little to be a craftie beguiler The white prickes of the nayles to be wealthie and to haue manye friendes The blacke prickes in the nayles to be hated applied to the naturall cause Of the nayles of the toes The toes and nayles crooked to be vnshamefast applyed to the Byrdes The nayles thinne and well coloured to be of a good witte and honest condicioned The toes ioyning close togither to be fearefull applyed to the Quayle Of the nauill The space large from the bottom of the breast vnto the nauill to be dull of capacitie and a great féeder applyed to the naturall cause The space equall to be wittie and honest conditioned applyed to the naturall cause The stomacke from the nauill vnto the breast fleshie to be wicked after Polemone The same space soft and well compact to be stowte and high minded Of the ribbes The person well ribbed to be strong applied to the male kinde The ribbes narrow and weake compowned to be weake applyed to the female kinde The ribbes filled aboute as they were blowne vp to be full of wordes and foolish applyed to the Oxe and Frogge Of the loynes and Hypocondria The person well loyned to be a louer of the hunting of wilde beastes applyed to the Lion and Dogge The Hypocondria thinne and flatte to be fearefull applyed to the Frogge The Hypocondria fleshie vnapt to be taught Of the haunches and hippes The bones of the haunches bearing outwarde to be strong applied to the male kind The bones of the haunches slender to be feareful and weake applyed to the woman The hippes well sinewed to be strong applied to the male kinde The hippes fleshie to be weake applyed to the woman Of the Pecten The Pecten very hearie to be libidinous yet prosperous applyed to the naturall cause The Pecten very thinne of heare to be chaste applied to the naturall cause Of the buttockes The buttockes sharpe and bonie to be strong â–ª applyed to the male kinde The buttockes fleshie and fatte to be weake applyed to the woman The buttockes dried in fleshe to be euill conditioned applyed to the Ape Of the legges The legges bigge sinewed and brawned to be strong applyed to the male kinde Small sinewed to be libidinous applyed to Byrdes The legges bigge and euill fashioned to be vnshamefast The cawfes of the legges bigge to be an euill manered person The cawfes of the legges soft to bée most effeminate The legges slender to be dull of capacitie yet this fayleth often in the learned students The cawfes verie bigge bearing out to be sluggishe and rude manered The cawfes meanely bigge formed to be wittie and honest conditioned Of the knees The knées bigge to be an effeminate person applyed vnto the excessiue appearaunce of them The knees verye slender to be fearefull applyed vnto the excessiue appearance of them The knees bending forwarde to be effeminate applyed to the woman The knées fatte to be fearefull yet liberall The knées leane to be strong and hardie Of the ancles The ancles strong sinewed and brawned to be strong applyed to the male kinde The ancles much fleshie to be weake applied to the woman The ancles broade to be strong applyed to the naturall cause The partes about the ancles ouer fleshie to be foolishe applyed to the propertie The héeles very slender or thinne to be fearefull applyed to the propertie and condition of them Of the feete The féete strong sinewed and brawned to be strong applyed to the male kinde The féete weake sinewed and small to be effeminate applyed to the woman The inner partes of the soles of the féete not hollowe but so filled with flesh that they make no hollownesse at all in the steppe on the ground is noted to be craftie applyed to the naturall cause The féete bigge and fleshie to be foolishe of the naturall cause The féete thicke and short to be weake of the naturall cause The feete slender and short to be wicked of the natuall cause The féete ouer long to be wily of the naturall cause The féete fleshie and hard to be a dullarde of the naturall cause The féete small and fayre formed to be a fornicator applyed to the â–ª propertie of the note The féete much hearie to be leacherous and bolde applyed to the naturall cause The féete naked of heare to bée weake of strength and courage of the naturall cause Of the hearinesse of the partes The legges hearie to be venerious applyed to the Goate The breast and belly very hearie to be vnconstant applyed to the Byrdes The shoulders hearie to be the lyke vnconstant and applied to the Byrdes The back very hearie to be cruell applyed to the beastes The necke behinde hearie to be liberall and stowte applyed to the Lion. The heare of the eye browes ioyned togither to be a sadde person applyed to the passion The heares of the eye browes growing downe warde towarde the nose and spreading vpwarde vnto the temples to be foolishe applyed to the Sowe The heare of the heade standing straight vp to be fearefull applyed to the passion The heare of the heade very crisped to be fearefull applyed to the Moores The heares crisped at the endes to be strong and bolde applyed to the Lion. The heares turning vp in the vpper part of the foreheade to be liberall and stowte applyed to the Lion. The heares of the head plain to be simple Much heare of the heade and thicke to be an euill conditioned person Of the going and moouing The pace slowe and long to be wittie and strong The pace slow and short to be wittie yet weake The pace long and quick to be strong yet foolishe The pace short and quicke to be both foolishe and weake of strength The shoulders bending forwarde in going to be high minded applyed to the Lyon. The person going with the knées féete turning in to be weake of strength applyed to the woman In the talking wrything or shrugging the bodie hither and thither to be a flatterer applyed to the fawning Dogge Leaning vnto the right side in the going to be a Cynede applyed to the excessiue appearance The eyes quicke moouing to be gréedie and quicke catchers applied to the Hawke The eyes quick and often moouing with a â—â—eddinesse of the bodie to be wittie and of a readie vnderstanding applyed to the condition of the passion Of the personage and stature The person verye small of personage to bée quick witted and prompt in attayning any matter of the naturall cause Such verye bigge of personage to be of a dull capacitie and thereof hardly conceyuing of the contrary cause after Aristotle Small of personage and of a hote and drie qualitie chollericke to be vnapt readilye to conceyue and to iudge or decerne any matter rightly Small of personage and of a colde and moyste qualitye to bée apt to conceyue and readily to decerne of the contrary cause Bigge of personage and of a hote and drie qualitie to be wittie and readily to conceyue Bigge of personage and of a
when a woman is aparelled decked in mans apparell which doth then declare hir nature to draw néere to mans As the like did that woman of courage named Fracassa who commonly vsed to weare by the report of the Phisiognomer mans apparell and would vpon a brauerye manye times arme hir selfe at all poynts to iust and runne sundrie times so armed at the ring The forme of which woman by the earnest vew of the Phisiognomer was on this wise shée had a small heade and Pineapple like a necke comely formed large breasted séemelye armes aunswering to the body but in hir other partes as in the hippes buttockes thighes and legges nere agréeing to mans This manlye woman also walked vpright in bodie treading light on the grounde and bearing hir head playing like to the Hart. The other notes of this woman did the Phisiognomer for breuitie sake here omitte Yet he thus concluded that by the sundrie notes which he vewed shée was prone to come to a violent death These verses of the Italian Franciscus Asculanus may aptly be applyed in thys place touching the great deceyte and subtile practises of many Strumpets in their deckings and other wanton alurements to the mightie harme and vndoing of many men as the like well knowne by that coragious woman aboue described who drew for the personage and singuler beawtie many a worthy Capitane and Souldiour to hir company For which cause this man mooued with a loue and pittie towardes his countriemen wrote these by the way of a perswation in the mother tongue as followe De non credati a femina scioccha E non vacenda lor ficta bellezza Ma riguardati come dentro fioccha Miri la mente cum gli occhij cerueri Che alhora perderai la sua vaghezza De lei mirando li socij misteri That some light vnderstanding may be conceyued by these verses he vttereth in them that he woulde his countrie men to beware of the counterfeyt beawtie of most women with them in that the same not naturall but like framed by Arte with waters tinctures and suche like The Phisiognomer also reporteth that manye women like delighted to garnishe and decke vp themselues carrie the heade after the maner of the Hart with the eies rolling and turning here and there still turning the head one whils on the right side an other whiles on the left yea vpwarde and downewarde which argueth an especiall vnstablenesse and an vnsatiable luxury in that creature In so much that if they intensiuely possesse or haue these then suche be for the more part ercmeriti and of experience sayth the Phisiognomer doe I report this Where sundrie men are named to be Effemynate is vnderstanded and ment two wayes the one when as such be delighted to go in apparell and decked with ornaments like to women the other to appéere laciuious and weake both of will and courage The qualitie of which apparently declareth that the minde for the more part doth like ensue and aunswere to the dispotion of the bodie For such be noted of experience to be vnfaythfull and euill reporters and lyars in that they thus through their counterfayting aunswere in partes to the kinde fraudelent and wylie Further the youthfull delightes in men is séene vnto twentie yeares or néere vpon for that the naturall heate is all that time couered and hinde of the moysture The knowledge of which is well discerned through their members then being soft that suffer in a maner as the women The wearing of heauie garments customably doth perfitly argue a heauie braine but the garments light doe witnesse a light braine which rule and note much furthereth the person minding to Phisiognomate on any subiect The heares of the heade blackish in colour if they be meanely thinne as writeth Palemon and the like Albertus Aristotle and Consiliatore doe then denote honest condicions and both a good disposition iudgement and nature in that person The heares of the head yellowish and meanely thinne doe denote that the Sunne and Mercury to beare sway in the qualities and nature of that person after the minde of the Phisiognomer which I thereto agrée The learned Consiliatore writeth that he which hath the heares of the heade and in all other partes of the body standing vpright is argued by iudgement fearefull for that such persons in great feare appeare the like which for that applyed to the condition of the passion A lyke reason of the same vttereth Albertus which affirmeth that the windie moysture is cause of such an vprightnesse and staring of the heares Yet be the heares somtimes crisped curled and hard which procéede through the drinesse in the sharpe heate is causing and working the lyke The worthy man Almansor writeth that the crispednesse of the heares and of these standing vpright doe demonstrate a hote qualitie and hastye nature in that person Here in the first persons touching the colour of the heares and the effeminacie of parts doth the Phisiognomer aptly apply the Moone and Venus but in the seconde kinde doth he néerer attribute the Sunne or rather Mars The heares of the heade lying flatte and reaching out on the foreheade doe denote a strong person ▪ yet brutish of likelyhood in condicions for that the powling of heades in our time may greatly beguile the iudger and these applied to the Beare and other wilde beastes A like iudgement the Philosophers vttereth that the roughnesse of the heares of the heade do denote in many lacking education and grace the rudenesse of maners and wilde behauiour The heares of the heade after the minde of the Philosopher Aristotle very thinne doe indicate an effeminate minde for the lacke of bloud through which not onely a slownesse but a womanly courage and dulnesse in conceyuing is procured A muche quantitie of the heares of the head lying flat and appart on the middle of the foreheade folding and winding vpwarde towarde the braine or crowne of the heade doe argue after the agréement of Authors that such a person to be both subtile and wilye yet in honest and iuste causes not founde so aduised and wittie for which reason attributed of the Phisiognomer to the barbarous sort The heares of the heade flat lying of eyther side descending to the forheade doe declare such a person condicioned to the nature of the Horse The heares next the temples small and thin ▪ doe denote a colde person and weake of strength ▪ the reason of which séemeth to bée for that the temples supply that place where the great Arters and Uaines doe ende And in this the place shoulde naturally be hote through which causing the engendering of heares in that the same is procured of heate For which cause when the heares of the temples be small and thinne doe then denote the lacke of naturall heate and applyed to women being there bare of heares The heare by the temples thinne yet founde stiffe doe then denote not only a fearefull person but colde also by nature The
