'King Henry (1st) passing once into Normandy, was troubled with certain strange dreams, or visions, in his sleep. For, as he thought, he saw a multitude of ploughmen with such tools as belong to their trade and occupation; after whom came a sort of soldiers with warlike weapons; and last of all, bishops with their crosier staves, ready to fall upon him as if they meant to kill him. Now, when he awaked, he leaped forth of his bed, got his sword into his hand, and called his servants to help him. Nevertheless, repressing those perturbations, and somewhat better advising himself, partly by his own reason, and partly by the counsel of learned gentlemen, he was persuaded to put such fantasies away, and was admonished withal, that whilst lie had time and space here on earth, he should redeem his past offences and sins committed against God, with repentance, almsdeeds, and abstinence; wherefore, being moved herewith, he began to practise an amendment of his former lewd life. .... Thus we may see that two sons of the Conqueror had each been warned by dreams: the one disregarded the warning, and met his death; the other (as the learned do gather) improved the occasion, and reformed his life. Their rash opinion, therefore, is much to be checked, which contemn dreams as merely delusory, alleging by way of disproof, an. old erroneous verse, "Somnia ne cures, nam fallunt plu-rima plures."' - Chronicles of England, Ireland, and Scotland.