1   Many men seyn that in sweveninges
 2   Ther nis but fables and lesinges;
 3   But men may somme swevenes seen,
 4   Which hardely ne false been,
 5   But afterward ben Apparaunte.
 6   This may I drawe to waraunte
 7   An authour, that hight Macrobes,
 8   That halt not dremes false ne lees,
 9   But undoth us the Avisioun
10   That whylom mette king Cipioun.
11   And who-so sayth, or weneth it be
12   A Iape, or elles [a] nycetee
13   To wene that dremes after falle,
14   Let who-so liste a fool me calle.
15   For this trowe I, and say for me,
16   That dremes signifiaunce be
17   Of good and harme to many wightes,
18   That dremen in her slepe a-nightes
19   Ful many thinges covertly,
20   That fallen after al openly.
21   Within my twenty yere of Age,
22   Whan that Love taketh his corage