Mortuus per Somnum, vacabis Curis.

Having dreamed you were dead, you will now be free from care. Such was anciently a current opinion among the Grecians, as it is now in some parts of this country. The Spaniards say, more properly, De los sueños no creas, ni malos, ni buenos, pay no credit to dreams, whether good or bad; and the French, Tous les songes sont mensonges, all dreams are lies. Hence, perhaps, an opinion, that all dreams are to be construed as meaning the contrary, After a dream of a wedding, we say, comes a corpse. But this is equally as idle, as taking them literally.