the Eiuirp Ecalp leacherous simple often vaine vnstable and abounding in euill ▪ humours as wryteth Michael Scotus The iudgement of the ancles The. Liii chapter HEre the Phylosopher instructeth to Physiognomate by the ancles of the féete and vttereth two considerations of the notes according to the two dispositions and formes which with their relations appeare of the wordes and sayings in the text Such strong sinewed and well brawned about the ancles are noted strong after nature and applyed to the Male kinde Such much fleshie and weake sinewed about the ancles are iudged weake of strength and courage and applyed after nature to the female kinde But as touching the seconde disposition and forme in distinguishing these better Rasis vttereth that when the ancles shall be bigge as thorowe a fleshinesse doe argue such a person to be a dullarde and vnshamefast Conciliatore reporteth that such which shall be strong sinewed and well brawned about the ancles are denoted strong and bolde and contrariwise the shankes and ancles bigge and euill formed doe demonstrate suche a person to be weake a dullarde and vnshamefast these hitherto Conciliatore The ancles bigge through the fleshinesse and much bearing outwarde doe signifie a weake person of small labour fearefull warie faythfull and tractable as affirmeth Michael Scotus The ancles hauing verie apparaunt sinewes and strong doe demonstrate a strong person bolde prowde and stowte as wryteth Michael Scotus These hitherto of the ancles shall here suffice The forme and iudgement of the feete The. Liiij chapter HEre the Philosopher doth Phisiognomate by the condition of the féete and deuideth them into foure partes As touching the first disposition he vttereth that such hauing the feete sufficient bigge strong sinewed and well brawned in such maner that the sinewes and muscles appeare and that the greatnesse of the féete appeareth by reason of the bignesse both of the bones and sinewes and not by occasion of the muche quantitie of fleshe doe indicate a strong person bolde and stowte applyed for the forme vnto the male kinde The Phisiognomer Cocles vttereth that the bignesse of the feete signifiyng the like aboue sayd ought not to be conditioned or possesse an ouermuch fleshinesse in that according to Rasis the féete hauing much flesh or appearing very fleshie and that these are formed fast or harde in the composition doe innuate such a person to be of a dull vnderstanding slender capacitie applyed for the imperfiter vnderstanding vnto the female kinde The singuler Philosopher Aristotle in libio de secretis secretorum vttereth that the féete formed fleshie doe denote such a creature to be foolishe vnaduised and a moouer or procurer of iniuryes to men The feete decerned small and slender in forme doe signifie such a person to be strong and stowte of courage after the minde of Nuntius Naturae The learned Aristotle also reporteth that such hauing the féete formed contrarie vnto the first maner as appearing narrow in the bredth in which the ioyntes séeme not to appeare are denoted weake of strength feeble of courage and to be effeminate The féete sayth Cocles which are decerned slender and in the forme appeare amiable in such maner that these are found rather more soft than strong are applyed according to the passions of the minde vnto the female kinde that is such haue the naturall conditions attributed vnto the female kinde The auncient Rasis vttereth that the féete formed small comely and fayre doe demonstrate such a creature to be prone vnto the veneriall act or a leacherer myrrie full of ieastes sportes the causes of these dispositions are the complexionall qualities consisting in him Here conceyue sayth the Phisiognomer that the hotenesse and moysture in euery creature are the speciall causes procuring the bignesse of the féete But the coldenesse is knowne to be the consequent cause occasioning the smalnesse of féete Of which according to the diuers forme and condition of the féete are the diuers qualities aunswerable caused and doe lyke insue as a like of this reason afore vttered in many places Such which haue the toes and the nayles of them crooking lyke vnto the Haulkes tallons or clawes are denoted after the minde of Aristotle to be deceyuers théeues violent catchers and filthie talkers The like iudgement is to be giuen of the fingers and nayles so crooking For the Phisiognomer alwayes obserued and knewe these which possessed the nayles and fingers thus proportioned and formed to be of a Chollericke qualitie yet this note I saw sayth he to be lawdable in iolly warriours and right good souldiers and in those which by Marses beame seemed to be gouerned in their great attemptes Certaine report sayth the Phisiognomer that Aristotle here meaneth by the vnshamefast persons these naturally theeues violent prollers and euill tongued I affirme sayth Cocles that by the martiall théeues the Philosopher doth meane the worthie souldiars forasmuch as such which liue and applie their wittes and minds in the warres exercise none other then warlike attempts after the maner of the common spoylers and théeues in purchasing great booties and spoyles here and and there whether these attaine it by right or wrong after a warrelyke custome as we daylye sée And as further in the Phisiognomie of the Planet Mars shall be vttered and in the positure of Mars in the hande c. to come forth The toes decerned close ioyned togither do denote such a person to haue a naturall scowring or flixe of the bellie and such a creature applyed for the forme vnto that kinde of Quaile which séeketh his foode by freshe waters for his often and much durging Rasis reporteth that when the héeles are séene small in forme doe indicate such a person to bee weake of strength and fearefull The héeles decerned bigge and fast of flesh doe denote such a person to be strong and bolde as the former Rasis vttereth Albertus and Phylemon report that the brest of the foote when the same shall be formed fleshie and not hollowe in such maner that treading with the same on the earth it séemeth to lie with an euen vpper face of the sole on the grounde doth innuate such a person to be craftie and malicious for this is a note of the colde flewme abounding on the forme And this easily receyueth formes in asmuch as that the same is of a lyght cause mooued of the weake moouer And of this is the craftinesse in that subiect caused The Philosopher Aristotle vttereth that whose inner part of the sole of the foote shall not be decerned hollow but on such wise filled that with the whole foote in the treading the same toucheth the ground is denoted to be a creature wilie mutable and full of deceytes When the breast of the foote shall appeare hollow and in a contrary maner vnto the first doth signifie by the contrarie of such a condition the goodnesse of vnderstanding and a good composition well directed and the goodnesse of conditions When the hollow of the foote shall be
very little and rounde to bée foolish The face long and leane to be bolde verie crooked long and leane to be malicious larger from the foreheade vnto the iawes to be a lyar Narrower from the iawes vnto the chinne to be enuious and contentious Of the lippes The lippes thinne hanging one ouer the other to be bolde and hardie applyed to the Lion. The lippes thinne and harde to be yrefull and vnapt to learne applyed to the Sow The lippes thinne and soft to be stowte applyed to the Lion. The lippes bigge that the vpper hangeth downe ouer the neather to be foolish applyed to the Asse The vpper lip bearing out that the gummes be séene to be a wrangler and spitefull applyed to the Dogge Of the chinne The chinne sharpe to be faythfull applyed to the Dogge The chinne small and short to be enuious and cruell applyed to the Serpent The chinne in a maner square to be honest cōditioned The chinne long and downewarde sharpe to bée a craftie fellow The chinne rounde to be effeminate applyed to the woman The vnder chinne hanging low downe to be leacherous The chinne hauing a pitte or deuided at the ende to be a wily person and libidinous Of the bearde The woman bearded to be leacherous The woman hauing no bearde at all to be honest conditioned The mans bearde ouer hearie to be Melancholike of a naturall cause The beard séemely formed to be of a good nature of a naturall cause The bearde vnséemely fashioned to be of an euill nature of the contrarie cause The colour of the eyes The colour red aboue to be yrefull applyed to the passion very blacke to be fearefull which the propertie of the colour giueth blacke and yealowish of colour to be honest conditioned applyed to the comelinesse thereof Gray or white to be fearefull which the propertie of the colour giueth A darke yealow to be honest conditioned applyed to the Lion. And fierie to be vnshamefast yet full of myrth Uariable of colour to be fearefull applyed to the passion And shining bright to bée luxurious applyed to the Cocke and Rauen. The colour of the face The colour redde aboue to be shamefast applyed to the passion The chéekes red aboue to be louers of wine applied to the passion The chéekes nose of the liuers rednesse to be most detested The colour of the breast Of a fierie colour to be yrefull applyed to the passion The colour of the whole bodie Uerye blacke of colour to bée fearefull of courage applyed to the blacke Moore Uerye white to be fearefull applyed to the woman Swartish of colour to be meanely strong yealow of colour to be honest conditioned applyed to the Lion verie red or ruddie to be wilie ingenious applyed to the Woolfe A verie pale colour except it be of sicknesse to be fearefull applied to the passion Of a hunnie colour to be sluggish of a naturall cause Of a firie color to be long angry hard to be pleased and very furious And pale not procéeded of ouermuch studie to be vicious wicked Of the teeth The sharpe téeth if they be long fast and bearing outwarde to be a great féeder yrefull and wicked applyed to the Dogge and Bore The téeth bigge and broade to be simple witted vaine of a dull capacitie and lasciuious applyed both to the Oxe and Asse Of the voyce The voyce lowde and bigge to be iniurious applyed to the Asse The beginning bigge and ending small to be yrefull applyed to such which crie oute and to the crying of the Oxe The voyce small soft and broken to be fearefull applied to the woman Bigge and high to be verie yrefull applied to the mastie Dogge A soft voice without reaching to be gentle applyed to the shéepe The voyce small and lowde to be yrefull applyed to the Goate Of the necke The necke bigge to be strong applyed to the man The necke slender applyed to the woman bigge and fleshie to be yrefull applied to the Bul. The necke meane to be stowte applyed to the Lyon long and small to be fearefull applyed to the Hart. The necke verie short to be wyly applyed to the Woolfe and Catte Such sufficient strong about the knot or ioynt of the necke are wittie and of a good capacitie Such there weake to be dullardes Of the breast The breast bigge and well fashioned to bée strong applyed to the man The breast large and well compact to be strong applyed to the Lion. Hearie on the breast to be vnconstant and bolde applyed to Byrdes The breast without heare to be vnshamefast or else fearefull applyed to the woman very fleshie to be vnapt to learne and sluggishe The space from the throte bole vnto the bottome of the breast larger than from the bottome of the breast vnto the nauill of the belly to be wittie and of a good capacitie The pappes fatte and hanging downe in men to be weake and effeminate A bigge péece of flesh bearing out on the left side of the breast in the forme of a Léekes heade or sinewe sprung vp and that there be one or many heares growing on it is then an argument of honour and riches as Ptholomie wryteth Of the shoulders The shoulders fashioned bigge to be strong The shoulders euill fashioned to bée weake of strength well compowned to be liberall but weake compowned and bearing vp thinne to bée a niggard The shoulders bearing sharpe vp to be deceytfull The shoulders broade to be strong and of a good capacitie And narrow to bée a dullarde Of the stomacke Such fatte about the stomacke to be strong Such not fatte to be weake The bellie bearing out bigge to be a great féeder The bellie small formed to be of a good capacitie And hearie from the nauill downewarde to be full of woordes applyed to Byrdes Of the backe The backe narrowe to be weake The backe bigge formed to be strong The backe large to be strong and high minded The backe crooked to be a niggarde and yll condicioned And equally formed or in a meane to be of a good nature Of the armes The armes very long to be strong bolde honest and gentle The armes short to be a procurer of discord and leacherous The armes hearie to be vnconstant leacherous applyed to byrdes Of the handes The hands short and very bigge to be rude and a dullarde The hands fatte with the fingers like to be a théefe The handes small to be vnconstant and wilye The paulmes of the handes vnto the wrestes broade and narrow vpwarde to be a ryotter in his first age Of the nayles of the fingers The nayles large smooth thinne white reddish◠and cleare withall to be wittie and of a good capacitie The nayles narrow and long to be cruell and fierce The nayles rough and rounde to be prone vnto the veneriall act applyed to the propertie The nayles very short to be wicked applied to the property The nayles smal and crooked to be a gréedie catcher applyed to the hawke The nayles verye
