infortune to succeed If a line appeareth in the middle vnder the lines in the Dyameter of the Nose dooth then argue a singuler fortune and the great increase of riches The Philosopher Ptâ—â—lomeus paruus writeth that if one line reâ—cheth along the forehead as from the right side vnto the left dooth then promise such a person after nature to liue thréescore yeares If two lines shall the like stretch along the forehead do then promise such a person to liue vnto the age of thréeâ—core and ten yeares If thrée lines the like then vnto fourescore yeares If foure lines the like stretched along the forehead doe then signifie fourescore and ten yeares And if fiue lines the like stretched a long doe then declare an hundred yeares as the learned Ptholomeus writeth If the â—hree lines aboue described are crossed of other lines doe then denote hatred troubles and persecutions for the more part If the said crossinges of the lines shall make an angle and that one line be bigger then the other in such maner that the same stretcheth ouer the angle aboue the nose doth then signifie that such a person hath Enemies but they shall not greatly harme him But further of this forme of the angle crossed may a man learne and vnderstand in any work of Paulmestry that vtteâ—eth matter of the quadrangle of the hand as touching friendes and Enemies and euen the same is witnessed by the signes of the forehead If neither angle crosse or ouertwart line shall appeare on the forehead doth then signifie a lucky continuance and glory in workes and a most happy estate vnto the end of life The sharpe crossing of lines to the manner and forme of a pinnacle dooth then demonstrate both houshold and familiar enemies or enemies of the owne Kindred as Morbeth the Cardinall writeth If any two lines of the forehead are néere ioyning together in any part doe then demonstrate discord and contention with many persons The comlinesse and good proportion of the thrée principall lines of the forehead dooth denote a worthy Fame and finguler Wit as sundry Authors write and the same affirmeth the Phisiognomer If many lines are discerned in the fore-head then so appearing those are named the sisters of the three principall lines as writeth the former Morbeth If but one line onely is seene or dooth appeare in the forehead then according to the maner and forme of the same place where that appeareth with the age of the person and dominion of the Planet must a man like iudge If no line at all shall appeare in the fore-head then by reason no iudgement at all can bee pronounced When in the breaking those lines appeare crooked in this manner as the example here vnder of the one plainer expresseth dooth then signifie the greater infortune to that person As the like by obseruation was noted in a certaine Italian and sundry others If any of the lines appeareth crooked or bended vpward as a Bow doth then indicate the greater infortune But if any line downeward stretched then the lesser infortune is signified by the same as Mantâ—anus and Cocles write When in the crooking any of the lines shall bée crossed especiallie Marses line doth then signifie violent death vnto that person and this according to the positure and place of the line shall like be iudged to happen either in the second or third Age. The Ueines very bigge appearing in the Fore-head doth denote the excéeding qualitie of Choller and that such a person to bee excéeding yrefull These hitherto of the iudgement of the thrée principall lines appearing and to be séene in a manner in the foreheads of most subiects which diligently obserued and noted by due circumspection shall in the end finde this rare and Golden secret hid a long time from many good wittes yea and of these sufficiently skilfull in other lawdable Arts. And that this Jewell may not appeare mutilate and vnperfite for the lacke of more principles and instructions to further the same I intend to publish a singuler treatise verie rare and knowne but to few Students intitled Metoposcopie or by a more knowne name the view and beholding of all the lines appeering in the forehead beginning orderly from Saturns line vnto the Moones written by a most learned Mathematican and Phisition named â—haddaeus Hagecius of Hagâ—k the which aded vnto the number of thréescore examples liuely counterfeited that he by diligent trauaile noted and obserued which no doubt will much help and further those that mind to iudge on subiects by the ayde of those faithfull instructions and linely examples published in this perfit manner by that worthy man aboue named for recompence of which trauailes he in my opinion well deserueth immortall memory among other of the learned Philosophers which commendation and opinion of mine I referre to the wisedome of the Readers at the comming forth of the Treatise in the meane time I wish the Readers to vse these instructions aboue vttered Next followeth the iudgement of the ouer-browes as a part belonging to the forehead by which singuler matter may be learned and knowne The forme and iudgement of the ouer-browes The xvii Chapter THe Learned Phylosopher named Nâ—â—cius Naturae writeth in the second Book de partibus Animalium that the ouer-browes and eie-lids were ordained for speciall helpes to the face as to ornate and beseeme the same with the auoyding of other inconueniences The place of the ouerbrowes as writeth Cocles is a part of the Fore-head and formed of nature in that seate where the bones knit and ioyne together The ouerbrowes also were ordained to man as reporteth Thaddaeus both for profite and comelinesse sake these for profit that the moisture and sweat falling from the forehead might as penthouse to the eies so cast off the moysture distilling and like the humours and moisture falling from the head thorough the same eueising shoote them off without harme to the eyes The like words in a manner vttereth the Phisiognomer Cocles The ouerbrowes as reporteth Cocles were appointed by God and Nature in the knitting and ioyning of the bones for that in manie Oldâ— persons they grow and waxe so long that of necesitie and for comelinesse sake also they must bee clipped The causes of the haires as writeth the Physiognomer are noted to bee foure as the Efficient the Materiall the Formall and Finall The efficient cause of the hairs is procured two waies the one is naturall heate which eleuateth the humours from the moysture of the body and sendeth or carrieth them forth vnto the skinny parts The other is the cold ayre which both thickneth and coaguleth those humors and reduceth them into the forme of haires The materiall cause is two wayes the first is farre off and is the corporal moysture the second cause is néere and is the earthly vapor or humor which is euaporated from the moysture The formall cause is the forme of the haires as the length and roundnesse of them The finall
by Nature he is giuen to bee sadde must néedes through these like greatly erre and bée deceiued in iudgement Héere also note that there are two manner of passions as the one naturall and the other accidentall The accidentall are those which consist of the spirit and for the same that they consist of the spirit no alteration in body is caused as of the Art Science and these by notes in the bodye are not indicated But the natural which for that they coÌ„sist in vs as afore taught for that cause doth some â—â—lâ—â—â—acion appeare in the bodie as yre feare and such like of which héereafter in this worke shall be intreated To be briefe this Phisiognomy is a knowledge which leadeth a man to the vnderstanding and knowing both of the naturall motions and conditions of the spirite and the good or euill fortune by the outwarde notes and lines of the face and bodie Yea by the pases many times is the heart bewrayed and the voyce as Aristotle reporteth are notes and vtterers of the inner thoughtes all which vnder the Phisiognomicall Science are contained Lucius Scylla and Cesare Dictatoure by the helpe of this Science found out and iudged the wilye craftes and deceites of their aduersaries many times that secretly couerd their malicious minds by their faire shewes The most singular and prudent Plato in his Phisiognomie vttereth these words That the man which hath members like to any beast insueth his nature as he which hath an Aquiline or hauked nose vseth and exerciseth Aquiline conditions as magnanimity cruelnesse and greedy catching The common sort of this day without any reason and learning do pronounce and iudge certaine matters verie strange of men as when he saith of any fowl look this person pleaseth me nothing They also say God defend and kéepe mee from the fellowship of that person marked as are the bunch backed and goggle eyed persons By which euidently appeareth that the bodily notes of Phisiognomating by the naturall conditions of men do procure cause a great probablenesse although no necessitie To conclude all the workings and passions of the spirit appear to be matched and ioyned with the bodie which especially appeareth in the passions of the concupiscible or desirefull spirite as are yre méeknesse feare pittifulnesse mercie such like which are not caused without the locall motion of the heart dilating and drawing together Of this the bodies of diuers men are diuersly disposed according to the diuers dispositions of spirits in that mens spirits throgh diuers members are diuersly disposed in their passions To end the conditions and naturall affections that consist in the sensitiue part is reported of the Phylosopher Aristotle to be the sense giuer being common both to men and beasts ¶ The knowne signes and notes both of the healthfull and sicke bodies after the condition of the foure qualities First the signes and notes of a hot quality The ii Chapter THose bodies naturally hote doe most spéedilie encrease and wax â—at as the like in yong children doth well appeare But after yeares such wax dry their vaines apparant in the places and beating fast Also their breath strong theyr voyce lowd mighty and great of strength lusty strong to coeate and much or very often desiring therto Such also do féed well brooke digest their meats Further they haue much haire on their head and in other places the like where as