Arts, Works, and Exercises

Of Arts, Works, and Exercises. · Book 1, encoded section 40 · Text transcription

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WHosoever in his dreame seemes to do that which he hath learned and exercised, shall have good successe, and is very good to all: foretelling that one shall come to honour by his businesse and enterprise: but if in your dream you have not good issue, it signifyes the contrary. If one in his dreame doth that which he hath not learned, and it hath good issue in his dreame, then it is good: but if he finde himselfe hindred, and cannot bring it to good; 'tis anger and let of businesse untill he be mocked. To play the Husbandman or Plowman, to sow, or plant, is good to him which seeks a wife, or which hath no children: for the Field is his wife, the seed and trees his children, the wheat males, the barley females, and abortives: to others this dreame betokeneth sicknesse and anger: if any one be sick in the house where this dream is, it signifyeth death: for the séed and plants are put in the earth as the dead. To reape, to cut, to trim vines, and to plough, against harvest; signifye that your affairs and work shalbe deferred till the accustomed time of doing them. To govern a ship, if one have good successe and honour without perill, provided that it be without doubt or pain, it is good, but if one be troubled with tempests, or if the ship be bruised and broken, it is abundance of evill, which I have often known by experience: to cut and sowe in leather, to married folks is good. It is also good for him which would marry or get acquaintance and allyes, by reason of close and joyned seames. But to dye leathers is ill to all, and revealeth secrets. To sée medicines is worst of all: to be a goldsmith signifyeth harme to him which dreames it, by reason of the poysons and instruments that they handle: to be a graver, turner, or carver, of images and figures. is good for adulterers, pratlers, cooseners, and deceivers, because their arts shew other effects then the true. To others it signifyeth honour, for such with reverent works are shewed to many.