{"collection":"myth-cosmogony","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_71045/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_71045","id":"gutenberg_71045","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71045","summary":null,"tags":["Category: History - Early Modern (c. 1450-1750)","Category: Mythology, Legends & Folklore","Dream interpretation","Fortune-telling","Fortune-telling by moles"],"text":"THE\n                             INTERPRETATION\n                                   OF\n                                 DREAMS\n                                  AND\n                                 MOLES,\n                      WITH OTHER CURIOUS MATTERS,\n                              RELATING TO\n                          LOVE AND COURTSHIP.\n\n\n                               CONTENTS.\n\n1. Opinions of Philosophers and Sages on this subject.\n\n2. Dreams and Moles interpreted.\n\n3. Advice to Bachelors, Maids, Widowers, & Widows.\n\n4. Exact Rules, whereby a Man or Woman may know if they shall obtain\nthe one they love.\n\n5. How to chuse a good Husband or a virtuous Wife.\n\n6. Signs of Love and speedy Marriage, also the Signs of Crosses and\nDisappointments in Love.\n\n7. Palmistry, or how to discover the good or ill fortune of Individuals\nby certain characters or semblance of letters on the hand.\n\n8. Significations of Lines on the Hand, relative to Love, Marriage, or\nBusiness.\n\n9. A Prognostication concerning the birth of Children on every day of\nthe week.\n\n10. A division of Man\u2019s Age into twelve times six periods and the duty\nof each.\n\n                          Newcastle upon Tyne:\n            Printed by J. Marshall in the Old Flesh-Market,\n       _Where may also be had, a large and interesting Collection\n               of Songs, Ballads, Tales, Histories, &c._\n\n\n\n\n                                  THE\n\n                            INTERPRETATION\n\n                                  OF\n\n                           DREAMS AND MOLES.\n\n\n\n\n                             INTRODUCTION.\n\n\nDreams, though some, very ignorant in such rare mysteries, have\nslighted them, are, by the Sages and Wise Men of all ages, considered\nvery significant; and that the soul, when the body reposes, being\ndisencumbered from gross and weighty cares for the flesh, by this\nunknown mysterious way confabulates or converses with Spirits of\nAngels, who bring to its knowledge future events, very strange and\nwonderful; as in scripture we find it in Pharaoh\u2019s, Nebuchadnezzar\u2019s,\nand other dreams, that exactly came to pass, according to their\ninterpretations. But not to prolong the matter, I proceed, by the rules\nof art, to give the interpretation of Dreams.\n\n\n\n\n                         _DREAMS INTERPRETED._\n\n\nTo dream one is flying in the air, promises hasty news.\n\nTo dream one swims with pleasure in tossing water, denotes overcoming\nsome difficult matter you have in hand.\n\nTo dream you hear birds sing melodiously, betokens joy to people in\nhealth; and to the sick, recovery.\n\nTo dream one presents you with a gold ring, and puts it on your finger,\nor ties on your garter on your right leg, it foreshews speedy marriage\nto either party.\n\nTo dream you are dancing in a jolly company, signifies much joy and\nmirth in the course of the following day.\n\nTo dream some furious beast pursues you, and you cannot avoid it,\nbetokens your enemies will prevail against you.\n\nTo dream you are stung or bitten by serpents or insects, denotes\nmischief to come from malicious and private enemies.\n\nTo dream you meet a lion, who fawns on you, denotes the favour of great\nones.\n\nTo dream you meet a black coffin, with mourners, denotes the death of a\nfriend.\n\nTo dream that a dove is on your hand, or in your view, means constancy.\n\nTo dream that one fights and overcomes, denotes success in what you are\ncontending for, or escaping dangers.\n\nTo dream you are washing your hands, and the dirt comes clean off,\nsignifies you shall perform some great enterprize.\n\nTo dream your eyes or teeth fall out, denotes sickness or death of\nchildren, or some intimate friend or relation.\n\nTo dream one\u2019s shoes fall off, or are old and torn, denotes poverty and\ndistress.\n\nTo dream a horse runs away with you, denotes unexpected business, not\npleasant.\n\nTo dream a gold ring breaks, and falls from your finger, denotes the\nloss of a lover, or some dear friend.\n\nTo dream you are sailing on a calm sea, denotes a peaceable life; but\nsuddenly overtaken in a storm, trouble and affliction.\n\nTo dream of courting a beautiful woman, betokens crosses and vexation.\n\nTo dream you put on very fine clothes, denotes to both sexes high\npreferment.