colde and moyst qualitie to be dull of capacitie of the contrarye cause The personage euill fashioned and very tall of stature to be dull of capacitie and euill conditioned applied to the forme The person of a comely personage and meane of stature to bée wittie and honest conditioned applyed to the naturall cause An admonition vnto the gentle Reader THe same consider and note for a generall rule that the significations and iudgements afore vttered in manye places of this Booke doe chiefely extende and are ment rather to happen and come to passe on the brutishe sort which for the lacke of grace and being not regenerated by Gods holy spirite these in such maner are mooued to follow their sensuall will and appetites For by a naturall frailtie proceeded from our forefather Adam euery creature after nature is drawne and allured vnto the lyke dispositions and passions of the minde But to be briefe the creatures which are regenerated through the holye Ghost doe not onely endeuour to mortifie their fleshlye appetites but seeke to put away and correct all other inormities and vices resting in them although there still continueth a frailtie to sinne and offences daylye committed euen of the wise which for that we bee so intised of the flesh no marueyle is it sayth the Phisiognomer that so manye insue and followe the like steppes of sundrie sentences pronounced in this Art the more is to be lamented that these so bestiall shoulde bee thus common amongst vs as we dayly see and know Finis A briefe treatise of the signification of Moles seene in any part of the bodie written by the Greeke Autor Melampus FIrst if the man shall haue a Mole on the foreheade doth indicate that hée shal possesse much wealth and riches The woman hauing a Mole on the foreheade doth demonstrate that she shall eyther gouerne or else come vnto a high dignitie If the man shall haue a Mole aboue the ouerbrowe doth argue that he shall couple and ioyne in mariage both with an honest wealthie and vertuous woman The woman hauing a Mole in the same place doth denote that she shall ioyne in maryage both with a riche fayre and comely person If the man shall haue a Mole on the ouer browe then let such a person refraine from mariage altogither or all his lyfe time for that such a person if he marry shall haue fiue wiues in his life tyme. The woman hauing a Mole in the like place to haue likewise so many husâ—andâ—s as the man wyues in hir lyfe tyme as Melampus writeth If the man haue a Mole on the nose somwhat ruddie and another the like in the priuie place doth indicate that such a person to be ouer much giuen to the veneriall act The lyke Mole séene eyther on the nose or eye of the woman and that she hath the lyke on hir priuie place doth signifie the same that is afore spoken of the man. If the man shall haue a Mole ouerthwart the nose doth denote that he shall wander hither and thither through Countries and Cities A Mole the like standing on the womans nose doth portende that shée shall traueyle on foote through sundrie Countries and that she hath the lyke Mole besides on the priuie place If a man haue a Mole on the gullet or throte doth demonstrate that he shall become very rich If the woman haue a Mole on the neather iawe doth indicate that she shall leade hir lyfe in much sorrow and paine of the bodie bicause she hath that within the bodie which shall hinder hir from the teaming or bearing of children If the man shall haue the forme of a Mole on the tongue doth demonstrate that he shall marry with a rich and beautifull woman If eyther the man or woman shall haue a Mole on any of the lippes doth portend that he or she to be a great féeder and a glutton If the man shall haue a Mole on the chinne doth argue that he shall be riche both in the substaunce of money and in possessions The woman hauing a Mole in the same place doth indicate that she shall come to the like welth as the man and that shée hath besides the same lyke Mole right aloft or agaynst the mylt If a man shall haue a Mole in any of the eares doth argue that he shall be rich and much reuerenced and spoken of If the woman shall haue the same and that in the lyke place doth denote the lyke good happe and fortune to hir and that besides she hath the lyke Mole placed on the thigh or hammes If the man shall haue a Mole on the necke doth promise that he shall become very rich If the woman shall haue a Mole so placed doth indicate that the lyke good fortune and wealth shall ensue vnto hir If the man shall haue a Mole in a maner behinde the necke doth demonstrate that he shall be beheaded except God through earnest prayer preuent the same If aswell the man as the woman shall haue a Mole on the loynes doth demonstrate a weake and poore kindred and to be alwayes néedie If on the shoulders of the man shall be séene a Mole doth signifie imprisonment and sorrowes of the minde If the man shall haue as is aboue sayde a Mole on the throte doth promise that hée shall marry both with a rich and beautifull woman If the woman shall haue a Mole on the same place doth signifie that she shall also marry both with a wealthie and a verie fayre or comelye man. If eyther in the mannes or womans handes shall a Mole appeare doth denote the prosperous good lucke and enioy of children If eyther the man or woman shall haue a Mole on the breast doth threaten that he or shée shall be much harmed by pouertie If the man shall haue a Mole on the place right agaynst the heart doth denote him vndoubtedly to be wicked If the woman shall haue a Mole on the left breast then pronounce the lyke iudgement as of the man. If a Mole shall be séene eyther on the mans or womans belly doth demonstrate that he or she to be a great féeder and glutton If a Mole in eyther the man or woman shall appéere on the place right against the Splene doth signifie that he or she shall be much passionated and oftentymes sicke If eyther the man or woman shall haue a Mole on the bottom of the belly doth argue much debilitie and to be often sicke If a Mole in eyther the man or woman shall be séene néere to the priuie place doth denote that he or she shall be vnspeakable desirous and vnsaciate in coeating If eyther the man or woman shall haue a Mole on the 23u3rp r2bm2m it selfe doth portend that he shall beget men children and she contrariewise beare women children If a Mole shall appeare on that part aboute the 23u3rp r2bm2m in eyther the man or woman doth denote the great increase of riches and much wealth If the man shall possesse
piget immensos illum nauasse labores Quod quantum in sese est vtilis esse studet Vt gratis donat quaecunque haec munera praebet Sic voto satis est fi tibi gratus erit HEre Thomas Hill depainteth plaine the picture of the minde Which way you may by countenaunce the disposition finde Pervsing many monuments of auncient wryters hée Electing still that 's excellent doth imitate the Bée It nothing yrkes him labors great nor traueyles to bestowe In any thing he can deuise that profite séemes to showe As he doth gratis giue thée these what ere they séeme to bée So hath he all his with if he be gratefull vnto thée Thomas Hillus Londinensis ad proprium librum vt animo constanti iniurias multorum perferat Iliber videas ne te patientia vincat Inuida verba feras patiare sat est Nedum natus eras suspendebaris adunco Naso te verbis inuidus increpuit Quid faciet tandem cùm iam perfectus abibis In proprium iacet tela retorta caput Itamen parui facias haec garrula verba Dum placeas doctis hoc tibi sufficiat Thomas Turnerus ad candidum Lectorem FRontis vt est index speculum fic prorsus in ipsâ— Fronte velut speculo mentis imago patet Illud quisque suo tantum non lumine captus Perspicit at sapiens solus vtrumque videt Lumina nil Lyncis nil sunt specularia Momi Frons docet hic quicquid pectora clausa geruâ—â— The Bookes request MY sute good Reader is but small and such as I am sure Your courtesies on my behalfe may easily procure Your fauour is the thing I aske and nothing else I craue For that in lâ—e of traueyle done Hyll onely séeâ—th to haue A recompence sufficeing well and counteruayling aye The blacke reproch that Momus tongue enforceth day by daye To learned sort I onely sue I force not Momus ne Zoylus crue Antonius Molinus ad lectorem Tetrastichon 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 â–ª Si studiose voles hominum cognoscere mores Ex hac multiplici corporis harmonia Haec animo voluat vigili noctesque diesque Auctorem rerum laudet vbique Deum Gulielmus Fildus in nomine Hilli ad quemuis Zoilum ZOile macrescas solus tua damna rependenâ— Non curaâ—n oster liuida verba liber A nullo petijt precibus flexitue fauorem Complicuit nullos in sua vota viros Zoile tu tibi sis flagrum sed tempore longo Quare age tu inuideas Zoile perpetuò To the gentle reader IF mightie Mountes and hautie hilles to forraine Nations brings Both ioy and welth by vertue of the fruite that thereon springs As well by rootes and sundrie herbes to ease the sicke of care As fountaynes mettals stones iemmes of vertue straunge and rare What cause haue we then in this I le to ioy with gladsome minde That haue a Hill wherein we may more precious iewels finde As for experience lo beholde here blazde before thine eyes A worthie Iem wherein we may with little exercise Suck out such sappe of learned skill as shall be for thy gaine And learne to shunne those ylles to come which may turne thée to paine And also thou thy luchie fate mayst learne so too foresée That by preferring of the same good haps may rise to thée Wherefore sith he this toyle hath tooke and for thée traueyles still Thou canst not choose but let him haue both thy good worde and will. M. N. AETATIS SUAE TH 42. A large and pleasant discourse of the whole Arte of Phisiognomie orderly vttering all the speciall parts of man from the head to the foote in a more ample maner than hytherto hath beene published Of Phisiognomie in generall Capit. j. THE PHILOSOpher Aristotle and Concylatour agree that to all lyuing creatures it is a matter common as to suffer and doe of a naturall inclination which as the same in beastes is named a violence euen so in men this is by a contrarie maner named an inclination For as much as by way of example in the Chollericke is knowne an inclination to yre in the Melancholick to feare in the Sanguine to mirth and in the Flegmatick to sluggishnesse All which inclinations are reported to be the vtterers both of the naturall motions and conditions in men which by reason and wisedome be well gouerned Which well appeared by Hypochrates who by his face was iudged wicked yet thorow Philosophie knowne to be well conditioned But in beasts for the lack of reason are these affections and conditions as Aristotle vttereth in his booke de secretis secretorum may not be gouerned in that they liue and perseuer after their sense and appetite By which euidently appeareth that Phisiognomie to be a necessarie and lawdable science seing by the same a man may so readily pronounce and foretell the naturall aptnesse vnto the affections and conditions in men by the outwarde notes of the bodie Which although a man may thus foretell the naturall motions and actuall conditions yet of this is it not accounted so perfite and firme a science seing by the same a man may erre in sundrie subiects hauing grace and wisedome But in that men for the more part doe lyue after a sensuall will in themselues and that none but the wise and godly which is by an inwarde working of the spirite doe lyue after reason For that cause is this Phisiognomy accounted and named a science which instructeth a man by the outwarde notes to foretell the naturall motions and actuall conditions that consist and dwell in many persons especially in those which lyue after their affection and appetites rather than gouerning themselues by reason And of this did the learned Bias Priaenias report that there lyued and were more of the wicked than of good persons in that so manye are ledde and moued after a sensuall will than procured by reason which causeth that man as Aristotle affirmeth to swarue and fall from a meane in many maners but the same is approched vnto and purchased by one maner of waye And two kinds there are of the notes as certaine which of the elementarie qualitie conceiued that vtter and signifie the affections of the minde as doth the hearinesse of the breast which is a note of yre through the hote heart And certayne are of propertie as the declyning of the head to the right side in the walking which is the note of a Cynede as Aristotle reporteth and this lyke is neyther gathered of a hote nor colde cause but of the propertie Yet doe the Perypatetickes as writeth Aristotle secundo priorum vtter that not any one affection to consist and be in man or any condition of nature but that a like note is outwardly to be séene on the bodye by which not onely that passion or condition maye be vttered but the fortune vnto good or euill by the accydentall notes may be iudged And although the spirite as vnto vnderstanding is from the bodye
