The compleat book of knowledge: treating of the wisdom of the antients and shewing the various and wonderful operations of the signs and planets, and other celestial constellations, on the bodies of men, women and children; and the mighty influences they have upon those that are born under them. Compiled by the learned Albubetes, Benesaphan, Erra Pater, and other of the antients. To which is added, the country man's kalendar; with his daily practice, and perpetual prognostication for weather, according to Albumazar, Ptolomy, and others. Together with a catalogue of all the market-towns, fairs, and roads in England and Wales. All those who peruse this book, must own, that it the knowledge gives of things unknown.

THE Wisdom of the Ancients, IN THE Interpretation of Dreams: Collected Alphabetically OUT OF Approved Authors.

A.

To Dream that you

• HAve your Business delayed by an Adversary, signifies Dispatch and Expedition.
• To commit Adultery, signifies Quarrels.
• See the Air serene, signifies Pain.
• See the Air Cloudy, signifies Di∣spatch of Business.
• See Ants, signifies strife.

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  • Discover an Alter, shews Rejoycing.
  • Eat Apples, denotes Choller.
  • Gather Apples, signifies Vexation.
  • Have weak Arms, signifies torment.
  • Have your Arm dried up, is very unfortunate.
  • See Armed Men, signifies good luck.
  • See Armed Men fly, signifies Victory
  • See an Ass, signifies Malice.
  • See an Ass sitting on his Crupper, signifies Labour.
  • Hear an Ass bray, is a sign of re∣ceiving loss.

B.

To Dream that you

• Cut Bacon, signifies the Death of some Person.
• Eat Bacon, or falt Meats, signifies Murmering.
• Bath in a clear Fountain, fignifies Joy.
• Bath in stinking Water, shews Shame, or to be falsely accus'd.
• See yourself in a Bath, denotes An∣guish.
• Eat Beans, signifies Sickness.
• Have a little Beard, shews Suits at Law.
• Have a long Beard, shews Strength or Gain

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  • Wash your Beard, is Gladness.
  • Have your Beard shav'd, signifies Tribulation.
  • See your Beard dry, signifies Joy.
  • See your Beard pull'd up by the roots, signifies great Danger.
  • Hear Beasts, signifies Gain.
  • Tame Wild Beasts, signifies Da∣mage.
  • Walk with four-footed Beasts sig∣nifies Sickness.
  • See a Bed well furnished, signifies Joy.
  • Take Bees, signifies Profit and Gain.
  • See one Beheaded, signifies Sickness.
  • Hear Bells ring, signifies Disgrace.
  • See Black-birds, signifies Tribula∣tion.
  • Find a Bird's Nest, is a good sign.
  • Hear Birds Chirp, the same.
  • See Birds fighting, signifies Adver∣sity.
  • See Birds fly over your Head, sig∣nifies Prejudice by Enemies.
  • See a flock of Birds, signifies a Sui•• at Law.
  • Take Blood, signifies a Pain in the Fund••ment.
  • Make a Breach▪ signifies Molestation.

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  • Cut Barly-bread, signifies Rejoy∣cing.
  • Carry hot Bread, signifies Accusa∣tion.
  • See Breasts full of Milk, signifies Profit.
  • Discourse with your Brethren, sig∣nifies Vexation.
  • Go over a broken Bridge, signifies Fear.
  • Fall upon a Bridge, signifies Ob∣struction.
  • See your deceased Brother and Si∣sters, signifies long Life.
  • Carry a Bow, signifies Desire, or Torment.
  • Shooting a Bow, signifies Honour.
  • Feel a Burning, signifies Danger.
  • Manage Business of great concern∣ment, signifies Obstruction.

C.

To Dream that you

• Make Candles, signifies Rejoycing.
• See Candles burning, signifies Anger.
• See Candles not lighted, signifies Reward for something you have done.
• Eat Carrion, signifies Sadness.
• Eat Cheese, signifies Profit and Gain.
• See Children born, signifies Damage.