naturally the same should grow that thicke bristled specially on the breast The cause of which procéedeth thorough the much heat of the heart as the like may appeare after the minde of auncient men both in the Lyon and Cocke The signes of those bodies of a cold complexion or quality The iii. Chapter THose bodies naturally cold doe increase slowe and come to a fatnesse their Ueynes appeare bigge and apparant but their Pulses beate slowe Also their Beeath lowe in the hearing hauing a small voice and weake to coâ—eate so that seldome desiring thereto of the which such beget few children They also bée great sléepers and sléeping often yet eating verie little weakely digesting and bearing their meate euill Further such be white of skinne with some rednesse mixed and in the féeling appeare cold with the haires thin and slow in the growing whether the same be blacke or white Also dull of wit fearing or trembling of a light cause and weake to labour The signes of those bodies of a moyst quality The iiii Chapter THose bodies naturally moyst bee tender and soft of Flesh Corpulent with their Joyntes and bones hidde and weake of strength that they cannot long or but a while endure to labour so that the wearinesse of labour is soone espyed séene in them Also such feare and tremble in a maner for euery cause coueting to sléep much and delighting to coeate often hauing besides thin haires on the head and but a little quantity The eyes often watery and running yet in wit forwarde and apt to learne The signes of those bodies of a drie qualitie The v. Chapter THose bodies Naturally drie be well discerned rough in the feeling leane in flesh yet strong and may well endure to labor féeding well their ioynts also in the places very apparant Besides such haue much haire on the head and in the other places and that rough and curled The signes of temperate and healthfull bodies The vi Chapter THose bodies temperate and healthfull do féedâ— and drinke sufficiently according to the congruency of nature and digest the like To the thinges néedfull be sauoury to them and do hunger also in due houres ioying besides with such as be merrie and sléeping their full sléepes Further thinking themselues both light of bodie to goe light on the ground and sweating lightly yet seldome snéezing and waxe meanely Fatte but coloured and redde in the face and in the feeling hot Besides in them the fiue senses haue congruent force according to the agreement of the Age Bodie and Houre The signes of distemperate and vnhealthful bodies The vii Chapter THose bodies distemperate and vnhealthfull be in all points vnlike to the bodies temperat and healthfull so that such do euilly eate and that very little and force not to drink Also they do euilly digest and brooke their meate and to them things bee vnsauoury whereof they hunger 〈◊〉 in due houres and giue not themselues to bee throughly chearefull and merry neyther reioycing in them which laugh and bee merrie but rather alwayes sad and the like continuing Further such make their sléepes vnquietly suppose themselues heauie and to go heauily on the ground and seldome or in a manner sweate any thing at al also gape or snéese often and stretch their armes out and abroad So that such be either pale or ouer high coloured in the face and in them also are the fiue senses weake and such as cannot long endure to labour yea they soon forget matters spitting much and often and much filth séene commonly in their
fearefull personâ— and compared to the Goate and Shéepe The eyes not very blacke to a yellownes tending like vnto the Lyons doth declare an honest and Friendly person compared to the Lyon and Eagle And a meannesse of colour with an abatement doth signify shamefastnes and honesty And whose inner parts of the lips shall not bee with a certain rednesse coloured is then of the phisitians iudged sickly When the Aeynes both of the temples and behinde the necke do appeare to wax red otherwise to swel out and that the eyes séeme prominent and bloudy do argue an yrefulnes so vehement that they incurre vnto a madnesse and referred to the passion When the countenance appeareth all Redde doth then either declare a shamefastnes or else to be a Wine bibbler and this rednesse is readilye knowne by tokens of the eâ—es and by the custome of it That person which hath a fiery rednes on the Breast and Face is inflamed with yre and easily commeth franticke and mad as the like of these the Phisiognomer hath knowne by experience in sundry persons and referred to the passion The red colour of the hairs of the head intensed is a note of crafty wiles and deceits of much yre and of fransinesse when as the same declareth the abundance of choller The browne Chestnut colour doth declare vprightnesse and the loue of Justice And all report especially Nunciu natuâ—ae in the seuenth booke of the nature of beasts and in the first Chapter of the condition of a Nurse where hée sayeth That of those the better healthfuller sort are they which be browne in colour than the white woman and haue a healthâ—uller Milk The selfesame affirmeth Auicen 4. de Animalibus Those persons hauing a firy red colour or néere to it do retaine anger long also they are harde to be quallified and appeased when as they are angerie and such are referred to the passion that is vnto the manner appearing in any such gréeuously angred Those Persons which haue the Ueyns of the necke entensed and appearing bigge and eminent out with a redde colour tincted doe retaine anger long and such an vngracious anger that harde it is to be appeased Those also as the Phylosopher writeth be referred to the maner appearing for that in such an yre this hapneth as that the veines to be extended and magnified through the boyling and swelling vp of the bloud and spirits from the heart which so retch out those veines as is aforesaid and the like iudge in the forehead where wee vtter iudgement of the lines there séene The iudgement of the Colour and substance of the haires of the head and in all other pâ—aces of the body The xiii Chapter NVncius naturae saieth in lib. 2. de partibus cap. 14. animalium that of all liuing Creatures man in especiall is thickest and hath most plentie of haires on the head The cause of which matter is applied as well vnto a necessity as vnto the reason of a helpe and succour For necessary it was that the hayrs should be both for the moisture of the Braine and seames of the Scull For where the moyst quantitie of humours and heate is there of necessity must the great plenty of hairs grow for the reason and cause of a defence that the daily encreasing and growing of the Hayres couering the heade may so defend and succour it from the extreame colde and mightie heate Séeing mans Braine in proportion is greatest and moystest for that cause it néedeth especiallie a defence c. Isidore reporteth that the hayres of the Head were ordained of nature to couer and beseeme the head that these might so defend the Brain from the cold and heat of the Sunne Albertus in lib. de animalibus cap. 3. reporteth that the haires procéede of the grosser vapors issuing by the poores of the Skinne of the Heade sent foorth by heate thorough the narrow holes of the Skinne which dried and hardned in the comming forth through the outward cold of the ayre And the haires of the head which slowly encrease thorough the lacke of bloude is a note that the complexion to be very moyst That if these spéedily encrease is a note that the body declineth vnto a drines But to come to the matter the Hayres of the head do naturally declare the qualities and quantities of humours and the conditions of the spirite or minde The Phylosopher also in 5. de generatione animalium cap. 4. saith that the cause of the bignes and smalnes of the haires of the head is most chiefly caused and grow out of the skinne and not out of the flesh when the humor in them is euaporated and breatheth forth séeing we sée that the grose haires do spring out of a thick and grose skin and the small haires out of a thinne and soft skin These hitherto Aristotle So that when hotnes and drines bee conioyned the haires of the head doe much sooner grow and waxe matny and thicke Forasmuch as the much quantity signifieth a hotnes and the bignes of them a much fumositie And for that cause in young men there is much more quantity than in children for as much as the matter of children is vaporous and not humorous And the contraries of these do follow their contraries Further the signification by the part of the Figure is that the crispednes thereof declareth a hotnes and drines for the same is caused when it findeth a tortuousnes both of the holes and powers but this doubt is not héer resolued when as the complexion is altered although the two first matters be changed The plainnesse and flat lying of the hayres of the head doth signify a contrary that is coldnesse and moistnesse as euidently appeareth As touching the part of the colour the blackenesse signifieth a hotnesse which blacknesse is héer meant like to the cleare horne with a roughnesse and somewhat tortuous The whitishnesse signifieth a coldnesse but the citrinnesse and rednesse signifieth an equality and the whitishnes doth either argue a vehement coldnesse as the hoarines or a strong and mighty drinesse which hapneth in the Uegetalles when they are dried which from their blacknes or gréennesse passe into a whitenes and this like hapneth not to men but in the end of drying sicknesses Auerrois quarto colligit capitulo of the notes of the complexion of the whole body reporteth that the signification of the colour of the hayres of the head is not verified for the most part but in temperate climates although in euery climate may be somewhat comprehended in comparing the men of that climate dwelling there vnder As for example in the Germaines and Moores of which the Moores are black and their hayres are crisped with an vttermost tortuousnesse yet not for this is their complexion hot but rather these notes ought to be attributed to the outward heate séeing they aâ—e knowne rather to be cold through the heat vaporating But the Germanes Wendenland people and those which dwell in the cold Countreyes