eleuated yet as vnto the other partes and powers is the spirite comprehended of the bodie Although the inner affectes of the spirite can not be iudged by the outward notes of the body yet may the accydences of the spirite minde according to those which togither alter both spirite and body be iudged as Aristotle reporteth in secundo priorum Auerro is vttereth that the accidences not naturall cause no note but in the spirite as if any knoweth the Arte of Musick he hath the note in the spirite and not in bodie formed of the same The lookes also of men although they doe not differ in the essentiall kinde Yet doe these differ in the kinde accedentall So that the accidentall difference of lookes in man doth onely suffice for the difference of conditions But if anye shall here obiect that sentence written in the seuenth chapiter of saint Iohns Gospell where our Sauiour willeth none to iudge rashely after the vtter appearaunce of the face or looke but to pronounce and iudge a righteous iudgement To this maye thus be aunswered that the same saying of the Lord was spoken vnto them which in very deede were wicked persons of malicious conditions yet not of the matter and cause doe they procure a iudgement but through the accepting of persons and in the hate or contempt of men are they so alienated from the truth of the matter in iudging which otherwise must be eschewed and that especiallye where the person is occupied in the celestiall doctrine Thys is also to be learned and noted that anye person as afore vttered to iudge alone by the face mightily to erre and be deceyued so that necessarie it is to gather and marke sundrie other notes of the bodye and after to pronounce iudgement and the same not firmely but coniecturally As by thys example may well appeare that if the Phisiognomer earnestly beholding and vewing any merrie person by nature doth sée him at that instant tyme through some hap verie sadde of countinaunce and doth of the same iudge hym to be sad by nature where he contrariewise is of nature merrie or otherwise appearing then merrie shal iudge him of the same to be of nature merrie where perhaps by nature he is giuen to be sadde must néedes through these lyke greatly erre and be deceyued in iudgement Here also note that there are two maner of passions as the one naturall and the other accidentall The accidentall are those which consist of the spirite and for the same that they consist of the spirite no alteration in body is caused as of the Arte and science and these by notes in the bodye are not indicated But the naturall which for that they consist in vs as afore taught for that cause doth some alteration appeare in the bodye as yre feare and such like of which hereafter in this worke shall be intreated To be briefe this Phisiognomie is aknowledge 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 body Yea by the pases many times is the heart bewrayed and the voyces as Aristotle reporteth are notes and vtterers of the inner thoughtes all which vnder the Phisiognomicall science are contayned Lucius Scylla and Cesare dictatoure by the helpe of this science founde out and iudged the wylie craftes and disceites of their aduersaries manye times that secretly conered their malicious mindes by their fayre shewes The most singular and prudent Plato in his Phisiognomie vttereth these wordes that the man which hath members like to any beast insueth his nature as he which hath an Aquiline or hauked nose vseth and exercyseth Aquiline conditions as magnanimitie cruelnesse and gréedie catching The common sort at this day without any reason and learning doe pronounce and iudge certayne matters verie straunge of men as when he sayth of anye fowle looke this person pleaseth me nothing They also say God defend and kéepe me from the fellowship of that person marked as are the bunch backed and gogle eyed persons By which euydently appeareth that the bodily notes of Phisiognomating by the naturall conditions of men doe procure and cause a great probablenesse although no necessitie To conclude all the workings and passions of the spirite appeare to be matched and ioyned with the bodie which especially appeareth in the passions of the concupiscible or desirefull spirite as are yre méekenesse feare pittifulnesse mercie and such lyke which are not caused without the locall motion of the heart dilating and drawing togither Of thys the bodies of diuers men are diuersly disposed according to the dyuers dispositions of spirites in that mens spirites through dyuers members are diuersly disposed in their passions To ende the conditions and naturall affections that consist in the sensytiue part is reported of the Phylosopher Aristotle to be the sense gyuer being common both to men and beastes 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 hote qualitie The. ij chapter THose bodyes naturally hote doe most speedily encrease and waxe fatte as the like in yong children doth well appeare But after yeares such waxe drie their veyues apparant in the places and beating fast Also their breath strong their voyce lowde mightie and great of strength Iustie and strong to coeate and much or verie often desiring thereto Such also doe féede well brooke and digest their meats Further they haue much heare on their heade and in other places the like where as naturallye the same shoulde growe and that thicke bristled speciallye on the breast The cause of which procéedeth through the much heate of the heart as the like may appeare after the minde of auncient men both in the Lion and Cocke The signes of those bodies of a colde complextion or qualitie The. iij. chapter THose bodies naturally cold doc slowe increase and come to a fatnesse their veynes appeare bigge and apparaunt but their pulses beate slow Also their breath lowe in the hearing hauing a small voyce and weake to câ—eate so that sildome desiring thereto of the which such beget few children They also be great sléepers and sléeping often yet eating 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 heares thume and slowe in the growing whether the same be blacke or white Also dull of witte fearing or trembling of a light cause and weake to labour The signes of those bodies of a moyst qualitie The. iiij Chapter THose bodies naturally moyst be tender and soft of fleshe corpulent wyth their ioyntes and bones hidde and weake of strength that they can not long or but a while endure to labour so that the wearinesse of labour is soone espyed and séene in them Also such feare and tremble in a maner for euerye
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The forme of this man as the Phisiognomer did diligentlye note him was after this maner he had a sphericall or very rounde heade a narrow forehead slender necke thinne and narrowe shoulder pointes loynes and hippes with the other parts of the bodye weake and ill formed and to these the breast narrow and Marses line in the foreheade weake and euill fashioned sundrie other notes he perceyued both in the handes and face which for breuitie he omitted but to conclude the Phisiognomer founde by sundrie notes that this faint hearted Secretarie was not onelye fearefull but light of beléefe and brutishe in conditions The heade small must of necessitie be euill in that such a person lightly falleth sicke and within is the braine little with a straightnesse or narrownesse of the ventricles in which the spirites drawne narrow are so letted that they cannot orderly worke a due vse and effect and these pressed togither are in such maner inflamed and choked that they neyther maye duelye imagine dispose nor remember So that such persons like formed are knowne to be fearefull yea irefull and retayning ire long through the intensed drienesse of the braine and the distempered heate These be also of a small iudgement and vnderstanding and neyther can orderlye discerne they both compasse and worke false matters yea euill speakers bablers and double tongued from which the Phisiognomer counseleth a man to flye shunne as he would auoyde his wicked enimie except grace and prayer brydle and temper the effectes aboue vttered The heade vnséemely long and twhart fashioned to an Organ pipe doth not onelye denote vnshamefastenesse but an impudencie and â—â—â—â—ish conditions The heade shorte yet the same perfite rounde â–ª doth by the opinion of the Philosopher denote such a person not onely to be emptie and voyde of honest giftes vertue but lacking wisdome The heade Pineapplelike formed doth indicate vnshamefastnesse in that person the rather and of more likelihoode if the other notes aunswere â— this Consiliatore The heade flat and plaine doth argue that vice of ambicion and sensualitie in the person mightily bearing sway The heade eminent or bearing out in the fore parte doth like note a hawtinesse and arrogancie in the creature after the opinion of the abouesayde Phisosopher The heade in the foreparte vallied depressed and holow doth denote an irefull and deceytefull person but suche which haue the holowe of the hinder parte of the heade flatted are noted after Arte to be fearefull persons applied to the kinde like The heade bigge with a largenesse of the forhead and countinaunce vnto a Gyant doth argue such a person to be slowe yet strong in the composition of bodye and gentle of behauiour but that person of the Philosopher is reported vnapt to be taught and to learne and applyed for that cause vnto the Oxe The heade longe and somewhat protensed or stretched out to the forme of a hammer euen as the heades of the Swichyners for the more parte are doth indicate such a person to be reasonably fearefull diligent circumspect and aforeséer in waightie matters and affaires The head right out formed in the midle plaine and in a maner flatte being also of a meane bignesse doth indicate such a person not to be onely wittie but stout and of a great courage The heade throughout well formed doth note such a person to possesse a singuler witte to be one of a good aduisement and consideration yea liberall in giftes but by the reporte of Consiliatore this person sometimes will be feare full and faint hearted The head to be eyther small or bigge is vnderstanded and ment according to the measure and proportion of the whole bodye this Albertus The head shorte doth declare such a person to lacke reason vnderstanding and wit as reporte Palemon Albertus and Conâ—yliatore The heade in the hinder parte hollow doth denote an irefull person wilie and deceytfull and these according to the notes aunswering to the other partes of the heade and bodye And in whome you shall espie the temples holowe of eyther side such by the agréement of the Philosophers shall you iudge and pronounce to be cruell deceitfull and great discemblers with other conditions scarcelye tollerable These hitherto of the iudgements of the heade â–ª next followeth the iudgementes of the foreheade after the rules and order of the Arte as a member and parte greatly to be regarded both for the composition and lines worthie memorie séene in the same Of the forme nature and iudgement of the forheade The. xv chapter THe face as Aristotle writeth is that part only which euermore is bare and this especially in man. The forehead is that part or space of the face which properlye is betwéene the highest of the browes vpwarde and the eyes downewarde The breadth of the foreheade beginneth from the roote of the nose where the eielids doe ende and reacheth vpwarde vnto the garlande seamâ— about the heade The length of the foreheade is vnderstanded and ment after the breadth of the bodye which way the hearie sinewes are séene to stretch and runne As the like maner and forme manye of the best learned the Phisiognomer obserued to haue And at Rauenna he behelde the ymage of that learned Dante who had the like forme Here note that a man must consider all other partes with the condicioned forme of the heade and the agréement of the countinaunce or face for otherwise is not this verified and true By the rounde foreheade shall you conceyue vnderstand a certaine sphericall or very round eminencie bearing outwards such a forme of necessity must be graunted to lacke in the length of the foreheade The cause of this is for that the spirites in the same emptie place are reuerberated and inflamed and that the inflamation long continueth Which reason and saying is confirmed when such haue a shorte necke and chollericke in that the inflamation of bloude is lightly caused and abiding The forhead is an vtterer of heauinesse mirth clemencie and crueltie of which the prouerbe ariseth that the flattering person sheweth a smooth and smiling foreheade the irefull man a gathered knitting and clowdie forehead Aristotle affirmeth the forhead to be the seate or place of modestie and honour and the same for the néerenesse of the imaginatiue vertue which with the common sence in the foreparte of the braine is placed as principall of the heade by force of whose vertue either heauinesse or mirth comelinesse or vncomelinesse are sodenly caried vnto the iudgement of reason by the same iudged Of this we name such to haue a shamelesse and brasen forehead which put away or set aside all bashfulnesse and shame The foreheade through the discending of all the sinewes from the brayne to performe the sence is as it were a certaine tower fortresse vnto whose hollownesse doe the fiue sensitiue sinewes concurre of the outwarde sences through whose helpe from all the obiectes of the sences at the seate of reason is iudgement caused The skinne
