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wheras wee finde noe humane dreame soe absurd but sauoureth of some sparkes of reason, but beastes wakeinge are vnreasonable, there = fore much more sleepinge. Reason then must haue her part therein: which beeinge soe, herselfe beeinge immortall and impatible, why should not her power swaye all the other facultyes to her bent, and make these dreames as absolute as our wakeinge imaginations, shee haueinge in sleepe the ministry of phantasies as well as wakeinge? This is answer = ed vppon the distinction of Naturall and Animall dreames. For those should arise meerly from the humours, yet with some com m erce with the animall faculties, otherwise there could bee noe iudgment of the na = turall effects. These in their simple nature should proceed only from the præinhœrent formes in the phantasie, receiueinge only an instru = mentall or materiall helpe from the naturall vapours, with out any co = inquination of ill qualities, only a sweet milde and gentle ascend= inge mist, beeinge sufficient to close vpp the common = sense. But since by Adam s fall natures simple faculties are shuffled and mixed together, this animall dreame taketh part with many staines of the corrupt humours, which nowe hinder her freedome: of which wee may nowe saye out of the Poet turpiter atrum Desinit in piscem mulier formosa superne. As therefore a stone cast into a still and standinge water causeth vniforme and æquidistant circles to arise, which in a mooueable runninge streame would bee distracted, and broken: so in an exact temped bodye are found more coherent dreames, wheras in the contrary habit nought but wilde an = ticke hystoryes are adumbrated. Whence the movinge dreames beegot = ten out of the milde vapours of the seconde concoction, are most sincere & pure: insoemuch that some haue esteemed them the truer; wherof there is noe great reason. They may bee the more intire and aptly com = posed; as of poeticall fictions some may bee more artificially hand = led then others, and yet none of them true. Soe that in Dreames there can bee neyther perfect order, nor certaine truthe./ Certaine au= 59 Certaine authorities of Hippocrates , Galen , and others which seeme to attribute as great power to the vnderstandinge in sleepe as wakeinge, answered. Cap: 5 Notwithstandinge all that which hath binne sayed of the distracted & imperfect actions of the vnderstandinge in the time of sleepe, yet it may bee obiected out of Hippocrates , that the soule performeth all her Lib: de Insomn: actions in sleepe as absolutely as wakeinge: whose words are these: initio Luum corpus quiescit anima in motu est, et corporis partes perrep = tans, domum suam gubernat, et omnes corporis actiones ipsa perficit: Nam corpus dormiens non sentit, ipsa verb vigilans cogoscit, ac vi = sibilia videt, et aud ibilia audit, vadit, tangit, tristatur animaduerlit, in summa, quæcuncq ue corporis aut animæ munia, ea omnia anima ipsæ in somno obit. Vnto this may bee added the authoritie of L: uis viues , Nec in homine mens dormit multo inimus quam animus in mutis. Quiete n compositi De Amma. Cap: multa et inquivunt, et serutantur, et colligunt, et solutiones illis quæli = de Somn: onum occurrunt, quæ vigilantes fallebant. And Galen by waye of conclusion ha t h. Temeraria sententia est De motu Muscul: 2 quæ asserit dormientium animas quiescere. Vppon which groundes it may bee probably argued thus: If in sleepe the soule may inwardly discourse, and the tounge (as is shewed) mooue, why may it not by speech vtter the Contemplations præconceiued, insoemuch as the tounge in man followeth the mandate of reason, whence proceedeth the com = modulation of the articulate voice, denyed beastes, notwith standinge their naturall instruments, for the only want of reason? Nowe beesides Galen s forealleadged authoritye, that men may talke in sleepe, x viues addeth Loco citato. farther. Et qui vigiles sunt indiserti iis nox et quies facundiam largitur. The benefite of the night and quiet repose maketh some speak eloquently, which wakeinge or in the daye time, were of a slowe and heauy tongue. To the