are white of body their haires yellow and plaine yet not for this is it generally to be said that they be colde but rather that their complexion is verie hot in that the heat is included in the inward partes of their bodies as the like hapneth in the winter time Gallen vttereth that the white hayres of the head do declare a cold compleâ—ion and the quality of a diminished coldnesse hath the hairs of the head yellow as Gold and the complexion of a diminished hotnesse hath the haires of the head red in colour Auerroys Writeth that in whom coldnesse is lesser than hotnesse hath golden or yellow hayres on the heade in that the yellownesse doth signifye the Complexion of a diminished coldnesse And the rednesse of hayres on the head dooth declare a Complexion of lesser hotnesse than is the Qualitie hauing blacke Haires and this for a truth is true in that the rednesse is néere and a neighbour vnto blacknesse and like the yellownes whitenesse The Golden colour of the hayres hath an equall and temperate qualitie of the yellowe and red mixt and compound together These hitherto Auerroys The Ayres and Countryes haue an operation in the cause of the hayres of the heade which diligently is to bee obserued and noted seeing it is not to be made any question at all that so well in the blacke haires as the yellow is the equality of a like complexion declared héere we apply Iupiter séeing it hath any yreall Nature Nor in the haires of the Illyrian the blacknes which of his quality signifieth a hotnes when as their kinde hath the same The ages also doe worke in the matter of the haires of the head for that yong men bee like to the Meridionals children like to the Septentrionals and old age as a meane betwéene both The haires of the head much in a child argueth that his quality as he groweth turneth into the Melancholy and in an old man the like signifieth that he is presently Melancholike By these we vnderstand that the haires of the head lying plaine do denote a coldnes of the brain especialy when they are soft in the féeling for these do then declare a fearefulnes and pusilanimity applied to the Indians and Shéep forasmuch as this is a moyst complexion as the Learned Albertus writeth Those persons which haue the hairs of the head so much crisped that these bée in condition like vnto dried Pepper as the Indians are which dwell vnder such hot places that do make blacke Crisped the haires so much euenlike to the dried Pepper by which most writers do digestiuely note a weaknes When in them shall be a most great resolution wrought and that moysture is diminished then doth old age fast come on For such which dwell in those countries become old at xxx yeares and their hearts are fearfull and weak of courage which well declareth that the kinds of them hee much resolued The bodies dwelling in hot countries are lighter than others as the same witnesseth Aristotle in Methaphoricis where he puttteth a difference of the Countries in Phisiognomating Conciliatore in 10. partic proble reporteth that for the much hotnes causing the moysture to euaporate forth by which accident their members are like winded and writhed and generally the liuing things of those climates which euidently is declared by gréene woode dried which depriued of the proper moysture appeareth winded and wrythine when the moysture doth not equally breake forth thorow out except it hath a viscous moisture verie vnctious For which cause in Phisiognomating it behooueth to consider many matters and notes The colour of the hayres of the head yellowish like to Honey doth declare the Dominion of coldnesse thorough the heate couered in the moysture as the like are in Children yet the Persons dwelling Northerly haue the like condition thorough the Region which much beguileth in Phisiognomating vpon the like subiect And such persons to Venus are attributed so that the same be either of Nature or by Art The haires of the head grosse and blacke are applied to Saturne yet is not the same to be like considered of them as of the Spaniards for this declareth them to be subiect to the earthly and shadowy moisture The haires blacke and rough and not plaine lying doe signifie a hotnesse in that person as the white haires do indicate a cold complexion Ionnicius in hysâ—gâ—gis vttereth that there are foure manner of colours of the haires of the head that is to say the black the red the gray or flaxine and the hoarie The blacke colour proceedeth from the great and much quantity of the kindled Choller or by the much combustion of the blood but the red colour thorough the mightinesse of heate not adust of which the haires are alwaies caused red the flaxine colour procéedeth of the aboundance of Melancholy but the hoary white is caused of the ouer-much lacke of naturall heat and through the effect of rotten Flegme and this for the most part is caused in old persons And these sometimes declare the venerial conditions The colour of the hayres like to the cléer horne are attributed to the nature of Mars So that the haires be not grose but somewhat small and this through the subtlenes of the humors And that it is black through an intensed heat like bred baked on coales from which the moisture flyeth so that by the long lying thereon is made blacke When in the other parts of the body there is ouer-much hairinesse seene there do the stars of Saturne and Mars worke their vertue who are noted to be robbers on the high-way especially when the Eye-browes be very thick ioyning ouer the Nose and that the eyelids be hairy but when the breast shal be only hairy declareth a hot and stout person The whole bodie couered with hayre both thicke and rough dooth denote such a person to be of a more brutish will and nature than manly When the nape of the necke shall bee hairy it denoteth strength and courage and applied vnto the Lyon When the Physiognomer by any occasion came to Princes Courts or Noblemens houses he would at the first thoroughly behold and consider on euery side the Officers and seruants about the Prince or Lorde but most especially the faces It chanced on a time at the request of some to view and earnestly mark the faces both of the Officers and seruants attendant on the noble Prince Astorgius Fauentâ—us among the rest he especially noted his Secretary whose personage forme he thus described He was small of stature in body slender his face and skin wan of colour a little necke and somewhat short Mercuries line in the forhead conditioned in a retrograde manner the other positures of the face and body answerable to the rest These Italian verses of Franciscus Asculanus may aptly be applied to this place touching the excéeding great deceit subtilties of many strumpets in their wanton deckings and alurements to the vtter vndoing of many men as hath
bin heard of by that afore described woman who drew by her singular beauty many a worthy Captaine Soldier to hir company Wherfore this man for loue of his Countrymen sought to perswade them in these verses as followeth De non credati a femina scioccha E non vacenda lor ficta belezza Ma riguardati come deâ—tru fioccha Miri la mente cum gli occhij cerueri Che alhora perderaila sua vaghezza De lei mirando li socii mâ—steri In which words he willeth his Countrymen to beware of the counterfet beauty of most weomen with them for that it is not natural but framed by Art with Waters Tinctures such like things The Phisiognomer also reporteth that manie women like delighted to garnish and decke vppe themselues carrying the head after the manner of the Hart with the eyes rolling and turning heere and there still turning the head one while on the right side another on the left now vpwarde then downward which argueth an especiall vnstablenesse and an vnsatiate luxury in that creature In so much that if they intensiuely possesse or haue these then such be for the most part cremeriti and of experience saith the Phisiognomer do I report this Where sundry men are named to bee effeminate is vnderstood and ment two waies the one when as such be delighted to go in apparrell and decked with ornaments like to women the other to appeare lascâ—uious and weake both of will and courage The quality of which apparantly declares the mind for the most part doth like ensue and answere to the disposition of the body For such be noted of experience to be vnfaithfull and euill reporters lyars for that through their counterfaiting answer in parts to be kinde fraudulent and wily Further the youthful delights in men is séene vnto xx yeares or néere vpon for that the natural heat is al that tune couered and hid of the moysture The knowledge of which is well discerned through their members then being soft that suffer in a manner as the women The wearing of heauy garments customablie doth argue a heauy brain but the garments light witnesseth alight braine which rule much furthereth the person minding to Phisiognomate on any subiect The haires of the head Blackish in colour if they be meanely thinne as writeth Palemon and the like Albertus Aristotle and Conciliatore doe then denote very honest conditions and both a good disposition iudgement and nature in that person The haires of the head yellowish and meanly thin denoteth that the Sun and Mercury to â—ear sway in the qualities and nature of that person after the mind of the Phisiognomer which I thereto agrée Conciliatore writeth that he which hath the haires of the head small and in all other partes of the body standing vpright is argued by iudgment fearfull for that such persons in great fear appear the like which for that applied to the condition of the passion Alike reason of the â—ame vttereth Albertus which affirmeth that the windy moisture is cause of such an vprightnesse and staring of the haires Yet be the hayres sometimes crisped curled and hard which procéede thorough the drinesse in the sharpe heat is causing and working the like The worthy Almansor writeth that the crispeâ—nesse of the haires and of these standing vpright doe demonstrate a hot quality and hasty nature in that person Héere in the first persons touching the colour of the haires and the effeminacy of parts doth the Phisiognomer aptly apply the Moon and Venus but in the second kind doth he néere attribute the Sun or rather Mars The haires of the head lying flat