A WINTER DREAME.  Quae me suspensum Insomnia terrent? Virg. Saepe futurarum praesagia Somnia Rerum.  emblems of England, Scotland and Wales 
Printed Anno Domini QuanDo ReX AngLoruM VectI ujctitabat CaptIvus, 1649.   

The Printer to the Reader.  
BEcause the Interpretation of this Dream may be obvious to all pacities, I have presumed, with the Authors leave, to prefix here the names of those countries he hints at.  

1. The States of Holland.  
2. High Germany.  
3. The Kingdom of Naples.  
4. The Republic of Venice.  
5. The Kingdoms of Spain.  
6. The Kingdom of France.  
7. The Kingdoms of England, and the confusions thereof by way of Apolog.  
8. The Scots.    

A Winter Dream.  
IT was in the dead of a long Winter night, when no eyes were open but Watchmen, and Centinell's, that I was fallen soundly asleep, the Cinq out-Ports were shut up closer than usually, and my senses so treble locked, that the Moon, had she descended from her watery Orb, might have done much more to me than she did to Endymion when he lay snoring upon the brow of Latmus' Hill; nay, (be it spoken without profaneness) if a rib had been taken out of me that night, to have made a new model of a woman, I should hardly have felt it.  
Yet, though the Cousin-german of Death had so strongly seized thus upon the exterior parts of this poor Tabernacle of flesh, my inward were never more actif, and fuller of employments than they were that night.  

Pictus imaginibus, formisque fugacibus adstat  
Morpheus, & variis fingit nova vultibus ora.   
Me thought my soul made a sally abroad into the world, and fetched a vast compass; she seemed to soar up and slice the air, to cross seas, clammer up huge Hills, and never rested till she had arrived at the Antipodes: Now some of the most judicious Geometricians and Chorographers hold, that the whole mass of the Earth being round like the rest of her fellow Elements, there be places, and poizing parts of the Continent, there be Peninsulas, Promontories and lands upon the other face of the Earth that correspond and concentre with all those Regions and isles that are upon this superficies which we tread; Countries that symbolize with them in qualities, in temperature of air and clime, as well as in nature of soil; The Inhabitants also of those places which are so perpendicularly opposite, do sympathize one with another in disposition, complexions and humours, though the Astronomers would have their East to be our West, and so all things vice versa in point of position, which division of the Heaven is only man's institution.  
But to give an account of the strange progress my soul made that night; the first Country she lighted on was a very low flat country, and it was such an odd amphibious country, being so indented up and down with Rivers and arms of the sea, that I made a question whither I should call it Water or Land; yet though the Sea be invited and ushered in into some places, he is churlistly penned out in some other: so that though he foam and swell, and appear as high Walls hard by, yet they keep him out, maugre all his roaring and swelling.  
As I wandered up and down in this watery Region, I might behold from a straight long Dike whereon I stood, a strange kind of forest, for the trees moved up and down; they looked afar off as if they had been blasted by thunder; for they had no leaves at all; but making a nearer approach unto them, I found they were a nomberlesse company of Ship Masts, and before them appeared a great Town incorporated up and down with 
●msterdam.  Water; As I mused with myself upon the sight of all this, I concluded, that the Inhabitants of that country were notable industrious people, who could give Law so to the angry Ocean, and occupy those places where the great Leviathan should tumble and take his pastime in; As my thought ran thus, I met with a man, whom I conjectured to be twixt a merchant and a Mariner, his salutation was so homely; the air also was so foggy that me thought it stuck like cobbwebs in his Mustachos; & he was so dull in point of motion, as if his veins had been filled with buttermilk in lieu of blood: I began to mingle words with him, and to expostulate something about that country and people; and then I found a great deal of downright civilities in him: He told me that They were the only men who did miracles of late years; Those innumerable piles of stones you see before you in such comely neat fabrics, is a place (said he) that from a Fish Market in effect is come to be one of the greatest Marts in this part of the world, which hath made her swell thrice bigger than she was 50. years ago; and as you behold this floating forest of Masts before her mole, so if you could see the foundations of her houses, you should see another great forest, being reared from under ground upon fair piles of