signifie violent death vnto that person and this according to the positure and place of the lyne shall like be iudged to happen eyther in the seconde or thirde age The veynes verye bigge appearing in the forehead doe denote the excéeding qualitie of choller and that suche a person to be excéeding yrefull These hytherto of the iudgement of the thrée principall lynes appearing and to be séene in a maner in the foreheads of most subiects which diligently obserued and noted by due circumspection shall in the ende finde thys rare and Golden secret hid a long tyme from manye good wyttes yea and of these sufficiently skilfull in other laudable Artes. And that this Iewell maye not appeare mutilate and vnpersite for the lack of more principles and instructions to further the same I intend to publish a singular treatise very rare and knowne but to fewe students intituled Metoposcopie or by a more knowne name the vewe and beholding of all the lynes appearing in the forehead beginning orderlye from Saturnes lyne vnto the Moones written by a most learned Mathematican Phisition named Thaddaeus Hagecius of Hagek to which added vnto the number of thrée score examples lyuely counterfayted that he by diligent trauaile noted and obserued which no doubt will much helpe and further those that minde to iudge on subiects by the ayde of those faythfull instructions and liuely examples published in this perfite maner by that worthy man aboue named for recompence of which trauayles he in my opinion well deserueth immortall memorie among other of the learned Philosophers which commendation and oppinion of mine I referre to the wisedome of the readers at the comming forth of the treatise in the meane time I wishe the readers to vse these instructions aboue vttered Next followeth the iudgement of the ouerbrowes as a part belonging to the forhead by which singular matter may be learned and knowne The forme and iudgement of the ouerbrowes The. xvij chapter THe learned Phylosopher named Nuncius naturae writeth in the second booke de partibus Animalium that the ouerbroowes and eie lyddes were ordayned for speciall helps to the face as to ornate and beséeme the same with the auoyding of other inconueniences The place of the ouerbroowes as writeth Cocles is a part of the foreheade and formed of nature in that seate where the bones knit ioyne togither The ouerbroowes also were ordayned 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 a penthouse to the eies so cast off the moisture destilling and lyke the humours and moysture falling from the heade through the same eâ—eising shoote them of without harme to the eies The like wordes in a maner vttereth the Phisiognomer Cocles The ouerbroowes as reporteth Cocles were appoynted by God and Nature in the knitting and ioyning of the bones for that in many olde persons they grow and waxe so long that of necessitie and for comelynesse sake they must be clypped The causes of the heares as writeth the Phisiognomer are noted to be fower as the efficient the materiall the formall and finall The efficieÌ„t cause of the heares is procured two waies the one is naturall heate which eleuateth the humours from the moysture of the bodye and sendeth or carieth them foorth vnto the skinny parts The other is the colde ayre which both thickneth and coagulateth those humours and reduceth them into the forme of heares The materiall cause is two wayes the first is farre off and is the corporall moysture the second cause is neere and is the earthly vapour or humour which is euaporated from the moysture The formal cause is the forme of the heares as the length and roundenesse of them The finall cause is the diuersitie of heares as to the decking and beséeming of the bodie like as are the heares of the ouerbroowes of which out intent is to write fully and at large in this chapter The ouerbroowes haue a hidde vertue to expresse the affections of the minde of which this prouerbe that the person rayseth or lifteth vp the ouerbrowe ment by the same that such a one to be arrogant and prowde And suche appearing lyke doth the learned Thaddaeus rightly name hawty and sowre of countinaunce The right ouerbroowe is more raysed and bended than the left in that all the partes throughe the cause of moouing doe decline and leane vnto the vpper sight The right kidney in lyke maner is knowne to be higher placed than is the left as the abouesayde Thaddaeus writeth The ouerbroowes stretched vpwarde if of the heares discende vnto the beginning of the nose and vpwarde eleuated vnto the temples doe denote the dominion of heate and drith and suche are knowne to be craftie wicked of condicions Conciliatore writeth that whose ouerbrowes appeare whole and not seauered of heares betwéene eche are noted heauie and sadde persons applyed vnto the similitude of the affection and passion as both Aristotle Albertus and others reporte Morbeth the Cardinall writeth that whose ouerbrowes are stretched vnto the nose and reâ—ch vpwarde to the temples in such maner that the heares spreade to eyther side of the browes bée not onely noted simple vnshamefaste enuious foolish without fraude or deceyte but vnsatiable and gluttinous applyed to the Sowe The ouerbrowes blacke not much crooked and deuided with a space are most commended for such ouerbrowes hadde our Sauiour Iesus Christ and the chaste virgin his mother as the singuler Nicephorus Preacher and chiefe pastoure of Constantinople church and writer also of the ecclesiasticall hystories reporteth in the end of his first booke The ouerbrowes thinne and of a meane bignesse doe argue a moderation in that creature and the goodnesse of humours for suche hauing the like ouerbrowes are noted to be ingenious and searchers of déepe secrets as both the Phisiognomer Cocles the learned Philemon Conciliatore Albertus and others agrée in the same NOn te fidare de le gointae cigliae ne de le folte se guercia â—lo luce Che chi le porta guarda non te piglie impio danimo ladro falso efello Cum bel parlare suo tempo conduce rapace lupo cum vista dagnello Non fu mai guercio cum lalma perfecta che non portasse de malicia schermo Sempre seguendo la superba secta These hitherto Franciscus Asculanus In these verses aboue noted doth the Physiognomer declare and report that the squynt or gogle eyed persons to be gréedie catchers couetous dissemblers and malicious and in a maner so euill inclyned as such hauing the ouerbrowes ioyned through the heares thicke growing betwéene and the lyke maye be sayde of those hauing but one eye so that the other partes are agréeing And generally these thinke all euils if we may credite the Physiognomer This gogling of the eyes is caused manye wayes as Auicen wryteth tertia tertij capitulo 28. de strabositate where he vttreth that somtimes the
This colour by the agréement of the Phisitions is as the colour of the lunges when the same is newlye drawne forth of a beast that is properly named wanne of colour The same of the lunges which after the drawing forth beginneth to putrifie and swell vp and a wanne or leadie colour appeareth in the same Here note that the Phisiognomer wylleth a man to beware and take héede of the like coloured persons in that these are verie euil wicked if so be these in habitude as Cocles reporteth be not laudable or comely Such a colour the Phisiognomer noted in sundrie Cardinals that were verie wicked in their déedes Yea these of like colour he noted to be drunkards luxurious and practisers of false and wicked matters without anye shame as the like of experience the Phisiognomer reporteth to haue knowne He further wryteth that the Melancholicke aduste are leacherous vnlearned and exercyse swynishe condicions when as their heades be spericall or Pineaple lyke and hauing fatte chéekes Yea when the adustion is ouermuch then such incurre and fall into a frensinesse The Phisiognomer noted yea he iudged before the learned sundrie of a like complexion that became foolishe and of these two were Students at that time who after the increase of this melancholy became foolishe according to the iudgement of the Phisiognomer The eies small doe argue such a person to bée peruerse foolish and faynt hearted applyed of the Philosopher to the Ape the reason is in that when the creature is hotte and drye he is then malycious of the humours and spyrites and is a betrayer through the hotenesse and drinesse proceeding of the Chollericke adustyon For which cause such are deceyuers and partake of the Melancholye humours of which fearefulnesse and foolishnesse ensueth through a drynesse The déepenesse of the eies procéedeth through a drinesse which dryeth vp the moysture of the muscles and lygamentes Of which insueth a drawing togither into the inner partes and the braine to be exhausted And the paucitie of the matter of the eyes doth signifie in the moysture proportioned the dominion of drinesse and melancholye adust or a drinesse adustyue and for this are fearefull and deceyuers lyke to the Ape as the same experience demonstrateth Rasis reporteth in secundo ad Almansorem that many spottes in the eyes appearing doe indicate an euill person the rather when the eyes shall appeare variable of colour which signifieth the wickeder person For the varieties of the eies procéede not but of a hotnesse which cleuateth the vapours vnto the eyes of which how much the more the varietie of the eyes is so much the more doth the same argue an intensed hotnesse By that reason howe much the more dyuers the spottes are so much the more is the adustion and by the consequent declareth the varietie of humours and greater adustion and this doth manifest the adustion of the spirite of which the varieties of conditions procéede and the mightie heape of vices So that of the great varietie is the honest and lawdable iudgement debased or caused the woorser The looke of the eyes like to the woman causeth the same disposition as of such a complexion and is the same in conditions as the woman as luxurious and inuericundious for which cause such men of like nature be luxurious and inuericundious Of which Rasis reporteth that when the looke is like to a childes and that his whole face and eyes séeme or appeare as he smyled this is a light hearted person and giuen to mirth without taking care of the affayres of the world The eyes appearing wholy smyling as one laughing with therest of the face in like maner be flatterers luxurious yll reporters or slaunderers Some of this alledge a cause and report that the mirch and length of lyfe to procéede of a good complexion whose cause are the lawdable humours and purenesse of them through his agréement So that the cause of lyfe is hotnesse and moystnesse but of death coldnesse and drynesse The complexion of yong men is hote and moyst but of olde men colde and drye and the note of the same is that such which coeate much doe liue a short time and the gelded after nature longer than those not gelded and the aged men which haue much fleshe doe lyue longer in that the causes of much flesh is a hotnesse and moystnesse By which reason children that are hote and moyst be among other ages merrie and ioy through their complexion and be without cares of the minde So that such like to children in countinaunce are the like in complexion not be thincking earnest or waightie matters When the eyes appeare in rednesse to the burning coale such a person is noted to be wicked and obstinate the reason is in that the fyrie colour doth indicate a most intensed choller by reason of the hotnesse and he is vicious and obstinate as appeareth in the verses in the first place Whose eyes be in colour lyke to the Gotes eine is argued foolish the reason is that when a creature resembleth to anye beast such a person is of the like nature complexion and condicions as in many places afore like vttered So that such Gotes eine doe indicate foolyshnesse great simplicity The Phisiognomer many times looked on such a beast found the eyes somewhat variable with a certaine troubled matter about the ring sight of the eie which declared after his iudgement a complexion very fiegmaticke and watry of which fearefulnesse and foolishnesse insueth The eyes which are like to the Cowes eyne doe portende a madnesse to succéede in that creature séeing the eies lyke to Cowes eyne in men do argue a like complexion For the complexion of such a beast is colde and moyst of which the eyes are great so that through a coldnesse and moystnesse is the slownesse and dulnesse of vnderstanding caused of which a madnesse and simplicitie ensueth The eyes gray of colour to the skie drie séeming and dimmie such a person willeth the Philosopher that a man to eschue so nigh as he may for that this gray colour in drie eyes is a note of wicked persons The colour of the eyes which representeth the colour of Dile doth witnesse a strōg person The yelowishe colour of the eyes doth indicate a strong and stoute person The eyes appearing much blacke of colour is denoted to bée of a harde nature and fraudulent The déepenesse of the eies is through a drinesse drying the muscles and ligaments of which ensueth a gathering into the inner partes as afore vttered and the brain exhausted The eminencie of the eies representeth many obiects of which a péeuish discourse ensueth through a confusion of the obiects If the eyes shall be small prominent out like to the Creauis eyne doe denote the lewdnesse of conditions and foolishnesse The reason is in that the smalenesse of the eyes doth wytnesse the paucitie or littlenesse of matter but the emynencie of them doth indicate the ouermuch moysture in