\n\nTo dream you hunt a hare, but cannot take her, denotes the loss of some\nmatter you are in earnest pursuit of.\n\nTo dream your lover is absent, when he is actually at home, means he\nwill neglect you; but if he is really absent, it means that he is true.\n\nTo dream you endeavour to fly, and cannot, betokens imprisonment, or\nsome restraint of what you are in pursuit of.\n\nA virgin dreaming she is putting on a new garment, denotes an\nalteration of her condition by marriage or otherwise.\n\nTo dream you see a piece of paper in flames, denotes the party will be\nhappy in a marriage state in friends and affection.\n\nTo dream one receives a letter, denotes love and constancy, or that the\nparty shall have satisfaction in what he desires.\n\nTo dream one puts on new white gloves denotes the marriage of friends;\nbut black ones, their death, or removal to a distance.\n\nFor a woman to dream she is with child, denotes sorrow and hard labour;\nbut to dream she is delivered, the contrary.\n\nTo dream you see a withered tree sprouting out, denotes children in old\nage.\n\nTo dream you are cast away in a shipwreck, denotes losses in goods and\nestate.\n\nTo dream of ribbons and gay plumes of feathers, denotes increase of\nfortune.\n\nTo dream of your grave or tomb, promises you children, but loss of\nmemory.\n\nTo dream that your lover is driving a pig, denotes that he is of a\nheadstrong disposition, and likely to prove a drunkard.\n\nTo dream you are among sheep, means repose from trouble. To dream you\nmeet a flock is lucky.\n\nTo dream you dance aloft in some high place, threatens danger, or that\nthe party will be in danger of an untimely end.\n\nTo dream one wears a garland promises the party honour, repute, and\npreferment.\n\nTo dream your living friends are dead, is a sign they are in health.\n\nTo dream one is in danger of being killed, denotes deliverance from\ndanger.\n\nTo dream you embrace, without power to speak, denotes the party to fall\nin love, but shall not obtain the person desired.\n\nTo dream of singing and music, denotes you shall soon hear of the\nmarriage of some very near friend or relation.\n\nTo dream you hear magpies chatter, denotes brawling and contention.\n\nFor a barren woman to dream she embraces one of her own sex, denotes\nthat in time she shall have children, but to a fruitful woman it\ndenotes very great pain and sorrow in child bearing.\n\nFor lovers to dream they fall out and quarrel, signifies constancy and\naffection.\n\nTo dream you see a little spring increase to a river or lake, signifies\nan increase of riches and great preferment in the world.\n\nTo dream that you are climbing mountains or rocks, means that your love\nis vain or not returned.\n\nTo dream of a house on fire means anger.\n\nTo dream of young birds, signifies that the person will soon get news\nof child-birth.\n\nTo dream one receives a letter, denotes good success in love, or the\nspeedy arrival of absent friends.\n\nTo dream of storms and a troubled sky, denotes that the person will get\nanger.\n\nTo dream of the chattering of swallows, denotes sickness or other\ninfirmities.\n\nFor a maid to dream that she kisses her sweetheart, is a sign of true\nlove and affection, and that they will soon be joined in marriage.\n\nTo see great feasts, and partake of them, signifies plenty; but if you\nare debarred from eating them, want and poverty.\n\nTo dream you catch great store of fish, denotes you will attain to\ngreat riches.\n\nTo dream of dead relations, promises you will soon see some friend.\n\nTo dream you receive money is lucky; but to dream of finding money,\ndenotes that you will meet with a very great disappointment.\n\nFor a maid to write the numeral figures in her own name, and lay them\nunder her pillow, on the first Friday in the month, if she dreams she\nsees any person writting or casting up accounts, she may expect to have\nsudden overtures of marriage, and a happy life.\n\nTo dream of a great fire, signifies sickness, or discontent with the\nperson\u2019s lot.\n\nTo dream the sun shines bright in your house, foretells very great\nprosperity.\n\nTo dream you see an egg hang by a string at your bed head, signifies\nfinding great store of hidden treasure.\n\nTo dream of shaking hands, signifies to both sexes, courtship and love.\n\nTo dream of young birds, doth signify to woman, child-birth.\n\nTo dream you are bit by a serpent, signifies some danger will befal you\nby secret and subtile enemies.\n\nTo dream you fly in the air, signifies a speedy journey, or some hasty\nnews.\n\nTo dream that you fight and overcome, signifies you will get the better\nin law suits, or other controversies.\n\nTo dream a lion fawns upon you, denotes the favour of great persons.\n\nTo dream of black coffins and mourners, denotes the death of some\nloving friend or relation.