Artemidorus wrote: “To dreame you are going out of the house in the morning, and are not hin [illegible passage] red nor stopt, is good: for it signifyes…”
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Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood
The Interpretation of Dreams · 1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription
To go out and salute one. · Book 2, encoded section 64 · Text transcription · marked gaps
Original source (English)
To dreame you are going out of the house in the morning, and are not hin [illegible passage] red nor stopt, is good: for it signifyes [illegible passage] our businesse shall have good issue: but not to be able to get out, nor finde issue out of the house, is hinderance to those that would travail, and impeachment of affayrs, an [illegible passage] long sicknesse to the sick. To salute his familiar friend, to speak to him and embrace him is good: for it signifies you shall speak and hear good news: but if they be not our very familiars, but onely simply known [illegible passage] to us, the dream is not so good: if they b [illegible passage] our enemies, if signifies we shall enter into friendship with them. To kisse the dead, to him which is sick, signifies death: to him which is in health, it forbids him to speake of his affayres at that present, because h [illegible passage] hath kissed the mouth of the dead: notwithstanding, if the dead party hath béene ou [illegible passage] pleasant and private friend, it hindreth not a whit, either to speak or undertake any thing.
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