Note 189 — The Table.

Dreams. Thus Chaucer, in the opening lines of the House of Fame (called in the old editions and in the present text the Boke of Fame), says: —

"God turne us every dreme to goode! For hyt is wonder thing, be the roode, To my wytte, what causeth swevenes Eyther on morwes, or on evenes."

For examples of the later use of the word, see Nares by Halliwell and Wright, art. Sweven.