the fore ventricle where the spirites are letted and of this lacketh iudgement The emynencie also of the eyes is the cause of the representing of many obiects insomuch that such a one can not discerne the congruent from the incongruent of which doth the pieuishe and beastly discourse insue through the confusion of the obiectes The eyes tending vpwarde as the Oxe eyne which and with this appeare redde and are most great doe indicate a most wicked person lewde of conditions a foole a bibber and a drunkard The reason of this effect is in that the same signifieth the weakenesse of braine for as much as such a forme procéedeth of a moyst brayne And of the weakenesse of brayne is the dronkennesse caused through the vapours ascending which togither disturbe the braine The same eleuation of the eyes procéedeth by accidence in that thys is caused through the ouermuch hotnesse whose note is the red colour or the red colour indicateth For of an ouermuch hotnesse is the disturbance of the rationall spirite caused as the lyke we daylie sée in the fyrie yrefulnesse of men Such eyes the Phisiognomer noted in the Citie of Viteberge by one Nicholas a Barbier which in a maner was customably or daylie dronke The eyes directed with the looke vpwarde quyuering and with a palenesse of countinaunce infected doe denote such a person to be of a fierce and an inhumaine wytte of an enuious nature and sometimes a murderer If anye by nature hath the eyes appearing turned vpwarde such a one of nature is Lybidinous applyed to the maner appearing in the dead bodies And in persons at the instaunt coeating as wryteth Aristotle in his Problemes For the eleuating of the eyes is by accydence in that the same is caused through the ouermuch hotnesse whose note is the rednesse of colour of which is a troubling of the rationall spirite caused as we daylie sée in the intensed yrefulnesse of men The eyes appearing retorte if they tende to the right side doe denote foolishnesse but if these tende to the left side then they pronounce incontinencie as the learned Palemone in his Phisiognomy vttereth The extensed eyes with the extension of the count inaunce doe denote such persons to be malicious and wicked the reason is for that the same extension is procured of a drynesse and hotnesse through which the hote spirite is caused euill He which hath the eyes like to the Asse is noted foolishe and dull of nature the reason is in that they be of a colde and drie qualitie of which the impression of kindes is harde to enter so that by the same reason such are foolishe referred after the maner to the slowe Asse The woorser eyes are they which haue eyther whyte blacke redde or any other coloured spottes in them in that such a person is lesse constaunt then any others yea so hardly to be trusted that rather to be shunned except grace and godly education helpe herein And such a note the Phisiognomer many times obserued and considered in diuers Princes Noble men and iolye Lawyers in authoritie Here might a man question and demaunde how it hapneth that such a varietie of colours appeareth in the eyes to which the Phisiognomer thus aunswereth that seing the eyes are verie cléere and of a thinne substaunce which is caused of the waterie humours consisting in them of which the eyes are formed For that cause doe the visiue spirites declare their qualities in the eyes That these also are of a thinne substaunce doth well and manifestly appeare in the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 4w when 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 h hath 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 h 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in that such a one doth then t4spe a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 yf 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 4lking essagl at the beholding of the same with iedwbol t4spse yea and at that tyme doe suche cetinef drâ—ilchi ylineg in the readle if a man may credite the saying of the auncient wryters in this The eyes appearing as they were hidde in the heade that is standing hollow inwarde doe further sée and such a person these argue to be suspitious malicious of a wicked yre and peruerse condition yet verie mindefull especially of iniuries bolde cruell deceytfull a lyar enuyous leacherous c. as that Michael Scotus reporteth The auncient Rasis vttereth that many spots appearing about the sight of the eyes doe wytnesse an euill person and the woorser are those spotted eyne knowne if they be variable of colour The varieties of the eyes doe no otherwise procéede than of the heate eleuating the vapours vnto the eies and how much the more varietie there appeareth of the eyes so much the more doth this argue the inwarde hotenesse to be Howe much the more variable or dyuers in forme the spottes are so much the more and greater is the adustion of the spirites eleuated of which both the varieties of conditions and the great heape of vices procéedeth So that of the great varietie is the honest and lawdable iudgement procured the woorser of all likelyhood Such persons which haue the eyes shyning are noted to be lybidinous and for the forme applyed of the Phylosopher Aristotle vnto the Cock and Rauen. The eyes in rednesse appearing vnto the burning coale doe indicate a most wicked and obstinate person and the cause is for that the fyrie colour doth witnesse a most intensed choller by reason of the hotnesse as afore vttered of the Physiognomer Cocles He which hath meane eyes declyning vnto the Celestiall colour or to the colour of the skie or vnto a blackishnesse such a person is noted to be of a perfite vnderstanding faythfull saruisable The lyke conditioned eyes the Philosopher Aristotle commended highly vnto king Alexander And the same séemeth the learned Auicen to vtter primo canticorum de varietate oculoruÌ„ which argue a temperament if so be the eyes appeare to the colour of the Antymonye for these denote a sharpnesse and readynesse of wyt The worthy Almansor reporteth that those the learned name the better eyes which appeare as betwéene the black and variable a meane if with this these are not much shyning nor that 〈…〉 nor Cytrynesse appeareth in them 〈◊〉 such eyes doâ— demonstrate a good nature disâ—â—â—tion and wyâ—te The reason is for that these 〈◊〉 priuate and fâ—ée from the adustion of choller 〈…〉 adust Melancholy The colour of the eyes celestiall or vnto the Skie and blacke or a darke yellowe whereas 〈◊〉 spottes in any maneâ— appeare and are caused of moyst humours temperate without any adultiâ—â—â— of which a spirite like to nature is represented â–ª 〈…〉 of wyt and speculation 〈…〉 that creature after the minde of Nunâ—uâ— naturae and Conciliatore The variable colour of the eyes signifieth that the spirite of fight in that creature to be the more and cléerer and such the Phisiognomer alwayes knowe and sawe to be well borne that is well complexioned and that those â—o â—e Philosophers and searchers of Sciences and déepe
death as the worthie Hyppocrates vttereth in his learned booke of secrets If the eyes shall appeare long open togither doth indicate foolishnesse and vnshamefastnesse as the learned Albertus reporteth The eyes very blacke doe argue such to bée fearefull and this neuer fayleth the like Yea these note such to be gréedie of gaine for the black colour very deepe is knowne to signifie fearefulnesse â–ª as both the Philosopher Aristotle in Methaphoricis and the auncient Auicen primo de Animalibus wryte The eyes appearing palishe doe denote such a person to be prone to deceyte The eyes not verie blacke but to a yealownesse declining doe denote a good nature and to be strong The eyes eyther white or gray doe denote such a person to be fearefull and of the white colour it seldome or neuer fayleth the like The eyes blacke notable in brightnesse do argue such to be euill conditioned deceytfull and wicked The person which hath blacke eyes and a little smiling withall is denoted to be such a one that is greatly inclined and prone to all filthinesse The eyes not very gray in colour but to a séemely maner like to the colour of the Lions eies doe denote such a person to bée of an honest nature and good minde and for the forme applyed to the Lyon and Eagle The gray colour of the eyes is here ment to be like vnto the colour of the Owle or rather of the colour of the Iayes winges which are chaungeable of colour The eyes appearing veynie doe denote such a person to be frantick and applyed to the Goate And veynie be those eyes named which be full of small and very little lynes a length much like to small veynes through which the colour of the eyes is chaunged And such of thys are of a diminished imagination which serueth to the vnderstanding and applyed to the shéepe The eyes flerie appearing are vnshamefast and applyed for the forme to the dogge and such also are gréedie catchers and contentious The eyes are then named fierie when lyke to fire these shine burne and twinckle So that the like persons kindled with yre sée not or if they sée one thing séemèth two in their sight Auerrois in de sensu sensato instructeth at large the causes The especiall token of yrefulnesse is the naturall rednesse in the veynes of the eyes The diuers coloured eyes doe argue such to be fearefull and applyed vnto the passion for that the like which are afrayde become sodainly pale possesse through that feare an vnequall colour Such hauing the eyes appearing or looking merily are noted to be luxurious and applyed for the forme vnto the Cocke and Goate or Rauen that is hauing the eies like to them which chéerefully and louingly looke on any matter for these then shew a certaine gladsome and merry looke The eyes and chéekes red doe signifie suche to be louers of wine and drunkardes The eyes reddish and drie are stowte couragious and hastie vnto yre The eyes gray or troubled doe argue such to be fearefull and applyed to the Shéepe Goate The eyes meane and lowe standing doe demonstrate such to bée shamefast and honest of conditions The meane colour of the eyes with the other notes orderly agréeing doth not onely witnesse a goodnesse of sight but a good vnderstanding and knowledge to consist in that creature The eyes standing out and reddish doe argue such to be libidinous and gluttons The eyes standing in a maner short or smal and bearing a little out do indicate such a person to be couetous very gréedie of gaine and earnestly labouring after the same If he also draweth or knitteth togither the foreheade with the ouerbroowes to the middle of the same such a person is then so much the couetouser and more desirous of gaine The Woolfe is a â—east â–ª gréedie yrefull wily setting vpon bolde and violent And those parsones which to the kinde of this beast are applied be on this wise that is to say hauing very crooked noses stretching downwards the ouerbrowes ioyning togither rough heared small eyes and shutting often somewhat hollowe standing the heade small and rounde rough heared in bodie long heare on the heade and fast compowned in legges So that suche proportioned after this maner aboue vttred are crafty parsons wicked oying in the shedding of bloud and prone to yre or soone angrie And thus the Phisiognomer endeth with the matter of the eyes VVhat notes to be learned in iudging of the face and countinaunce The. xxj chapter THe faces of such wel borne and complexioned are on such wise that is meane of composition in the chéekes and temples decâ—â—ing vnto a fatnesse Such a creature after Phisiognomie is iudged iust louing faythfull and of a good vnderstanding Of which Ecclesiasticus xiij reporteth that mans heart altereth the face eyther to the good or euill When Iacob by the face of Laban found out the hatred towards him hée turned then vnto his wiues and sayde I knew by the face of your father that he is no more like in friendship towards me that he was yesterday For euen his countinaunce is a silent vtterer to me of his minde the contrarie The gladsomnesse or myrth of the face proceedeth of a merry heart but the heauinesse or sadnesse of looke is caused of a heauy heart The face is often taken and that simplie for the naturall looke of any but the countinaunce signifieth the qualities of the minde so that a deformed looke is of a rare felicitie as the learned Isidorus ethimologiarum xj vttereth Whose face appeareth fleshie is lightly coueting and applyed vnto the Oxe as the Philosopher Aristotle vttereth in Methaphoricis Whose face by nature appéereth red is shamefast and mery but whose face appeereth pale of colour the same by nature is knowne to be fearefull as the Philosopher Aristotle reporteth The face appéering leane doth argue a carefull person and sometimes a betrayer as the learned Albertus and Conciliatore vtter The face seene fleshie doth indicate suche a person to be fearefull applyed for the qualitie to the Hart and Asse as Aristotle and the learned Palemon wryte The face that appeareth small doth witnesse such a creature to be faint hearted and fearefull applied for the qualitie to the Ape and Cocke as the learned Conciliatore reporteth The worthie Conciliatore writeth that whose face appeareth verie bigge is noted by the agréement of other wryters to be slow and sluggish in the proper actions for the same denoteth a much matter and flewmaficke not regulated applied for the qualitie vnto the Oxe and sluggish Asse The face appearing very bony doth witnesse such a creature to be laborious fearefull and of a colde nature after the minde of the Phisiognomer The learned Palemon wryteth that a meane forme of the face as neyther to bigge nor to small is perfite good and signifieth an honest person by the agréement of Auicen Albertus Conciliatore and others Whose face is iudged small in forme is reported to be a person
