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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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But now let us see, how dreams may sometimes be called the causes. That is then, when any man by his dream is persuaded, either to do, or to try any thing, as if a man be made whole of the sickness of the spleen, for that that he was let blood in the outward side of his hand, for so was he taught to do in his dream. And now and then it happeneth unto the learned, that they find those things whereof they are in doubt in the same books, where in their dream they thought they had found or red them.1
But now let vs see, how dreames may somtimes be called the causes. That is then, when any man by his dreame is perswaded, eyther to do, or to trye any thing, as if a man be made whole of the sicknes of the splen, for that that he was let bloud in the vtward side of his hād, for so was he taught to do in hys dreame. And now and then it happneth vnto the learned, yt they find those things wherof they are in doubt in the same bokes, where in theyr dreame they thought they had found or red them.1
- 1Dreams sometime by chanse resemble those things which happen.Dreames sometime by chanse resemble those thinges which happen.
But now let us consider the third member of the distinction which we brought, namely when dreams do rashly or by chance signify those things which afterward do happen. That taketh place in those things, whose cause is not in us, but rather distant, and far of, as if a man should see a victory, or a murder to happen in hosts far distant from him, or any man that is absent exalted to very great dignity. These things say the Peripatetics are joined together by chance: neither can they be conferred together, either as causes, or as signs. Even as if when we are talking of any body, the same man peradventure come in the mean while, we say Lupus est in fabula, when as yet the same mention making of him, was neither the cause, nor sign of his coming. So therefore these things are said to be joined together rashly, because both they come by chance, and also they seldom have success: for this is the nature of things coming by chance, to happen seldom.