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Title:  The moste pleasuante arte of the interpretacion of dreames whereunto is annexed sundry problemes with apte aunsweares neare agreeing to the m atter, and very rare examples, not like the extant in the English tongue. Gathered by the former auctour Thomas Hill Londoner: and now newly imp rinted.
Author: Hill, Thomas, b. ca. 1528.
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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 0