And the apparaunt notes of these persons are that such haue the nose bigge and blunt especially at the ende and the nostrils wide and large through the grosenesse or bignesse of the nose The singuler Aristotle in Methaphoricis vttereth that such hauing the nose bigge at the ende are of an earnest and readie minde vnto the concupiscence of the desired act such also are knowne to be 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 so euer they sée which especiallye is knowne to be true for the actiue coeating as with women for such after the sight of women séeme in a maner to mourne vnto themselues as the Bull doth after the Cow and such Asculanus reporteth that they are yrefull The selfe same note vttereth Rasis vnder these wordes that whose nosethrilles are founde to be large is argued to he a person luxurious Such which haue the nose formed bigge and brode are vnsesible vnshamefast vnapt to learne and sluggish applyed after the forme vnto the Sowe hauing the like nose The reason of this is for as much as such hauing the nose grosser or bigger at the ende than in anye other part and that large are inuericundious vnapt to learne and vnsensible That is rude for which cause such are applyed vnto the Sowe hauing the lyke nose and the like conditions in a maner The nose sharpe at the ende doth denote such a person to be yrefull applyed after the kinde vnto the dogge as Conciliatore reporteth He which hath a meruaylous short nose doth argue such a person to be an accuser and a pickthanke as the skilfull Phylemon and Palemon report The nose formed sharpe at the ende and the same thinne yet vpwarde towarde the foreheade more grosse doth denote of experience knowne that such a person hardly to remitte hys yre applyed for the kinde after the minde of Conciliatore vnto the yrefull Dogge The nose formed bloont at the ende and round withall doth indicate such a creature to be stowt of courage applyed of the Philosopher Aristotle for the kinde vnto the hardie Lyon. The same note by relation sufficiently appeareth to moste men at this day The ende of the nose séene small and sharpe like to the forme of the birdes becke or bill and generally long doth declare such a person to be hastie foolish and like stirring to and fro as the learned Rasis reporteth and of him compared vnto the birde And the same like doth the long and thinne nose signifie The nose verye retort or the same turning backe or vpwarde doth for the more part denote the like peruerse minde and conditions to consist in that creature The nose formed from the forehead vnto the mouth a long crooking and hard or verye stiffe doth denote such a person to be vnshamefast applied for the forme of Aristotle vnto the Rauen. And such were knowne naturally to be theeues as Gulielmus Nurice reporteth The lyke vttereth the Phisiognomer that suche a person is knowne manye tymes to be a théefe and by the consequent vnshamefast forasmuch as this exposition is aptly aunswering or agréeth and it appeareth lyke by the relation which he here vttereth in that such after the forme are applied vnto the Rauen. For the Rauen is well knowne to be a wily and deceytfull Byrde purchasing manye things by stealth and hyding those in priuie places The Nose founde rysing and copping vp towarde the foreheade like vnto the Eagles beake are noted to be stowt bolde and gréedie catchers applyed of Aristotle after the kinde vnto the Eagle and as the same in manye hath of the Phisiognomer béene diligently noted The Nose appearing hollowe with the foreheade formed rounde and eminent vpward doth indicate such a person to be luxurious applyed after the kinde vnto the Cocke and this note sufficiently appeareth by the relation The nose formed great yet in a comely maner throughout doth argue such a person to be honest and gentle conditioned after the minde of Conciliatore The Nose great and at the ende appearing with an vnséemely bignesse doth the like declare as aboue vttered that such a person to be vnsensible vnapt to learne c. applyed for the forme vnto the Sowe The Nose séene in the vpper part depressed or flat formed doth argue the féeblenesse of courage and foolishnesse in that creature and this besides is a note of womanly lightnesse to consist in him after Rasis The Nose on such wise formed that the same from the foreheade immediately crooketh such a person after the mind of learned Plato Albertus and Conciliatore is iudged impudent and a priuie filcher applyed for the forme vnto the subtill Rauen. The Nose in comely forme crooking doth indicate an honest minde and singuler witte as the worthie Conciliatore reporteth in his Rubricke of Phisiognomie and Cocles the lyke Here conceyue sayth the Phisiognomer that the declyning of the Nose on the laterall partes of man as if vnto one side onely of the position it shall decline doth denote a hurt to happen from the Girdle stéede vnto the lowest part But if the nose downewarde shall be deuided on eyther side of the position doth then indicate a sicknesse or a stripe to happen and this eyther of the primitiue or antecedent cause The nose at the ende formed somewhat flatte doth declare such a person to be bolde and liberal applyed for the forme vnto the Lyon. The nose appearing red with the roote and hole within and bréedeth drawing vnto a swelling lyke to the Strawberry doth argue such a person to be a great drinker of wine and often druncke and such for the more part are moyst of qualitie and luxurious especially if such a note be founde in bodyes of a small stature and this was a practise first founde by the Phisiognomer Cocles The Nosethrilles after nature thinne and verye large open doe denote after the minde of the Phisiognomer such a person to bée yrefull cruell and of a disdaynfull minde The Nosethrilles formed thinne and long retching are by nature nere vnto birdes but the same proportionally agréeing vnto men is a note of lightnesse and an vnstablenesse of mynde as Conciliatore learnedly vttereth The Nosethrilles appearing thinne and sharpe doe witnesse such a person after the minde of the Phisiognomer to be full of complaintes The part of the Nosethrilles ioyning vnto the foreheade if from the forehead extending the same be with a comely composition and that well ioyning togither in such maner as this be neyther to high nor to lowe fixed of nature but euen direct as a line or creast discendeth doth then indicate by the report of the Phisiognomer a manly note and courage in that creature yea constancie and wisedome applyed of Aristotle for the forme vnto the hardie Lyon. But if the part of the Nosetrilles be lower or flatter and that déeper than the abouesayde doth argue the vndiscreatnesse of minde
in that these often and much inquantitie bleede and are of a light cause broken and quickly or verie soone cut The common hurtes there hapning are especially cured after the minde of the Phisiognomer with the same named of the practioners Mel Rosatum for he reporteth that he hath often experienced the same in many subiects There maye notes also be gathered and conceyued by the colours of the lippes for that the naturall colour in the edges of the lippes after the minde of Constantine ought to be redde through the thinnesse of skinne which lightly of the heate or colour of the bloud receyueth a Rosie qualitie Of which as this worthy Constantine reporteth that the rednesse of the lippes indicateth the purenesse of complexion and the vnmyxing togither of troubled bloud and the note both of the good strong vertue in that creature The wannesse of the lippes argueth the contrarie to the same aboue in that the vertue of bloud and naturall heat are lacking in that creature so that such hauing the like lippes are noted to be sicke as the worthie Rasis reporteth When the lippes are formed bigge these doe represent the multitude of matter drawne vnto them through heate and the grosenesse or bignesse of them is caused through the grosse humours and spirites of which the dulnesse of wit ensueth and foolishnesse procured by reason of the hotnesse except the neather lippe be decerned loose hanging and waterie running But if the lippe be decerned vpright and thick in forme that is compact or stiffe in such a person doth the Phisiognomer of experience apply there the Planet Marse A like reason the Phisiognomer vttereth that when the mouth is formed great if the lippes appeare loose and hanging in that parte of the creature is the Moone of him and others aptly â—pplyed The neather lippe decerned loose hanging and folding downewarde and that the same appeareth verie redde in colour doth argue hapning in the woman to be a most sure note of the great desire vnto the veneriall acte and vnshame fastnesse in that creature as the same the Phisiognomer Cocles obserued and noted in a famous Curtysane of Rome named Isabella di â—una The like note séene in children signifieth that the creature in time to growe and become a Cynede or effeminate person especially if the countenaunce and eyes appeare smyling and the creature growne vnto a ripe age as the same the Phisiognomer Cocles reporteth that he noted in a certaine noble man of the like condition Briefely to wryte all the other members according to the nature and propertie of them are eache attrybuted vnto his proper Planet as shall after appeare more at large in the thirde booke of the Physiognomers to come forth intituled the Phisiognomie of the Planets The worthie Loxius Phylemon Plato Aristotle Albertus Conciliatore report that the lips decerned chéerefull and somewhat smyling hapning with a merrie countenaunce doe argue such a creature to be wantonly disposed and lybidinous yea such sometimes are knowne to be craftie deceyuers and théeues of which one the like was that wicked Chyrurgian a countryman of the Phisiognomers named Seraphinus de pisis that he diligently noted The lippes of the mouth formed verie grosse loose hanging or ouermuch folding out doe indicate such a creature to be simple lightly or soone credyting of a dull capacitie these also denote a flewmatick humour moystening to consist in that person compared of Aristotle for the forme vnto the aged Asse hauing the like lippes If the lippe within be séene not lyuely or not a fayre red in colour doth argue a matter not regulated and grosse humours to consist in that creature of which a dull capacitie and bellume vnderstanding ensueth yea the same sometimes denoteth a sicknesse present or that shall shortly folowe The Philosopher Aristotle in Methaphoric is vttereth that such which haue the lippes formed thinne and in the edges appearing to hang loose out in such maner that the vpper lippe is séene stretched ouer the neather at the closing and ioyning of the lippes are denoted to be bolde stowte and of great courage applyed for the forme vnto the couragious Lyon. The like condition of these may a man sée in the Mastie Dogges of our Realme which haue such hanging lippes as to all men knowne Such which haue the lippes harde and thinne formed and a bearing out decerned about the Canyne or sharpe téeth doe indicate a rude vnderstanding in that creature vnapt to learne and furious in actions applyed for the forme vnto the grunting Hogge The cause of these as the Phisiognomer Cocles supposeth is the paucitie of matter and the dominion of dryth in that the same consumeth