and reaching out on the forehead denoteth a strong person yet brutish of likelyhood in conditions for that the polling of heads in our time may greatly beguile the iudger applied to the Beare and other Wilde Beasts The like iudgment the Philosophers say that the roughnesse of the haires on the head denoteth in many lacking educaâ—ien grace the rudenesse of manners and wild behauiour The haires of the heade after the minde of the Philosopher Aristotle very thin indicates an effeminate minde for the lack of bloud thorough which not only a slownesse but a womanly corage and dulnesse in conceiuing is procured A much quantity of the haires of the head lying 〈◊〉 and a part on the middle of the fore-head folding and widing vpward toward the braine or crowne of the head do argue after the agréement of Authors that such a person to bee both subtile and wily yet in honest and iust causes not found so aduised and witty for which reason attributed of the Phisiognomer to the barbarous sort The haires of the head flat lying of either side descending to the forehead doe declare such a person condicioned to the nature of the horse The haires next the Temples small and thin doe denote a cold person and weake of strength the reason of which séemeth to bée for that the temples supply that place where the great Arterâ— and vaiues doe end And in this the place should naturally bee hot through which causing the engendering of haires in that the same is procured of heat For which cause when the haires of the temples be small and thin doe then denote the lacke of naturall heat and applied to women being theâ—â—are of haires The haire of the temples thin yet found stiffâ— do then denote not onely a feareful person but cold also by nature The haires thicke growing about the temâ—â—â—â— and eares doth denote that person of experience knowne to be of an hot nature and prone to the veneriall act The haires in that place if they shall be big 〈◊〉 whiter doe then denote vntaught manners 〈◊〉 rude conditions applied to those brutish sort named the Frizeland men The haires in the same place if they shall bee either perfit blacke or flaxen of colour doe then argue a violent and furious mind applied of the likelihood to the Boare The haires so it and thin and excéeding small do then declare an effeminate mind and courage and that this person not onely lacking blood but to be dull of sense and slow When the haires shall be yet much thinner 〈◊〉 then innuate a crafty hard or néere and couetous person applied after quality to the fearefulnesse and couetousnesse both of the Barbarian and Assirian for that the Assirians are by nature excéeding couetous The haires much and grosse and flat lying with a hairinesse of all the body in a child doe witnesse the melancholy to ensue that is to â—â—y to become franticke and mad When the haires in age are much increased then doe they represent the much adâ—stion aboue nature which so causeth the sicknesse of innocency and foolishnesse The vttermost line or creast of the hairs of the head if the same reacheth and goeth from the forehead do then argue a crafty person hauing a peruerse and wicked vnderstanding The vttermost line or creast of the haires if the same extendeth to the forhead
cause the vapours cannot haue their frée passage foorth seeing the penetration in them at that age is prohibited But the moysture of the selfe 〈◊〉 ioyned in old age is consumed and dried wheâ—â— of the bones are caused more open and the vapâ—â—â— frée do consequently ascend thorough which the hairs of the ouerbrows are then procured to grow long The haires of the ouer-browes thicke and so long streatched out that they séeme in a maner to shaddow the sight denoteth in that person the excesse of heat The ouerbrowes thin of haires and the places much fleshy denoteth a slowe and dull capacity and coldnes ruling in the principal members as the learned Thaddeus writeth The haires of the ouer-browes néere touching and in a manner ioyned togither are noted to be the woorst condition of all others in that the Browes like formed doe argue a wicked person full of mischiefe vngracious workes and déeds giuen to wicked Arts. As the like the learned Ioan Indagines affirmeth that he obserued in sundry old Witches brought to bee burned hauing the like ouerbrowes The learned Physitian Thaddeus reporteth that he obserued a iolly Captain a great trauailer a Pirate on the Sea and a rauisher of Maydens in the Ciâ—ty of Nymburge thrée yeares before hée was cruelly slaine of the Tartarians who had the like ouerbrowes with the eyes glistering and firy spots in them hauing also an yreful fierce countenance and manne of colour in the face That the forme of this person may nearer be vnderstood and Learned of the professors of the Art dooth conceiue this figure héere afore demonstrated liuely to the eye The haires of the ouerbrowes white as reporteth Ioan. Indagines doe argue an effeminate person lightly beléeuing and foolish If the crooking of the haires declineth vnto the temples and to the bossing out of the chéekes denoteth him to be negligent and foolish The ouerbrwes if they reatch out long and appeare thicke of haires argueth meditating and bethinking mighty matters as the Physiognomer reporteth The Physiognomer Cocles héere placeth an other example of a certaine person that hée noted in his time which by reason of the ouermuch hotnesse consisting in him was knowne to bee a foole full of words furious yrefull euill tongued and vnpatient whose positure and forme of parts is thus described He had the head pinaple like the voice lowd â—â—â—â—ke of spéech and in stature 〈…〉 muscuâ—ous Sanguine yet tending vnto 〈◊〉 The eares were great the forhead bearing out â—â—ter a round maner the ouerbrows ioined togither and much hairy the eies small hollow standing glistering and Fieâ—y the Nose flatte and hollow in the middle at the chéekes bony and some-what flat â—the mouth great the lips thicke and foâ—lded or turned outward the Teeth bigge the Chinne sharpe and long the face long the Necke Grosse and short small was the distaunce betwéene the heart and braine by which appeareth that the skill of the Anathomy is verie necessarie in this Art The shoulder-points were great and eleuateâ— with a largenesse of the breast the part afore named Methaphreâ—on was eminent and fleshy the Hipocondria great the legges short and musculous the armes long grosse or bigge the féet Big and articulated the héeles great the soales of the féet hollow a swiftnes in pace and treading short He bare the head by turning hither and thither after the manner of the Hart ouer all the body he was most hairy hauing a red colour in the Face which notwithstanding was a darke fiery In the hands he had the Cardiacke and middle naturall line very large seperated and were most red with the mensall line naked and alone in the palme of the hands were onely three lines with the rest of the tubercles and other lines infortunated and depressed that denoted a most beluin or brutish nature to consist in that person For as much aâ— Michael Scotus hath friuolously written of the ouer-browes for that cause doth the Physiognomer Cocles writingly ouer-passe his sayings in his Chapter considering they do so farre disagrée from the liuely Art And the learned Ioannes Picus greatly discommendeth this Scotus affirming him to haue written no waightie matters of importance but rather trifles and of these full of superstition Hitherto of the Ouer-browes with the liuely examples described of the Physiognomer much furthering all such as be delighted in the Art next to this doth he speak both of the vses and iudgement of the eie-lids The forme and iudgement of the Eye-liddes and haires of the liddes The 18. Chapter ISydore writeth that nature ordayned the couer of the eies or eie liddes to defende the eies from outwarde harmes as from flyes moths dust strawes and such like that might otherwise fall into them The eie liddes also be the couers with which the eies are couered and of Isydore named the eie liddes in that these â—ouer and hide the eies in saftie For the same cause the like is to be learned and vnderstanded of the nature and diuersitie of the heares as afore in the other chapter of the ouerbroowes Here in this chapter hath the Phisiognomer diligently gathered togither the sayings of the learned Conciliatore and others although but a fewe notes of them were to be founde The eie liddes which on the eie aproched nigh the angle in the lacrimall part if the same be excéeding small and thinne doth denote the disposition of the maner and malice of the forme The cause of the smalnesse of heares doth litle the matter indicate The lacrymall or inner corner of the eie when the same is little and narrowe doth signifie a craftie person as Auicen reporteth primo de Animalibus The vpper eie lidde bearing out rather blowne vp then full appearing and somewhat declining ouer the eie doth argue that person to be hawtie and disdainfull That if the neather eye lidde shall be small narrow drawne togyther in such maner that it couereth but the whyte of the eye doth denote the body to be gouerned of a drinesse of humours If this like hapneth in any cause of verie sharpe passions vnlesse nature hath so wrought the same as Hypocrates wytnesseth doth then pronounce death at hande The auncient Rasis reporteth that when the hâ—ares of the eye liddes so named of the beating of them doe crooke downewards or be naturally wrythed vnto one part doe indicate such a person to be craftie and a lyar Why the liddes are placed on the eyes doth Gulielmus Nurice thus define that by them the condition and qualitie of the eyes might the readier and better be defended and preserued from the outwarde matters euen as the sheath on a sworde for that cause such a person which hath a grosser or thicker eie lidde doth further sée from him for as much as these preserue the light of the eyes from the outwarde heate and cold And of this manye beastes sée further off than men through the grossenesse or thicknesse of the Eye-lids The corners of the eies when they be
