themselves to Hunting, Husbandry, and other labouring exercises; so that it may very well be said, that their spirit consists in their hands; yet are they easy to be wrought upon, fickle and inconstant, not very religious, yet free from jealousy: their eyes are for the most part grey, or red, which according to Aristotle denotes a good quality; the red, cruelty and austerity, as Pliny and Plutarch observe of Silla, Plato and Augustus.  
Their blood is full of slender filaments, which signifies strength and courage. The Southern people have a more fluid blood, like the Hare, which signifies fear. They are hot and moist, and very ●it for procreation. Of all Nations, they have ever been most populous, as you may observe in History by their Colonies. They are apt for generation, but not to carnal concupiscence, as those of the South: which different qualifications saith du Laurens) hath by prudent Nature been bestowed upon every Climate, that those who ●re capable of generation, should not be over-addicted to pleasures, and others that want inter●al heat and moisture, delight in wantonness, to ●●ir up their desire, without which they could never continue humane society.   

Of the People of the Middle Region.  
THose of the North are not Politic, but very valiant; those of the South, on the contrary, are weak, but Politic; but these of the middle Region, are adorned with a thousand qualities fit for society; who understanding throughly the limits prescribed to subjection and authority, are able to frustrate the policies of the Meridional, and to oppose the fury of the Septentrional people. Vitruvius is of opinion, that a Commander ought to be made choice of among these people. The Northern do not much fancy the pen, and the Southern hate the Pike; those of the middle temper affect both the one and the other. They learn of the Swissers to give downright blows, and of the Spaniard the Estocado; are temperate, or like Neuters do in some measure participate of both these two extremes, retaining most of the nature of the neighbouring people. This is sufficient for a general observation of these Nations: wherefore since all Nations have their vices as well as virtues, let us not reproach those of the South with their sobriety, nor blame the licentiousness of drinking in those of the North; they are faculties peculiar to these people, and that not without reason; for if the Southern people should feed high, wanting internal heat to procure digestion, they would fall into dangerous distempers; and the Northern could not possibly live so soberly, by reason of the continual thirst proceeding from their inward heat: and this should have been ruminated upon by many Authors, before they had proceeded to their condemnation.  
Farther; if the Grecians, egyptians, Arabians, or Chaldeans, are accused of Superstition, Sorcery, Cowardice, or Uncleanness; yet let them not be so far rejected, as to be altogether despised▪ for they have also somewhat that may beget in them an esteem; as Learning, the Arts, Knowledge, Philosophy, Religion, Precepts for humane Society to walk by, with which they have furnished the habitable World.  
Nor ought we to detract from the industry of the Northern, any more than the frailty of those of the Middle Region; for every single person among them is sufficiently stored with good qualities to balance his Vices. Now let us enter upon the discourse of the practice and custom of those Nations we most frequently converse with.   

Of the French.  
THe French entirely affect, and with patience obey their Superiors; and France is the Country where Monarchy is truly exercised; nay, it is a Crime there to question the latitude of the Regal authority. They are a Nation valiant in Arms; but the Cavalry are better than the Infantry: they understand not the Intrigues of Treachery, chief in the general: she is invincible when she is united, and when she is to engage with Foreigners. Their first impetuousness is soon calmed, which is the reason she could never keep a strange Country any continuance of time, and is only able to destroy herself; by this means they have been conquered by those over whom they have triumphed. The end of their War hath little dependence upon the beginning of it. There are no Men in the World that have a more gentile behaviour, a more manly deportment, a fixed look, motions and gestures agreeable to the whole body: this comeliness is an ornament to the virtue of their Grandees, and shrouds the imperfections of the meaner sort: Let them attire themselves, or salute after what manner they please, nothing in nature seems better or more gracefully performed. The Neighbouring Nations ridiculously deceive themselves in their endeavours to Ape them in their Mode; by the same variety of garments and positure, not knowing, that there are some Men, who by reason of their complaisant and good carriage, are pleasing in all things the● undertake, and that others, upon whom Nature hath not bestowed the variety of those habits, render themselves unpleasant and ridiculous, by endeavouring to imitate them: for Virtues▪ Vices, and all other secret motions of the mind▪ may be easily represented; but because our sense are hid in such deep cells, it is a piece of difficulty to discover whether we are moved by rea● affections, or we only suit ourselves to the times.  
In like manner it is an easy matter to counterfeit Humility, Hatred, Love and Piety; but those things that are acted no more by the agitation of the mind, than the outward use and ability of the body, it is impossible for you ever perfectly to imitate them, it being contrary to Nature. How gentile and active is the grace of the body in her motions? a pleasant facility in discourse, an Harangue that proceeds not from the heart, but only sallies out at the Lips? How all these things being most excellent qualifications in the French conversation, you cannot without much difficulty do as they do, unless your Genius naturally inclines you to it. Finally, the World can never return France what she deserves, for her Hospitality; for she seems to set open a Temple of Humanity for all strangers, to shelter them in their misfortunes: she respects not the Country, but the spirit of the Man; nor do they suffer themselves to be transported with the vulgar error of other Provinces; they do not punish strangers for the accidental fortune of their education, they being also moved by the impulse of a candid and simple love to virtue; they admire them without envy, and afford them means 〈◊〉 enrich themselves, especially men of excellent ●arts, from what quarter of the world soever they ●ome. And also by way of retaliation for so great civility, she hath that commendation which the whole Universe bestows upon her, as also the fortune and renown of those she hath advantageously received as Members of her Body. Nor is there a necessity here that Foreigners should unlearn the customs of their Native Country, or constrain themselves to imitate the French, provided they be not proud, savage, nor barbarous; nay, showing some stranger carriage in your conversation, they become so curious, that they begin to devote themselves to it, stamping a greater esteem upon what is Foreign, then that which is Native; nay, sometimes commending some miscarriage in life or body, provided it be of foreign extract: for it is often seen, that the discourse of a stranger, through the mistake of his language, hath merited favour, and acquired the opinion of great knowledge, because it is unintelligible. The populace really reverence those that are fortunes favourites, not through fear, custom, or instruction: on the other hand, those that are placed in the highest Sphere of Grandeur, are in the same manner honoured by their inferiors in favour or race; but they cannot endure pride and arrogancy; if you seem to Lord it over them, they blush at obedience. That affability that attracts men by the artifice of the Aspect, the sweetness of looks, and familiar discourse, wins the Grandees more affectionate Servants, than the greatness of their power, wealth, and the blood itself is more vile in their esteem then honour; the ambition of the Nobility in particular, frequently redounds to their own or their countries' injury; being not to be persuaded by penury to embrace merchandizing, or any other profitable vocation. They will imitate the Grandeur of their Ancestors by an irregular ambition, and think it a dishonour to the Nobleness of their blood, to descend to a popular way of living: So that the empty name of Nobility, and an opinionative appearance of living splendidly without business, makes them patiently bear the greatest anxieties of body and mind, which are coextensive with their life; and this great courage, though it flatters itself, and seems to be a degree removed from any thing that is disgraceful, doth often through necessity suffer itself to be transported to sordid actions; either by the ill-management of domestic affairs, o● doing some public violence, or letting themselves lose to act public crimes, only to repulse their poverty. Merchandise is of less esteem than it deserves, considering the great advantage that accrues thereby. Other Nations are not of this temper: Nay, in England they are not of this opinion, that Nobility is hereby dishonoured; but in France, not only the ancient families contemn it, but the Merchants themselves, when they are enriched, as if ashamed of themselves, prefer their issue to a more noble employment, and a more elevated degree of honour then that of their Parents. Now the greatness of the French courage is not more evidently apparent in any thing, then when they labour underhand for an Office, wher● the poor; though never so virtuous, have for a dug time been repulsed; they glory in the impoverishment of their families, becoming indebted, and impairing their Estates, provided they raise themselves above their equals, either by a disadvantageous honour, or a present gain surreptitiously obtained, that may re-establish their decayed family; and without doubt this unlimited desire of honour, unless it destroys itself, will in the end tend to the dishonour of Courts, Tribunals, and Seneschalships of men of low condition, and mean and abject spirits: For many persons sooner gain vast heaps of wealth by vile and mechanic Arts, than those that are remarkable for the antiquity of their race, and that inherit the Estate of their Parents, according to the quality of their Ancestors. So in the private pursuit after honour, they that are the meanest both in extract and spirit, oftener carry it then those that are of a more ancient house, who do not consume their wealth in the purchasing of dignity with that obstinacy, as those that are upstarts do, who being rich, hasten to procure that Nobility for their Heirs, which others have by inheritance. Now as the most generous wine when new, is most frothy; so the Infantry and Young men of this Nation, being solely addicted to civility, and when they are more mature, to prudence, is ordinarily accompanied with an indiscreet boiling, and over-bearing impetuousness; in this age they affect a vain licentiousness, sometimes of Raillery, sometimes of scoffing at those they are unacquainted with, and in all things would appear with a boldness and courage that stands in awe of no person: their spirits are airy, and hurried along with the slightest rumour that is whispered; now impatient at the tranquillity of peace, and as soon disturbed with war: they make a ridiculous appearance, and exceed the very impulse of their natural galliardise in relation to women; they laugh without cause, and spare no person; their spirits are never at rest, and this discovers their discontent in their various agitations. yet there are some who in the beginning of all business palliate themselves with a kind of prudence, that is not real, which for that reason carries a fairer show and appearance, as if they were men of mature discretion: they hear one another discourse with a modest look, seeming to interweave subtlety with courtesy, which is the reason they call it by the name of coldness; but then also their counterfeit and dissatisfying virtue, and their impatience is such, that cannot long bear that sail. Now those that are equally tempered, of which persons France is no ways destitute, that can rejoice and bridle their mirth by the reins of true prudence; men of this temper cannot be sufficiently esteemed, because they represent unto us the lively image of cheerfulness. But this is as it were fatally linked to the French humour; they are very affable to strangers in their own Country, but▪ elsewhere they can scarce demean themselves with that mutual civility one to another: and is it not almost an incredible thing, that so affable and courteous a Nation cannot agree among themselves in foreign Countries? In what place soever the French are, out of their Native Country, especially if in a despicable condition, and that they stand in need of the assistance of others, they are most cruelly envious one towards another; they privately de●●ract one from another, and at length proceed to a public hatred, and go to Law before foreign Judges, who deride them for their malice, and sometimes by a few of this temper, judge of all, as if they were altogether restless, and destitute of that love which commonly unites together the Natives of the same Country: but they do yet worse, when in the very bowels of France, for private grudges, which are disallowed by the Magistrates, they use one another as Gladiators; so that it is in vain for France to be at peace, since she draws as much noble blood then, as the war itself exhausts. Yet these mischiefs, and if there be any more in the customs of the French, aught to be silently passed over, in consideration of the virtue of those who are so well regulated, either by their maturity of age or wisdom, that they permit not themselves to swim down the Torrent of the vices of their own Country. In such may be seen an admirable affability, which is not disguised, nor lies in ambush to ensnare those with whom they are conversant: they do not give up themselves to any deceit or secret enmity; they entertain all persons honourably that have access unto them, or seek their acquaintance, and treat them according to their merit or quality. When a Stranger is received as an Associate, it is sufficient if he manifest himself not openly scandalous, or too ill-advised; nor should you, as in other places, observe the customs and modes of other persons, lest they offend you, but the wit: you must be studious to render yourself worthy the French Conversation, who have a rip● and refined wit: now there is nothing in human society more acceptable or delightful, than th● generous candour (worthy a man that is well born of so civilised and polite a conversation.   