timber, which if they chance to sink in this Marshy soil, we have an art to screw them up again. We have for 70. years and above without any intermission, except a short-lived truce that once was made, wrestled with one of the greatest Potentates upon Earth, and born up stoutly against him, gramercy our two next neighbour Kings, and their Reason of State, with the advantage of our situation. We have fought ourselves into a free State, and now quite out of that ancient allegiance we owed him; and though we pay 20. times more in taxes of all sorts than we did to him, yet we are contented: We have turned War into a trade, and that which useth to beggar others, hath benefited us: Besides, we have been and are still the rendezvous of most discontented Subjects, when by the motions of unquiet consciences in points of Religion, or by the fury of the sword, they are forced to quit their own countries, who bring their arts of Manufacture, and moveables, hither; In so much that our Lombards are full of their goods, and our banks superabound with their gold and silver which they bring hither in specie. To secure ourselves, and cut the Enemy more work, and to engage our Confiderats in a war with him, we have kindled fires in every corner; and now that they are together by the ears, we have been content lately, being long wooed thereunto, to make a peace with that King to whom we once acknowledged vassalage; which King out of a height of spirit, hath spent 500 times more upon us for our reduction, than all our country is worth; But now he hath been well contented to renounce and abjure all claims and rights of sovereignty over us; In so much, that being now without an Enemy, we hope in a short time to be masters of all the commerce in this part of the world, and to eat our Neighbours out of trade in their own Comodities: We fear nothing but that excess of Wealth, and a surfeit of ease may make us careless and breed quarrels among ourselves, and that our general, being married to a great King's daughter, may—  
Here he suddenly broke the thread of his discourse, and got hastily away, being haled by a ship that was sailing hard by.  
Hereupon my soul took wing again, and cut her way through that foggy condensed air, till she lighted on a fair, spacious, clear Continent, a generous and rich soil mantled up and down with large woods, where, as I ranged to and fro, I might see divers fair Houses, towns, Palaces and Castles, looking like so many carcases, for no human soul appeared in them; me thought I felt my heart melting within me in a soft resentment of the case of so gallant a country, and as I stood at amaze, and in a kind of astonishment, a goodly personage makes towards me, whom both for his comportment, and countenance, I perceived to be of a finer mould than that companion I had met withal before: by the trace of his looks I guessed he might be some Nobleman that had been ruined by some disaster: having acosted him with a fitting distance, he began in a masculine strong wound language full of aspirations and tough collision of Consonants, to tell me as followeth: Sir, I find you are a stranger in this country, because you stand so aghast at the devastations of such a fair piece of the Continent, then know Sir, because I believe you are curious to carry away with you the causes thereof, that these ruthful objects which you behold, are the effects of a long lingering war, and of the fury of the Sword, a cruentous civil War that hath raged here ubove 30. years: one of the grounds of it was the infortunate undertaking of a Prince, who lived not far off in an affluence of all earthly felicity; he had the greatest Lady to his wife, the best purse of money, the fairest Stable of horse, and choicest Library of books of any other of his neighbour Princes. But being by desperate and aspiring counsels put upon a kingdom, while he was catching at the shadow of a crown, he lost the substance of all his own ancient possessions: by the many powerful alliances he had (which was the cause he was pitched upon) the feud continued long; for among others a Northern King took advantage to rush in, who did a world of mischiefs, but in a few years that King and he found their graves in their own ruins near upon the some time; but now, may heaven have due thanks for it, there is a peace concluded, a peace which hath been 14. long years a moulding, and will I hope, be shortly put in execution; yet 'tis with this fatal disadvantage, that the said Northern people, besides a mass of ready money we are to give them, are to have firm footing, and a warm nest ever in this country hereafter, so that I fear we shall hear from them too often: upon these words this noble personage fetched a deep sigh, but in such a ge●erous manner, that he seemed to break and check it before it came half forth.  