vicious person of al others that euer the Phisiognomer vnderstood or knew in his time In a man the face remaineth but the countenance doth alter so that the continuance is named of the Latine word Volando which properly in English signifieth a flying or vanishing away The countinance appearing sowre through the forme and condition of the lips chéekes forehead and grinning doth indicate such a person to bée a foole and franticke at times by the report of the Phisiognomer A chéerefull and smiling countenance séene doth innuate such a Creature to bee giuen vnto mirth and to be libidinous after nature The face often sweating and that of a light or small stirring doth argue hotnesse or a hot condition to consist in that person And such a Creature is knowne of experience to be leacherous gluttonous and a great féeder Of which insueth indigestion and a sicknesse to come as the Phisiognomer hath sundry times noted The face appearing valled or dented in and rather more leane than fat doth innuate such a Creature to be iniurious enuious a lyar contentious cruell yea a Murderer if the same especially be annexed vnto adustion and that the colour be eyther â—anne or yellowe appearing as the same the Physiognomer sundry times hath obserued and knowne And euery countenance when the same apeareth ful of flesh and fat doth denote by the agréement of most Writers such a creature to be sluggish and giuen vnto pleasure and wanton actions The face appearing verie much awrie leane and long procureth after the minde oâ— the Phisiognomer a very rude creature in conditions malicious and â—nuious and the same affirmeth lerned Rasis A sad countenance indicateth sadnes and heauinesse of minde in that creature but the frowning looke dooth denote such a person to be a bethinker and an immaginer of déepe matters yea wily fearfull in actions and indeuoreth himselfe to be crafty The face well proportioned both in the forme of the flesh colour and in the parts connexed doth argue a laudable life or disposition and flowing in Uertues The face séen hollow from the beginning of the forhead vnto the end of the chin that the nose and mouth séeme placed as they were in a valley doth inuate euil conditions especially if the same bée with a wan or adust colour For such hath the phisiognomer known to haue bin murtherers full of words contentious yea Pirats and Théeues Take héed saith Cocles that you be not deceiued in the iudgement of the leprous forasmuch as their eies are rounde and the vaines eminent or bearing outward and a cytrinesse of colour mixed vnto the rednesse and such are caused to be quick of stirring and possesseth a straitnes of the Nosestrils with a most vehement hoarsenesse that it causeth that person as it were to speake thorough the nose The Gums also of such creatures and the ends of their noses are known to be beaten away their skin besides is caused rough and the haires of the ouerbrowes shed away al which by the face may partfull be knowne as the Learned Arnoldus de villa noua reporteth A small face and countenance doth witnesse a small and base wit The countenance formed exceeding big denoteth sluggishnes in actions a dull capacity and foolishnesse What to be noted and iudged of the condition and forme of the Nose and Nosthrils The 22. chapter MAns face aâ—ter the minde of the Methaposcopeâ— is thin and very passible and no part there is of mans body which like expresseth the passion of the mind as the face properly dooth Of which the mind altered by any cause the Methaposcopers can readily espy and iudge The passible place also of the face and the eyes which the Phiâ—osophers name to be the Windowes Messâ—ngers of the mind and next to these is the forehead For we daily see in the place that the vains exteâ—sed in many subiects when such are angry do swell in a maruellous bignes The next passible part is the nose in that the same is Cartilaginous as without flesh except the vertue of ingendring be mighty from the beginning of generation So that this before the other partes causeth mans face especially to be either comely or deformable The nose stretched and retching vnto the mouth with a decent bignes argueth the bignesse of the Cartylage and the multitude or much quantity of flesh which compasseth the same Cartilage in that the same cannot be caused but thorough a great hotnesse For the property of heat is to dilate and lengthen out so that the nose when the same is protensed or stretched vnto the mouth doth indicate the complexion of the whol indiuiduate to be hot of which both honesty and boldnesse procéedeth and is caused in that creature The Nosthrils bigge and large doe witnesse the Testicles great and that such a person to bee leacherous a betrayer deceitfull a lyer enuious couetous a niggard of a grosse wit and somwhat fearefull as certaine report yet the cause of this matter they alleadge not as the Phisiognomer witnesseth Héere the Phisiognomer teporteth that the nature of heate is to dilate but of colde to shrinke and gather together so that thorough the largenesse of the Nosthrilles is the cause of the hot complexion knowne of which the great testicles procéede and luxury in that creature for through the multitude of Sperme must the receptacle of necessity be great and large that the same may receiue and containe the Sperme or matter of the Sperme vnto the digesting of it Of the grose humors is the grosenesse and bignesse of members procured and by the consequent are the Spirites grosse so that of this grosenesse is the rudenesse of wit caused as the Philosopher Aristotle sayth in lib. 2. de part Animalibus cap 4. of which a tenacity and couetousnesse insueth in so much as such cannot thorough the same rightlie Discerne The Nose doth argue the qualitie of the hart in that a big nose doth indicate the hotnes of the hart and yrefulnes in that creature And through this hotnesse after the minde of Conciliatore is the priuity of man inlarged and caused great as aforesaid Of which certaine report these Words in Latine Ad formam nasi dignoscitur hasta Baiardi By alike reason saith the Phisiognomer may a man argue of the womans priuy place in these Latine words Nam mulieris pes est signum oris verendae The nose either big or small dooth argue by the like the mans and womans _____ to be in that the same being great doth procéede of the grosse matter and hâ—at intensed The _____ of the woman is a note of _____ For the _____ long straight and slender dooth like argue _____ to be econtra The measure of _____ is the proportion measure of the _____ of _____ in euery one Of which a learned sayeth in these words Ad formam pedis tu nosces portam mulieris The smalnesse and thinnesse of the skin of r2h _____ of a _____ is onely knowne by the condition
necke hée was besides couetous and fearefull which is contrarie vnto magnanimitie or boldnesse in that the same procéedeth of a hot quality Yet hadde this person a ready wit through the comely forme of the head forasmuch as the knitting and conioyning of the spirits was lawdable by which the descent Organe aptly serued vnto reason especially for the eminencie of the fore-heade in breadth But the breast the Ribbes the Héeles and the necke were founde all effeminate which as aboue vttered bée contrarie vnto magnanimitie the Aquiline or hawked Nose indicated as the Phisiognomer reporteth his Couetousnesse that so mightily by his report bare sway in him Thus saith he a man must proportionate all the Members togither for otherwise it shall be in vaine to iudge or pronounce any matter at all after the minde of the Phisiognomer on any subiect The nose séene flat doth signifie such a person to be luxurious hasty in wrath and faint-harted for the dominion of the moysture and Flegme in that creature as the learned Conciliatore reporteth Héere conceiue saith the Phisiognomer Cocles that when the nose appeareth flat then is a hotnesse and moysture indicated in that person for as much as the hotnes of the Aqualine or hauked nose is caused with a drynesse So that the flat noses are procured through a hotnesse moysture in that the moysture causeth the inlarging of the nose of which such are knowne hot and moyst that properly cause the luxury in them When any report such persons that they are hasty in wrath the same procéedeth as the Phisiognomer reporteth of an ouer-much hotnesse and the inflamation of spirits mooued and procured through the aboundance of matter and of that inflamation by the report of Cocles is the yrefulnesse caused in such Another cause shall héere be vttered in that the inflamation of the spirit cannot soone or spéedily be cooled through the narrow passage as shal appeare in the matter following Of which the singuler Philosopher Asculanus in the mother tongue wrote these worthy verses following EL concauato è anchora il naso simo ciascun di lora a la luxuria acosta Piu del secundo dico che del primo chi la subtile è ne lextremo agozo Ouero rotundo cum obtusa posta mouesi ad ira el primo come cuzo Laltro e magnanimo e dae graue stile The person which hath a short Nose and the same flat is iudged after the mind of the Phisiognomer to be lasciuious and as some write to be a Théefe The nose séene short the mouth formed small and the téeth found short and big do denote after the mind of the worthy Conciliatore a moist and cold complexion The sharpenesse of the Nose séene the Necke found long the voyce heard small and comly are apparant notes of a temperate chollericke quality as the learned Rasis the worthy Albertus Ptholomeus paruus and other report and Cocles with them The Phisiognomer Cocles reporteth that hée hath many times noted of experience in infinite subiects and in all his life time he neuer saw any which were not possessed with a heape of vices especially for lying or for their imagining lyes and this caused by the Chollericknesse consisting in them for which cause this Cocles willeth a man to take héed of the fellowship of such as of all which saith he experience in short time will instruct thée perfit The nose formed sharpe of the end doth indicate such a person to bee a lyar contentions and yrefull the reason is as the Phisiognomer reporteth in that such are of a chollerick quality for as much as the leannesse and sharpenesse of the nose doth for the most part happen through the aboundance of choller The same end also hath narrow passages in which the ayre cannot passe to coole the heart so that of this it long remaineth inflamed which is the cause of contending and quarrelling in that person The like Creature by report of the Phisiognomer was that Antonius a learned scribe and notary yea he noted many other Countrey-men of his to be like among the number of which Cocles obserued and knew a iolly Fellow of the like Nature named Vandinus de Fauentia which was a betrayer of his courteous Lorde and a principall aider Son vnto the Noble Astorgius Fauentia by whose meanes and other mighty deceiuers about him was this gentle Lorde by commaundement conueyed vnto the prison in Rome and shut vppe as close prisoner in that strong Castle named Saâ—cti Angeli where not many monthes abiding was lamentably murdred of a most cruell Bastard by a headlong fall as the Phisiognomer learned and vnderstood which wicked Creature after the fact committed miserably pined away euen like an Image of Waxe standing in the hottest Sunne When the Nose shall be meanely small a little dry vpward and at the end raised vp and the neather part or end turned again vpward or that his cleft be procéeded from beneath vnto the part turned vpward toward the Cone of the Nose doth then indicate luxury or such an abuse of the bodie not héere decent to be vttered as the learned Conciliatore in his Rubrick of Phisiognomy reporteth The like of this the Phisiognomer Cocles obserued and noted sundry times especially in one of the Senate-house of the Noble Citty of Bononie which for reuerence vnto the noble-house and honesty sake he refuseth to name The cause is for as much as such are of a moist and sanguine quality tending vnto choller and these vniuersally by report of the Phisiognomer are luxurious in both the kinds euen as the same through the pricking forward of choller which daily inflameth the blood And the regitiue Nature of the whole body mooueth or stirreth forward the expulsiue vertue vnto the sending forth of the noious matter superfluous and expelleth the same vnto the congruenter places by the apt passages and sendeth the same forth vnto the 2rd1y in that it is the cause of the erection of it So that such helpe forward themselues by a proper industry not decent for honesty sake to be he vttered when as the desired subiect is not at hand And the apparant notes of these persons are that such haue the nose bigge and blunt especially at the end and the Nostrils wide and large through the grossenesse of bignesse of the nose The singuler Aristotle in Methraphoricis vttereth that such hauing the nose bigge at the end are of an earnest and ready minde vnto the concupiscence of the desired act such also are known to bée base and of no reputation applyed for the forme vnto the Oxe in that such especially in the venereall act are so prone and easily mooued that they couet in minde what person soeuer they sée which especially in knowne to be true for the actiue coeating as with Women for such after the sight of women séeme in a manner to mourn vnto themselues as the Bull doth after the Cow and such Asculanus reporteth are irefull Rasis vttereth
very narrow round formed and as they were confusedly shut together doe witnesse after the opinion of the learned Conciliatore in his Rubricke of Phisiognomy foolishnesse and vnaptnesse to learn and the feeblenesse of courage in that creature The auncient Rasis and Alâ—â—rtus report that the largenesse of the nostrils and the much quantity of flesh on the Jawes and the little quantitie of baires on the chéekes doe signifie a moist complexion The Nostthrilles appearing very blunt doe argue such a person to be foolish but the Nostrils ioyned small indicateth a peruerse mind and peeuish conditions The haires growing within the Nosthrils if these be many thicke growing and big apearing argueth vnstablenesse of minde and a grosse wit as Conciliatore reports and the Phisiognomer Cocles affirmeth the same by experience If the haires within the Nosthrils are fonnde few and soft do witnesse after the mind of the phisiognomer a ready wit apt to learne and honest conditioned The iudgement of the forme and condition of the eares The xxiii Chapter THe eares declare the temperament and proportion of the principall members and especially the brain which experience certifieth vs. For that the braine doth sometimes send forth a noysome matter behinde the eares of which there is ingendred and caused many times an impostuâ—â— and the same according to the diuersity of the humours Of which the Physitians name these the clensing places of the members and superâ—tâ—â—ties The ears great are ingendred and caused 〈◊〉 rough the multitude of matter in the beginning of generation of the strong vertue And all such in a manner which haue great eares as the Physiognomer hath noted are knowne to haue a short necke and head sufficient comely and are Sanguine and such for the more part tending vnto choller or vnto grosse bloud somwhat adust Such also are vnpatient and lightly angry For which cause the Philosopher reporteth that such are foolish this being excepted that they are of a good mind and intention that is â—â—ter the departure of the inflamation and kindlâ—â—â— about the heart forasmuch as this declareth â— hotnes of the heart through the vains and arteries as in the Anathomy may well be discerned And sâ—ch are of a good memory in that they haue a â—â—emely necke being an expresser of the braine and demonstrating a good disposition and perhaps through the chollericke quality is the retention of kinds and thorough the quality of the sinnewes which are of a dry nature After the quailing and abating of iniuries such are of a good intention in that these cause a good discourse and noted to be long liued forasmuch as in them is a good proportioÌ„ between the heat and moisture And such a person which possesseth a mean is moderate in his actions The selfesame is confirmed of the Philosopher in lib. 1. Animalium cap. 11. where he reporteth that those which are most apt and ready in hearing be well nurtered and conditioned Such saith hée haue a note of the best manners which possesse meane eares The eares great and directed aboue measure are notes of foolishnesse or that such to bee Bablers as Aristotle the Phylosopher saith The selfe-same reporteth Auicen pri de Anamalibus that when the first pulpe that is of the eares is ioyned with the flesh of the iaw signifieth a foolish vaine person The Philosopher saith in Methaphoricis that such as haue small eares like to an Ape haue of that reason Apish conditions Such as haue big eares are noted to be dullards applied to the Asse If any person shall haue eares formed like a dogs they are noted to haue the best to be in a meane manner Hitherto Auicen So that such hauing the eares ouer small are noted Apish that is Apish conditions wher one may sée that malignity and deceit to haue dominion in them Such as haue the eares ouer-great in respect of the body argueth foolishnesse and dull of vnderstanding as Aristotle reporteth primo de Animalibus Such hauing the eares meane in quantity is a good note for that the same proueth by the similitude of the disposition in good Dogs Rasis reports that whose eares are bigge is a foole yet long liued after nature the eares erected vp and very great indicateth the multitude of matter and the same inobedient as to the due forme and the Dominion of drinesse indicated which is the onely cause of the erection or standing vpright The eares flexible or bending demonstrateth the proportirn of heat and moisture and the moisture is cause of the bending as appeareth in a skin and wood which when they are crooked or winded inward are moist otherwise if they bee drie their parts are broken Euen so Ptholomy the Phylosopher reporteth that the eares great and bended downward do denote riches When the eares are very small the paucitie of matter and weake vertue of the braine is signified and the Chollericke matter argued of which the subtle spirits caused so that such haue a wit or be ingenious in euill Workes and are Theeues Foolish and so couetous that they desire all things And thorough that coueting such are luxurious and vnderstood perhaps of the immoderate appetites and not of the power or force of the matter The learned Palemon vttereth that when the eares shall be prominient and verie great foolishnesse and garrulitie is signified in that creature and such are knowne to be couetous But the eares which are as they were cut and very shorte and parted dooth Loxius report to attempt and commit a deceit The eares formed semicircularly and creastes connexed in the middle somewhat flat toward the Centre and of a meane bignesse which decently stand to the head do witnesse a goodnes of nature But the eares that are ouer-round signifye such a person to bée vnapâ— to learne The eares long and narrowe are reported to bee the notes of enuie The eares lying or standing close with the head are reported to signifie dulnesse and sluggishnes as Albertus saith the reason and cause of the signification is for that the Vertue formatiue when the Organes are directly formed or that the Instrument of heate and the kind quaileth or wanteth causeth that the mallice of the matter doth so inlarge the eares out of measure or through the drinesse or scarsity of the same causeth them to draw together and be narrow in respect of the due proportion and of this cannot gouerne the workes of the spirit but that the eares like inâ—ue according to the plenty and scarsity of matter forasmuch as they thus procéede of the indiuâ—â—ions of nature These hitherto Albertus I saith the Physiognomer haue noted many olde men and found them to haue great eares and not smal in that age So that the small eares after the agréement of most Writers do denote short life in this agrâ—â—th Ptholomy the Phylosopher where hee reporteth that the eares small bee a note of shorâ—e 〈◊〉 and if the eares be hayry doe indicate long life The reason is that the smalnesse vttereth
fast standing and bearing outward do argue such a person to be a glutton irefull fierce and lasciuious applied for the forme vnto the dog and Boare The cause I suppose saith the Phisiognomer through the aboundance of the radicall moysture or Spermaticall matter which declareth a most great dominion of heat and strength in the principall members of which a hasty dissoluing of the substantiall moisture insueth that cannot be restored but through the much ating of meat whose plentifull substance this greatly needeth for which cause such are inordinate as is aforesaide as appeareth by relation in the Dog Boare And such the Phisiognomer hath knowne of experience to be wasters of their owne substaunce great drinkers deceiuers Whore-hunters maintainers of Harlots and murtherers especially if any other proportion aydeth and confirmeth the same Rasis reporteth that whose téeth are discerned weake thin set and small argueth the whole bodies weaknesse both with feeblenesse and shortnesse of life The selfesame vttereth the said Rasis in the buying of seruants Also Aristotle vseth the same words in his Problemes Aristotle likewise reporteth in secundo de Animalibus that such hauing the téeth thin set are noted to be short liued Rasis also affirmeth the same in these words That whose canine or sharp téeth are discerned long and strong set is argued to be a Glutton an euill person and vicious of bodie Conciliatore in his Rubricke or Phisiognomy reporteth That a noise causeth through the téeth doth denote a frensines in that person which sometimes happeneth to sleeping children when they are troubled with Wormes as the skilfull Physitians report The téeth formed bigge and broade whether theâ—e stand inward or are séene outward doe argue a vaine person lasciuious simple of a slender capacity and hauing a â—ouine witte for that the same witnesseth grosse spirites to consist in that person procéeding of grosse-humors The téeth most drie without anye moysture discerned to stand in them yea and wholly dry in a sicke person do denote death at hand forasmuch as the radicall moisture is then consumed their bodies remaine and are as a lamp without Oyle In a healthfull body the like seene doe signifie a sicknesse to come and the same shortly The téeth séene full of reume or a distilled water from the heade appearing in them argueth a disease of the head or stomacke through the participation and occasion of the head and lungs causing this distillation from the head into the Nose and Eyes the Cathar the cough the Squincy in the throat and the impostume of the iawes But any of these this procureth either more or lesse according to the contrary working of the members as vnto the beholder may euidently appear Such Beasts hauing the téeth indented like to a Sawe onely drinke by licking with the Tongue But such hauing the téeth formed whole do drinke by supping as the famous Philosopher Aristotle reporteth The Téeth formed small and weake to chew both thin set and short appearing doe indicate after Michael Scotus a féeble courage a tender capacity fearefull lightly perswaded eyther vnto good or euil of a reasonable wit and faithful but such a one is short â—iued The Téeth after Michael Scotus not-euen formed neither in the bignes nor in the standing of the Gums so that there appeare of them narrow broad thin and thicke téeth denoteth a disdainfull person enuious bold wary and of a ready wit if one may credit this Scotus The téeth formed very long and as they were sharpe somewhat thin set yet strong in the chewing do witnesse after the minde of Scotus such a person to be a Glutton enuious bolde deceitfull suspitious a lyar and inuericundious The teeth as M. Scotus reporteth appearing cytrine or browne whether these be short or long formed argueth such a person to be more foolish then wise a grosse féeder lightly crediting of a diuers vnderstanding suspitious enuious a coueter of other mens goods and a lyar The téeth big and broad whether these decline or stand in and out or that they appeare thicke or thin set witnesseth such a person to be vain lightly crediting simple of a tender capacity a grosse féeder lasciuious and a lyar The téeth discerned strong and thicke set indicateth long life in that creature to be a Teller of newes selfe willed a stoute person lightly crediting desirous of beautifull thinges and of a dull capacity The téeth weake few in number thin set and small do indicate such a person to be weake of body short liued gentle shamefast tractable trusty lightly crediting of a ready capacity and wary Hitherto borrowed out of the Phisiognomy of Scotus Of the condition and iudgement of the tongue The xxvii Chapter THe toong is a member which is extended out of white flesh both hard well moouing and this the colour and vse of it declareth the rednes consisting in it is caused of many small vains and litle arteries which procéed and come vnto it especially vnto the neather part of the same thorough which this appeareth in the neather part Redder than in the vpper and this is known to be a spungy matter full of powers For experience instructeth vs that the same is bloody for that the solution of the continuity of the same is only cured in short time with the simple Rosed Hony The tongue not onely serueth for the cleane and perfect vttering of words in smiting the téeth to cause the sound of them in the issuing foorth but the same also helpeth to distinguish all manner of tasts yea the letters perfectly expresse as the learned Aristotle saith The tongue folded or turned downeward and stutting or stammering doth argue an humorall laske of the belly as the woorthy Hipocrates reporteth in 32. Aphoris sexrae secto Such as are encombred with this Humorall laske become Stutterers or Stammerers thorough the matter descending from the head which entreth and is drunke into the Spunginesse and Lacertes of the tongue and of this ingrossed or caused thicke through which enlarging the same of necessity must be shortned So that of the same cause such stut or stammer yea Rasis reporteth that the stammering doth innuate the moystnesse of quality Some there be which are caused to stut of nature of which that Noble Phisitien Etius writeth Such hauing the tongue tyed before cannot perfectly pronounce the letter S. but sounde the same like C. and such are named of Etius proper stammerers The tongue tied behind cannot pronounce the Letters R. and T. as Galen reporteth but breaking the Letter R. sounde the same like to the letter L. and such of him are aptly named Lispers The Flix named Diarrhaea is a Flix or laske of the belly with the onely shedding of humour without an inflamation or exulceration when the humors especially discend from the head So that when any vttereth the wordes with difficulty it is then a note of Diarrhaea to mollest that creature With which disease the Phisiognomer reporteth himselfe to haue béene encombred in
call or vtter the words shrilly are noted to be irefull applied for the kind and forme vnto the Goat these hitherto out of Aristotle the like Albertus and Conciliatore report and Hieronimus de Manfredis a Countrey-man of the Phisiognomers The voyce vttered bigge and distensed in the kind doth indicate a strong person forasmuch as the same procéedeth through the plenty of heate This grosse or bigge voyce doth the Phisiognomer héere meane to be like to the base Organ◠pipe The person which vttereth a slow big sound of the voice is iudged to be quiet tractable gentle and merry of these certaine are known to be very iust and vpright creatures in their dealings after the mind of the Phisiognomer The voice decerned bigge yet the sound of wordes perceiued very corrupt is an apparant note of a franticke Creature iniurious and a glutton The strength of the voyce ensueth the largenesse of vaines multitude of the spirits which altogether are caused of heat as the Philosopher Aristotle reporteth The persons possessing a big voyce and that heauily or basely calling are indicated to bee apt persons to beare iniuries and wrongs applied for the forme vnto the Asse Such creatures which call or beginne big and end in their words with a smal voyce are denoted to be both yrefull and pittifull at times yea soone pleased and tractable applied vnto the Oxe for the forme of the cry the reason of this is often taught afore Such a person which hath a grosse high and sounding voyce is reported to be eloquent bol◠fierce and valiant in Armes or a Warrior The voyce decerned small and low doth indicate such a Creature to be fearefull and enuious By this low voyce is héere meant saith the Phisiognomer the small and faint voice and not the big in any manner Here conceiue that the voice is diuers of sound forasmuch as the voyce is a sound with an imagination by the mouth of the creature vttered to demonstrate any effect But sound is any kind procéeding of the sounding which vnto the hearing procureth a passion And the speach is a third kind hauing a diuersity vnto either of these The voyce decerned small soft in the hearing and in a broken manner doth witnesse a womanly fearefulnesse to consist in that Creature and to be effeminate The voyce heard slow doth indicate after the mind of the Philosopher such a person to be sluggish in actions rash at times and impudent The voyce decerned weake doth argue a straightnesse of the Arteries and paucity of the spirits which are especially caused by the meanes of cold The voyce decerned soft without retching doth indicate such a person to be gentle and tractable applyed vnto the shéepe for the similitude of the voyce euen as the others applied vnto Beastes of like condition The voyce heard grosse and high doth indicate a hotnesse of the heart and Lunges and a largenesse of the Wezand that both fréely draweth and expelleth the ayre or breath without impediment for which cause the voyce heard lowd dooth denote such a creature to be talkatiue bold and contentious The Philosopher Aristotle in de secretis secretoris vttereth that whose voyce appeareth a meane betwéene a smalnesse and bignesse is noted to be a person sapient a fore-séer true and iust and these through the contrary cause Such a person which is decerned quicke of spéech especially if he hath a shrill voyce is denoted to be a Creature yrefull obstinate foolish importunate a lyar and euermore euill conditioned But if the voyce shall be perceiued or decerned grosse or rather bigge doth signifie such a Creature to be irefull hasty of an euil nature and condition The creature which hath a swéete and pleasant voyce is iudged of the Philosopher Aristotle to be enuious irefull at times and maruailous suspecting The delectablenesse of voyce decerned in a proper subiect as the worthy Palemon vttereth doth indicate a dull capacity yet a stowtnesse of courage to consist in him The quicknesse and hastinesse of words or spéech decerned as the learned Albertus reporteth doth argue a hot complexion to consist in that Creature The like doe Phylemon Loxius Palemon and Conciliatore vtter vnder these wordes that whose voyce is heard grosse and big vttered is reported to be ireful rash and hasty in his actions and suspected to be of an euil nature the reason of these is reported of them to bee through the vntemperate hotnesse The person hasty in spéech especially when he hath a small voyce is reported to bée wicked a Foole importunate a lyar yrefull and euermore of euill conditions Whose voyce shall be decerned pleasant as afore vttered is iudged enuious and suspitious the reason hath bin opened in another place for as much as the same is effeminate Further the delectablenesse of voyce doth denote small wisedome or simplenesse and veneriall conditions Rasis reporteth that the voyce decerned bigge doth indicate the hotnesse of complexion but the small voyce doth witnesse the coldnes of complexon in that creature The voyce perceiued rough and hoarse like vnto the Cranes doth testifie an enuious person and one that retaineth a mischiefe secretly in the heart the same person also is by report of the Philosopher melanchollike in quality Whose voice shall be decerned not fully vttered or spoken with a long breath is noted to be a vile person through the coldnesse of the hart and peraduenture with moystnesse applied They which vtter the voyce in cutting of the breath doe promise liberally but performe little and such are knowne to be deceiuers They which are decerned to vtter the voice as it were by a moouement of the breast sturdily big are denoted to be manly yet vnapt to learne and stoute of courage applied for the forme vnto the Lyon They which haue a slow and big voyce are denoted to be quiet and merrie such also for the most part are knowne to bee iust persons and gentle conditioned They which are heard to sound the voice shrill like vnto birds are noted to be prone vnto the veneriall act vnstable and vaine A breathing discerned small and faint in voice doth innuate such a creature to be sad for the more part froward and suspitious The creature which mooueth often himselfe and speaketh with the mouing of hands is thoght vncleanely yet of a very readie wit and quicke vtterance and sometimes knowne to be a deceyuer But he which refraineth from the moouing of hands when he speaketh is of a perfect vnderstanding of a good disposition and of a sounde counsell The person which speaketh and soundeth the voice through the Nosthrils is affirmed to be full of words a lyar malicious enuious and ioyeth in the harmes of another and such a creature dooth imitate the nature of the Ducke This the Phisiognomer obserued and noted in a certaine Countryman of his Further the voice heard vehement and making a noise as a sounde vndecently mixed doth denote an vniust person violent and bearing hatred in heart
But the voice descerned slowe doth indicate a sluggish person in actions and sometimes hasty And whose voice in the middle appeareth a meane as betwéene the smalnesse and grosenesse is accompted sapient a fore-séer true and iust The condition and iudgement of laughter The xxx chapter THe mind after the opinion of the Philosopher is much delighted with laughter yet the ouermuch laughter is named of most men a laughter out of course and argueth besides a small vnderstanding and simple wit Of which the common Prouerbe rise and often divulgated of the wise is that in the mouth of a foole much laughter consisteth the like reporteth Catullus that singular Poâ—t in this Sentence The laughter light moued not framed in place Be wrayeth a fooles folly in iesture and grace Héere conceiue that through the Milt formed big such a creature is procured to laugh much and otherwise is it when in the contrary manner as some report And the learned Isidore in xi ethymolagiâ—â—um vttereth that the Milt to bee so named of the supplying of the same which properly lieth on the contrary part of the liuer to the ende the same shold not consist or remaine empty The Gaule is knowâ—e to be an apt receptacle bladder in the creatâ—re which by due worke of nature sendeth or receiâ—eth into it the choller The Mylt are supposed of some to be a procurer of laughter séeing by it we 〈◊〉 especially caused to laugh By the Gaule if we mâ—y credit 〈◊〉 are all Creatures mooued vnto the by the heart to conceyue déepe matters by the 〈…〉 the quality mooued vnto loue through which 〈◊〉 elements euerie liuing creature saith he is sustained So that the persons which sufficiently laughe are denoted after the agréement of Writers to be benigne and gentle quiet beloued for theyr curteous behauiour of all persons yet lâ—â—htly endamaged or harmed althogh such are smoisy â—â—refull for any and these beside a 〈◊〉 of an apparant comlinesse saith the Phisiognomer applied vnto the Sanguine and Joâ—â—all persons The creature which reasonably laugheth is argued to bee giuen to mirth of a good quality but ioyeth much in the veneriall 〈◊〉 especially if the eies appeare smiling The ouermuch laughter exercised as Aristotle vttereth vnto king Alexander remoâ—eâ—â—â—â—reuerence and hasteth olde age in that creature for troth with such willingly saith the Phisiognomer is no societie or fellowship to be vsed in that these lacke Wit and are nothing at all secret yet these after some Writers are reported to be seruiceable and painfull in their doings Such persons which are séene seldom to laugh are indicated to be of a déepe vnderstanding and knowne faithfull as certaine report and this the Phisiognomer obserued and noted in sundrie honest and vertuous persons which he knew to bée searchers of déepe and hid secrets The cause euidently appeareth and is known to be a déep thinking and reatch which consisteth in that creature which remoueth laughter Of whom such a person that laugheth often as is aforesaid bethinketh or museth on no serious and déepe matter nor maketh any solemne or witty discourse with himselfe Certaine of the ancient report tht the creature which is hardly procured to laugh is affirmâ— to be witty a foreséer of matters vnto himselfe niggardly and very studious in the Art which he dayly exerciseth yet such a creature sayeth the Phisiognomer is prone to be a surmiser and irefull The person which is heard to laugh alowde with a certaine noise discerned in the laughter is indicated by some writers to be inuericundious and rash in actions Such a creature that without cause procured laugheth and in his laughing séemeth often to cough or gape or to draw the head awrie is indicated to be variable of purpose and minde enuious lightly or soone crediting and conuertible either vnto the good or euill as Loxius and Phylemon report The learned Conciliatore in his Rubricke of Phisiognomy saith thta the creature Coughing when he laugheth or is at the instant encombred with the hardnesse and shortnes of breath is iudged to be inuericundious fierce and a Tyraunt as the like was obserued and noted by Cocles in a certaine Prince of Lumbardy Certaine of the worthy Physiognomers report that whose Chéekes are discerned often to smile is denoted to be of euill minde of a peruerse cogitation and a liar and such persons generally are malicious and dissemblers not to bee trusted but rather to be doubted if we may credit the phisiognomer when the like especially is ioined with other accidents of the mind and that their eielids appeare wrinkled togither with the eye-browes gathered as it wer in a cloudy forme such are then shedders of bloud murderers robbers by Sea and land as hath often bin obserued in manie which were the like He that smileth vnto himselfe when he talketh is indicated to be foolish and of simple vnderstanding as the phisiognomer obserued in an Italian and such are reported to abound in the Melancholick quality The chéekes writhing in laughter as if it wer in the derision of another witnesseth such a person to be arrogant deceitfull couetous a lyar yrefull and a blabber of secrets Such as lightly laugheth saith M. Scotus is denoted to be of simple vnderstanding vnstable vain lightly crediting of dâ—l wit grosse in féeding seruiceable yet in facts or actions not secret Such as sildome laugh and soon make an end is argued according to M. Scotus to be stable wary niggardly yet of good vnderstanding secret faithfull and glorious in his actions The condition and iudgement of the bâ—â—â—â—h The 31. chap. THe much breath argueth aboundance of the spirits econuerso which procéedeth two waies the one through the lungs smalnesse the other through the straitnesse of the brest Of which the creature much breathing is of great strength and courage by reason of the heate resoluing the moisture especially that dewy moisture after the mind of the Phisiognomer The breath sent forth in due course and order that is betwéene the great and small apearing a meane doth indicate the quietnesse of hart and a man in minde well pleased as the Phylosopher reporteth That person which sigheth without cause and fetched the sighes déepe and long dooth witnesse the Melancholy to come and that mighty to perseuer in that creature The breath appeareth cut betwéene being after an order which in the end through straitnesse of the breast commeth forth with a heat and sighing argueth such a creature to be encombred with thought and the disquietnesse of mind And the same to be mixed to some euill if the head especially shake withall That person which with the sighing draweth the eyes awry is iudged after the minde of most writers that hee then bewaileth the matter come vnto mind deuising with himselfe in what manner he may aptliest bring about and compasse or atchieue the same The creature which breatheth with a certaine noise through the larger opening of the nostrilleâ— doth then indicate cruelty brutish furiousnes and