Of the Qualifications of the English.  
ENgland, as if she made up another World in the Ocean, contains all sorts of humour in the whole Universe; she being heretofore very. Valiant in Military exploits, hath afforded matter for many Fables published in divers Languages, as if nothing that was excellent, and could enter into the imagination, but might b● attributed to the Inhabitants of Great Britain▪ It is a most fertile Isle, which is the reason that the vulgar live free from care; in so much that being strangers to the customs of other Nations she hath not that bashful modesty which doth aggrandise the Nobility, and sweetens the humours of the people: Nay, their very Manufactures, by reason of so much wealth, and so great ease, remain rude and imperfect; for those that are to exercise any Art, Trade, or Vocation, aught according to the usual custom, to be bound Apprentice for seven years; and when they become Masters, as if they were never to work more, they take other Apprentices under them, upon whom they bestow some slight instructions, and then put them in their shops. As for their own part, they recreate themselves in the Neighbouring fields, if it be fair, as well on ordinary as festival days; and if it be foul weather, they di●ert themselves in Taverns: Hence it is that their Manufactures are not so well made, as they might and ought to be, because they are left to ●heir Apprentices, and that those that employ them press them to hasten their work. Yet there are industrious Artificers to be found among them, that work so artificially and exactly, that it is a sufficient testimony they are not dull spirited, but that they are grown careless through too much ease. The common people are not less haughty and untractable towards strangers then towards their own Nobility, who are punished for the plenty of their Country, by their contempt of them; and for this reason, sometimes hate and detest the fertility of their Land. Nevertheless, for the generality, they behave themselves with great reverence towards the Nobility, whom they enclose in a small number, which they call lords. It is no disparagement to render all the services imaginable to these Grandees; and they themselves are sufficiently sensible of their own power; and look not upon others, but as from an high and elevated place. The English are usually of a grave temper, retired within themselves, as if they were to take advice: they singularly admire the manners, spirit, inclinations, ●ay, the common actions of their own Nation, insomuch that they despise all others. But assure yourself, they will not be injurious to you; for they are a very compassionate people, and cannot endure to see a man suffer. In their salutations or letters, they never stoop so low as the usual terms of the civility and courtesy of thi● age, unless they have had their education in foreign Countries.  
The people are much addicted to maritime affairs, and are good Soldiers, both by Sea and Land: but gluttony, which is usual, especially among the common sort, hath sometimes destroyed whole armies. They despise all dangers, nay, death itself, but with more impetuousness than judgement. They are much addicted to the subtlety of litigiousness and Lawsuits, retaining still as it were a smack of their first original from the Normans, whence they issued. They maintain their ancient Laws so strictly, that they make a conscience of altering or abolishing those that aught to be altered. As for Philosophy, the Mathematics, Geometry, and Astrology, there is no opinion in those Sciences, how prodigious soever it be, but hath found one or more Patrons among the English. As for Religion, the apprehension whereof is most powerful among them, they hurry themselves herein with so much passion and obstinacy, that they defend the opinion they have once embraced, be it good or bad, maugre the infliction of the most rigorous punishments. Now those that are strangers among them, aught to be careful that they judge not of the whole Nation, by some few persons only, and those possibly of the vulgar; nor must a man always steer the same course to fashion himself to such variety of humours; the rude populace being once warmed with anger or wine, proudly insults over strangers; and than 'twere more than folly to imagine you can resist them with equal force and arrogancy: there is no safety in such pro●●edings, and it is to little purpose to defend your cause with confidence, before an incensed multitude; and worse, to make a show of the greatness of your courage: you may better appease them by a mild and peaceable complaint, and entreaties will allay their fury. This course must be taken in Cities, and in a rabble; but if you are single with equal strength, you must in appearance make a show, at least, of the height of your courage, which cannot put up affronts. But the Magistrates, Nobles, and Judges, are so favourable to strangers, that they suffer no outrages done to them to go unpunished, provided the whole multitude be not guilty, whom it is easy to accuse, but for the most part difficult and inconvenient to punish. Nay, strangers are so much favoured, that sometimes they will execute the Natives, and only banish strangers who are guilty of the same crime. The Nobility are also naturally inclinable to a courteous reception of strangers, and endeavour by an honest ambition to have the reputation of their affability; so that no person can repent he travelled into England, unless he be altogether barbarous, brutish, and unworthy the society of Great men. Yet when you meet with those that Lord it too much in their behaviour or insulting Language, it behoves you also to be high, lest peradventure they entertain mean thoughts of you through their own greatness, or the submissiveness of your discourse, which must not run so low a pitch as is usual in Italy or France, for than they will slight you, being unaccustomed to such kind of civility.   

Of the Constitution of the Scots.  
THe Temper of the Scots is such, that they are easily inclinable to an affable and courteous Conversation: As for the stature of their body, they exceed many Nations, and enjoy all things in common with the French, the fertility of their Country excepted. There is no people more mindful of their race, in so much that sometimes they will rather disgrace their family by their poverty, then be silent of it, and for a small time conceal their parentage and quality, though it be unseasonable to discover it.  
For in a Region more fertile in Men then fruit, there is a necessity that many should be impoverished, that are descended of a very noble family, who wand'ring up and down the World, and conceitedly boasting of the Nobleness of their Blood, do move the Hearers more to Laughter and Pity, than belief. Nay in their own Country they are very inhuman one towards another, and proceed with such animosity, that many times they come to blows in multitudes, and transmit their mortal hatred to their Heirs. They make no scrupse of revenging murder by murder, and burning by burning; and that not only by open force, but by ambushes and fraud. In brief, they count nothing dishonest or misbecoming, provided thereby they glut their sight with beholding the misery of their Enemies; and that hath been more deplorable formerly, than it is at present; for though their ancient Kings could not prevent this disorder, yet the most Serene King of Great Britain, Charles the Second, that now sways the Sceptre, hath brought it to pass, by his wisdom, prudence, justice, and other virtues. The Scots easily believe whatsoever their hope prompts them to; they are soon provoked, and as soon appeased. They are better at gaining then keeping; whether it be that their minds being too large for their fortunes, they let themselves lose to too great liberality, and take delight in showing their wealth; or whether being deceived by the Custom of their Country, when they have gained a sufficient competency to maintain them in Scotland, they never more fear poverty; not considering that expense, and the price of commodities, is proportionable to the quantity of gold and silver in every Country. They have a strange kind of prodigious success in all their Enterprises, in so much that no Men can endure more in War, or behave themselves more courageously in battle. The Muses are never better treated, nor with more tenderness, then when they fall into the hands of the Scots, they being capable of City-business. Their industry adapts them to any fortune or course of life whatsoever. As for those that wander about here and there, and travel without honourable employments, having no other advantage but what they extort from their own Nation, and have scraped some means in a strange Country, they are the proudest beggars in the World.   

Of the Manners of the Irish.  
THe Irish that are remote from Cities and Civility, being for a long time accustomed to poverty, endure all sorts of air and food with an admirable patience. They satisfy their hunger with victuals easily procured, or with beef half raw; and that which is prodigious in this Nation, is, that the love of ease, which renders Nations effeminate, hath hardened the Irish, and made them fit for War. For through Idleness they scarcely understand what belongs to manuring or sowing the ground; they content themselves with pasturage, and that which the Earth freely yields them to feed their flocks. They exercise no Art, nor Trade, judging it a derogation to their nobility, of which they make a great show: and thus they pass away their days in a villainous idleness, and had rather resist those many discommodities which proceed from their barbarousness by patience then laboriousness; and understand so little of pleasure, that they are insensible of misery. They defend themselves against the injury of the rain and cold with a single mantle, and being addicted to hunting, grow as swiftfooted as wild Beasts. If they are weary or benighted, they are content to make the Earth their bed, where they will take out their usual nap, and not be wakened by the injury of the weather, though covered all over with snow, or dropping wet with rain. They are obstinate in their Vices, hating labour, and therefore incapable of any good thing. Given to theft, and all sorts of toil that resembles hunting. These are the defects of the Common people: as for the Grandees, many of them are excellently qualified in mind, and are sincerely faithful, which they every with Virtues worthy Persons of their quality; and they that live in Cities, and pleasant places, are of a most affable and sweet disposition: which makes it apparent, that the barbarity of these savages proceeds not from the quality of the Isle, but of their own proper nature.   

Of the Customs of the Germans.  
THe Germans are great Drinkers, as appears by their own confession; and they incline not to this Vice out of delight only, but believe it a point of civility and affability; in so much that there are some Princes among them, with whom you have no shorter nor better way to ingratiate yourselves: for the Germans think they cannot entertain a stranger more nobly, then when they treat him with a banquet, where they fit a long time eating and drinking: and assure themselves of the favour of those Guests that refuse not to be drunk with them. They fancy a clear disposition, and a simplicity of nature; and on the contrary, hate all those that seem to practise subtlety; whether it be that they cannot keep their own secrets, by reason of the wine they drink, or because that their spirits are as it were choked up in their bodies, they suspect the subtlety of other Persons. The Citizens are made choice of for Magistrates, and they promote not persons of a refined understanding to the Tribunal; but use great diligence to discharge themselves of their Office, and preserve the Laws of their Ancestors. As for the people, they are so obedient to their Superiors, that even in matters of Religion they refer themselves wholly unto them, and it seldom falls out other ways. As to Learning, they seem to be more defirous to teach then learn, and write more than they read; for it is part of their Creed, that their fame increaseth by the number of the Books they publish. They are of a dull temper, but able to undergo labour: so that others understand better, but the Germans more. Their speech relisheth of the ancient simplicity, and they set no value upon our modern Learning▪ They are great Travellers, and when returned, retain the customs they have learned abroad, or at least seem to do so. It is very rare for a stranger to reside long there, or to gain any honour; it is a kind of injurious name, to be called stranger among them. They understand not what perfidiousness is, no, not they that are hired Soldiers. They are a simple people that cannot conceal their hate; free from fraudulence, and all kind of capital crimes. uncleanness is rare, and secretly carried, not as in other places where they boast of it; for these Men, like the most continent Women, detest this Vice. Prudence is not frequently found among them, yet sometimes you may meet with such solid and mature judgements, that they easily cabinet their own faults within their breast, and smile at the miscarriages of others. There are also among them high and lofty souls, in whom the dulness of the Country is moderated by a lively and active spirit, especially those that have had much Commerce will Forraingers. They are a valiant warlike Nation, yet not altogether incompatible with Peace. They wage War slowly, and with great deliberation; but having entered upon it, it continues long. They are dextrous in handling all sorts of metals, and industrious in a thousand kind of Arts, as having Invented Printing and Artillery. They are of a sincere and candid disposition, who being free from envy, really commend the actions or inventions of other persons, even to excess; especially in their absence. The Nobility are very studious to conserve the Grandeur of their Lineage, and believe they degenerate and taint their blood, if they match with a family inferior to their own.   