Thence my soul taking her flight o'er divers huge and horrid cacuminous mountains, at last I found myself in a great populous town, but her buildings were miserably battered up and down, she had a world of Palaces, Castles, Convents and goodly Churches: as I stepped out of curiosity into one of them, upon the West side there was a huge Grate, where a creature all in white beckoned at me, making my approach to the Grate, I found her to be a Nun, a lovely creature she was, for I could not distinguish which was whiter, her hue or her habit, her veil o● her face, it made me remember (though in a dream myself) that saying, If Dreams and wishes had been true, there had not been found a true maid to make a Nun of ever since a cloistered life began first among women; I asked her the reason how so many ugly devastations should befall so beautiful a City, she in a dolorous gentle tone, and ruthful accents, the tears trickling down her cheeks like so many pearls, (such pearly tears that would have dissolved a Diamond) sobbed out unto me this speech: Gentle Sir, 'tis far beyond any expressions of mine, and indeed beyond human imagination to conceive the late calamities which have befallen this fair though infortunate City, a pernicious popular Rebellion broke out here upon a sudden into most horrid barbarisms, a Fate that hangs over most rich popular places that swim in lux and plenty; but touching the grounds thereof, one may say that rebellion entered into this City, as sin first entered into the world by an apple: For our King now in his great extremities having almost half the world banding against him, and putting but a small tax upon a basket of fruit to last only for a time, this fruit-tax did put the peeples teeth so on edge, that it made them gnash against the Government, and rush into arms; but they are sensible now of their own follies, for I think never any place suffered more in so short a time: the civil combustions abroad in other kingdoms may be said to be but small squibs compared to those horrid flakes of fire which have raged here, and much ado we had to keep our vestal fire free from the fury of it: in less than the revolution of a year it consumed above fourscore thousand souls within the walls of this City; But 'tis not the first time of forty, that this luxurious foolish people hath sma●ted for their insurrections and insolences, and that this mad horse hath o'erthrown his Rider, and drawn a worse upon his back; who instead of a saddle, put a packsaddle and Panniers upon him: but indeed the voluptuousness of this people was grown ripe for the judgement of heaven; she was then beginning to expostulat with me about the state of my country, and I had a mighty mind to satisfy her, for I could have corresponded with her in the relation of as strange things, but the Lady Abadesse calling her away, she departed in an instant, obedience seemed to be there so precise and punctual.  
I steered my course thence through a most delicious country to another City that lay in the very bosom of the Sea, she was at first nothing else but a kind of posy made up of dainty green hillocks, tied together by above 400. bridges, and so coagulated into a curious city; though she be espoused to Neptune very solemnly once every year, yet she still reserves her maidenhead, and bears the title of the Virgin city in that part of the world; But I found her tugging mainly with a huge Giant that would ravish her; He hath shrewdly set on her skirts, and a great shame it is, that she is not now assisted by her Neighbours, & that they should be together by the ears when they should do so necessary a work, considering how that great Giant is their common Enemy; and hath lately vowed seven years' wars against her; specially considering, that if he comes once to ravish her, he will quickly ruin them; She to her high honour be it spoken) being their only rampart against the incursion of the said Giant, and by consequence their greatest security.  
From this Maiden city, me thought, I was in a trice carried over a long gulf, and so through a Midland Sea, into another kingdom, where I felt the Clime hotter by some Degrees; a rough hewn soil, for the most part, it was, full of craggy barren hills; but where there were valleys and water enough, the country was extraordinarily fruitful, whereby nature (it seems) made her a compensation for the sterility of the rest. Yet notwithstanding the hardship of the soil, I found her full of Abbeys, Monasteries, Hermitages, Convents, Churches, and other places of devotion; As I roved there a while, I encountered a grave man in a long black cloak, by the fashion whereof, and by the brims of his hat, I perceived him to be a Jesuit; I closed with him, and questioned with him about that country: He told me the King of that country was the greatest Potentat of that part of the world; and, to draw power to a greater unity, they of our Order could be well contented, that he were universal Head over temporals, because 'tis most probable to be effected by him, as we have already one universal Head over spirituals: This is the monarch of the Mines, I mean of Gold and Silver, who furnishes all the world, but most of all his own Enemies with money, which money foments all the wars in this part of the world: Never did any earthly monarch thrive so much in so short a tract of time; But of late years he hath been ill-favouredly shaken by the revolt and utter defection of two sorts of Subjects, who are now in actual arms against him on both sides of him at his own doors. There hath been also a long deadly feud twixt the next tramontan Kingdom and him, though the Queen that rules there be his own sister, an unnatural odious thing: But it seems God Almighty hath a quarrel of late years with all earthly potentates; for in so short a time there never happened such strange shocks and revolutions: The great Emperor of Ethiopia hath been outed, he and all his children by a petty companion: The King of China a greater Emperor than he, hath lost almost all that huge Monarchy by the incursion of the Tartar, who broke o'er the Wall upon him; The grand Turk hath been strangled, with 30. of his Concubines; The Emperur of Muscovy hath been content to beg his life of his own vassals, & to see before his face divers of his chief Officers hacked to pieces, & their heads cut off & steeped in strong water, to make them burn more bright in the market place. Besides the above mentioned, this King hath also divers Enemies more, yet he bears up against them all indifferently well, though with infinite expense of treasure: and the Church, specially our Society, hath stuck close unto him in these his exigents: whence may be inferred, that let men repine as long as they will at the possessions of the Church, they are the best anchors to a State in a storm, and in time of need to preserve it from sinking; besides acts of charity would be quite lost among men, did not the wealth of the Church keep life in them: Hereupon drawing a huge pair of Beads from under his cloak, he began to ask me of my Religion; I told him I had a long journey to go, so that I could not stay to wait on him longer; so we parted, and me thought I was very glad, to be rid of him so well.  
My soul then made another flight over an Assembly of hideous high hills, and lighted under another clime, on a rich and copious country resembling the form of a lozenge, but me thought, I never saw so many poor people in my life; I encountered a peasant, and asked him what the reason was, that there should be so much poverty in a country where there was so much plenty: Sir, they keep the Commonalty poor in pure policy here; for being a people, as the world observes us to be, that are more humorous than others, and that love variety and change, if we were suffered to be pampered with wealth, we would ever and anon rise up in tumults, and so this kingdom should never be quiet, but subject to intestine broils, and so to the hazard of any invasion: But there was of late a devilish Cardinal, whose humour being as sanguine as his habit, and working upon the weakness of his Master, hath made us not only poor, but stark beggars, and we are like to continue so by an eternal war, wherein he hath plunged this poor Kingdom, which war must be maintained with our very vital spirits: but as dejected and indigent as we are, yet upon the death of that ambitious Cardinal, we had risen up against this, who hath the Vogue now, (with whom he hath left his principles) had not the fearful example of our next transmarin Western neighbours, and the knowledge we have of a worse kind of slavery, of those endless arbitrary taxes, and horrid confusions they have fooled themselves lately into, utterly deterred us, though we have twenty times more reason to rise then ever they had: yet our great City hath showed her teeth, and gnashed them ilfavouredly of late, but we find she hath drawn water only for her own Mill, we fare little the better, yet we hope it will conduce to peace, which hath been so long in agitation. I cannot remember how I parted with that peasant, but in an instant I was landed upon a large Island, and me thought, 'twas the temperatest Region I had been in all the while; the heat of the Sun there is as harmless as his light, the evening serenes are as wholesome there, as the morning dew; the dog-days as innocuous as any of the two Equinoxes. As I ranged to and fro that fair island, I spied a huge City whose length did far exceed her latitude, but neither for length or latitude did she seem to bear any political proportion with that island: she looked, me thought, like the Jesuits hat whom I had met withal before, whose brims were bigger than the crown, or like a petticoat, whose fringe was longer than the body. As I did cast my eyes upwards, me thought I discerned a strange Inscription in the air which hung just over the midst of that city written in such huge visible characters, that any one might have read it, which was this: Woe be to the bloody City.  
