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To dream of seeing strange apparitions,
As devils, hobgoblins, and such visions,
Does shew thy love, or thy sweetheart,
Hath a fair face but devil's heart.
Dreams of sack-possets and sweet meat,
Or drinking wine with pleasure great.
And all dreams pleasant in condition,
Shews sports of love, and love's fruition.
Dreams of wandering over plains,
Walking in cross-ways and lanes,
And being in thick woods quite lost,
Declare that lovers shall be crost.
Dreams of lions, bears, bulls, bees,
Nests of wasps or hornets; these
Are emblems whereby are exprest
Discord with those whom you love best.
Dreams of rivers, ships and horses,
Of snow and frost, and of dead corpses,
Are signs by which it may be read,
Your sweetheart's love is cold or dead.
Who dream of deer, of hounds, of chases
Or being at once in many places:
Passions of love shall every where,
Haunt their poor hearts as hounds do deer