Of the Low Countries.  
THe People of the Low Countries are very like the Germans in their manners, of whon they also are a part. There is no Nation in the World more industrious in Mechanic Arts; She hath a strange aversion for Idleness, which is the reason she observes so good a Decorum in the Education of her Children. They are incapable of deceit, and make their own fidelity the Standard to judge others by; but once deceived, never more trust the Deceiver. There are always among them some Eniment persons for Learning and State-Politie; for where the People are gentile and lively spirited, you meet with few that exceed the ordinary mediocrity; as on the contrary, among those that are naturally heavy, there are sometimes found such strong testimonies, and such elevated Souls, that they subscribe to no other whatsoever. The Chiefest among the Hollanders in that Government of the Republic which they themselves have set up, do in all things follow the constitution and inclinations of the People; induced thereunto, either by a natural propensity, or a cunning piece of prudence; but those that are under the Subjection of Spain, behave themselves more haughtily; by reason whereof, this Nation may be said to have as it were a double Nature. Yet this they have in common among them, they infinitely affect honour, and there is no shorter Cut to their favour, then to respect and reverence them. They are very tractable to those that flatter them, and are not very much grasping at distinctions, because they expect greater from you; But it often happens that in the twinkling of an eye they change their love into hatred. The vulgar sort in all the Provinces have a very great esteem of the outward appearance of liberty, and the fruitless testimonies of the unequality of Liberty itself; so that they are easily won to you, if you cherish their rude and rustical jests, conforming yourself to them in all things, and associating with them as equals, though you are their Superiors by many degrees.   

Of the Customs of the Italians.  
THe Italians have a spirit capable of all things, and are addicted to Vice or Virtue not through any inconsiderate violence, but with election and judgement; they are very courteous in their Entertainment, and make use of all gestures of the body and persuasive expressions, to give you an assurance of their affection. They are not easily wrought upon to dissolve the bond of friendship; and when they have contracted it, there is no danger but they will expose themselves to, rather than violate it: but if they once hate, their enmity is the more dangerous, because they can craftily conceal it, and yet retain the remembrance of an injury received deeply engraven in their mind: when offended, then are they most serviceable to you, to the end that they may the better prosecute their revenge under the mask of friendship, when occasion is offered: nay, their hatred is long-lived, and lasts for a continuance, and oftentimes they are with as much facility provoked, as with difficulty appeased. Their tempers are attended with a severe and melancholic prudence; so that it is a hard matter for them to support the cheerfulness and gaiety of others; and being unaccustomed to do or say any thing at random, and without design, they censure others by their own custom, and by a superfluous kind of nicety, observe the meanest gestures in the eyes and discourse of others, thereby judging of their temper; so that their constant agitation with suspicion and care, is a sufficient Punishment for their fineness: nay farther, this is observable among them, that they being reputed too vain, their company is unpleasant; for a man can never enter into an intimacy and freedom of familiarity with them, because he always thinks they always stand sentinel, and like vigilant Spies set over the actions of others intent to make an inspection into them. Poisoning and Incontinency of all sorts is very common in this Nation; but above all, they are inhuman in their revenge, and the Highwaymen among them spare very few that they rob. There is nothing so sublime, but the Italian will attain to, through the sharpness of his wit; hence it frequently happens, that many of them raise themselves by their Industry from the lowest degree of Poverty to the highest dignity of honour and riches: for the obtaining whereof, they spare no pains, toil, nor submission itself. They have a spacious soul, capacitated for State-affairs, and sit for all sorts of fortune. They are great Husbands, that foresee events afar off. They subscribe to no Nations for Learning; and in general it may be affirmed, that you cannot find elsewhere greater or more sanctified Virtues, nor more Villainous and horrid Vices.   

Of the Disposition of the Spaniard.  
THe Spaniards always and constantly retain the habits and disposition of their Ancestors; they are robust, and patiently undergo labour; not that laboriousness that is exercised in Husbandry, nor in Arts or Trades; but that which is proper in War, as Vigilancy, Hunger, Thirst, Cold, Heat, in a word, the observation of Military Discipline: for they being conceited with what they once have in expectancy, judge that the chiefest part of Virtue consists in the flighting evil and danger. They are proud and ambitious, nor are they hurried on to several designs with violence, and know as well how to overcome, as improve a victory. They being also opinionative in all sorts of danger, neither the Time nor Enemy can overcome them; and it is a business of no small difficulty to stagger their resolution, to which they seem to be suited both by nature and discourse: but the words with which they magnify themselves and their own Nation, nay their very countenance, which agrees with their swelling expressions, are unwelcome to the Hearers; and their conversation is odious to those that are of an ingenuous temper. They are better in company then single: They love to be well accoutred, and boast of their Apparel; being very niggardly in other things, and abstinent in eating and drinking: full of Rodomontadoes, especially to those that either stand in awe of them, or indulge their humour. Their frugality and sobriety is wonderful, not only in Spain, where it is extreme hot, but in all parts where they live at their own proper expense; then a small quantity of bread and a little salad will satisfy them; but when they are at another man's Table, they feed as if they had a Legion in their belly, ravenously and gluttonously. Besides, indigency is no Alloy to their Pride; for you may find among them some rascally Cobblers, that bear as much sail, and are bladdered up more than Persons in the highest degree of honour among other Nations. Nevertheless many of them have more ostentation than reality; They for the generality contenting themselves with pitiful pay in some Garrison, where they miserably pass away their days. They are inwardly close, and move slowly in all business: are fit to attend upon and execute longwinded designs. They can suit themselves either to Peace or War, as the times require, and usually overcome by the Assistance of their silver; by which means they have triumphed over the most invincible Nations: and it is very customary with them to make use of the pretext of Religion to promote what they undertake, or procure reverence to themselves: They Cloak their avarice with the veil of God's Worship, and yet have such prodigious success in all their attempts, as if they only fought the Battles of the Almighty. Now that which is most commendable in this Nation is, that in so great a scarcity of Men, they yet keep under their Subjection, by their great prudence, so many large Provinces that are so far distant one from another. There is nothing idle or impertiment in their discourse, but a conversation agreeable to ingenious spirits, that are capable of all things. When they begin to treat or enter into friendship with a person, there is nothing so charming, and you must entertain them at the same rate; but if they once, through Pride, come to extol themselves, it lies on your part to give them an equal return. If fortune hath subjected you to their discretion, you must be humble and submissive, and prodigal in commendation of them and their Country; and as they are liberal in their promises, so you must not scruple to give them a verbal engagement, though beyond your ability, to get out of their custody.    

Of the Ages of Man.  
PHysicians affirm, that there are certain universal Causes, which incline our bodies to divers infirmities; in like manner there are general Causes which lead our minds into divers passions. First, the Youthful are naturally Arrogant, Prodigal, Incontinent, Wilful, Active in the accomplishment of their desires, Mutable, soon satisfied, nay surfeited with pleasure; soon displeased, but not very malicious; are very credulous, full of hope, follow outward appearance and vanity more than that which is profitable; soon moved to compassion: their boasting proceeds from the want of experience; for they will glory in their strength, and the beauty of body and mind, because they have not yet made a sufficient essay of what they can attain unto; nor are sensible of their own imbecility, which is the reason they have a better conceit of themselves, then in truth they ought to have. Their prodigality is the offspring of the cofidence of their strength and ability, by which means they think they shall be greater gainers. Their Incontinency, Audacity and Confidence proceeds from the heat abounding in them; and those that are of a hotter constitution, are more subject to these Affections: they are very inconstant, and seldom continue in one mind, which partly proceeds (as I conceive) from the various alterations in their Bodies, which easily work a change upon their desires; and partly also for want of mature resolution and solid judgement, because as they usually change their opinions, so do they alter their determinations.  
Old Men are quite contrary, for because they have been deceived, they assure themselves of nothing; promise nothing, are dubious in all things, take all in the worst sense, and never represent any thing to themselves, but what is evil; are suspicious and mistrustful, which are the effects of that fear that freezeth their heart, and of that experience they have of the Infidelity of men: are very Avaricious, Contentious, Incensed at every inconsiderable thing, yet weakly; are Pensive, which I find to proceed from the frost in their blood; are fasridious and discontented, for Ipsa senectus morbus est, Old age itself is a perpetual malady; they are obstinate in their opinion, and many of them blame young men for their want of experience and practice, phancying to themselves, that wisdom and understanding is found no where but under a Nightcap, hence ariseth that spirit of contempt, by which they debase young men: and as Travellers for the most part discourse of the prodigies they have heard and seen in foreign parts, so old men relate the things they have seen or heard in former times.  
By these two extremes you may easily judge of the temper of those that are arrived at their Manhood; who are strangers to the Confidence and Presumption in young men, and also to the sear and diffidence that is in those that are Aged: so they marry honesty and profit together.  
Before I come to the Constitutions of Men, it will not be improper to give you a description of the temperature of Women.   

Of the disposition of Women.  
WOmen are naturally more inclinable to mercy and pity then Men, by reason of the tenderness of their constitution. Besides, they excel men in piety and devotion, which I presume is occasioned by that knowledge they have of their inability to undergo labour, affliction, and bear with injuries offered; and this is the reason they have recourse to God, by whose goodness they are protected: nor are they so violently hurried on to incontinency as men are, for want of heat, as also for that innate modesty that is in them: yet they are extremely overruled by four passions, The reputation of beauty, or some sparks of Ingenuity; also Envy the Daughter of Pride, for they are immoderately disturbed at the Beauty, Goodness, or Estate of their Equals: whence ariseth another passion, which is very unnatural to them, and pernicious; for Envy is the Whetstone of their Tongues, which sharpens their Language to Murder the reputation of their Neighbours. The fourth, which is most notorious to all persons, is their Inconstancy, according to that Ancient Proverb, 
Quid levius pluma? flamen; Quid flamine? ventus:  
Quid vento? Mulier; Quid Muliere? nihil.  
What's lighter than a Feather? Sound: then Sound? the wind:  
Then wind? a woman: nothing then womankind.   
This Inconstancy is a branch of the same root as that in young men, which is a defect of prudence and judgement in their Determinations: for those that truly deserve the name of wise, are not overhasty in their Resolves, but produce them with much considerateness and deliberation; which is the reason that they weigh well those Circumstances which may obstruct them in their Affairs. But Women and young Men, generally, are precipitate in their resolutions, and seldom accomplish them; because they draw conclusions without judgement, and meet with some Remora in the Execution, which necessarily forceth them to a Retractation. This is the source of that perpetual chat that is often among Women: for the space of half an Hour would ●ire five men in discourse, and make them barren of matter; but three Women met together will never cease, nor yet want a subject to furnish them with prittle-prattle.   

Of the Humours.  
HAving declared in general the Inclination of the Inhabitants of the Septentrional, Middle and Meridional Regions, as also the passions of every Nation in particular, especially those with whom we most converse; and likewise what Passions are predominant in old Men, young Men, and Women: it is now time for us to proceed to understand the Constitution of the Melancholic, Phlegmatic, Choleric and Sanguine.  

Of the Melancholic Constitution.  
THe Melancholic are for the major part black, cold, dry, rough-skined, with thin, harsh and curled hair, meager in body, great eaters, have the joints of their body outwardly visible; are slow, backward in their resolutions, Dreamers, Diffident, Suspicious, Ingenious, and generally malicious; persons of few words, which they put forward with a design to sound those that approach them; They are Close, Hypocritical, Conceited, Enemies to all Drolleri● and Privacy, Retired within themselves, and Lovers of Solitude, not very accostable or Communicative; affect but few persons, and those coldly too; soon moved to anger, though upon small grounds; and Covetous, by reason of that Diffidence which ever accompaines them, fearful that their Estate will decay; Enemies to those they have offended, as well as those they offend, Vindicative, Irreconciliable, or at least you must not too much depend upon their Reconciliation; In a word, they are extraordinary virtuous or vicious.   

