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To Master W. Bolton. Epistle. 2. (Book 2)
Bolton, amidst thy many other theames
Thou dost desire me to discourse of dreames:
Of which, what I could gather, reade, or find,
I here set downe to satisfie thy mind:
Dreames then (in sleep our spirits true retreate)
Do chalenge their predominance, and seate:
And in their natures, are but fantasies
Made by the motion of Imageries,
According to the sleepers habitude
Of euery sensible similitude.
So then, all dreames from diuers causes grow,
And from th'interior, or th'exterior flow:
Thinterior likewise hath a double right,
The one is mentall, clayming by the spright,
Where through in sleep (the fantasie and thought
Encountring) strange and rare effects are wrought;
Resembling those, which our affections kept,
And thoughts did trauel on before we slept:
The other cause takes his fruition,
And being from the bodies disposition:
For by th'interior habitude and state