\n\nTo dream you see a friend dead, denotes the party to be in good health.\n\nTo dream of bees denotes active friends, or if they sting, busy\nenemies, or the buzzing of evil reports.\n\nTo dream of milking cows denotes a wealthy lover.\n\n\n\n\n                                   A\n\n                          TREATISE ON MOLES,\n\n                      AND THEIR PROGNOSTICATION.\n\n\nA Mole on the forehead of a man or woman, denotes they shall grow\nrich, and obtain great possessions, being beloved by their friends and\nneighbours.\n\nA Mole appearing on the upper side of the right temple, in either sex,\ndenotes another on the extremity of the belly; signifying to a man a\nsteady fortune, and a continuation of riches; and to a woman, a happy\nmarriage, and a peaceful life.\n\nA man or woman having a Mole near the eye-brow on the right temple,\ndenotes another on the right loin, signifying the party will gain\nmuch esteem, favour, love and advantage, and considerable riches, by\nlegacies, dowries, and reversions.\n\nA Mole on the throat, on the left side of the wind-pipe, denotes\nanother on the right side of the hip, and signifies that the person,\nif a man, will suffer much by falls and bruises; but if a woman, it\nprognosticates danger by water or lightning.\n\nA Mole on the right side of the face, behind the eye, denotes another\non the right side of the buttock or haunch; signifying much honour and\npreferment to befall a man; and to a woman, much praise for her virtue,\nand a continuation of prosperity.\n\nA Mole appearing on the right side of the temple, in the lower part,\ninclining somewhat towards the neck, denotes another on the right ribs;\nshews a man to be of natural promptness, and industrious; and thereby\nobtaining great riches: to a woman it promises good fortune, long life,\nmodesty, and chastity.\n\nA Mole on the left side of the face, towards the upper part of the\ncorner of the eye, denotes another under the left loin or thigh;\nsignifies, to either sex, peril in travel, and dangerous diseases, with\ngreat trouble, discontent, and sometimes a violent and very sudden\ndeath.\n\nA Mole on the left side of the temple, near the eye-lid, in a man or\nwoman, denotes another on the left side of the buttock; and betokens a\nrustic, harsh, and sordid temper, and that the party shall be held in\ncontempt by their acquaintances.\n\nA Mole appearing on the left side of the face, near the corner of the\neye, denotes another on the left buttock, signifying much sickness and\ntrouble, many thwartings and unexpected crosses and disappointments.\n\nA Mole on the left cheek, inclining towards the lower part of the ear,\ndenotes another on the left thigh; and signifies, to a man, sorrow\nand anguish, crosses by children, and losses by goods or estate; and\nthreatening woman with great trouble, and danger of death in child bed.\n\nA Mole on the upper part of the right ear, denotes another on the right\nside of the belly; signifying to a man, he will commit such crimes as\nwill cause him to fall into the hands of Justice, and endanger his\nlife; and denotes a woman to be false, cruel, and of a very inconstant\ndisposition.\n\nA Mole on the lower part of the tip of the ear, denotes another on the\nright side; and predicts a man or woman liable to hurts and bruises\nby falls or blows, with many other casualties, which may very much\nendanger their lives and property.\n\nA Mole on the outside of the upper parts of the left ear of a man or\nwoman, denotes another on the left side of the belly; which threatens\nthe former with great misfortunes, and the latter with infamy and\ndisgrace, though very undeserved.\n\nA Mole on the chin of a woman denotes her to be of a hasty, crabbed,\nill-natured disposition; but on a man it denotes mildness.\n\nA Mole on the middle of the left ear, shews the like is to be found\non the lower part of the left side; denoting a man to be of an evil\nnature, cruel and inhuman; and to a woman it portends great trouble and\nshort life.\n\nA Mole on the lower part of the left ear shews the like on the lower\npart of the left side; denoting a man to fall into great trouble by\nmeans of women, by quarrelling and fighting on their behalf; and\nbetokens a woman to be of a mischievous disposition, one who should be\ndetested, threatening her with the commission of murder, by poison or\notherwise.\n\nA Mole on the lower part of the eye-lid, between the hollow of the eye\nand the beginning of the nose, in either sex, shews another on the\nright side of the privy-part, denoting a man much beloved and admired\nby the women, and fortunate in marriage; and a woman to be ingenuous,\nchaste, and faithful.