Of the Phlegmatic Constitution.  
THe Phlegmatic are naturally moist, white and soft-skined, their joints are hid, they cannot endure labour, are Timorous, sleep well, and are often provoked to Lechery; their Eyes running; are indifferently capacitated for Learning, when they abound not with phlegm, but otherways they are of a dull capacity; their hair and nails grow much, their mouths always water; if it be white and fluid, it is a good sign, if viscous, they contrary: are seldom thirsty, drink very rarely, unless it be at meals; their urine is white, their eyes heavy, have but little appetite, a slow digestive faculty; where their complexion is pale without a mixture of red, they are lax in body; as for the temper of the mind, they have much of the dulness and slowness, but neither the spirit nor malice of the Melancholic; that coldness that freezeth their heart, makes them more distrustful of themselves then others; They are fearful of undertaking, and losing their designs: and it often happens, through their ignorance of the means, they are irresolute in their Counsels, timorous in the Execution of them; are not extraordinary inveterate in their hatred, nor very fervent in their Love.   

Of the Choleric Constitution.  
THe Choleric are lean, of a pale yellowish complexion; have bitterness in their mouth, and roughness in the throat; are very thirsty, little spittle, often troubled with the headache, vomit green or yellow stuff that is very bitter; their Ordure is hard, almost burnt up; they sleep little, their urine is clear, almost of the colour of fire. As to their mind, they are Dexterous in all things, Proud, Haughty, Desirous that all persons should obey their Commands, Enemies to the least disobedience, Impatient in the Execution of their Enterprises, Rash in their Counsels, little minding the Advice of others, unless it be to find a person that is of their own temper, and undertakes the performance of their Wills; Injurious, not very Offensive; but soon pacified, unless you seem to bear in your memory the offence they have given, otherwise they study revenge, and mortally hate those they have offended.   

Of the Sanguine Complexion.  
THose that are Sanguine are generally very strong and courageous, and when the bloo● abounds have a tickling or sharp itching all ove● the body; their mouth is full of bladders, thei● urine red: as to the qualifications of their mind, they are Jovial, Lovers of Recreations, Enemies to sadness and vexation, avoiding disturbing and thorny businesses and Contests, Desirous of Peace; freely committing the Management of their Affairs to others, referring themselves wholly to them, loving those that discharge them without any occasion of Complaint; are Courteous and Gracious; nor are they soon moved to injure any person; or if they are constrained to it, 'tis in words, rather than otherways, and soon bury in oblivion the injury done to them: Take delight to please others, and are generally Liberal.    

Of Speech.  
Word's do more lively represent the true Idea of the Mind, than any of those things before mentioned. Diogenes wondered that Men would not buy earthen ware without trial by the sound whether they were whole o● cracked, yet were content to purchase Men by the sight, without a trial of them by discourse; whence arose that Proverb so frequently used by Socrates, and approved by the Ancients, Loquere, 〈◊〉 te videam; Speak, that I may see thee: for ●he passions do swell so much in the mind, that ●hey must of necessity have some vent, as Elihu ●aith of himself, Behold, my belly is like new ●●●e? which for want of vent bursts new Vessels asunder.  
I have sometimes made inquiry of several person's, what was their opinion concerning the inclination of some sort of Men; and I found ●hat the best observation they made of others, proceeded from their own manner of speaking. You may easily observe whether men's discourse ●end to their own commendation, whether they ●oast of their Valour in War, of their knowledge, of their natural parts or estate gained by their own Industry, and conclude, that such persons are of a proud temper. If their discourse be lascivious and obscene, without doubt the heart affects what the tongue discloseth: if any one talks largely of eating, drinking or feasting, desiring ●one dish now, and shortly after another; such Persons are for the most part Epicures: if they storm in outrageous language, they are Choleric. So one may easily guests at an Ambitious, Covetous, Envious, slothful Person, and the like. As for the Lazy-Companion, he will often entertain you with trivial discourse, as of the length of they days, that the Clock in his opinion goes false: What shall we do? saith he: he disturbs himself more by thinking what he hath to do, than another at his labour: he is crafty in nothing, but only framing excuses to keep himself out of Employment: there is no calling he can pitch upon, but what is dangerous, disadvantageous; he had rather starve with cold, the● make a fire; it is a great trouble to him to for sake his Neighbour's Chimny-corner; so that he i● forced to go home in the dark; he eats and pray half asleep; he will entertain you with news he knows whether the Hollanders will have peace, as also all the money expended about the repairs of London-Bridge since its first foundation, what the raising of the Mole to secure the For● at Tangier will stand in, and what the gain made by Merchants that trade to the Indies amounts to. His discourse is often disjointed by the succession of large Parentheses; he will talk of monstrous Fish taken by Angling with a line, or of the Elephant that was sent into England▪ He will talk much, but do nothing. You may observe, that he that is Envious usually despiseth the good deeds of his Equals, makes great inquiry what condition they are in, yet desires not to hear of their welfare, without finding many faults, and blaming them in private; if he be as it were forced to praise, it is very coldly; he makes a bad construction of whatsoever he hath not a hand in. The Ambitious Man likewise will sometimes detract after the same manner, when he is obstructed in, or frustrated of his great hopes; and will say, The place he aimed at was too inconsiderable for him, his rival unworthy, his Adversaries injurious, the Officers corrupted, and the Court bribed; yet he cares not, he can live at home according to his fancy: but if he prosper in one, his mind is possessed with a nobler design; he is never at rest so long as he hath any Opposer. If any of his friends come to bestow a visit on him, he will be sure to conduct them to Whitehal, and catch at all opportunities of being saluted by, or discoursing with those of highest quality; he talks ●loud, and never mentions and but the Nobility, and that very familiarly too; will call for no ●owle but Pheasants and Partridges, though he be but in a pitiful Alehouse; Is seldom without store of papers in his pocket, which he shows about, 〈◊〉 Letters sent to him from great Lords or Ladies; will talk much of his Native Country, the good Entertainment they give there, the Stateliness of his Apartment, the Expenses at his Sister's wedding; will ask his Lackey where he ●eft his fellow-Servant, and yet whisper him in ●he ear and bid him fry him some tripes, or fetch is stockings; will be concerned as a Party in all magnific entertainments; these pity brouil●ties are very expensive to him. If his Lackey ●ath left him for want of sustenance, he will report that he robbed him of a thousand pound, ●nd all his Jewels, which doth not so much trouble him, as the present of Diamonds from ●y Lady the Countess; will discourse much of what he lost or won at gaming with my Lord ●●●on, when 'tis probable he played with Lackeys; if he goes into a Victualling-house to ●at a few radishes, he will tell his Hostess he 〈◊〉 invited to the Ambassador to dinner: one word of his, will inform you of his humour. The Covetous Man sings a quite contrary note; his whole discourse is composed of nothing but the frugality of our forefather's, blames the prodigality of our Nation, condemns Balls, Embroidery, Laces, and cries out, All is vainty. H● desires not to be thought rich, and carries, himself closely in all things. He hates borrowing excessively, because he dreams of Thiefs. 〈◊〉 you discourse with him about the Philosopher's Stone, he straightly imagines that you design to cheat him. He is very sober is his Family: If h● goes into the Country, he calls for half a pint o● Wine; drinks the moiety himself, and distributes the remainder among his Servants, tha● they may tope it away before they venture upon their Journey. He discourseth much of sobriety and also how in times of yore, the wedding-garment used to last to their dying day. No People complains more of Taxes than he. By these marks, and your diligent observation, with wha● we shall acquaint you in our following discourse, when we come to speak of those tha● are natural, you will be sufficiently informed of the rest.  
There are some of the wiser sort, who though they are Ambitious, Jealous, Envious, an● slothful, yet are careful not to discover themselves to all persons: Therefore we must pry into their temper a little more narrowly, to see if w●● can discover their hidden passions; and this wi●● be in the manner or matter of their discourse.  

Of the manner of Discourse.  
SOme persons are very talkative, and they are accused as well by the profane, as sacred pages, of imprudence or folly; which made Solo●on say, Totum spiritum suum profert stultus, but, Sapiens differt & reservat in posterum; and a little ●ower, Vidisti hominem velocem ad loquendum? ●ultitia magis speranda est, quam illius correctio; Have you seen a man full of words? Folly is soon●● expected, than his amendment; which is the ●eason why fools carry their hearts in their ●ouths, but the wise their mouths in their ●earts: for fools first speak, and then consider; ●ut those that are wise consult first with reason, ●nd then speak with circumspection. By this you may gather the reason why Babblers should be registered in the Catalogue of Fools; for they conceive folly in their mind, and immediately bring 〈◊〉 forth: and you may be satisfied in this, that whosoever divulgeth all his conceptions, will broach store of Lees with some good Wine. And ●s most men are better versed in the knowledge of folly them wisdom; so he that declares whatsoever he knows and understands, hath more froth in him then good liquor: therefore many and quick expressions proceed from much folly; which passion generally overrules your men, women, and boasting old men; which made Theocritus say, that Anaximenes had a Torrent of words, and but one drop of reason; for if you hear them in a prolix discourse, you will find them as destitute of matter, as profuse in words; the re●son whereof is (in my opinion) want of judgement: whatsoever their fancy leads them to concerning any subject, they thing those conceptions are new to others, because they are so 〈◊〉 them. Thus you may see, that the leaves of loquacity group up from the root of a shallow understanding.   

Of Taciturnity.  
SOme men on the contrary speak too little; which kind of silence, though it be repugnant to the moderation that consists between both these extremes, yet the wiser sort judge this extreme to be the most secure; for multiplicity of words prove oftentimes offensive, but silence rarely: Wherefore Philosophers say, that he that will learn how to speak, must first know how to be silent. Silence may also sometimes proceed from stupidity, because a man knows not how to raise an argument, as may be seen i● Rustical dull fellows, who are unfit for discourse in civil society. I once was acquainted with a Rhetorician, that was excellent at the pen, but inexpert in discourse; for the presence of his auditory did extremely amaze him. Others do it out of prudence and policy, because that when men in society would conceal their own, or discover the affection of others, prudence and policy requires some silent intervals; and the wisest man in the world, if he be tedious and spends much time in his discourse without pre-meditation, cannot easily hid his passion from discreet Auditors.   

Of Deliberation in Speech.  
THere are another sort of men that draw out their speech so deliberately and slowly, that a Pater noster might be said between every word; and this way of speaking is very distasteful to the Hearers, and it is most insufferable, especially to those of a quick apprehension. This may proceed from some defects in the Organs of the speech, the difficulty of conception, or else from a certain weak conceit that men have of their own wisdom, which they distil before others guttatim, as the water drops from an Alembick; for they are of this persuasion, that if they should be more deliberate in their delivery, they should forfeit part of their prudence: and really among persons of an ordinary capacity and dull apprehension, it were well if they were not so prolix; for oftentimes before they bring their discourse to a period, they forget the beginning; but with ingenious men, it is an affront to their reason, nor can it be but very incommodious to them; like a man that hath drink given him drop by drop, when he is extreme thirsty; which could not choose but offend him, though the liquor were never so good; so a man of a quick wit and ready understanding, desires present satisfaction; and this is the cause why men of slow speech are very much against his inclination. Yet for all this, I must confess that this way of speech agrees very well with some Majestic and grave persons; who are much admired for their prudence and wisdom; for few words well and deliberately delivered, are the Insignia of wisdom and gravity.   

