Artemidorus wrote: “FOr to work in Iron, and strike upon the Anvile, signifieth noise and suits in law: the like we must judge in all other arts of the…”
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Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood
The Interpretation of Dreams · 1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription
To worke in Iron. · Book 1, encoded section 41 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
FOr to work in Iron, and strike upon the Anvile, signifieth noise and suits in law: the like we must judge in all other arts of the persons which dreame them. And we must understand that it signifies as much as to sée the tradesmen working: or their shops and tooles, as to see himselfe use the same Art. Notwithstanding, there is difference between tooles, those which cleave and break, signifie discord, and hurt, those which unite and binde signifie profit, marriage, or allyance: but hindrance of voyages: those which scoure or smooth, appease strife: those which addresse and compasse, signifie revealing of secrets, as you may sée in Geometricians.
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