The interpretation of dreams digested into five books by that ancient and excellent philosopher, Artimedorus / compiled by him in Greek, and translated afterwards into the Latine, the Italian, the French, and Spanish tongues, and now more exactly rendered into English ...

To flye.

TO dreame to flye a little height from the Earth, being upright is good, for∣asmuch as one is lifted higher then those that are about him, so much greater and more happy shall he be. It were better for him not to be in his Country, for it signi∣fyeth wandring or not resting, or return∣ing to his Country: to flye with wings, is good generally for all: to servants, it is liberty: to the poore, riches: to the rich, office and dignity: to flye very high from the Earth and without wings, is feare and danger: as also to flye over the houses and through the stréets, and fore-knowne wayes, it is trouble and sedition: to flye into heaven, is for servants to enter into rich houses, and especially the Court: to those which would be secret it is ill, for all the world sées the heavens: to flye with the Byrds, is to kéep company with stran∣gers, and pain and punishment to Malefa∣ctours. It is alwayes good, after having flown on high, to desce••d low, and after that to wake: but it is best of all to flye when one will, and come down when one will: for it is a signe of facility and good

disposition in affayres. But to flye by con∣straint, as being pursued by men, spirits, or beasts, is not good, for they are great angers and dangers: to flye backwards is not ill to those that would sayl: for com∣monly in a ship which goeth her course without tempest, the people take their ease and lye backwards to others, it is want of work and businesse, for those which lye so are idle: to the sick it is death: it is very ill to desire to flye and cannot: or to flye with the head lowermost, and the feet up∣ward, and what kinde soever the sick flye, it is death: for we defend that the soules departing from the body, flye into heaven with a great flight, as little Byrds do: to flye is ill for those which have a trade or handy-craft, which requireth no removing out of his place: it is good for captives. Many by this dream of flying, have be∣come blinde, because they fear to fall: to flye in a chayre or bed, or being set in any underprop, for the better sustaining of him∣selfe, is great sicknesse: but it is not so ill to him which should travaile, for it is a signe that he should travail with his fami∣ly, with his tooles and moveables, in a Cart or Coach.