Of Rash and Precipitate discourse.  
SUch persons may very fitly be compared to new Wine, which if it wants vent, breaks the Cask; they carry their words in their mouths, as a dog doth a shaft in his body; for they disturb and torment themselves, till they cast them out: in like manner the temerarious have an arrow in their Tongues, and are never at rest, till they have darted it out: such persons are generally big with their own conceits, and they must be delivered of them, or else die in labour. Some of these men are very ingenious, but of no solid judgement; they excel in apprehension, but are defective in discretion; if they could check themselves a little, and moderate their natural promptitude, they would become men of incomparable parts: but those that are of this constitution, follow for the most part their natural inclination, and oftentimes deliver many commendable things promiscuously with those that are very bad and pernicious; because that as they apprehend all things, and therein surpass the vulgar, so they divulge their conceptions without judgement, cause, reason, or respect to good or evil, right or wrong, to that which is of dangerous consequence, or the contrary; wherefore such men may well be termed cunning, but not wise: they are apt to despise others, are hot & quick of apprehension, & wedded to their own opinion. The cause of this is want of judgement, a daring, hot, and precipitate affection; in fine, they often change their minds, and alter their resolutions.   

Of Affectation in Discourse.  
SOme have a particular way of speech, they discourse in print, hunt after Metaphors, New Phrases, and are very industrious to make their words relish of Ingenuity; and such kind of people leave nothing undiscovered, but belch forth their sottish, affected and vainglorious manner of speech. They may well be compared to certain birds that sing charmingly, but have no flesh on their bodies; they resemble superannuated Courtesans, who shrowded their foul diseased and fleshless carcases under rich robes. You will scarce find one among a thousand of them, whose conceptions are attended by solid judgement. These men trifle away their time, and study inquest of bombast terms; and that which they conceive not without great pains, they deliver not without much toil; They are guilty of many misdemeanours, and are often troubled with haesitation: If their discourse be longwinded, the Epilogue is generally a stranger to the Prologue: If they writ any thing that is to be exposed to public view, you always meet with some new-coined word forged in the Mint of their own Brain, and that becomes them as well, as the giddy feather in a Fools Cap. This affection owes its birth to most apparent vainglory, which few or none of their Society will gainsay: for if you propose this question to any of their acquaintance, and ask them, what is their opinion of such a Person, he will return you no other answer but this, that his words have too strong a savour of Presumption and Arrogance.  
This idle way of Discourse was first invented to tickle the ears of females, that so they might gain reputation among the ignorant, who look upon them as very Ingenious. Such Disputants, for the major part, condemn all others as barbarous and ignorant, because they mould not their words according to their humours; nay they proceed farther, and blame all Authors that use not affectation in writing, as they do, and do not diligently search after this effeminate mode of speaking.   

Of drollery.  
MAny People continually entertain their Company with Drollery or Noise, persuading themselves they have gained a great Victory, if they can but discover the defects of other Persons. I have been in the Company of many of this humour; they make a show of good entertainment, but their Caresses are like the foldings of the Scorpion, whose tail is very dangerous: such raillery proceeds from some persons out of simplicity and folly, which is the reason sober Men disesteem it: Others use it for diversion only, and mirth is their sole design: but they that a Man ought to have a special care of, and avoid their society as dangerous, are those who pretend to defame or render them ●odious they play upon, and that kind of Jesting is very malicious, and proceeds from vainglory and envy, because they aim at nothing but the contempt of other persons, or at least endeavour in some measure to make them lose the good opinion that they had formerly: and this is sufficient for the manner of discourse, now we proceed to the matter or subject of Discourse.   

Of the Subject of Discourse.  
I Acquainted you in our entrance into this Treatise, that the things Men most affect is asually the subject of their discourse: but because some people govern themselves with more discretion than others, we must take them into a more strict examination. You will find many that discourse of matters beyond their sphere, as the Cobbler of Cavalry, the Tailor of Theologie, the Farmer of Physic, and the Cossin-maker of the Philosopher's Stone: in short, a great number of Men will intermeddle with matters that transcend their capacity, for want of Exercise, Study, or Practice. I have sometimes heard such kind of Quacks discourse in Philosophy so soberly, yet with so much obstinacy, that they have run into the grossest errors that can enter into the Imagination of Man. I am of opinion that every honest Man that hears them, will place them in the Predicament of Fools; and you must know, that if any Lord or Gentleman is so simple as to pin his faith upon the sleeves of such kind of persons, than they conceit that they can with ease practise those Arts and Sciences which they judge themselves capable to dispute of; which is never done without prejudice to many poor people, who are of this belief, that their Lord is infallible in things of this nature. There are more of these Doctors in England, then in any other place, that I know of. In the years 1622 & 1623., I was conversant with a certain Lord, who was one of the highest quality in that Kingdom, who having heard the discourse of one of your pretended Doctors concerning Alchemy, he instantly commanded that the Chambers should be made ready, the Fornaces fitted for so noble an Exercise, and that Alembics, Glasse-bottles, Stills, Lamps, Fornaces, Stillatories, Phials, Circulatories, Pelican's, Crucibles, Vessels, Bellows, Coals & such other Instruments should be bought forthwith: the design of this Nobleman was no other, then that this laboratory should be a place where all his Inferiors, as well poor as rich, should have access to disburden themselves of their misfortunes: but all these remedies are reduced to one, which is Aqua vitae; into which he sometimes puts a flower, at other times Cinamone; sometimes pepper, ginger, fennil, aniseeds, and many others, and so bestows new names on them according to the diversity of the seed which he intermixeth with it. The vulgar, who judge only by outward appearance, and rely upon the authority of other persons, without examining things by particular discourse or argumentation, are shamefully deceived in these matters; and so for the future commit the cure of their bodies to such Ignaro's as do very much injure them. I have met with one, that had an indifferent stock of discretion, who knowing it was a piece of greater difficulty to do then say a thing, he did avoid, as much as in him lay, those that were sick, and prescribed physic to none but those that were in health; or if to others, he so ordered it, that it was not known. He gave a Doses of his Chemical preparations to a friends Wife of mine who was with Child, which wrought with her so violently upward and downward, for the space of four days, that she was every day given over for a dead Woman. He gave a poor Maid that was troubled with a Catarrh, such violent vomitive potions, that she became impotent ever after. I could recite you a score of such examples. But to return to the matter in hand, I say therefore that this kind of discourse or disputation is the effect of much ignorance and arrogancy; no wise Man ever enters upon a dispute he understands not; whence came that common Proverb, Ne suitor ultra crepidam, let not the Cobbler go beyond his Last: for confirmation of this, I shall bring no better an argument, than every man's own experience. There are few (if I mistake not) but what employ themselves in one profession or other, either in this science, or that kind of practice; e. g. a Printer or Goldsmith being Master of his Trade, if a person altogether ignorant in his Art should come to engage in discourse with him and condemn him, because he makes use of such and such Instruments, of this or that way of working, would not he smile at him, and take him to be an ignorant Man, that adventures to speak of what he understands not? So certainly let men be assured, that if they dispute of a thing they are ignorant in, they must of necessity be accounted presumptuous. Yet we do not disallow some ingenious Persons to propose their doubts in matters which they are not exercised in, as Lawyers to dispute in Divinity, the Physician of Law, the Divine of Physic, and especially with them that have the repute of Masters in these faculties: this rule admits of an Exception; for there are some Divines that are very able Physicians, and Lawyers that are not ignorant in Divinity, Nay Physicians that understand both these sciences; in such cases those of one profession may be excellent in the profession of another; but this is very rare, because that he that labours in the pursuit of divers sciences, cannot easily excel in any. This is the reason that those that are illiterate, if discreet, will propose no question above the reach of their capacity; or if they do, it is in such a way, as if they intended to learn, rather than argue. But how shall a Man behave himself, if he fall into the Company of such Disputants, that are neither capable of making any intricate proposition, nor of returning any grounded or solid answer? Indisputably 'tis a vexations thing to associate with such Idiots; yet the best way I know to deal with them, is to detect their Notorious ignorance by some palpable absurdity.   

Of persons that are inclinable to Contradiction.  
SOme men's discourse is continually stuffed with contradiction and opposition; and they have a mind to show themselves able to control and surpass all others; they think they are victorious, if they can but out-noise their companions: such society cannot be agreeable to their associates; they are like a burden upon the shoulders of those which whom they converse: for as every one applauds his own opinion, and would have it approved; so all men disrelish those that contradict them, and judge that to be erroneous which they deliver as an absolute truth. These contradictions are rooted and lodged in an exceeding vainglorious mind. I think there can be no better way to reform this sort of people, then to interrupt their discourse, and leave them to the enjoyment of their own conceits, without any farther trouble. They oftentimes meet with as good headpieces as their own, and as ready to contradict them as they to question. It were well for those of this temper to endeavour to shake off this kind of ill humour, as well for their own credit, as that by addicting themselves so frequently to contradictions, they may undertake the defence of many fooleries and absurdities; and so consequently being too pertinacious, and destitute of reason withal, they shipwreck their reputation. It is certain, that among the Nobility and lofty wits, there may happen to be variety of opinions, and so the judgement of one must run against the stream of the others; therefore in such Cases, he that is opponent, aught to produce his reason in such terms, as if he were more desirous of Learning, then Triumphing and Insulting over his Companion; which he may do with ease, if he be not contumelious in words, or too vehement or violent in actions.   

Of special Matters.  
THe manner of discourse contributes much to the discovery of the passions or inclinations of other persons; but the matter is more effectual: for the affection a man hath to any thing, if vehement, will discover itself. The ordinary sort of men, according to their usual custom, talk of mean frivolous things; the vicious, of one kind of vice or other; the wise, of grave and profound subjects; and if they descend to inferior matters, they pass over them cursorily, or touch some one ●oint so subtilely, that ex unguibus you may discover them, as a Lion by his paw. Some men talk much of themselves, and levelly at nothing but their own praise, and by degrees steal gently into their own commendation; or if you applaud them, immediately they are puffed up with an imaginary delight which they take in themselves: but by the way, it is probable you may ask me, What if a man commends me or any of my qualifications; how shall I deport myself? if I own his commendations, I shall be accounted conceited and proud, if I disown them; it looks as if I did undervalue the person, and accuse him of flattery. In a Case of this nature, which may often fall out, it were well to be furnished with a ready retort, as Alphonsus' King of Arragon did reply to an Orator that recited a long Oration in his praise; The King saith, If what you say be truth, I thank God for it; if not, I pray God give me the grace to deserve it: Or a discreet Person may say, I deserve not this applause, but your affection puts this gloss upon my actions, the better to set them off; or else you, out of your good disposition and love to me only, take more notice of the little good I do, than the great evil I am guilty of: again, the affection you bear me, constrains you to make the best interpretation of all my actions. By this means you evade a vain complacency in your affairs, that ministers occasion of offence to the censorions; nor must you be so rude as to deny what your Friend out of civility affirms to be really true.   