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wheras wee finde noe humane dreame soe absurd but sauoureth of some sparkes of reason, but beastes wakeinge are vnreasonable, there = fore much more sleepinge. Reason then must haue her part therein: which beeinge soe, herselfe beeinge immortall and impatible, why should not her power swaye all the other facultyes to her bent, and make these dreames as absolute as our wakeinge imaginations, shee haueinge in sleepe the ministry of phantasies as well as wakeinge? This is answer = ed vppon the distinction of Naturall and Animall dreames. For those should arise meerly from the humours, yet with some com m erce with the animall faculties, otherwise there could bee noe iudgment of the na = turall effects. These in their simple nature should proceed only from the præinhœrent formes in the phantasie, receiueinge only an instru = mentall or materiall helpe from the naturall vapours, with out any co = inquination of ill qualities, only a sweet milde and gentle ascend= inge mist, beeinge sufficient to close vpp the common = sense. But since by Adam s fall natures simple faculties are shuffled and mixed together, this animall dreame taketh part with many staines of the corrupt humours, which nowe hinder her freedome: of which wee may nowe saye out of the Poet turpiter atrum Desinit in piscem mulier formosa superne. As therefore a stone cast into a still and standinge water causeth vniforme and æquidistant circles to arise, which in a mooueable runninge streame would bee distracted, and broken: so in an exact temped bodye are found more coherent dreames, wheras in the contrary habit nought but wilde an = ticke hystoryes are adumbrated. Whence the movinge dreames beegot = ten out of the milde vapours of the seconde concoction, are most sincere & pure: insoemuch that some haue esteemed them the truer; wherof there is noe great reason. They may bee the more intire and aptly com = posed; as of poeticall fictions some may bee more artificially hand = led then others, and yet none of them true. Soe that in Dreames there can bee neyther perfect order, nor certaine truthe./ Certaine au= 59 Certaine authorities of Hippocrates , Galen , and others which seeme to attribute as great power to the vnderstandinge in sleepe as wakeinge, answered. Cap: 5 Notwithstandinge all that which hath binne sayed of the distracted & imperfect actions of the vnderstandinge in the time of sleepe, yet it may bee obiected out of Hippocrates , that the soule performeth all her Lib: de Insomn: actions in sleepe as absolutely as wakeinge: whose words are these: initio Luum corpus quiescit anima in motu est, et corporis partes perrep = tans, domum suam gubernat, et omnes corporis actiones ipsa perficit: Nam corpus dormiens non sentit, ipsa verb vigilans cogoscit, ac vi = sibilia videt, et aud ibilia audit, vadit, tangit, tristatur animaduerlit, in summa, quæcuncq ue corporis aut animæ munia, ea omnia anima ipsæ in somno obit. Vnto this may bee added the authoritie of L: uis viues , Nec in homine mens dormit multo inimus quam animus in mutis. Quiete n compositi De Amma. Cap: multa et inquivunt, et serutantur, et colligunt, et solutiones illis quæli = de Somn: onum occurrunt, quæ vigilantes fallebant. And Galen by waye of conclusion ha t h. Temeraria sententia est De motu Muscul: 2 quæ asserit dormientium animas quiescere. Vppon which groundes it may bee probably argued thus: If in sleepe the soule may inwardly discourse, and the tounge (as is shewed) mooue, why may it not by speech vtter the Contemplations præconceiued, insoemuch as the tounge in man followeth the mandate of reason, whence proceedeth the com = modulation of the articulate voice, denyed beastes, notwith standinge their naturall instruments, for the only want of reason? Nowe beesides Galen s forealleadged authoritye, that men may talke in sleepe, x viues addeth Loco citato. farther. Et qui vigiles sunt indiserti iis nox et quies facundiam largitur. The benefite of the night and quiet repose maketh some speak eloquently, which wakeinge or in the daye time, were of a slowe and heauy tongue. To the
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