Publican
A publican — the keeper of an inn or tavern — often touches sympathy aroused by someone desperate, leading you to diminish your own gain for their advancement. The dream may ask where another's hard plight is moving you to give up something of yours, and whether a worthy but plain figure deserves more kindness than you've shown.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for publican, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
To dream of a publican, denotes that you will have your sympathies aroused by some one in a desperate condition, and you will diminish your own gain for his advancement. To a young woman, this dream brings a worthy lover; but because of his homeliness she will trample on his feelings unnecessarily.