Of concealing or revealing Secrets.  
AS there are some Persons so close, that they will never discover any thing of business; so on the contrary there are others so foolish, that they will disclose their thoughts to any one, especially those that concern themselves. The former are crafty and subtle at first, because friendship requires some communication of secrets, especially if he be a singular friend; and this offence may very well be tolerated in this dangerous age, where profit is diligently sought after, and friendship despised, or at least men affect one another more out of interest then for the love of virtue. Wherefore he that is wise will confide in no man, unless it be in matters publicly to be known, or that he be a choice friend, of whose friendship you have had long experience; but if he be vicious (if there can be any friendship between vicious persons) assure yourself that if you acquaint him with half your mind, you have even publicly discovered the whole: for such persons usually, if they be young Men or Women, or of no great credit, are litigious, and very indiscreet in their expressions. Besides, their friendship having no other Basis but their own Interest, as pleasure or profit; if either of these fail, then be confident that they will reveal all they know of you: because such imprudent persons as these imagine, that the friendship being once broken, they are no longer obliged to keep your secrets, or save your credit; and so in the turning of a hand, all is discovered. Therefore I take it for a general rule, that a Man is bound to reserve his secrets of greatest importance within his own breast; or not to disclose them to any, but him that he knows to be a faithful prudent and virtuous friend.  
There is another sort of Men, who very well deserve the name of Deceivers as well as friends: for in appearance they pretend friendship, but in effect 'tis nothing but flattery and dissimulation: they come to you very seriously, and tell you some story in private, conjure you not to divulge it upon any terms: you promise secrecy, and perform it; but this pretended friend himself will not keep it secret; for as soon as your back is turned he will do as much to another, it may be two or three more; and so you shall hear that published openly, which you thought a great secret. This kind of deceit is the Child of great craft, and a feigned friendship: for true amity admits not of plurality of persons in the communicating of secrets. I have known many subject to this passion, but in process of time they have been much troubled at it: sober men smile at a person that they understand to be such a Revealer of secrets.    


Of the Hair.  
IF the Hair grow extraordinarily, the body is inclinable to siccity; the quantity speaks the Man of a hot constitution; and if they are harsh, he is furious. Full long Hair of white or flaxen colours, soft and fine, signifies that the Man is naturally timorous. Those, whose Hair in their youth grows white or grey, it signifies a luxurious, vain, lying, instable, talkative person. Those, whose Hair is of a moderate growth, both in quantity and colour, it is a sign that they are bend and more inclined to good then evil; loving a peaceable life, honesty, and are of a good temper. If they are compacted together, and visible on the forehead, it shows a strong and brutish courage; if they are wrythed or turned inward toward the temples, it signifies the person is hot of constitution: to the Hair that is thin and lank, declares the Man to be of a cold and weak temper; but when they are very thick, it is a sign of whoredom. In Children, much Hair denotes future melancholy; short Hair staring up like bristles, signifies a strong, bold, vain person, very fallacious, desirous of beauty, and more foolish than wise. Those whose Hair is but moderately curled, it signifies the person to be of a dull nature, and ignorant. Those that have store of Hair, are voluptuous, and of good digestion, vain, and easily induced to be cruel; of a treacherous memory, and unfortunate. Those that are red Haired, are usually Envious, Boasting, Deceitful, Proud and Reproachful. Those whose Hair is very fair, are complaisant in all things, amiable and honourable; but a little Vainglorious. Those that are black Haired are studious, secret, faithful and fortunate.   

Of the Forehead.  
THe high round Forehead, signifies the person Liberal and Jovial, of a good Intellect, tractable to all, and embellished with many Ornaments and Virtues. The full and smooth Forehead that is free from wrinkles, signifies that the person is Litigious, vain, Fallacious, and more fool then wise. He that hath a little Forehead everyway, signifies a simple person, subject to anger, desirous of those things that are handsome and curious. He that hath the corners of his Temples very round, so that the bones almost appear, and are not hairy; it signifies the Man is of a good nature and clear understanding; audacious, desirous of handsome, neat and honourable things. Those whose Forehead is sharp at the corners of the Temples, so that the bones seem to start out, it signifies that they are vain and fickle in all things, simple, foolish, and of a weak capacity. Those that have a large Forehead, change their resolution at will; and if it be very large, they are foolish, and of little discretion. Those that have it small and narrow, are Devourers, Indocible, and slovenly like swine. Those that have it of a moderate length, are Ingenious and Docible, but somewhat violent.   

Of the Ey-brows.  
WHen they are very hairy, it discovers the ineptitude of this Persons temper: those that are thick, and full of hair, joining to the top of the nose, are ill-natured: when they grow down from the Temples to the root of the nose, heat and dryness is predominant: and such persons are crafty, subtle, evil-doers and insatiable. The thin and indifferently big, are high spirited; those that are long, denote the person to be arrogant; and if they are long and very hairy, such a person aims at great matters. When they grow downward, and crooked on the side of the nose, the Man is ingenious in all sorts of mischief: If they are even, as if they were drawn by a line, it is a sign of an evil spirit, such persons are effeminate: When the hair grows compacted, it denotes the Man to be melancholy and witless. The Ey-brows that hang over the Eyes, signify Envy; those that have none at all, are Malicious.   

Of the Eyelids.  
THose that have little hair on their Eyelids, are Malicious, Vicious and Choleric; and when they are more fleshy than ordinary, it is a sign they are mischievously subtle. When the hair of the Eyelids turns downward, or is naturally crooked, or turned inward, it is a sign of Lying and Subtlety. If the corners of the Eyes seem fleshy, they signify drunkenness; they that often move their Eyelids are timorous.   

Of the Eyes.  
THe full Ey denotes pusillanimity; those that are sunk in the head, malicious craftiness. When the Eyes have misbecoming motion, so that now they are quick, and by and by at rest, such persons are full of bad thoughts. Those that move them but little, with a sharp look, are Thievish and very fraudulent persons. The steadfast look proceeds from thoughtfulness, and a desire to deceive; those that have Eyes like Women, are Incontinent and shameless.  
When a Person hath a Childish look, it is a sign that he will lead a merry long life; the fair smiling Eye, and countenance, signifies adulation, riot and detraction: The yellow signifies deceit, as is apparent in Men-bawds and Murderers. Little Eyes signify the Man to be malicious and cowardly: those that are extended, fignifie goodness; if they are red and large, drunkenness, mischief and folly. Eyes hid and sunk into the head, denote malice and pernicious anger, ill qualities, a tenacious memory, especially, of injuries. When the Eyes are sometimes closed and sometimes open, such persons have not as yet been guilty of notorious crimes, but they have them in their thoughts. Eyes red as coals of fire, signify wickedness and obstinacy. Large Eyes and long ey-brows, signify shortness of life. Those that have the Eyes and ey-brows long, are apt to learn, but short lived. When they cast a strong lustre without any blemish, it is a sign of goodness: if they are nimble in their glances and sharp, it signifies Thest. Great and smiling Eyes, are a sign of a stupid voluptuous person, that foresees not events. Smiling Eyes sunk in the head, denote evil thoughts. The heavy Ey signifies studiousness; those that are bleareyd are inclinable to love wine: the full Ey signifies flowness: if the apple of the Ey be black, it is a sign of a slothful dull person. When the apple of the Ey hath pearls round about it, it signifies that the Man is Envious, Talkative, Timorous, and a very Dangerous person. The Ay that is very black, denotes an earnest desire of heaping up wealth; and if they are not very black, but appear somewhat yellow, it is a sign of a virtuous courage. The fair white Ay, signifies timorousness; Eyes full of veins, signifies foolish persons.   

Of the Face.  
HE that hath a very full Face, is Importunate, a Liar, and Imprudent; the plump Face, speaks a Man to be provident, and denotes a sharp wit; that which is large, signifies Idleness; that which is very little, illiberality and mischievous subtlety: they that have a wrythed countenance, are of an ill complexion; the oval visage signifies the person is shameless and injurious. The Face that sweats much, signifies Gourmandize and Luxury; such persons are subject to grievous distempers: the Face that in shape resembles a valley, denotes the Man to be injurious and a Liar; but than it must be rather thin then plump. Every fat and full Face, denotes the Man to be ignorant and voluptuous: a little Face is a sign of little wit.   

Of the Nose.  
THe Nose that stretcheth out to the mouth, signifies goodness and audacity. If the Nostrils be wide and large, it is a sign the ●esticles are of a great size; that the person is ●ncontinent, Treacherous, False, Bold, and of dull capacity. The small, long, and lean feet, ●ive testimony of the Woman's Matrix; the measure of half the foot being bare, is the proportion of the Woman's womb. Those that have 〈◊〉 sharp aquiline Nose, are soon angry, and very vindicative. The flat nose signifies Impetuosity, Incontinency, and yet Pusillanimity. When the Nose is large in the middle upwards, it is a sign the person is addicted to superfluous Romantic stories. The bottlenose denotes avariciousness, such persons covet all they see; that which is ●ound and blunt at the end, denotes magnanimity: The wry-nose signifies hurt by blows. The Nose that is naturally somewhat flat, denotes Liberality. If a person of small stature have a great large red Nose, it denotes Excess and Drunkenness; little nostrils are attributed to those that are of a servile cowardly spirit. Those that are long, signify cheerfulness. The hair of a Man's Nostrils being harsh, denotes the Man to be of a settled and resolute temper: if they are few, it signfies the person is docible.   

Of the Ears.  
GReat Ears signify that the party is addicted to passion, and impatient; being large and upright, it is a sign of superfluity of words, an● long life; large and hanging down, signifies aches: if they are thin and dry, they denote I● constancy: Little Ears signify fraud and malignity: The long and narrow, signify that t● Party is Envious. Those that are little, short life the round, show the Man to be indocible. Tho●● that are fastened very close to the head, demorstrate goodness of nature. The Ears that a● sunk and fixed in the head, signifies Idleness Those that are hairy, signify long life, a quid hearing, and voluptuousness.   

Of the Jaws.  
THe Jaws that stand out in the upper part, a●● a certain sign of Malice; those that are re● at top, denote drunkenness; the fleshy, a Ma●artless, and without spirit; those that are extra●ordinary lean jawed, it signifies malignity an● Envy; the round, deceit; those that have the● hairy, are stupid and brutish.   

Of the Mouth.  
AN extraordinary wide mouth, signifies great Talker, Impiety, and a Man of mantial spirit, a Liar, replete with folly and a●● things disadvantageous. The mouth that is little, ●gnisies that the Party is fearful, peaceable, and ●●faithful. That which is very wide and round, ●gnifies uncleanness and cruelty. A long chin, ●gnifies the Party little addicted to anger; yet he 〈◊〉 somewhat litigious, and conceited of him ●elf. Those that have a little chin, are to be ●eatly avoided; for they are very wicked, and ●ies: the round chin is an effeminate sign.   

Of the Lips.  
THose that are thick-lipped, are foolish and stupid; the nether Lip flagging and very ●ed, signifies a Woman much addicted to sensuality and immodesty; the soft and smiling, de●ote carnality: Those that are big, stupidity; ●hey are under the Planet Mars. Those whose ●ips are not red inwardly, are distempered, or ●●ddenly like to be so. The moist Lips and mouth denote malignity and timorousness: the upper●p that is small and somewhat raised, shows the Party to be full of tongue, very envious, and gi●en to accusation.   