\n\nA Mole under the hollow of the right eye, by the inward part of the\nnose, denotes another on the middle of the body, above the members,\nsignifying a man to be hasty, proud, and furious; and a woman to\nbe self-conceited, vain-glorious, and of a very weak and shallow\nunderstanding, though a great pretender to knowledge in every respect.\n\n\n\n\n                                ADVICE\n\n                                TO ALL\n\n               _Bachelors, Maids, Widowers, and Widows_.\n\n\nThere are certain Rules which must be observed in Courtship: And\nfirst, to maids who have not possessed their first blushes, your first\naddresses must be with gentleness and modesty, lest you fright them\nwith an opinion that you are rude and uncivil of behaviour, and rather\naim at debauching them than at marriage: And you must be brisk with\nthem, or they will take you for a drone without a sting.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nWidows, especially the young ones, are gamesome and buxom, for having\nonce smelt to the spit, they always love a good joint; those you must\nentertain with some merry discourse, and lay aside whining or solemn\nprotestations; kiss them till their ears crack; and when you find a\nconvenient time and place, warm them with caresses, squeezing their\nhand, gently treading on their toes; and when you kiss, bear close to\nthem, and you will soon perceive, by their eager looks, blushing, and\ntheir often changing of colour, that now is the time to ask a favour,\nto which you will have a faint denial, if any at all, and then make use\nof your time, and press forward without delays, for they are dangerous;\nand many a fair opportunity has slipt, that could not be recovered,\nthough earnestly pursued.\n\nAs for maids or widows, if you like a brisk man, and are bashful, you\nmay use dumb signs, which is called love\u2019s silent language, gaze on his\nface; then, when he perceives it, suddenly take off your eyes, and turn\nyour head aside, blush naturally, forcingly hold in your breathing,\nand start a little when first you see him at any time, as if you\nwere surprized; if he takes you by the hand, grasp him with a little\ntrembling, and then seem to withdraw your hand again, as if uneasy. If\nhe kisses you, stay your lips on his awhile, with great affection; and\nhe must be very dull that will not take these for the signs of tender\nlove.\n\nAbove all things, either man or woman ought to conduct themselves with\nperfect modesty and decorum, in the presence of those they esteem, as\nit is the most certain method of gaining their esteem and love.\n\nMore might be said on this subject, but nature and practice are the\nbest instructors.\n\n\n\n\n                             EXACT RULES,\n\n  _Whereby a Man or Woman may know if they shall obtain the one they\n                                love_.\n\n\nTo know this, which hath been held for a great secret, put their\nChristian and Sirnames together, and consider what numbers the letters\nmake that stand for numbers in them; as the I, stands for one; V, for\nfive; X, for ten; L, for fifty; C, for a hundred; M, for a thousand; D,\nfor five hundred, &c. Write every letter on a separate piece of paper,\nroll them up, and put the billets into any thing, and then shake them\ntogether: And, in drawing, if the number of your names comes up to what\nit would, in so many billets which, you put in for, you will be happy\nin your desire; but if a cross number arise, you will meet with many\ndisappointments.\n\n\n\n\n     _How a Young Man or Woman may choose a good Husband or Wife._\n\n\nThe hair in this case is commonly very remarkable and most significant.\n\nBlack hair signifies the person rash, choleric, given much to quarrels\nand strife; but if it be soft and pliable, the person is moderately\nmeek and humble, of a free temper and good nature.\n\nDark brown hair signifies an indifferent good temper loving and\naffable, one easy to be wrought on with good usage.\n\nLight brown hair, that is not harsh or broken at the ends, shews the\nparty very loving and good natured, industrious and patient in the\npleasure of marriage.\n\nFlaxen hair is Venus\u2019s own colour, and rarely fails, in any one, to\nrender a soft, kind temper, usually of a fair and sanguine complexion,\nvery amorous, and apt to love.\n\nDusky red hair, shews the person melancholy, and of a morose temper,\nnot much subject to love, but covetous, and anxious to obtain honour\nand riches.\n\nBright or deep red hair shews the party to be very lecherous; one that\nwill have many children, and very pleasing in marriage; yet apt to\nstray if satisfaction in marriage fails. It also signifieth the party\nwise and industrious, not designed for great riches.