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  • Discourse with JESUS CHRIST, shews Consolation.
  • Build a Church, or erect an Altar, signifies that some of your Kindred or Family will be made a Priest.
  • See yourself sitting or lying in a Church, signifies change of Apparel.
  • Hear Clocks strike, signifies Infancy.
  • Have a new Suit of Cloaths, signi∣fies Honour.
  • See your Cloaths burnt, is an ill Sign.
  • See yourself in Black Cloaths, sig∣nifies Joy.
  • Take your Cloaths to put them on, signifies Loss.
  • Come out of a Coach, signifies your being degraded from great Honour, and Disgrace upon a Criminal Ac∣count.
  • See Dead Coals, signifies expediti∣on of Business.
  • See burning Coals, signifies Shame and Reproach.
  • Hear a Cock crow, is Prosperity.
  • Command any one, signifies Trou∣ble.
  • See one Command, signifies Anger and Authority.

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  • See a comely Countenance, unlike your own, signifies Honour.
  • See Cream spilt upon you, signifie the Infusion of some Grace by the Ho∣ly Ghost.
  • See a Cross carried along, signifie Sadness.
  • Carry a Crown of Gold in you•• Hand, signifies Honour and Dignity
  • Wear a Crown of Gold upon you•• Head, signifies Wrangling and Con∣tention.
  • Wear a party-colour'd Crown, sig∣nifies Temperature of the Weather.

D.

To Dream that you

• See Darkness, signifies Sin.
• Give any thing to one that is Dead signifies Loss.
• Destroy any Place, signifies Decei••
• See yourself with the Devil, signi∣fies Gain.
• Fall in the Dirt, signifies Treach••∣ry or Disturbance by some Person •• other.
• Go over a Ditch upon a sma•• Plank, signifies deceit by Lawyers.
• Go to divine Service, signifies Hon∣our and Joy.
• Hear Dogs bark, and to be disturb••

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  • thereat, signifies the overthrow of Enemies.
  • Play with a Dog, is a good Sign.
  • See Dragons, signifies Gain.
  • Are Drunk, signifies Sickness.

E.

To Dream that you

• See an Eagle fly over your Head, signifies Honour.
• See broken Eggs, is an ill Sign.
• Talk with an Enemy, signifies you must have a care of him.
• Lose your Eyes, signifies the Death of some good Friend.

F.

To Dream that you

• Wash your Face, signifies Repen∣tance of your Sin.
• See a black Face, signifies long Life.
• Carry a Faulcon upon your Fist, and walk with it, signifies Honour.
• Wash your Feet, signifies Molesta∣tion and Disturbance.
• Walk when your Feet are sore, sig∣nifies Fasting.
• Cut your Fingers, or see them Cut by another, signifies Damage.
• Fire fall from Heaven, signifies strange things that will ensue.
• See yourself thrown into a Fire, sig∣nifies Sickness, or violent heat by a Feaver.

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  • See Fire burning, signifies a Deluge, or change of Place.
  • See live Fish, is an ill Sign.
  • Eat Fleas, signifies Disquiet.
  • Gather Flowers, signifies Mirth and Jollity.
  • See a swarm of Flies, signifies Ene∣mies, and unreasonable Persons that will Scandalize you.
  • See a Fountain spring up in your House, signifies Profit and Honour.
  • See Fountains, and believe that you are inchanted, signifies Sadness.
  • Fall into a troubled Fountain, signi∣fies Accusation.
  • Fall into a clear Fountain, signifies Honour and Gain.
  • Walk in a Forrest, signifies Trou∣ble.
  • See your Friends or Relations dead, signifies Joy.

G.

To Dream that you

• Walk in a Garden signifies Joy.
• Have a red Garment on, signifies Blood, or Bleeding.
• See a Gelding, signifies Accusation.
• See a Gyant, or a large siz'd Person, is a good sign.
• See Persons hanging on a Gibbe••

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  • signifies Damage, and great Afflicti∣on.
  • Are girt with an old Girdle, signi∣fies Labour and Pains.
  • Have a new Girdle, signifies Ho∣nour.
  • Have an old worn Girdle, signifies Damage.
  • Worship God, signifies Joy.
  • Handle or chew Gold, signifies Gain Profit, and Joy.
  • Do Good to any one, signifies Jol∣lity.
  • Tread Grapes, signifies the Over∣throw of Enemies.
  • Gather white Grapes, signifies Da∣mage.
  • Fall on the Ground, signifies Dis∣honour and Scandal.