Hereupon a reverend Bishop presented himself to my view, his grey hairs, and grave aspect struck in me an extraordinary reverence of him: so performing those compliments which were fitting, I asked him of the condition of the pla●e, he in a submiss sad tone, with clouds of melancholy waving up and down his looks, told me; Sir, this island was reputed few years since to have been in the completest condition of happiness of any part on earth, insomuch that she was repined at for her prosperity and peace by all her neighbours, who were plunged in war round about her, but now she is fallen into as deep a gulf of misery, and servitude, as she was in a height of felicity and freedom before: Touching the grounds of this change, I cannot impute it to any other then to a surfeit of happiness; now there is no surfeit so dangerous as that of happiness: There are such horrid divisions here, that if they were a foot in hell, they were able to destroy the Kingdom of Satan: truly Sir, there are creped in more opinions among us about matters of Religion, than the Pagans had of old of the Summum bonum, which Varro saith were 300. the understandings of poor men were never so puzzled & distracted; a great while there were two opposite powers who swayed here in a kind of equality that people knew not whom to obey, many thousands complied with both, as the men of Calcutta who adore God and the devil, (Tantum Squantum, as it is in the Indian language) the one for love, the other for fear: there is a monstrous kind of wild liberty here that ever was upon earth; that which was complained of as a stalking horse to draw on our miseries at first, is now only in practice, which is mere arbitrary rule; for now both Law, Religion, and Allegiance are here arbitrary: Touching the last, 'tis quite lost, 'tis permitted that any one may prate, preach, or print what they will in derogation of their anointed King: which word King was once a Monosyllable of some weight in this I'll, but 'tis as little regarded now as the word Pope (among some) which was also a mighty Monosyllable once among us: the rule of the Law is, that the King can do no wrong, there is a contrary rule now crept in, that the King can receive no wrong; and truly Sir, 'tis a great judgement both upon Prince and people, upon the one, that the love of his vassals should be so alienated from him; upon the other, that their hearts should be so poisoned, and certainly 'tis the effects of an ill spirit; both the one and the other in all probability tend to the ruin of this Kingdom. I will illustrat this unto you, Sir, by an Apologue as followeth.  
There happened a shrewd commotion & distemper in the Body natural twixt the Head and the Members; not only the Noble parts (Some of them) but the common inferior organs also banded against him in a high way of unnatural presumption; The heart, which is the source of life, with the pericardium about it, did swell against him; the Liver, which is the shop of sanguification, gathered ill blood▪ all the humours turned to Choler against him; The Arms lift up themselves against him, neither back, hams or knees would bow to him, nay the very feet offered to kick him; The four and twenty ribs, the reins, the Hypocondrium, the Diaphragma, the misery, & Emulgent veins were filled with corrupt blood against him: yea the Hypogastrium and the bowels made an intestine war against him. While the feud lasted, it happened that these tumultuary Members fell out among themselves; The Hand would have all the fingers equal, nay the toes would be of even length, & the rest of the subservient members would be independent: They grew so foolish, that they would have the fondament to be where the mouth is, the breast where the back, the belly where the brain, and the yard where the nose, the shoulders should be no more said to be backwards, nor the legs downwards; A bloody quarrel fell twixt the Heart and Liver, which of them received the first formation, and whither of the two be the chiefest officine of sanguification; which question bred so much gall twixt the Aristotelians & the Galenists; While this Spleen & strange tympany of pride lasted, it cau'sd such an ebullition and heat in the mass of blood, that it put the Microcosm, the whole Body in a high burning fever or Frenzy rather, which in a very short time grew to be a Heptic, and so all perished by a fatal consumption.  
