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Dramatic and poetical miscellany, 1567-ca. 1620 [manuscript]
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And Seneca in his Octau: Quæcuncq ue mentis agitat infestus vigor, Ea per quietem sacer et arcanus refert Veloxq ue sensus. - Ecclesiast: 5:2 whervnto Salomon speaketh. As a dreame cometh by the multitude of busines &c. Such a dreame was that of Hippocrates , whoe beeinge sent for by the Abderites to cure Democritus of a supposed madnes (whoe excelled in wisedome, and was then writeinge of the causes of madnes) beefore his iorney seriously considered with himselfe what course was to bee taken, what simples to bee prepared, and haueinge euer a stronge perswasion that they were deceiued in him, had in the end this Dreame. Hee seemed to see Æsculapius at the Gates of Abderis , reachinge forth his hande vnto him, which hee beeinge reddy to apprehend, intreatinge him to accompany and assist him in his iorney and cure, receiued answere that nowe there was noe need of his helpe: but poynted to a beautifull woman called Veritye whoe should conduct him through the cytte, and bringe him to his lodgeinge. which when shee had donne shee tooke her leaue, sayeinge shee would meet him to morrowe with Democritus . but nowe referred him ouer to an other bould = countenaned Dame, called Opinion, whoe dwelt with the Abderites. Hee awaked, and gaue this interpretation to his Dreame. That Democritus needed noe Physition, that the truthe that Democritus was well remained with Democritus : but the Opinion that hee was Sicke, dwelt with the Abderites. which Dreame through it may seeme to haue reference to the supernaturall braunch, yet beecause it dependeth uppon his praecedent sollicitous minde often (in likelyhoode) inuocatinge Æsculapius , and consider = inge howe apt the multitude is to bee swayed by sinister opinion, and that the truthe euer remaineth with contemplatiue wise men, such ima = ginations might arise in his minde sleepinge. This one example (offendinge 58 (offendinge, I feare, in length) may suffice for infinite others as that of x Pilate s wife, whoe had noe do u bt, cast many doubts of Math: 27 19 Christs innocencie. If then it fare thus, that our daylye actions yeeld vsuall fewell to our night dreames, and the rather, when they bee seriously pondered, and late ruminated, then should euery wise man, by Virgill s aduise, passe noe night with out dreames, whoe amongst other parts of a pru = dent man giueth this Nec prius in dulcem delinat lumina somnum Omnia quam longi repetiuerit actadiei. Accordinge to that of Pythagoras and Plato , qui, quo in somnis certiora videamus, præ = paratos, quodem cultu atq ue viche proficisci ad dormiendu m iubent. Howbeeit it doth not hence necessarilye followe, that a wise man must allwayes dreame. For none dreame continually, and historyes mention some neuer to bee molested with dreames some whereof asseueringe that they neuer dreame will not bee perswaded that others doe, thingeinge rather that out of a pleasant conceit, they frame these fictions to recreate themselues and others; whome wee may as well iudge to faine this theire vacuitye of phantasies, as they impose vppon others a fiction thereof: whoe heerin are surely iniurious to others, howesoeuer in obseruation of themselues may bee theire excuse. For of night apparitions some are soe deeply imprinted in Memory, that wake = inge wee easily recall them, others soe superficially that wee can hardly remember them, and some soe weakly that they alltogether escape the Me = moryes reach. Beesides there may happen such an incrassation of va = pours and spirits, that wee dreame not at all: with in compasse of one of these maye those imaginatiue, yet phantasticall braines come. But heere it may bee quæstioned whether this kinde of Dreame (beeinge soe vsuall) beelonge only to that facultie of the inward sense, or participate allso with the vnderstandinge. If wee should saye the first, wee should putt noe difference beetweene the dreames of men, and of beasts, wheras wee
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And Seneca in his Octau: Quæcuncq ue mentis agitat infestus vigor, Ea per quietem sacer et arcanus refert Veloxq ue sensus. - Ecclesiast: 5:2 whervnto Salomon speaketh. As a dreame cometh by the multitude of busines &c. Such a dreame was that of Hippocrates , whoe beeinge sent for by the Abderites to cure Democritus of a supposed madnes (whoe excelled in wisedome, and was then writeinge of the causes of madnes) beefore his iorney seriously considered with himselfe what course was to bee taken, what simples to bee prepared, and haueinge euer a stronge perswasion that they were deceiued in him, had in the end this Dreame. Hee seemed to see Æsculapius at the Gates of Abderis , reachinge forth his hande vnto him, which hee beeinge reddy to apprehend, intreatinge him to accompany and assist him in his iorney and cure, receiued answere that nowe there was noe need of his helpe: but poynted to a beautifull woman called Veritye whoe should conduct him through the cytte, and bringe him to his lodgeinge. which when shee had donne shee tooke her leaue, sayeinge shee would meet him to morrowe with Democritus . but nowe referred him ouer to an other bould = countenaned Dame, called Opinion, whoe dwelt with the Abderites. Hee awaked, and gaue this interpretation to his Dreame. That Democritus needed noe Physition, that the truthe that Democritus was well remained with Democritus : but the Opinion that hee was Sicke, dwelt with the Abderites. which Dreame through it may seeme to haue reference to the supernaturall braunch, yet beecause it dependeth uppon his praecedent sollicitous minde often (in likelyhoode) inuocatinge Æsculapius , and consider = inge howe apt the multitude is to bee swayed by sinister opinion, and that the truthe euer remaineth with contemplatiue wise men, such ima = ginations might arise in his minde sleepinge. This one example (offendinge 58 (offendinge, I feare, in length) may suffice for infinite others as that of x Pilate s wife, whoe had noe do u bt, cast many doubts of Math: 27 19 Christs innocencie. If then it fare thus, that our daylye actions yeeld vsuall fewell to our night dreames, and the rather, when they bee seriously pondered, and late ruminated, then should euery wise man, by Virgill s aduise, passe noe night with out dreames, whoe amongst other parts of a pru = dent man giueth this Nec prius in dulcem delinat lumina somnum Omnia quam longi repetiuerit actadiei. Accordinge to that of Pythagoras and Plato , qui, quo in somnis certiora videamus, præ = paratos, quodem cultu atq ue viche proficisci ad dormiendu m iubent. Howbeeit it doth not hence necessarilye followe, that a wise man must allwayes dreame. For none dreame continually, and historyes mention some neuer to bee molested with dreames some whereof asseueringe that they neuer dreame will not bee perswaded that others doe, thingeinge rather that out of a pleasant conceit, they frame these fictions to recreate themselues and others; whome wee may as well iudge to faine this theire vacuitye of phantasies, as they impose vppon others a fiction thereof: whoe heerin are surely iniurious to others, howesoeuer in obseruation of themselues may bee theire excuse. For of night apparitions some are soe deeply imprinted in Memory, that wake = inge wee easily recall them, others soe superficially that wee can hardly remember them, and some soe weakly that they alltogether escape the Me = moryes reach. Beesides there may happen such an incrassation of va = pours and spirits, that wee dreame not at all: with in compasse of one of these maye those imaginatiue, yet phantasticall braines come. But heere it may bee quæstioned whether this kinde of Dreame (beeinge soe vsuall) beelonge only to that facultie of the inward sense, or participate allso with the vnderstandinge. If wee should saye the first, wee should putt noe difference beetweene the dreames of men, and of beasts, wheras wee
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