H.

To Dream that you

• Pluck the Hair off your Head, signi∣fies Loss of Friends.
• Have your Hair cut, signifies Loss.
• Have long Hair on your Head, sig∣nifies Harm.
• Have gray Hairs, signifies Gain, Profit, and Joy.
• Wash your Hands, signifies Disquiet and Vexation.

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  • Look upon your Hands, signifies Sick∣ness.
  • Have two Heads, signifies Company.
  • Wash your Heads, signifies Delive∣rance from Danger.
  • Feel a Heat, signifies Grief.
  • Ascend up to Heaven, signifies Gran∣deur.
  • Hear Hens Cackle, or that you catch them, signifies Joy.
  • See yourself turn'd into a Hen, sig∣nifies Disquiet.
  • See a Hen lay Eggs, signifies Gain.
  • See a Hen with her Chickens, signi∣fies Damage.
  • Walk upon Holy Ground, is a good Sign.
  • See Horses of several colours, sig∣nifies Expedition in Business.
  • See White Horses, signifies Joy.
  • See Black Horses, signifies Sadness.
  • See Red or Roan colour'd Horses, signifies Prosperity.
  • See Horses pace, signifies Mirth.
  • See a Horse mount, signifies Prospe∣rity.
  • Build an House, signifies Comfort.
  • Burn a House, and see it burnig, sig∣nifies Scandals will be thrown upon you, and loss of Estate.

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  • See the top of your House burn, sig∣nifies the Death of your Wife, Lord, or Friend's Wife.
  • See the Beam of a House fall, signi∣fies, the Death of some Grandee.
  • Go a Hunting, signifies some Accu∣sation.
  • See yourself become a Husbandman, signifies great Toil.
  • Sing a Hymn or Psalm, signifies Hin∣drance of Business.

I.

To Dream that you

• Are inchanted, signifies Secrets and Sorrows.
• See yourself hurt with Iron, signi∣fies Damage.
• Hear playing in Consort upon In∣struments, it signifies Consolution in Aduersity.
• Have eaten up your Intrails, signi∣fies Gain by the Death of your Dome∣sticks.

K.

To Dream that you

• Lose your Keys, signifies Anger.
• Kill a Man, signifies Assuredness of Business.
• Kill your Father, is a bad Sign.
• Receive Audience of the King, sig∣nifies Gain.

• ...
  • See the King or Queen, signifies Ho∣nour and Joy.
  • Receive a Gift of the King, or some Prince, signifies great Joy.
  • Discourse with the King, signifies Honour when absent.
  • Kiss a Person, signifies Loss.
  • Are Kiss'd by Men of great Quality, signifies Consolation.
  • Bestow a Knife upon any one, signi∣fies Injustice and Contention.

L.

To Dream that you

• Ascend a Ladder, signifies Honour.
• F••ed or bring a Lamb to the slaugh∣ter, signifies Torment.
• See a Lamb, or young Kid, signifies great Comfort.
• See the Body of our Lord, signifies Honour.
• Discourse with great Lords, or to go into any Place with them, signifies Honour.

M.

To Dream that you

• Carry a young Maid, signifies Joy.
• Take away a Maid by force, signi∣fies Poysoning.
• See Maids that are singing, signifies weeping.
• Eat Man's Flesh, signifies Labour and Trouble.

