Artemidorus wrote: “FOr to dream to be a foole, is good to him which would undertake any businesse, for fools and mad-men do that which come into their…”
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Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood
The Interpretation of Dreams · 1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription
To be a Foole, or Drunkard. · Book 3, encoded section 149 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
FOr to dream to be a foole, is good to him which would undertake any businesse, for fools and mad-men do that which come into their brain. It is good also for Marshals and Shrieves, which would have authority over the people, for they shall have great report and honour. It is also good for those which would governe and teach children, for children do willingly follow fooles: it is also good for the poore, for they shall have goods, for Fooles catch of all sides, and all hands: to the sicke it is health, for folly makes men go and come, not sléepe and rest. But to dreame to be drunke, is very bad to all: for it signifieth great folly. It is only good to such as are in fear, for the drunken fear or doubt nothing.
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