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Most fruitful [and] learned co[m]mentaries of Doctor Peter Martyr Vermil Florentine, professor of divinity,…Most fruitfull [and] learned co[m]mentaries of Doctor Peter Martir Vermil Florentine, professor of deuinitie,…
Most fruitful [and] learned co[m]mentaries of Doctor Peter Martyr Vermil Florentine, professor of divinity, in the University of Tygure with a very profitable tract of the matter and places. Herein is also added [and] contained two most ample tables, aswell of the matter, as of the words: with an index of the places in the holy scripture. Set forth & allowed, according to the order appointed in the Queens majesties injunctions.Most fruitfull [and] learned co[m]mentaries of Doctor Peter Martir Vermil Florentine, professor of deuinitie, in the Vniuersitye of Tygure with a very profitable tract of the matter and places. Herein is also added [and] contained two most ample tables, aswel of the matter, as of the wordes: wyth an index of the places in the holy scripture. Set forth & allowed, accordyng to thorder appointed in the Quenes maiesties iniunctions.
London: printed by John Day, 1564London: printed by Iohn Day, 1564
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Dreams saith he are either signs or causes,1 or else compared unto those things which are signified rashly or by chance. Every one of these three members is thus expounded, dreams he saith are signs sometimes of the affections of the body or mind. For by those very often are declared,2 which humours do bear rule in the body, abound, and offend. For according to the quality of nature, and ten pering of humours prevailing in the body, are forms & images moved. Where choler aboundeth, are seen flambes, fires, burning coals, lightnings, brawlings, and other of that sort. If melancholy get the upper hand, smokes, deep darkness, all things almost black, filthy things, dead bodies, & such like do offer themselves. But fleume stirreth up images of showers, rains, rivers, waters, hail, ice, and such things as have abundant moistness joined with coldness. By blood are moved sights that are fair, bright, white, pleasant, and are like unto the common pureness and usual form or face of things. Neither do the physicians contemn these things, yea rather (as Galen and Hippocrates teach) they enquire very diligently of the sick, of them: because thereby they may understand the temperance of those humours which lye inwardly hidden.3 But the cause why they which are on sleep, & not they which are waking, do by sight feel the nature of these motions, is this: because at the beginning they are little, & when we are waking, the sense of them flieth from us. For by stronger motions of outward things, which appear before our eyes, we are drawn an other way, but being on sleep we cease from outward labours, & are void from the course of gross sensible things. Wherefore the sights and images, which are by the humours continually moved, are better comprehended of the fancy when we are on sleep, then when we are waking. And that when we sleep we far better feel small things, then we do being waking: hereby it appeareth, because we think that noises, be they never so small, are great thunders. And if any sweet fleame stick peradventure unto the tongue or roof of the mouth, it seemeth to us that we taste honey, sugar, sweet wines, and pleasant meats, yea sometimes we think that we largely eat, and abundantly drink. Wherefore those motions of humours which are small, are in sleep showed to be as it were wonderful great: