John Trapp on Ecclesiastes 5:3

Verſ. 3. For a dream commeth through the multitude of buſineſs] When all the reſt of the ſenſes are bound up by ſleep, the ſoul entreth into the ſhop of the fancy, and operates there uſually according to the buſineſſes and imployments of the day paſt;Tertull. de anima, cap. 49. & fierividentur quae fieri tamen non videntur, ſaith Tertullian, thoſe things ſeem to bee done in a dream, which yet are not ſeen to be done at all: theſe are but vanae jactationes negotioſae animae, the idle toffings of a buſy minde. In like ſort, a fool, a heartleſs, ſapleſs fellow, (that being ſenſual and void of the ſpirit of grace and ſupplications, hath neither the affections nor expreſſions of holy prayer) multiplies words without knowledge, thinks to make out in words what hee wants in worth, being [non-Latin text not transcribed], as Plutarch ſaith of Alcibicdes, one that could talk much, but ſpeak little: His voyce is known by multitude of words. It is but a voyce that is heard, it is but a ſound that is made, like the uncertain ſound of a Trumpet, that none can tell what it meaneth, what to make of it. Corniculas citius in Africa, quam res ration[illegible: 1 letter]ſque ſolidas in Turriani ſcriptis reperias, ſaith one:Beringer. Contra Id. Cum. Lauret. Ariſtot. De divinat. per inſom. So here. If there be any worth of matter in the fools words, it is but by chance, as Ariſtotle ſaith, that dreams doe by chance fore-tell thoſe things that come to paſſe. Let it be our care to ſhun as much as may be all laviſh and ſuperfluous talkativeneſſe and tediouſneſſe, but eſpecially in prayer: leſt wee offer the ſacrifice of fools, and God be angry with us. For as it is not the loudneſſe of a Preachers voyce, but the weight and holineſs of his matter, and the ſpirit of the Preacher that moves a wife and intelligent hearer: ſo it is not the labour of the lips, but the travel of the heart that prevails with God. The Baalites Prayer was not more tedious than Elijah's ſhort: yet more pithy than ſhort. And it was Elijah that ſpake loud and ſped in heaven. Let the fool learn therefore to ſhew more wit in his diſcourſe than words, leſt being known by his voyce, hee meet (as the Nightingale did) with ſome Laconian that will not let to tell him, Vox in es, praeterea nihil, Thou art a voyce, and that's all.