are caused, but through them. As y•
lyke for example, when a man in his slepe
thinketh to se a monster with thre heads,
which hee either hearde of by the discrip∣tion
of some or sawe paynted in the lyke
sorte, whiche heades he remembred to be
on this wyse, as the one lyke a Lyon, the
other a serpente or Dragon & the other
a Goat. That if anye other straunge
matter also a man shall see in his sleepe,
or some vnknowen thinge, or deformed
Plant then are those none other then vn∣parfite
thinges or transposed.For an vnknowen man is none other,
then when a man is vnparfitlye founde.And the knowledge of this is, that all
men, yea the moste knowen beeyng seene
far of, are vnknowen. Therfore through
the vnperfite knowledge and trāsposing,
and mixinge of sightes, are all dreames
caused. So that it appeareth that al dre∣ames
to agre booth in the efficiente cause
and in the matter, for the efficyente cause,
is the moderate motion of the spirites,
but the matter is the memorye of things
seene, eyther whole or vnparfit.
For as it is manifest that there be diuers
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