Flouds, Ponds, Fountaines, and Welles

Of Flouds, Ponds, Fountaines, and Welles. · Book 2, encoded section 89 · Text transcription · marked gaps

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RIvers having their waters cleare and cleane, sliding gently, are good for servants, and those which have Law-suits, and such as would travail, for they signifye the Masters and Judges, which doe as they will, and also Travailers, because they run daily. But if the river be durty, and violent, it is contrary; the threatning of Masters and Judges, and hindrance of journeyes. 'Lis yet worse, if the River seemes to carry Houses and inheritance of him which dreams it, or himselfe either, and abundance of evill, if it carry him even to the sea. It is also ill to be upon the River whose waves run against the person, and he cannot get out, for with pain shall one suffer and support the evils that he hath, hath he never so great a courage. The great▪ flouds are rigorous Judges, angry masters, presses of people, assemblies and noyse, by reason of the violence and murmuring whereof: it is good to passe them on foot, or swimming: to swim in a River or pond, is to fall into great inconvenience, it is ever better to swim without stay to the shore, then to be asléep in swimming. A clear River running into the house, is the comming of some rich man, by whom one shall reap great profit, but a troubled and violent River, and removing of moveables in the house, is the violence of some enemy. A River tunning out of a rich mans house, signifyes that he shall have authority in the town, and be very bountifull, and liberall. To the poor man it is dou [illegible passage] t of his Wife, or others of the house, which he shall hardly rule: to see other then River water enter into the house troubled and durty, is doubt of fyre, but being fayr and clear, it is gain, possessions, and money. In the like sort is it to set in his ground or house a Well, which was not there before: and it also signifieth wife or children, to those which have none: to see a Well full of water in the house, is good, if it be open above, and strangers draw not out of it, for that should be losse of wife, children, or goods: the pond being great, signifyes the same that the River, but that it signifyes hindrance of travailing: but being little or mean, is a rich, and pleasant wife loving her pleasures. It is very good to sayle in a Pond or River, but not to swim. Fountains and Springs, abounding with good water, are good to all, especially to the Sick and poore, announcing to them health, and Riches: but dry is clean contrary.

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