I fear the same fate attends this infortunate island, for such as was the condition of that natural head, this Apolog speaks of, the same is the case of the politic Head and Body of this island; Never was sovereign Prince so banded against by his own Subjects, never was the patience of a Prince so put upon the tenter; He is still no less than a Captif, his children are in banishment in one country, his Queen in another, the greatest Queen of blood upon earth; a Queen that brought with her the greatest portion that ever Queen did in treasure; yet in twenty years and upwards, her jointure hath not been settled as it should be; nor hath she been crowned all this while according to matrimonial Articles; notwithstanding that, for the comfort of this Nation, and the establishment of the Throne, she hath brought forth so many hopeful Princes.  
But now Sir; because I see you are so attentive, and seem to be much moved at this Discourse, as I have discovered unto you the general cause of our calamities, which was not only a satiety, but a surfeit of happiness, so I will descend now to a more particular cause of them; it was a Northern Nation that brought these cataracts of mischief: upon us; and you know the old saying,  

Out of the North  
All ill comes forth.   
Far be it from me to charge the whole Nation herewith; no, but only some pernicious Instruments that had insinuated themselves, and incorporated among us, and swayed both in our Court and counsels: They had a hand in every Monopoly; they had out of our Exchequer, and Customs near upon 400000. Crowns in yearly Pensions, viis & modis; yet they could not be content, but they must puzzle the peace and policy of this Church and State: and though they are people of differing intellectuals, differing laws, customs, and Manners unto us, yet for matter of conscience they would bring our necks into their yoke, as if they had a greater talon of reason, & clearer illuminations, as if they understood Scripture better, and were better acquainted with God Almighty than we, who brought them first from paganism to Christianity, and also to be reformed Christians: but it seems, matters have little thriven with them; nay the visible hand of heaven hath been heavily upon them divers ways since they did lift their hands against their native King; For notwithstanding the vast sums they had hence, yet is the generality of them as beggarly as ever they were; besides, the civil Sword hath raged there as furiously as here, and did as much execution among them. Moreover the Pestilence hath been more violent, and sweeping in their chief Town then ever it was since they were a people. And now lately there's the notablest dishonour befallen them that possibly could light upon a Nation, in that 7000. of ours▪ should upon even ground encounter, kill, slay, rout and utterly discomfit thrice as many of theirs, though as well appointed and armed as men could be: And truly Sir, the advantages that accru to this Nation are not a few by that exploit; For of late years that Nation was cried up abroad to be a more martial people than we, and to have baffled us in open field in divers traverses: besides, I hope a small matter will pay now their arrearages here, and elsewhere; but principally, I hope they will not be so busy hereafter in our Court and counsel, as they have been formerly.  
Another cause of our calamity is a strange race of people sprung up among ourselves, who were confederate with those of the North; they would make God's House clean, and put out the candle of all ancient learning & knowledge; they would sweep it only by the light of an Ignis fatuus: but 'tis visibly found that they have brought much more rubbage into it; and whereas in reforming this house, they should rather find out the gr●●● that is lost, they go about to take away the mite that's left, and so put Christ's Spouse to live on mere alms: true it is, there is a kind of Zeal that burns in them, (& I could wish there were so much piety) but this zeal burns with too much violence and presumption, which is no good symptom of spiritual health, it being a rule, that as the natural heat, so the spiritual should be moderate, else it commonly turns to a frenzy: and that is the thing which causeth such a giddiness and distraction in their brains; This (proceeding from the suggestions of an ill spirit) puffs them up with so much mental pride; for the devil is so ●●nning a wrestler, that he oftentimes lifts men up to give them the greater fall: they think they have an inerring spirit, and that their dial must needs go true, howsoever the Sun goes: they would make the gospel, as the Caddies make the Koran, to decide all civil temporal matters under the large notion of slander, whereof they to be the Judges, and so in time to hook in all things to their Classis: I believe if these men were dissected when they are dead, there would be a great deal of quicksilver found in their brains.  

