Playes, Games, and Instruments

Of Playes, Games, and Instruments. · Book 1, encoded section 44 · Text transcription · marked gaps

Original source (English)

If one dreams of the trumpet, to them which would fight is good, and to those which have lost their Servants. But it revealeth secrets, by reason of the great sound, but killeth the sick, to servants it promiseth liberty: but to winde a horne is ill, and forbids to undertake any Law suit. Every Instrument which one may blow, signifieth trouble: to dream that you play the publike Cryer, may be ime [illegible passage] preted as to sound the trumpet: to play upon a Réed, or upon a Bagpipe is good to all: to sing and play upon the Harpe, at Offrings and sacrifices, is good for weddings and contracting of affinity: but ill for other affairs: to many it signifies the Gout, because of cords and nerves: to play or sée plaid Tragedies, signifyeth travail, fighting, injury, and a thousand evils. But to play merry playes, is a merry issue of affairs: to hear singing, signifyes deceit: to ride a horse nimbly is good for all, for thy horse signifyes a woman, or a friend, the ship, the Master and guide to governe, and the good friend. So then, as a man findes his horse well, so shall he do all this. The [illegible passage] art signifies as much as the horse but that to a sick person it is death, as also a chariot of 4. whéeles. To ride a horse through the town, is good for him which undertakes to play a prize, and to a sick man: for the one shall gaine the prize, and the other shall be [illegible passage] aled: but to ride out of town is quite contrary: to lead and guide Chariots through woods and desarts, is death to all at hand.

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