Of the Teeth.  
WHen they are long and strong outwardly, it is a sign of a Glutton, subject to malicious anger; weak, thin and small Teeth, signify shortness of days; great Teeth in a Man signify Idleness, Vanity, Simplicity, and a goo● temper; when they are very dry, they signifi●● some approaching disease.   

Of the Tongue.  
THose that stammer, are subject to the flux those that repeat the first syllable, that denotes approaching melancholy; a white Tongu● is a sign of poverty and misery: all stammere● are roughhewn and haughty.   

Of the Voice.  
THose that have a slow and lisping speech are of a good Behaviour; The Men tha● have a big Voice are injurious and strong; th● shrill Voice, signifies timorousness; the soft scarce heard, denotes Meekness; those that spea● lispingly and loosely, are very angry, but soo● appeased; those that have a harsh Voice, are fools those that are nimble-tongued, if their Voice b● slender, are Mischievous, Importunate, and Lying persons; if the Voice be loud, such a person is prone to anger, and ill-natured; those that ar● often moved to speak, are unclean persons; they that speak through the nose, are Liars, and given to Envy.   

The Judgement of the other parts of the Body.  
THose that have a thin long Neck, are fearful and malicious; those that have a short one, are very deceitful; those that have a bull-neck, are great Trenchermen; short Arms signify that the party loves dissension, and is Ignorant, long hands and fingers, denote a Man to be a lover of all Arts; the largeness of the fingers signify folly and imprudence; the feet that are overlong, show the person to be a cunning Cheat; those that are much discoloured and short, denote malignity: to have short feet, and the soles of them contracted, is a bad sign; those that take large steps when they walk, are magnanimous, and accomplish all their designs. Those that in walking take little narrow steps, have little courage. Soft fingers are a sign of a docible person, and those that are hard, the contrary; when the hands are short, and the fingers strong, it is a very good sign; a large or small hand, with extraordinary short fingers, they denote a person to be a Coward and a Thief; slender and bowed hands, a Babbler.  
The Nails that are white, large, and somewhat reddish, signify a very solid judgement: but when they are narrow and very long, it is a sign of Cruelty and Folly; those that are bend and crooked, signify the Impudence and Capacity of the person; the nails that are deep set in the flesh cleaving thereunto, signify excessive cruelty, and extraordinary folly; those that are too short whitish, or dusky colour, declare the person to b● Malicious; fingers that are very round, denoted Malice, Craft, Avarice and Incontinence; th● short and thick, audacity and cruelty; and wher● they are very long, such a person is far from being wise; if there be too great a distance between them, it is a sign of Inconstancy and Loquacity those that have the paps hanging down, and 〈◊〉 soft breast, are immoderately given to wine and excess.  
Those that often move their whole body, ar● Effeminate; those that have a big belly, are Indiscreet, Foolish, Haughty and Unchaste; the smallness of the Legs demonstrates Ignorance, the largeness of them, Boldness; those that walk slowly and take large steps, are usually successful; those that take little steps, are Impetuous, Infirm, and go about business with an ill will; those that have their Toes more closely then ordinary joined together, are fearful; those that have the Ball of the Foot even without any hollowness, are wary and mischievous; those that are often hungry, have a cold stomach not able to digest; they that sweat excessively in their sleep, stand in need of purging; saith Hypocrates, or their nutriment is too hasty; they that are round-shouldered, have short fingers: the lines of the hands not intersected, and many teeth, such persons are long-lived; a quick pulse, freedoms of respiration, promptitude in actions, with much choler, are marquess of vivacity, and greatness of courage; the largeness of the veins, hair growing upon the Belly, a dry and harsh skin, is a sign of the heat of the Liver; on the contrary, those that have large buttocks are remiss, of a cold constitution, and timorous; those that are naturally corpulent, and big-bellyed, are shorter lived than those that are lean; those that are hairy in the body, and lean, and have a redhairy Face, they are of a hotter temper than others, and contrariwise the contrary: the sanguine live longer than those that are of other constitutions; the chaste, than those that are incontinent; the sober, than the Glutton; the Males, than the Females: if you would know whether a Man be lefthanded, observe when he walks whether be leans to the left side, for such persons for the most part are lefthanded; and so on the contrary. Those that have a soft skin, are gifted with exquisite reason, and have a more refined wit then those that have it harsh.  
We are now come to the last part, which in the practice of Physiognomy ought to be the first: for oftentimes it falls out, that a Man knows not what Countryman he speaks to; either his colour is changed by some accident, or by drinking and discoursing with persons that you have not seen, or he may be poor or rich, noble or mechanic which things make a great alteration in the behaviour; so that I find a Man cannot so readily judge of the temper by particular marquess, as when there are many concurrent, which lay open to us a Man's Inclination to some particular Vice or Virtue.    


A Character of the Just-Man.  
THe Jus-Man hath all the marquess hereafter mentioned; a venerable Ey and Mouth in shape and form like a virgin's, a piercing look that carries terror in it; his Eyes casting a lustre with an aspect neither wild nor over-humble, but with a certain pensiveness full of reverence and dignity; His hair is of a dark colour, his voice big loud, inflexible, or else mean between the base and triple; his Eyes are full, and placed near his head, the ball of the Ey proportionably round, or the circle that is underneath surrounding the ball of the Ey narrow and black; but the upper part in those Eyes that are full of the crystalline humour, casts a kind of sparkling lustre, and nothing seems strange or joyful in them; or their Eyes water with laughing, their eyelids looking downwards; the forehead long, and extended towards both the temples.   

Of the Injust.  
THe inferior circle of the Apple of the Ey is green, the superior black; his Eyes a●greenish somewhat dry, or reddish, immovable, large, looking downwards, when closing of an indifferent size, sparkling; the holes are proportionable, and they dry; and those parts which are without the eye, as the forehead, cheeks, ey-brows, and lips move often, or are open and smiling, and looks with a fixed and menacing countenance.   

Of the Honest Man.  
HIs Nose is big, well proportioned to the face; or long, extended to the mouth; or moderately long, large and open; of a comely aspect, breathing moderately, the breast large and shoulders broad; the paps of his breast of a moderate size, his eyes hollow, and moving like water in a vessel, having a stayed look, the circles of the Eyes neither too big, nor too little; the Eyes always open, of a sad colour, and full of crystalline humour; of a pleasant or sober look, closely shutting the ey-brows, and the forehead supercilious and depressed.   

Of the good-natured Man.  
HIs Forehead is neither full, nor wrinkled; his Ears of a comely square proportion, the Face neither too big nor too little, the Voice neither shrill, deep nor small: he laughs but seldom; his Nails large and pale, inclining to yellowness; his Eyes hollow, fixed, of a leaden colour, full, watchful, shining as if moistened with water; his Feet well-shaped, jointed and nervous.   

Of the Wicked Man.  
HE hath an ill-look, long and narrow Ears, a little out-mouthed, his Ey-teeths are long, advanced forward, and well fastened; he is ready in discourse, especially if his voice be slender, or he speaks through the nose, or with difficulty; his neck awry and knobby, spindle-shanked; his feet ill made, and hollow in the soles; his Eyes all the length of the Face, especially the apple or ball of the Ay, looking as if they moved jointly, glittering like dry marble, of a black colour, staring, as if they would start out of his head; they close not, are pale, reddish and dry.   

Of Poisoners.  
THey have dry and goggle-eyes, the circle of the apple of the Ey disproportioned, rolling, black, with pale or bloody specks.   

Of those that have Venomous eyes.  
THeir lower lips are small, and swelled towards the Ey-teeths.   

Of Murderers.  
THeir Ey-brows are tufted, thick, and joined gether; the circles near the apple of the Ay unsettled, dry, very rolling, or pale coloured.   

Of the Faithful.  
HIs Eyes are of a moderate size, drawing towards a dusky or black colour, large, fixed, and approaching to a leaden colour; or heavy, and the ey-brows closing together, with a supercilious and down-look.   

Of the Unfaithful.  
HIs Head is very small and ill-proportioned; he hath a weak back, a rough forehead full of wrinkles and small furrows; high-shouldered, hands small and slander; his eyes hollow, dry, and of a dark colour, or dark and foul, constantly moving and rolling, as if he were discomposed, and hath a sharp look.   

Of the Prudent.  
HE is slender in body, his head rather big then little, extended from the forepart to the hinder; in his Infancy he is fair-haired; his forehead square, and truly proportioned; his face full, and of a moderate size; a smooth tongue; his voice neither deep nor shrill; the upper-lip standing out; his neck leaning to the right side; largechested and broad-shouldered; his hands and fingers long, without any moving gesture in discourse; his eyes large, high-set, casting a lustre, radiant, and full of moisture.   

Of the Imprudent.  
HE is high foreheaded, breathes like one that hath newly run a race; his fingers are knotty all ill-shaped: he walks swiftly, is timorous, and if surprised shrinks himself up together; in his gate he walks in equilibrio, poising his body uprightly; he is very big or slender bodied; his skin parched and coloured, so that it shows him to be of a hot constitution; they have little Eyes standing outward, sparkling like a Star or Diamond, or are of a dark, reddish or sanguine colour; they are , ruddy, large and down-looked, or steady, fixed, and lifting up the eyelids, languishing, often opening and closing.   

Of the Idiot.  
HE hath a full plump face and thick lips, speaks not freely, hath a strait neck, his body leaning to the left.   

Of the Ingenious.  
HE hath a soft moist skin, neither very hairy, nor altogether without hair, neither too thin, mixed with red and white; hath a sweet ●●ir in his countenance, his hair is full and moderate between thick and thin; his Eyes are ●full, comely, and indifferent round; his head ●s of the middle size, proportionalbe to the neck in bigness; equal and well-shaped; stooping 〈◊〉 little in the shoulders; his thighs and skin are not very fleshy; his voice clear, and equally proportioned between the Base and Triple; the palms of his hands are long, his fingers ●lender and sharp at the ends; he is moderate in weeping and laughting; his countenance is intermixed with joy and galliardize.   

Of the Mechanic.  
THeir hands and fingers are long; their eyes moist, often opening and shutting, their hai● inclining somewhat to a flaxen colour.   

Of the Pensive.  
THeir forehead is wrinkled in part, or all over▪ they draw their breath softly and unhead▪ are wry-necked; and slow-paced.   

Of those that are apt to Learn.  
THeir hair is somewhat near the flaxen-colour, their forehead extended at length, th● ey-brows thin, clear, large, and of the same proportion; the ears sunk into the head, have a meagr● look, seldom smiling; their neck leaning to the right side; are large shouldered, and broad or narrow-chested; their belly is well proportioned they use the gesture of the hands in discourse; thei● eyes are well shaped, of a leaden or black colour radiant, large, fixed, dark and moist; or steady little and moist; exactly proportioned; the forehead extended, the eyelids movable, yet so as i● they were steady and fixed; the eye having a tincture of white in it, or closing justly, moist, of a true proportion, or heavy and moist, with a smooth brow.   

Of those that are unapt to Learn.  
THeir head is too big, or too little; their face broad, and neck soft.   