Proh Superi, quantum mortalia pectora caecae  
Noctis habent!—   
But I could pity the giddiness of their brains, had they not so much gauls in their breasts, were they not so thirsting after blood, so full of poison and irreconcilable malice; in so much that it may be very well thought, these men are a kin to that race which sprung out of the serpent's teeth: these are they which have seduced our great counsel, and led this foolish City by the nose to begin and foment this ugly War, insomuch that if those numberless bodies which have perished in these commotions, were cast into her streets, and before her doors, many thousand Citizens noses would bleed of pure guilt.  
Not to hold you long, these are the men, who have baffled common sense, blasted the beams of nature, and offered violence to reason; these are they who have infatuated most of the people of this island; so that whereas in times past, Tom called her the I'll of angels, she may be termed now the I'll of Gulls, or more properly the I'll of dogs, or rather indeed the I'll of wolf's, there is such a true Lycanthropy come in among us: I am loath to call her the island of devils, though she hath been branded so abroad.  
To conclude Sir, the glory of this Isle is quite blasted; 'tis true they speak of peace, but while the King speaks to them of it, they make themselves ready for battle; I much fear, that Ixion-like, we embrace a cloud for peace, out of which there will issue out centaurs, and Monsters, as sprung out of that cloud.  
Touching that ancientest holy Order whereof you see me to be; I well hoped, that in regard they pretended to reform things only, they would not have quite extirpated, but regulated only this Order: it had been enough to brayle our wings, not to have seared them: to have lopped & pruned, not to have destroyed root & branch of that ancient tree which was planted by the hands of the Apostles themselves: In fine Sir, we are a lost people, 'tis no other Daedalus, but the high Deity of heaven can clue us out of this labyrinth of confusions, can extricat us out of this maze of miseries: the Philosopher saith, 'tis impossible for man to quadrat a Circle; so 'tis not in the power of man, but of God alone, to make a loyal Subject of a Roundhead: Among other things that stranger's report of this island, they say that Winter here hath too many tears in his eyes: Helas Sir, 'tis impossible he should have too many now, to bewail the lamentable base slavery, that a freeborn people is come to: and though they are grown so tame as to kiss the rod that whips them, yet their Taskmasters will not throw it into the fire.  
Truly Sir, as my tongue is too feeble to express our miseries, so the plummet of the best understanding is too short to fathom the depth of them.  
With this, the grave Venerable Bishop giving me his benediction, fetched such a sigh, that would have rended a rock asunder; and suddenly vanished (Methought) out of my sight up towards Heaven. I presently after awoke about the dawnings of the day, when one could hardly discern Dog from Wolf; and my soul, my Animula-vagula blandula, being reentered through the Horn gate of sleep into her former mansion, half tired after so long a Peregrination; and having rubbed my eyes, distended my limbs, and returned to a full expergefaction, I began to call myself to account touching those world of objects my fancy had represented unto me that night; and when by way of reminisence I fell to examine and ruminate upon them; Lord, what a mass of Ideas ran in my head! but when I called to mind the last country my soul wandered in, me thought I felt my heart like a lump of lead within me, when I considered how pat every circumstance might be applied to the present condition of England: I was meditating with myself what kind of dream this might be; whereupon I thought upon the common division that Philosophers make of dreams, that they are either 

Divine,  
Diabolical,  
Natural, or  
Human.    
For the first, they are Visions more properly or Revelations, whereof there are divers examples in the holy Oracles of God, but the puddled crannies of my brain are not rooms clean enough to entertain such: Touching the second kind, which come by the impulses of the devil, I have heard of divers of them, as when one did rise up out of his sleep, and fetched a poniard to stab his bedfellow, which he had done, had he not been awake; Another went to the next chamber a-bed to his mother, and would have ravished her; but I thank God this dream of mine was not of that kind? Touching the third species of dreams; which are natural dreams, they are according to the humour which predominates; if Melancholy sway, we dream of black darksome devious places; if Phlegm, of waters; if Choler, of frays, fightings and troubles; if sanguine predominat, we dream of green fields, gardens, and other pleasant representations; and the physician comes often to know the quality of a disease by the nocturnal objects of the patient's fancy.  
human dreams relate to the actions of the day past, or of the day following, & some representations are clear & even; others are amphibious, mongrel, distorted and squalid objects, according to the species of things in troubled matters; and the object is clear or otherwise, according to the tenuity or the grossness of the vapours which ascend from the ventricle up to the brain.  
