Which haue no life; others againe there are, As Men and Brutes, that haue in either ſhare. So betwixt theſe muſt be by conſequence; Vnbodied things that haue both like and ſence Angels and Spirits proued from dreames.
And these the Spirits, Dreames will teach vs plaine, By their euents, that ſuch about vs raine, To warne vs of the future. Thus we read;
The Dreame of Simonides.
Simonides finding a body dead, Gaue it due rights of buriall; with intent, Next day to take leaue of the Continent, And to be ſhipt to ſea. But the ſame night, This body, without terror or affright, Appear’d to him, and warn’d him to refraine His purpos’d voyage; for is he the Maine Prov’d the next day, in that Barke he did hire, He ſhould by Shipwracke periſh and expire. Forwarn’d, he left his paſſage; and ‘twas found, The Ship was that day ſunke, and people drown’d. Now whence can any gueſſe this Viſion came, Vnleſſe ‘twere from a Spirit? for what name
Sylla a noble man in Rome.
Can the elſe giue it? Sylla in a dreame Was told, his death was neere: in feare extreame He wakes, he riſes, calls his friends, his ſtare In order ſets; yet all this while no Fate Did ſeeme to threat him: neither ſence of paine Had he that time either in breaſt or braine. Which his Friends feeling, did his dreame deride: Yet he that day was apoplext, and dy’de.
Sabellicus.
Brutus and Caſsius in a battell ſet, With great Auguſtus at Philippi met: The night before the conflict, Ceſar, cras’d, Kept both his tent and bed; which much amas’d The general Hoſt. Marcus Artorius, then His chiefe Phyſition, (of all other men Moft chary of his perſon) in his ſleepe Was by Minerva warn’d, The Prince ſhould keepe His bed no longer, but in any caſe Be in the battels front, the Foe t’outface: For of this (done or not done) was enſuing His future ſafety, or his preſent ruin. Auguſtus was perſuaded, left his tent, And mounted on his ſteed. Obſerue th’euent: The toile and labour that he tooke that day,