\n\nAny colours that are intermixed between these, participate equally of\nthe temper, qualities, good nature, and humours, that I have mentioned\nin the degrees of mixtures. And thus many a man or woman may make their\nconjecture, and so be happy.\n\n\n\n\n _Signs of Love and speedy Marriage, or the contrary, by seeing or\n meeting divers sorts of creatures at first in the mornings and various\n other circumstances._\n\n\nThese signs of love and marriage, have been greatly taken notice of, in\ntheir exact succeeding, according to the desire of the parties, and are\nas follows, _viz._\n\n 1. For a woman to have the first and last letters of her Christian\n name the same with the man\u2019s Sir-name that makes love to her, denotes\n a happy union, and that the man will be a generous lover.\n\n 2. For the man to have the first and last letters of his Christian\n name the same with the woman\u2019s Sir-name, denotes the same.\n\n 3. To think on a person upon sudden waking, without any meditation,\n upon a Friday morning, that before had a place in the affections of a\n man or woman, is a demonstration that love or extraordinary friendship\n will take place between them.\n\n 4. If a ring accidently fall off a man\u2019s finger that is under no\n obligation of marriage, and runs directly to the foot of a maid or\n widow, it denotes not only he is in love with the party, but that a\n sudden marriage will ensue between them.\n\n 5. If a robin red-breast comes fluttering to your window, and sings\n very pleasantly, perching near it, it denotes a very speedy marriage.\n\n 6. If a hare start in your way, and run on your right hand, you will\n have success in love affairs; but if she cross you, or run on the left\n hand, it denotes you will be interrupted by others as rivals.\n\n 7. If swallows chatter merrily, and sing in the chimney of the chamber\n where you lie, it denotes you will have many sweethearts, and be\n kindly treated.\n\n 8. Bats fluttering at your window, betokens misfortunes in love. The\n croaking of ravens being the first thing you hear in the morning,\n denotes the same.\n\n 9. To meet a sow, on first going out in the morning, carrying straw in\n her mouth, denotes that a maid or widow will soon be married, and be\n fruitful in children.\n\n 10. To hear magpies chatter, and flying about as you walk abroad,\n denotes much strife and brawling in marriage.\n\n 11. If walking abroad with your sweetheart you perceive a pair of\n pigeons encircle you round, it is a sign of marriage and happiness to\n ensue, with contentment.\n\n 12. If one drops their garter, when going to see their sweetheart, it\n denotes they will meet with a cold reception.\n\n\n\n\n                _How to choose a good Husband or Wife._\n\n\n1. If the man be of a ruddy complexion, high and full nosed, his\neye-brows bending archwise, his eyes standing full, of a black and\nlively colour it denotes him to be good natured, ingenious, and born to\ngood fortune; and the same of a woman, if she be born under the planet\nJupiter.\n\n2. If a party be phlegmatic, lean, and of a dusky complexion, and much\ngiven to musing or melancholy, beware of such an one, of what sex\nsoever.\n\n3. An indifferent wide mouth, with full cheeks, smooth forehead, little\nears, dark brown hair, and a chin proportionable to the face, is very\npromising.\n\n4. An extraordinary thin chin, with the under lip larger than the\nupper, signifies a cross grained person, fit for little performance,\nyet given to great folly.\n\n5. A long nose on a man, and a little mouth in a woman, signifies\nneither can be deceived in their marriage views.\n\n6. A well set broad chin in a man, his face being round, and not too\ngreat, and a dimple or dint in a woman\u2019s cheek or chin, denotes they\nwill come together, and live happy in their married state.\n\n\n\n\n                           ART OF PALMISTRY.\n\n _Several Characters or Semblance of Letters and Lines in the Hand, as\n they tend to signify Riches, Honour, long Life, short Life, Poverty,\n Loss, number of Wives, or Children, Sickness; untimely Death and many\n other things, according to the Art of Palmistry._\n\n\nThere are in this case divers Letters and Lines appearing in the hand,\nby which the wise of all ages have given judgment, in the foregoing\npremises.\n\n 1. If the character A, be found on the mount of _Jupiter_, or the\n root of the middle finger, it promises a growing fortune, and perhaps\n considerable preferment, by the favour of princes and great men.\n\n 2. If a B be found on the mount of the _Sun_, which is at the root of\n the fourth finger, it signifies length of days, prosperity, much to be\n credited, also a virtuous person.\n\n 3. If O, with a star over it, appears on the mount of _Venus_, it\n gives the person early and happy marriage, promises many children, and\n a merry and happy life.