Touching my dream, I think it was of this last kind; for I was discoursing of, and condoling the sad distempers of our times the day before: I pray God some part of it prove not prophetical; for, although the Frenchman sayeth, songs sont Mensonges, dreams are delusions, and that they turn to contraries, yet the Spaniard hath a saying,  

Et ciego sonnavaque via,  
Yera lo que querria.   

The blind man dreamed he did see light,  
The thing he wished for happened right.   
Insomuch that some Dreams oftentimes prove true; as S. Austin makes mention of a rich Merchant in Milan, who being dead, one of his Creditors comes to his son to demand such a sum of money which he had lent his father; the son was confident 'twas paid, but not finding the Creditors Receipt, he was impleaded and like to be cast in the suit, had not his father's Ghost appeared to him, and directed him to the place where the Acquittance was, which he found the next day accordingly. Galen speaks of one that dreamed he had a wooden leg, and the next day he was taken with a dead palsy in one whole side. Such a Dream was that of William Rufus, when he thought he had felt a cold gust passing through his bowels; and the next day he was slain in the guts, by the glance of an arrow, in new forest, a place where he and his Father had committed so many Sacrileges. I have read in Artimed●rus, of a woman that dreamed she had seen the pictures of three faces in the moon like herself, and she was brought to bed of three daughters a little after, who all died within the compass of a month. Another dreamed, that Xanthus' water ran red, and the next day he fell a spitting of blood.  
To this I will add another foretelling Dream, whereof I have read, which was thus: two young Gentlemen being travelling abroad in strange countries, and being come to a great town, the one lay far in the city, the other in an Hostry without the walls in the Suburbs: he in the City did dream in the dead of night, that his friend which he had left in the Suburbs rushed into his chamber panting and blowing, being pursued by others; he dreamed so again, and the third time he might see his friend's Ghost appearing at his bed's side with blood trickling down his throat, and a poniard in his breast, telling him; Dear friend, I am come now to take my last farewell of thee, and if thou rise betimes, thou shalt meet me in the way going to be buried; the next morning his friend going with his Host towards the Inn in the Suburbs where he left his friend, they met with a Cart laden with dung in the way, which being stayed and searched, the dead body was found naked in the dung.  
I will conclude with a notable dream that Osman the great Turk had, not many years since, a few days before the was murdered by his janissaries, 1623. He dreamed, that being mounted upon a huge camel, he could not make him go, though he switched and spurred him never so much; at last the camel overthrew him, and being upon the ground, only the bridle was left in his hand, but the body of the camel was vanished: the Mufti not being illuminated enough to interpret this Dream, a Santon who was a kind of Idiot, told him, the camel represented the Ottoman Empire, which he not being able to govern, he should be o'erthrown, which two days after proved true.  
By these, and a cloud of examples more, we may conclude, that Dreams are not altogether impertinent, but something may be gathered out of them; though the application and meaning of them be denied to man, unless by special illumination.  

Somnia venturi sunt praescia saepe diei.  
By dreams we oft may guess  
At the next day's success.   
THus have you a rough account of a rambling Noctivagation up & down the world: I may boldly say, that neither Sir John Mandevile, or Coryat himself traveled more in so short a time: whence you see what nimble postilions the Animal Spirits are; and with what incredible celerity the imagination can cross the Line, cut the Tropics, and pass to the other Hemisphere of the world; which shows, that human souls have something in them of the Almighty, that their faculties have a kind of ubiquitary freedom, though the body be never so under restraint, as the Authors is.  
The last country that's here aimed at is known already; I leave the application of the rest to the discerning Reader, to whom only this Dream is addressed.  
FINIS.