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Aubrey'j Mis-sel. Cap. V.Pag. 52. exOre C.W.
Fought Sep. 3.
Aubrey’j Mis-eel. Cap. v.
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Haud Mortali datum.
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Depofitum serves EcclejiaMemor Sui !
Subtus jacetFundator , Curator.
9 Juam Grande Opus !
Quam Perenne Monumentum !
By a St. Paul's Scholar, March 7, 1723.
Sir Chrijlopher Wren being at his Father’s House, anno 1651, at KnoyleWilts , dreamt that he saw a Fight in a great Market-place, which heknew not, where some were flying, and others pursuing ; and amongthose that fled, he saw a Kinsman of his, who went into Scotland to theKing's Army. They heard in the Country that the King was come into Eng-l°nd > but whereabout He was they could not tell. The next Night his Kins-man came to hi S Father’s at Knoyle , and was the first that brought the News ofthe Fight at Worcester. <
When Sir Chrijlopher Wren was at Paris, about 1665, he was taken ill andfeverish, made but little Water, and had a Pain in his Reins: He sent for a physi-cian, who advis’d him to let Blood, thinking he had a Pleurisy ; but Bleedingmuch disagreeing with his Constitution, he would defer it a Day longer: ThatNight he dreamt that he was in a Place where Palm-trees grew, (suppose Egypt)and that a Woman in a romantick Habit reach’d him Dates. The next Day hesent for Dates, which cur’d him of the Pain in his Reins.
By Way of Parallel to this, " The Plague raging in the Army of the Em-" peror Charlemain , he dreamt, that the Decoction of the Root of the“ Dwarf-thiftle [a Mountain Plant, since call’d the Caroline-thi/lle ] would“ cure that Disease." <See Gerard’s Herbal, who tells us this. N. B. He faysthe Army was thus deliver’d from the Plague, but mentions not the Dream,p. 1158.
Narrat Plinius (25 Lib. Cap. 2. Nat. FUJI.) His oriam hujusmodi.
" Nuper cujufdam militantis in prcctorio mater vidit in quiete, ut radicem JyF" vejiris rofœ [quant Cynorrhodon vacant) blanditam sbi aspestlu pridie in /; u-“ teto, mitteret Jlio bibendam : In Lusitania res gerebatur , Hispaniæ proximd“ parte : Caju accidit, ut milite a morfu cam's . incipiente aquas expavej’ccre ," fuperveniret episold orantis ut pareret religioni : Scrvatusque es ex insperato ;" et pojlea quisquis auxilium Jimile tentavit. --
" Cum Ptolomæus familiaris Alexandri M. in pralio, telo venenato iBus ejset ," eoque vulnere summo cum dolore morcretur , Alexander ajjidens jomno est con-4 " Jopitus ;