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Dramatic and poetical miscellany, 1567-ca. 1620 [manuscript]
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affected, because it lodgeth in the foremost ventricles of the braine, where the sleepye vapours haue their cheifest power, and not in the marrowe of the back = bone, whence allmost all the motiue sinewes as from a roote are deriued. W hi ch reason admitteth iust exception: because it taketh part of her grounde from the Arabian distribu = tion of the faculties of the soule into severall seats, disclaimed by a full consent of late writers accordinge to Galen s doctrine. And heere I thinke I doe noe wronge in rangeinge corporeall motion amongst Dreames, beecause I take it to bee a true effect of a dreame, acted vppon a sronge appetitive imagination of some thinge to bee donne. Whence a Wood = man beeinge seene to rise out of his bed, bend his bowe, take his arrowe, goe abroad, shoote, returne againe into his bedd, the next daye missed his ar = rowe, and beeinge demaunded by his Chamber = fellowe, what hee dreamed of in the night, answered that hee seemed to shoote at a deere in such a place: wherevppon beeinge willed to seeke his arrowe there found it. With which - like domesticall examples, I had rather the tounges of the vulgar in theire ordinarye talke should abounde, then my stinted paper swell. Nowe if you aske mee why men seldome walke and talke toge = ther, it is because the Walker hath (as I take it) some soddaine, stronge, and irrationall imagination, which instigateth him, when the talker hath a rationall conceit of some answere to bee made, or questi = on to bee demaunded. The matter of both is one the animall spirit only the Efficient differeth: walkeinge proceedinge from an irrational imagination agreeable to beasts: Talkinge from a tract of reason. And that men may talke in sleepe the authoritye of Galen (beeside De motu muse: continuall experience) is euident. Non n sensus penitus ex par tes sunt Lib: 2 dormientes, sed difficulter sentientes, ac proinde actiones quæ in illis fiunt non sunt omnes naturales, sed ex iis multae animales existunt cum in = 57 cum inmirum varie transferant membra, nec non dormientes loquantux. It is then questionlesse that men may talke in sleepe but whether coherently, iudiciously, and methodically shall bee dis = cussed in the next chapter, when the operations of the understandinge (whose direction the tounge followeth) in time of sleepe shall bee sifted. What operations the vnderstandinge hath in time of Sleepe Chap: 4. When the drowsye vapours haue seazed uppon the Common = sense, fouldeinge it vpp in the peacable bands of sweet repose, then doth the Phantasie keepeinge Centinell beare the whole commaunde of reasons Campe, whiles the Captaine Sense sleepeth, and the fiue Scouts are excluded. In which time it casts many weake and headless pro = iects, setts many friuolous formes of battailes, haueinge some re = semblance with those it either sawe plotted formerly by the Captaine, or hearde related by him from the spies, to haue binne used in for = raine parts. Whence wee understande that the Phantasie must bee free, or els there can bee noe dreame; and beeing soe, it can per = forme not better action then a dreame: which hath more or lesse re = semblance of the truthe, by howemuch it proceedeth from a later and deeper impression of matters seene, donne, spoken, or vnder = stood the daye beefore: as the Orator in his Somnio Scipionis elegantly noteth. Fit n fire vt cogitationes seumonesq ue nostri periant ali = quid in somno tale, quale de Homero seribit Ennius, de quo vi = delicet Saepisime vigilans solebat cogitare et loqui. Whence Clau= dian hath Omnia quæ sensu uoluuntur vota diuvno Tempore nocturno reddit amica quies. And
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affected, because it lodgeth in the foremost ventricles of the braine, where the sleepye vapours haue their cheifest power, and not in the marrowe of the back = bone, whence allmost all the motiue sinewes as from a roote are deriued. W hi ch reason admitteth iust exception: because it taketh part of her grounde from the Arabian distribu = tion of the faculties of the soule into severall seats, disclaimed by a full consent of late writers accordinge to Galen s doctrine. And heere I thinke I doe noe wronge in rangeinge corporeall motion amongst Dreames, beecause I take it to bee a true effect of a dreame, acted vppon a sronge appetitive imagination of some thinge to bee donne. Whence a Wood = man beeinge seene to rise out of his bed, bend his bowe, take his arrowe, goe abroad, shoote, returne againe into his bedd, the next daye missed his ar = rowe, and beeinge demaunded by his Chamber = fellowe, what hee dreamed of in the night, answered that hee seemed to shoote at a deere in such a place: wherevppon beeinge willed to seeke his arrowe there found it. With which - like domesticall examples, I had rather the tounges of the vulgar in theire ordinarye talke should abounde, then my stinted paper swell. Nowe if you aske mee why men seldome walke and talke toge = ther, it is because the Walker hath (as I take it) some soddaine, stronge, and irrationall imagination, which instigateth him, when the talker hath a rationall conceit of some answere to bee made, or questi = on to bee demaunded. The matter of both is one the animall spirit only the Efficient differeth: walkeinge proceedinge from an irrational imagination agreeable to beasts: Talkinge from a tract of reason. And that men may talke in sleepe the authoritye of Galen (beeside De motu muse: continuall experience) is euident. Non n sensus penitus ex par tes sunt Lib: 2 dormientes, sed difficulter sentientes, ac proinde actiones quæ in illis fiunt non sunt omnes naturales, sed ex iis multae animales existunt cum in = 57 cum inmirum varie transferant membra, nec non dormientes loquantux. It is then questionlesse that men may talke in sleepe but whether coherently, iudiciously, and methodically shall bee dis = cussed in the next chapter, when the operations of the understandinge (whose direction the tounge followeth) in time of sleepe shall bee sifted. What operations the vnderstandinge hath in time of Sleepe Chap: 4. When the drowsye vapours haue seazed uppon the Common = sense, fouldeinge it vpp in the peacable bands of sweet repose, then doth the Phantasie keepeinge Centinell beare the whole commaunde of reasons Campe, whiles the Captaine Sense sleepeth, and the fiue Scouts are excluded. In which time it casts many weake and headless pro = iects, setts many friuolous formes of battailes, haueinge some re = semblance with those it either sawe plotted formerly by the Captaine, or hearde related by him from the spies, to haue binne used in for = raine parts. Whence wee understande that the Phantasie must bee free, or els there can bee noe dreame; and beeing soe, it can per = forme not better action then a dreame: which hath more or lesse re = semblance of the truthe, by howemuch it proceedeth from a later and deeper impression of matters seene, donne, spoken, or vnder = stood the daye beefore: as the Orator in his Somnio Scipionis elegantly noteth. Fit n fire vt cogitationes seumonesq ue nostri periant ali = quid in somno tale, quale de Homero seribit Ennius, de quo vi = delicet Saepisime vigilans solebat cogitare et loqui. Whence Clau= dian hath Omnia quæ sensu uoluuntur vota diuvno Tempore nocturno reddit amica quies. And
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