Page:Groat's worth of wit for a penny.pdf/15

( 15 ) To dream you are caſt away in a ſhipwreck, denotes great loſſes in goods and eſtate. To dream of ribbons and gay plumes of feathers, denotes amendment of fortune. To dream of your grave or tomb, promiſes you children but loſs of memory. To dream you fly in the air ſignifies trouble. To dream you dance aloft in ſome high place threatens danger, or the party will be hanged. To dream one wears a garland, promiſes the party honour, repute, and preferment. To dream your living friends are dead, is a ſign they are in health. To dream one is in danger of being killed denotes deliverance from great danger. To dream you embrace without power to ſpeak, denotes the party to fall in love, but ſhall not obtain the party deſired. To dream of ſinging and muſic, denotes you fall ſoon hear of the marriage of ſome relation. To dream you hear magpies chatter, ſignifies brawling and contention. For a barren woman to dream ſhe embraces one of her own ſex, denotes that in time ſhe ſhall have children; but to a fruitful woman, it denotes pain and ſorrow in child-bearing. For lovers to dream they fall out and quarrel, ſignifies conſtancy and affection. To dream you ſee a little ſpring increaſe to a river or lake, figuifies an increaſe of riches and preferment. To dream of young birds ſignifies child birth.