Of the Constant.  
THey seldom laugh; the hair of their ey-brows is black and substantial; their eyes are dark, moist, and truly proportioned.   

Of the Inconstant.  
THey have a little forehead, yet broad of the size: a very little nose, long, thin, and slender at the end; they are flat-mouthed; their belly and breast is very hairy; their eyes are little, and of a sad colour.   

Of the Furious.  
HIs head is little, the fore and hinder part hollow; the forehead round and high; he is bottle-nosed upwards; is plump-faced and cheeked somewhat long-visaged; the paps of his breasts are big and fleshy: the space between his nave● and the lower part of the breast, longer than tha● between the lower part of the breast and the throat; his arms are brawny, nails crooked and narrow; his eyes move but slowly.   

Of Rude and uncivilised Persons.  
THeir head is too big, they are flaxen-haired, inclining to white; their forehead plump, their ears round, neither small, nor sunk into the head; their nose ill-proportioned to the face; are very out-mouthed; their lips thick and round, o● the under-lip standing out; their neck big, brawny, hard, and as it were ; they are high-shouldered; have large and harsh hands, fingers too long and slender; their legs and heels are large, and their nails overgrown with flesh.   

Of the Foolish.  
THey have a large, broad forehead, great erected ears of a flame-colour: their cheeks fallen, and a sad countenance; their upper-lip is thick, hanging over the under-lip; they have a nimble tongue, laugh much, and have a sharp & piercing voice; they have a long neck, and usually bend forward, either in that, or some other part of the body; their hands are very much bowed backwards; their shoulders hairy, and their eyes squinting toward the right side; the ball of their Ey is very full.   

Of Epileptic Persons.  
THeir Eyes stare, as if they were coming out of their head, are indifferently large, shining and moist, lifting themselves upwards, especially if they are twinkling, or one Ay looks up, and the other down; or if they seem to shake in their motion, like one that fetcheth his breath quick and harshly.   

Of those that have a strong Memory.  
ALl the upper parts of the body are small, comely, well-shaped, proportionable, well-fleshed, but not fat; for where they are corpulent, it is a sign the party is stupid and forgetful.   

Of those that have a weak Memory.  
THeir upper parts are larger than the lower, as the hands than the feet proportionably, etc.   

Of the Bold and Hardy.  
HE hath and austere look, a wrinkled brow, long eyebrow, a nose extended even to the mouth, which is wide, teeth long, thin, sharp and strong, long arms that reach down to the knees, a large breast, wide shoulders, eyes glittering, of a greenish or sanguine colour, moving to an fro without stirring the eyelids, large, dry, casting a pure shining glorious lustre.   

Of the Rash.  
THey are wide and out-mouthed, short and thick-fingered; their eyes are shining, yet squinting, closing with a severe look; their ey-brows are awry; their eyelids harsh and thick, or closing directly, moist, of an exact proportion, and casting a lustre, dry, and have a smooth forehead.   

Of the Proud.  
THeir ey-brows are arched, and often moving upwards; their belly is big, fleshy and hanging down; they are slow-paced, and often stop in the streets of their own accord; looking about them on all sides; their eyes are dry and sad-coloured.   

Of the Timorous.  
THey are soft-skined, their body is not upright but stooping; their complexion somewhat pale, their eyes weak, open, and close often; the extremities of their bodies are feeble; their thighs thin; their hands long and slender; their neck is also long, their breast weak; their voice sharp and sweet; the hinder part of their head, hollow; their hair is lank or curled, soft and full, black or white; they are large foreheaded, full-faced or bony, black, or fair complexioned, thin-liped and little mouthed; they draw their breath seldom, faintly and slowly; their body and breast is lean, and without hair; or they fetch their breath aloud, often, and quickly; they have a trembling low voice, and an ill coloured squinting eye.   

Of the Infirm.  
THeir ey-brows are thin, far stretched, out, or ; they stammer or lisp in their speech; their neck is slender, their arms and elbows small; their hands are small, slender and ill-joynted; the paps of their breasts small and extenuated; their eyes and ey-brows move together.   

Of the Courageous.  
HE is harsh-haired, and straight-bodied; the bones, ribs and extremities of his body are strong and big; an high, but no large, smooth, nor rough forehead, yet lean; he is large and strong-shouldered; his neck is fast, but not fullfleshed; hath a moist eye, and look full of terror; a menacing, strong and loud voice; his respiration is equal; his head somewhat larger than ordinary; his ears and forehead square, and of a due proportion; his nose suitable to his forehead; is thin-liped and wide-mouthed, the upper and lower lip being both alike; hath long arms, with big and harsh hands.   

Of the Covetous.  
HIs face, members and eyes are little; his gate as it should be; he is crook-backed, hath a sharp, piercing voice; his complexion somewhat ruddy; his speech weak and querulous.   

Of the Liberal.  
HIs hair falls upon his forehead, his neck is hairy; his fingers and shoulders are bowed backward, and he is long-armed.   

Of the Temperate.  
HIs hair is neither light, nor thick; he draws his breath moderately; his forehead is neither smooth, nor wrinkled; his mouth neither wide, nor little; his neck leans on the right side, the corners of his eyes are short; the ball of the eye of a mean proportion; but his eyes themselves large, radiant and moist, having a black circle under a red one.   

Of the Intemperate.  
HE is wide-mouthed, soft and big-bellyed, hanging down; his eyes are sad-colored, looking upwards, when they begin to close, or pleasant and moist, otherwise, big and reddish, looking upwards.   

Of the Luxurious.  
HE that is of a pale complexion, and hairy; his hair is strait, thick and black; hath hair on his temples and lips; his chin plump and full; his beard plays with his nose; the circumference of that space which is between the nose and the chin is hollow; the veins of the arms are visible, the eyelids constantly moving; his hair thin, or head bald; the hair of the eyelids shedding; his ears very little, a wide nose, and round near the forehead, or flat; his hands hairy, his toes closely joined together, the nails very round, the cheeks gathered up together, and of a sprightly look; the eyes radiant, or else have a green circle under a black one.   

Of the voluptuous Woman.  
She is of a pale or brown complexion, slender and lean; straight-bodied, hath little hard breasts; her hair is curled and short; her voice shrill and loud; she is bold of speech, proud and cruel, very officious, and loves good liquor.   

Of the Drunkard.  
HE hath a little face of a yellow complexion, plump cheeks always ruddy; he draweth his breath nimbly and frequently; his throat is rough, the vertebra thereof standing out; his eyelids advanced downwards, reddish, moist, large or goggle-eyed, as if they would start out of the head.   

Of the Dull person.  
HE is naturally hot, his body in good case, his head bigger than ordinary, the case o● the eye is upwardly apparent; his body is so fat, and veins so narrow, that they are scarce visible; the conveyances through which the spirits of the head move to and fro, are so narrow, that they are soon stopped, and then is the time for sleep.   

Of the Slothful Man.  
HE hath a broad forehead, his face is of a honey-colour, the lower part of the nose big, the face large and plump, and hath great theeks; he hath a drowsy look; speaks little and deliberately; his body is very hairy, his pace large and slow, or short and slow; very ●arge eyes, not quick in their motion.   

Of the Impudent.  
HIs eye is full and radiant, his eyelids red and large, is high-shouldered; he is not strait bodied, but somewhat stooping; he moves hastily; the tincture of his body is ruddy of a sanguine colour, a fierce countenance; hi● breast high chested, and hath a bold and impudent look, a ruddy complexion; is coppet crowned, his hair very red, his ey-brows long hook-nosed from the forehead downward the face long or flat; he is loud in his laughter as if he had a cough, or difficulty of breathing great legs, of a quick pace; his eyes are fier● red or big, and one of the bones standing very much outward.   

Of the Bashful.  
HE is slow in his motion and speech, hi● voice grave and spirituous, a brisk no● sparkling eye, nor very open, nor yet quite closed which shuts leisurely, very red; the body bowed the ears red, his eyes sad-coloured and moist of a just proportion.   

Of the Melancholic.  
HIs face is wrinkled, forehead lean an● thin, hath a down-look, is of an humble look, and modest in all his motions, hi● eyelids extended, his hair dark, a sad countenance, the ey-brows joined together, the vertebre of the throat standing out, his voice wea● and broken; he draws his breath often, alou● and nimbly.   

Of the Facetious.  
HE hath a broad, fleshy and smooth forehead, or wrinkled a little about the eyes; his look is seemingly drowsy, of a graceful aspect, neither composed, nor effeminate; his eyes are moist and shining, slow in their motion; the figure and symmetry of his face exactly proportionable; hath a soft voice, and pleasant brow.   

Of the Dissembler.  
HE is plump in those parts that belong to the face; those that are about the eye, are wrinkled; is of a seeming sleepy, but pleasant aspect; hath a low voice, good gate, and is always in motion; walking sometimes apace, sometimes softly; his ey-brows bending to the temples; hath sparkles, hollow and little eyes.   

Of Liars.  
THey have a full face, a nose big in the middle, growing narrow at the top, smiling about the mouth, of a quick and shrill speech, or speaking through the nose; the body is crooked the ey-brows depressed, and looking as it were by stealth; the eyes are smiling and lively.   

Of the Sincere and Upright Person.  
HIs face of the middle size, his cheeks are plump, and temples full; his voice neither deep nor sharp.   

Of the Flatterer.  
HE hath a little face, a serene and extended brow, moving his body to and fro as he walks, his eyes different, and small.   

Of the Envious.  
THeir ey-brows are downcast even to the cheeks, their face flat, their ears long and narrow, their cheeks thin or full, far distant from the eyes, of a pale complexion; the mouth wide; have long sharp white and strong teeth, a delicate voice; are sharp and weak of speech; have short arms, and hollow eyes.   

Of the Irreligious or Impious.  
THeir temples are hollow, their ey-brows joined together and hairy, their mouth ●ery wide, their teeth long, sharp, white and strong; their eyes hollow, little or great, and ●ill of motion, sparkling as if they were angry, opening themselves very wide, piercing, and swelled round about.   

Of the Merciful.  
THey are comely, of a fair complexion, their eyes are plump, and their nostrils a great distance upwards, always weeping; they ●ove Women, and do procreate children; are very much inclined to love, have ever a tenacious memory; are ingenious and witty; their ey-brows are directly strait; have a long or cloudy brow, and the ey-brows cast down.   

Of Gamesters.  
THey have thick, strait and black hair, a thick beard, hairy temples, a plump sparkling and clear eye, large, reddish, and looking upwards.   

Of the Talkative Person.  
HE is well-shaped, his ears are large and strait, his nose is strait, or big in the middle, growing narrow at the top; he is long cheeked; his complexion is of a honey-colour; he breathes as if he had run a race; his chin is long, his throat rough, his hands slender and bend; his fingers slender and thin, and his sides swelled.   

Of the Heroic Person.  
HIs head is well-proportioned, rather big then little, of an exact roundness, advanced before and behind; the forehead square, between smooth and wrinkled; large radiant eyes under a sparkling brow, of a leaden colour; a sharp look, the ears deep percive, and well made, advanced, quick of hearing; his lips soft, and coloured; his mouth rather large then little: his voice and mirth moderate; his speech grave, his hair inclining to a flaxen colour; his complexion clear and a little ruddy, his hands are always of a big and large size.    
FINIS.   

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