...me. I am no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize [gallantry] of company ; yet in one dream I can compose a whole comedy, behold the...and this time also would I choose for my devotions. SIR T. BROWNE. — Religio Medici. THE COMMON COURSE OF OUR DIET WHY we confine our food unto certain...

...Planet in me. I am no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize of company; yet in one dream I can compose a whole Comedy, behold the action, apprehend the jests, and laugh my self awake at the conceits thereof : were my memory as faithful as my reason is then fruitful, I...

...no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardise of company," was able in one dream to compose a whole comedy — " behold the action, apprehend...jests, and laugh myself awake at the conceits thereof," as he tells us. Leigh Hunt gives an amusing description of the Flying Rooms which some enterprising...

...our sleeps. ... I am no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize of company ; yet in one dream I can compose a whole Comedy, behold the action, apprehend the jesfs, and laugh myself awake at the conceits thereof. Were my memory as faithful as my reason is then...

...the Religio Medici, though he speaks of it only as of a visionary fancy. " In one dream," he says, " I can compose a whole comedy, behold the action, apprehend...jests, and laugh myself awake at the conceits thereof." Rather more to the point is, perhaps, another passage in the same book, in which he half-reluctantly...

...Planet in me. I am no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize of company; yet in one dream I can compose a whole Comedy, behold the action, apprehend the jests, and laugh my self awake at the conceits thereof: were my memory as faithful as my reason is then fruitful, I...

...in one dream I can compose a whole Comedy, behold the action, apprehend the jests, and laugh my self It were a vain endeavour, Though I should gaze for...ever On that green light that lingers in the west : chuse for my devotions : but our grosser memories have then so little hold of our abstracted understandings,...

...Planet in me. I am no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize of company; yet in ilight saints, and dim emblazonings, A shielded scutcheon blush'd with blood of queens an my self awake at the conceits thereof. Were my memory as faithful as my reason is then fruitful, I...

...happen. That " cerebration " goes on in dreams we have abundant proof. Sir Thomas Browne wrote : " In one dream I can compose a whole comedy, behold the...fruitful, I would never study but in my dreams."' Dr. Franklin assured Cabanis that the bearing of political events which puzzled him when awake was...

...think more clearly. The only difficulty is that he cannot remember his dreams; otherwise, he says, "I would never study but in my dreams, and this time also would I choose for 27 See Works, V, 183. (Wilkin, III, 342.) my devotions." He thinks that sleepwalkers demonstrate the...