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  • Do the Act of Marriage, signifies Danger.
  • Marry, signifies Danger, and some∣times Death.
  • Take hold of the Privy Members, signifies that you have left the Faculty of Procreation.
  • See the Meat you have Eaten, signi∣fies Loss.
  • Drink Milk, is an extraordinary good Sign.
  • See Breasts full of Milk, signifies great Profit.
  • See the New Moon, signifies Expe∣dition of Business.
  • See the Moon decrease, signifies the Death of some Prince or great Lord.
  • See the Moon pale, is Joyfulness.
  • See the Moon dy'd with Blood, sig∣nifies Travel or Pilgrimage.
  • See the Moon dark, signifies Sad∣ness.
  • See the Moon fall from the Firma∣ment, signifies Sickness.
  • See two Moons appear, is increase of Sorrow.
  • See your Mother living, signifies Joy.
  • See your Mother Dead, signifies Misfortune.

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  • Lie with your Mother, signifies cer∣tainty in Dispatch of Business.
  • Ascend a very high Mountain, sig∣nifies Honour.

N.

To Dream that you

• Ride on a white, grey, or dapled Nag, signifies Prosperity.
• Bite your Nails, signifies Wrangling and Vexation.
• Are stark Naked, signifies Loss and Damage in your Estate.
• See Fishing-nets is an ill Sign.
• Take hold of ones Nose, signifies Fornication.

O.

To Dream that you

• Make an Ointment, signifies Vexa∣tion and Trouble.
• See Old Folks, is a bad Sign.
• Hear the Sound of Organs, signi∣fies Joy.
• See an Oven burning hot, signifies change of Place.
• See fat Oxen, signifies a fruitful Year.
• See lean Oxen, signifies Scarcity of Provision and Famine.
• See black Oven, signifies Danger.
• See Oxen plowing in the Field, sig∣nifies Gain.

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  • Feed Oxen, is a good Sign.
  • See Oxen go to Water, is a bad Sign.

P.

To Dream that you

• Write on Paper, signifies Accusa∣tion.
• Write on, or read in Paper, signifies News.
• Blot or tear your Paper, signifies the ••••ll ordering of Business.
• Bray, or pound Pepper, signifies ••elancholly.
• Dispute with Philosophers, signifies Profit and Gain.
• Are turn'd a Physition, signifies Chearfulness.
• Give or take Physick, signifies li∣••ing in Poverty.
• See your Picture drawn, signifies long Life.
• Fall into a Pit or Ditch, signifies the Loss of a Cause or Suit in Law.
• Put up Prayers and Supplications to God, signifies Happiness.

Q.

To Dream that you

• See the King or Queen, signifies Hon∣or and Joy.
• See Quails, signifies bad News at Sea, Pi••acy, Ambusca••oes, and Trea∣••hery.

R.

To Dream that you

• Hear a Raven croak, signifies Sad∣ness.
• See a Raven fly over you, signifies Danger and Damage.
• See Ravens flying, signifies Com∣plaints and Sadness.
• See it Rain, signifies great Riches.
• Bestow a Ring upon any one, sig∣nifies Damage.
• See a River flow into your House, signifies plenty of Riches.
• See a troubled River, signifies An∣noy and Discontent.
• See a River flow out of your House, signifies that your Life is in danger, or some Loss that will accrew by Injury done to you.
• See a clear River glide along, sig∣nifies Security.
• Have Rods in your Hands is Jollity.
• Eat Roots, signifies Discord.
• Eat Roast-meat, signifies falling in∣to Sin.
• See Red-roses, siignifies Joy and Recreation.

S.

To Dream that you

• Eat a Sallad, signifies Evil or Sickness that will happen.

• ...
  • Eat Salt Meat, signifies a Disease.
  • Study the Sciences, signifies Chear∣fulness.
  • Wash yourself in the Sea, signifies Loss and Damage.
  • Catch Sea-Fish, it is a bad Sign.
  • Fight with Serpents and Adders, signifies the Overthrow of Enemies.
  • See many Serpents, signifies that you will be deceiv'd by a Woman.
  • Hear a shaking, signifies Deceit, which will happen to the Dreamer in the place where he Dreams.
  • See Ships full fraught with Goods, signifies Prosperity,
  • See Ships endanger'd by a Tempest, signifies Peril.
  • Sail in a Ship, or see Ships sailing, is a good Sign.
  • Have old Shooes and Stockings, sig∣nifies Sadness.
  • Have new Shooes and Stockens, sig∣nifie Comfort.
  • See Old Shooes, signifies Loss.
  • See yourself sick; signifies Sadness or Imprisonment.
  • Are cloatned with Silk, signifies Honour.
  • See Silver eaten, signifies great Ad∣vantage.

