’Tis to no Purpose to think of Preventing, or Diverting Fatalities:
Especially where the Event looks like the Punishment of a Superstition:
as it fares with Those that Govern their Lives by Forebodings and Dreams:
or the Signs of Ill Luck, as we use to say: They are still Anxious and
Uneasie: History is full of Examples to Illustrate the Doctrine of
This Fable. The _Father_ was to blame for laying so much Stress upon a
Foolish _Dream_, and the Son was Little less to Blame, for being so much
Transported at the Impression of that Fancy upon the _Father_: But they
were Both Justly Punished however, The One for his Passion, and the Other
for his Superstition.