\n\n 4. If the letter L be on the mount of _Saturn_, which is at the root\n of the middle finger, and be cut with cross lines, it denotes the\n party to undergo much affliction, to be given up to melancholy, and\n to be but very tender and of short life, &c.\n\n 5. the letter K, upon the mount of _Mercury_, which is at the root\n of the little finger, denotes the party to rise to preferment by\n ingenuity and a happy marriage.\n\n 6. The letter D, on the mount of the Moon, denotes the party to be\n kind and good-natured, and much beloved.\n\n 7. The letter G, in the plain of _Mars_, near the line of life,\n speaks the party to be of a violent temper, given up to anger, and\n threatens him or her with sudden or untimely death: However, to a\n woman it promises a good husband, that shall grow great in military\n affairs.--Thus much for the characters of this kind on the hand.\n\n\n\n\n    _Lines in the Hand, and their Significations, relating to Love,\n                       Marriage, Business, &c._\n\n\n1. If the Table Line be broad, fair, and well coloured, it signifies\nthe party, if a man, will have two wives; if a woman, as many husbands,\nand lucky marriages.\n\n2. If the Line of life extends itself from the root of the fore finger\nto the mount of the Moon, or the brawn of the hand, it then denotes\nlong life: but if it be cut short, and divided by many crosses, the\ncontrary.\n\n3. If the girdle of _Venus_, which reaches from the outside of the hand\nto the root of the middle finger, be fair and well proportioned, not\ncut or divided by cross lines, it denotes to the party extraordinary\nadvantage by marriage.----Several little crosses upon the Liver line,\nwhich runs directly upon the hand, denotes sickness and an unhealthy\nconstitution; but if it be fair and clean it signifies health and long\nlife.\n\n4. If little direct lines come from the root of the finger, they\nsignify to a woman to have three husbands; and to a man, great riches,\nhonour, and preferment.\n\n5. If they have three large lines on the joint of the wrist, it denotes\neasy childbearing, and not subject to miscarriage.\n\n6. If the nails of the hand be transparent, red, long, and of a fair\ncomplexion, it is a sign of long life; but if cloudy, dark, or of a\nlead colour, the contrary.\n\n7. If the line branch toward the fore and middle finger, and end blunt,\nit betokens riches and preferment to men; and to women, kind and loving\nhusbands.\n\n8. If there happen a cut or separation between your two left fingers,\nit denotes loss if not ruin to the party, by commerce or law-suits--Thus\nmuch for these Lines, and for their different significations.\n\n\n\n\n                           A Prognostication\n\n     _Concerning the BIRTH of CHILDREN on every Day of the Week_.\n\n\n1. They that are born on a Sunday, will, in all probability, be great\nand thriving.\n\n2. They that are born on Monday, will likely prosper in beginning work\nthat day.\n\n3. They that are born on Tuesday, will be covetous and be in danger of\nperishing by iron, and hardly come to old age; but to begin any thing\non that day is lucky.\n\n4. They that are born on a Wednesday, will be very slow in learning any\nthing.\n\n5. They that are born on a Thursday, will be steady and respectable;\nand to begin any work or business on that day is fortunate.\n\n6. They that are born on a Friday, will live long, and be extremely\nlecherous.\n\n7. They that are born on a Saturday, shall seldom be successful, except\nthe course of the moon do bring him to it.\n\n\n\n\n_A Division of Man\u2019s Age into Twelve times Six periods, and the Duty of\n                                each._\n\n\n 6. The first six years bring him up a child,\n\n 12. The next keep him under from waxing too wild,\n\n 18. The next let him learn no longer to toy,\n\n 24. The next a man, and no longer a boy,\n\n 30. The next let him lay out for a wife,\n\n 36. The next make his study to thrive,\n\n 42. The next make sure for a term of life,\n\n 48. The next save something for children and wife,\n\n 54. The next to be said, give over thy lust,\n\n 60. The next O think where go thou must,\n\n 66. The next get a staff thy body to stay,\n\n 72. The next prepare for Heaven, Lord shew thee the way!\n\n    Remember that all these divisions post on,\n    And that this life will quickly be gone.\n\n\n                                _FINIS._\n\n                     Marshall, Printer, Newcastle.\n\n\n\n\n                          Transcriber\u2019s Notes\n\nObvious punctuation errors have been corrected.\n\nPage 4: \u201csuddenly evertaken\u201d changed to \u201csuddenly overtaken\u201d","title":"The interpretation of dreams and moles, with other curious matters, relating to love and courtship","tradition":"myth-cosmogony","translated_text":null,"word_count":4763}