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PoJ} mediam Jiofiem ubi Somnia I'era, 



will apply to all Dreams, as well as to true Dreams. 



^intOy In our Dreams we have no Memory, nor make any di- 

 ftindion of time paft, prefent, and future ; and therefore every thing 

 in a Dream, whether paft or future, is reprefented to us as prefent, 

 without any recolledlion of what is paft, or forefight of what is to 

 come : For this reafon it is, that, in our Dreams, we fee and con- 

 verfe with people dead, as if they were alive ; and things that are to 

 happen appear to us as if we were fpedators of them. 



SextOy Our waking thoughts, our ftudies, occupations, and the e- 

 vents of our life, have no doubt a great influence upon our Dreams, 

 and very often furnifh the fubjed of them. It is therefore, in a 

 great meafure, true what Petronius fays. 



-cum projlratafopore 



Urgct membra qiiies, et mens Jine pondere ludit ; 

 ^idquid lucefuit, tenebris agit. Oppida bello 

 ^li quatit, et Jtcunmis mtferandas fae'vat in urbes^ 

 'Tela videt, 'uerfafque acies, etfuncra regum^ 

 Atque exundantes perfufo f anguine campos. 

 ^li caiifas orare folent^ lege/que fonimque 

 Et pav'ido cernunt inclufum corde tribunal. 

 Condit ai'arus opes^ defojfwnque invenii aurum. 

 Venator faltus canibus quatit. Eripit undis^ 

 Aut premit cverfum periturus navita puppim. 

 Scribit amatori meretrix. Dat adultera munus. 

 Et canis injhmmis leporis 'vejligia la t rat. 

 In no^is fpatio miferorum vulnera durant. 



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