• ...
  • Eat Silver, signifies Wrath and An∣ger.
  • See your deceased Brothers and Sist∣ers, signifies long Life.
  • Marry your Sisters, signifies Dan∣ger.
  • Talk with your Son, signifies Da∣mage.
  • Take a Sparrow-hawk, signifies Gain.
  • Have a Staff in your Hand, signifies Sickness.
  • See the Stars of Heaven, signifies Loss to the Emperour, or your own Lord.
  • See the Sun clear, signifies Assured∣ness among Great Persons, who will accomplish th••ir Designs.
  • See the Sun in a Cloud, signifies Dan∣ger to the said Great Persons.
  • See the Sun and Moon fall together, is an ill Sign.
  • Taste sweet things, signifies Sub∣tility.
  • Trade in Swine or Lead, signifies Sickness.

T.

To Dream that you

• See Tapstery or Pictures, signifies Treachery, Deceit, and Cozenage.

• ...
  • Draw out your Teeth, signifies Death.
  • Lose your Teeth, signifies Honour: It signifies also the Death of some near Relation or in intimate Friend.
  • Walk upon Thorns, signifies De∣struction of Enemies.
  • Unsettl'd in your Thoughts, signi∣fies Joy.
  • Are turn'd into a Tree, signifies Sickness.
  • Sell Trees, signifies Loss.
  • See Trees, or are Climbing them, signifies future Honour.
  • See wither'd Trees, signifies Deceit.
  • See Trees bearing Fruit, signifies Gain and Profit.
  • See Trees without Blossom, signifies Expedition in Business.
  • See yourself chang'd into a Tree, signifies Joy and Profit.

V.

To Dream that you

• Eat Variety of Meats, signifies Loss.
• Embark in a small Vessel, signifies Sickness.
• Drink Vinegar, the same.
• Discourse with the Virgin Mary, signifies Joy.
• Undo a Man, signifies Sickness.

W.

To Dream that you

• Walk apace or run, signifies Gain.
• Drink clear Water, is a good Sign.
• Drink hot Water, signifies Sickness.
• Drink stinking Water, signifies a Violent Distemper.
• Bathe in stinking Water, signifies Shame and false Accusation.
• Fall into the Water, signifies Death, or Danger to your Person.
• Cleanse a Well, or fall into it, sig∣nifies Injury.
• Drink white Wine, signifies Health.
• Eat white Bread, signifies Gain.
• Lie with a Whore, signifies certain∣ty in dispatch of Business.
• Hear your Wife Scold, signifies great Torment.
• Drink Sophisticated Wine, is an ex∣traordinary good Sign.
• See She▪ goats, or Wolves, signi∣fies that you will be Robb'd.
• Marry a Wife, signifies Loss.
• Take away a Woman, signifies change of Place.
• See yourself turn'd Woman, signifies Sickness.
• See a Woman naked, signifies the Death of some Person.

• ...
  • Walk in the Dirt, or among Thorns, signifies Sickness.
  • Walk in the Water of some Tor∣rent, signifies Adversity and Grief.
  • Write Letters to your Friends, or receive Letters from them, signifies good News.
  • Walk in the Night, signifies Trou∣ble or Melancholly.
  • See and eat Almonds, Wall-nuts and Hazle-nuts, signifies Difficulty and Trouble.
  • Are stung by Wasps, signifies Vexa∣tion and Troubles, occasion'd by en∣vious Persons.
  • A Woman runs, it signifies Dis∣grace and Damage.
  • Trade with a Stranger in Wool, it signifies Profit.
  • Carry Wood upon your Back, it signifies to the Rich Servitude, to the Poor Profit.
  • Piss against a Wall, signifies Assist∣ance in Business.
  • Come out of your Mother's Womb, it signifies being freed from unlucky Business, and rais'd to Preferment.