Artemidorus wrote: “To have the Breast whole is good, as also to have it Hayrie, is a signe of gaine to Men, but to Women it foretels Widdowhood: the…”
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Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood
The Interpretation of Dreams · 1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription
Of the Breast and the Dugs. · Book 1, encoded section 30 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To have the Breast whole is good, as also to have it Hayrie, is a signe of gaine to Men, but to Women it foretels Widdowhood: the Dugges faire and without any evill is good: and if they seeme more grosse, yet by good means and grace, they signifie Children and possession to come: but if they be sore, as full of ulcers, it is Sicknesse to come. The Dugges falling, is death to her children which dreams so: and if she have none, it is povertie to her selfe: to have many Dugges, thinking she sées them bigger then is vsuall to a woman, signifies she shall follow the trade of good fellowship: to be wounded in the stomacke by any familiar, is ill newes to old women: and to yong men or women, it betokeneth glad tidings.
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