Artemidorus wrote: “To eate flesh, which one hath dressed himselfe is good.”
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Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood
The Interpretation of Dreams · 1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription
Of Flesh, and Fish. · Book 1, encoded section 53 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To eate flesh, which one hath dressed himselfe is good; except Béefe and Mutton, which signifie lamentation, losse, and anger. Swines flesh is very good for all men, specially rosted, for it signifies speedy profit. But to dreame that you eat raw flesh is not good; for it foretels losse of something of yours. I know by experience, that to dreame to ease the flesh of any stranger is good, but if the party be known or familiar, he shall die. To eate little birds, and a gréen goose, is good for all: to eat venison is good, for it signifies to take much good from his enemies: to eate fresh fish is good so they be not little ones, because they are nothing but little bones, and signifye enmity towards theyr familiar friends. All salt meates whether flesh or fish, signifye either neglect of businesse, or anger and Sicknesse.
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