the moysture of the lips but thys about the Canyne téeth it can not so wast or consume for as much as the moysture consisting in such a place is knowne to be viscous and clammy Such also by reason of the dryeth sayth the Phisiognomer multiplyed in the braine are noted to be foolishe and deceytfull applyed after the maner vnto the Swyne So that whose lippes are decerned thinne and harde and about the Canyne téeth bearing vp such persons séene the like are referred vnto the Swyne The neather lippe decerned greater than the vpper doth denote such a creature to be vnapt to learne simple of a small vnderstanding and foolishe The heather lip séene swelled vnto the sharpe or Canyne téeth doth indicate such a person to be full of rancour and malice and contentious Such which haue the lippes formed grosse and the vpper hanging ouer the neather lippe are denoted by report of the Phylosopher Aristotle to be of a simple vnderstanding of a dull capacitie and foolishe applyed for the forme vnto the slowe and dull Asse Whose vpper lip shall appeare promynent or bearing out with the gummes doth wytnesse such a creature to be a louer of discord and occupying or busying himselfe in strifes and controuersies applyed for the forme vnto the Dogge these hitherto borowed out of the Phisiognomy of Aristotle Such hauing the vpper lip so eleuated that the gummes that is the fleshe on the téeth and the téeth themselues are decerned are knowne as the Phisiognomer reporteth of experience to be full of variaunce and contumelious yea often rebuking applied for the similitude vnto the Dogge especially and the same according to the apparaunt congruencie séene For the Dogge when he purposeth to bite sheweth then the téeth by the gathering vp of the lippes The lippes formed small and thinne and the mouth decerned little doe indicate the imbecillitie of minde and craftinesse to dwell or consist in that person The auncient Rasis reporteth that whose lips are decerned great is denoted foolish of a dull capacitie and vnapt to learne The selfe same doth the worthie Philosopher Aristotle vtter in hys Phisiognomie of the members that such a person which hath thicke lippes is knowne to be foolishe and of a simple capacitie The much bearing out of the lippes doth witnesse such a
person after the minde of the Phisiognomer to be foolish ful of wordes contentious and hardie Certaine report that whose lippes shall be formed congruently thinne and not much folded or turned outwarde doth denote such a person to be secrete in all matters warie of a good perseuerance yet yrefull at tymes and of a singulare or readie witte The cause is for that the same declareth a congruent matter vnto the subtilnesse of the humors and spirites which is the reason and cause of the witte But the yrefulnesse consisting in that creature procéedeth through the subtilnesse of the spirits prone and apt vnto the kindling of it Such hauing the lippes with the gummes formed on the téeth prominent or bearing out doe indicate an euill tongued person a wrangler yrefull and inclined to worke iniuries for these properly referred vnto the Dogge as the singuler Palemon vttereth Whose lips are decerned not sufficient equal or a like throughout in such maner that the one be grosser or thicker than the other doth witnesse such a person to be more simple than wise and of a variable fortune as certaine report The Philosopher Ptholomeus paruus vttereth that the outwarde lippes formed small and somewhat folded or turned outwarde doe denote such a person to be full of wordes verie enuious and an accuser The reason is for that the paucitie or smalnesse of the lippes doth witnesse the small quantitie of matter and the dominion of coldnesse but the folding or turning outwarde of them doth declare a drinesse drawing togither the hearie sinewes of which ensueth that the animall spirites are incongruent vnto the decerning of whatsoeuer is spoken and the enuie through the same procéedeth and is like caused The worthie Ptholomeus Paruus vttereth that the vpper lippe folding or turning vpwarde and the neather downeward doe signifie a miserie or wretchednesse of life and vncomely condicions Of this the Phisiognomer saw and found a singuler experience especially in the poore â–ª and néedie people For the weakenesse of the animall spirits sayth he is signified to consist in them of which the witte properlye hath not place or â—rate in that creature The lippes formed thinne if the vpper be turned and folding outwarde and the same lose hanging doe denote such a creature to be a deceyuer subtile and a théefe for the more part The lippes decerned grose or thicke like to the Dogges doe indicate such a person to be a deceyuer an accuser and wicked in conditions these hitherto borrowed out of the Phisiognomie of Ptholomeus paruus The lippes of the Moores are not to be iudged vpon but of those which â—well and are conuersaunt amongst them and their qualities there shal note for which cause sufficient it is to iudge in generall of those realmes and countries more knowne to vs. Of the forme nature and iudgement of the teeth The. xxvij chapter THe canine or sharpe téeth of men if these be long fast standing and bearing outwarde doe argue such a person to be a glutton irefull fierce and laciuious applyed for the forniâ— vnto the Dogge and Boare The cause I suppose sayth the Phisiognomer through the aboundance of the radicall moysture or spermaticall matter which declareth a most great dominion of heate and strength in the principall members of which a hasty dissoluing of the substaunciall moysture ensueth that cannot be restored but through the much eating of meate whose plentifull substaunce this greatly néedeth for which cause such are inordinate as afore vttered and as the same appeareth by relation in the Dogge and Boare And such the Phisiognomer hath knowne of experience to be wasters of their owne substance great drinckers disceyuers whorehunters maintayners of harlottes and murtherers especiallye if anye other proportion aydeth and confirmeth the same The auncient Rasis reporteth that whose téeth are discerned weake thinne sette and small doe argue the whole bodye to be weake and both féeblenesse in that creature and the shortnesse of life The selfe same vttereth the sayde Rasis in the buying of seruaunts and the Philosopher Aristotle vseth the same words in his Problemes The worthie Aristotle also reporteth in secundo de Animalibus that such hauing the téeth thinne sette are noted to be short lyued The selfe same doth Rasis affirme vnder these wordes That whose canine or sharpe téeth are decerned long and strong set is argued to be a glutton an euill person and vicious of bodie The like wordes in a maner vttereth the learned Conciliatore in his Rubricke of Phisiognomie That a noyse caused through the téeth doth denote a frensinesse in that person which lyke doth sometimes happen to children sléeping when they are troubled with wormes as the skilfull Phisitions report The téeth formed bigge and broade whether these stande inwarde or are séene outwarde doe argue a vaine person lasciuious simple of a slender capacitie and hauing a bouine witte for that the same witnesseth grosse spirites to consist in that person proceeding of grosse humors The téeth most drie without anye moysture decerned to stande in them yea and wholy drie in a sicke person doe denote death at hande forasmuch as the radicall moysture is then consumed and their bodyes remaine and are as a Lampe without Oyle In a healthfull bodie the like séene doe signifie a sicknes to come and the same shortly The téeth séene full of rewme or a distilled water from the head appearing in them doe signifie a disease of the heade or stomacke through the participation and occasion of the head and lungs causing this distillation from the heade into the nose and eyes the Catharre the Cough the Squincie in the throte and the impostume of the Iawes But any of these this procureth eyther more or lesse according to the contrarie working of the members as vnto the beholder may euidently appeare Such beastes hauing the téeth indented lyke to a Sawe onely drinke by licking with the tongue but such hauing the téeth formed whole doe drinke by supping as the famous Philosopher Aristotle reporteth The téeth formed small and weake to chewe both thinne set and short appearing doe indicate after Michael Scotus a feeble courage a tender capacitie fearefull lightly perswaded eyther vnto the good or euill of a reasonable wyt and faythfull but as he wryteth such a person is short lyued The teeth after Michael Scotus not euen formed neyther in the bignesse nor in the standing of the Gummes so that there appeare of them narrowe broade thinne and thicke téeth doe denote a disoainefull person enuious bolde warie and of a readie wyt if a man may credite this Scotus The téeth formed verie long and as they were sharpe somewhat thinne set yet strong in the chewing doe witnesse after the minde of Scotus such a person to be a glutton enuious bolde deceytfull suspicious a lyar and inuericundious The téeth as M. Scotus reporteth appearing cytryne or browne colour whether these be short or long formed doe argue such a person to be more foolishe then wise a grosse féeder
Scotus decerned bigge and rough doth witnesse a circumspect person reasonably willing to serue secrete to himselfe disdainfull a betrayer vaine a teller of newes fearefull and yet hauing a reasonable sufficiencie of many things The tongue as Michael Scotus vttereth decerned thinne doth signifie a circumspect person ingenious yet lightly fearefull soone crediting and conuertible vnto the good or euill These hitherto Scotus The nature formes and iudgement of voyces The. xxix chapter THe cause why in some persons the voyce is heard bigge in some vttered small in some decerned bigge and small togither and in some after a horce and aspere maner is for that as the Philosopher vttereth there are thrée principall conditions that concurre vnto the voyce The one is the vertue of the lungs in forcing or procuring forwarde the breath in reuerberating vnto the roote of the tongue or vnto the pype of the lunges The other and second is through the ayre expelled againe to reuerberate the same The third is the pype of the lungs vnto the roote of the tongue where the ayre and breath is reuerberated Of which howe much the sounding vertue consisteth strong to expell much breath and the pype of the longes formed large that the same receyueth great plentie of ayre so much the greater and lesser appeareth the voyce but howe much the vertue appeareth weake and the weason or pype of the lunges consisteth weake so much the smalnesse and shrilnesse of voyce procéedeth and the same insueth according to the vertue moouing and swiftnesse of the breath The grosnesse of the voyce procéedeth through the slownesse of moouing in that creature of which howe much the vertue doth lesser mooue the ayre or breath so much the more subtilnesse or smalnesse and shrilnesse hath the voyce through which this procéedeth and is caused after the minde of the Phisiognomer the swifter Howe much the more ayre or breath sayth he shall be gathered and receyued into the subiect so much the grosser or bigger will the voice succéede and be and the same procured through the slownesse of moouing The asper or rough voyce procéedeth through a drynesse of the pype of the lungs But the horce voyce is caused through a superfluous moysture which descendeth from the heade vnto the pype of the lunges which as it shoulde séeme so hindreth and letteth the breath to passe in that creature The equalitie and swéetenesse of the voice procéedeth and is caused through a temperament of the pype of the lunges when the same consisteth and is neither to drie nor moist For this is a note that the qualitie of the heart not to be resisting or letting but that a proportion of all liuing thinges may be founde and knowne and in these the females are decerned to be of a weaker and shriller voyce than the males except the Cowe as the Philosopher in quinto de Animalibus vttereth The person which hath a bigge voyce is noted to be very iniurious applyed for the forme vnto the Asse as Aristotle reporteth in Methaphoricis Such which séeme to forecall beginning in a base maner and ending small are noted to bée yrefull yet soone appeased and pleased applyed for the forme vnto the Oxe and vnto the comelinesse of the voyce Such which vtter the wordes now bigge now lowe and vnperfitely are indicated to be fearefull applied for the same condition vnto women and vnto the comlinesse of the voyce The persons which séeme to call and speake bigge and the voyce not chaunged into a dyuers maner are applyed of the Philosopher for the forme vnto our great Mastie and vnto the semelinesse of the voyce The creature which is hearde to speake softly without a retching of the voyce are noted to bee gentill and simple applyed for the forme vnto the shéepe Such which call or vtter the wordes shrillye are noted to be irefull applyed for the kinde and forme vnto the Goate these hytherto out of Aristotle the like Albertus Conciliatore report and Hieronimus de Manfredis a countrie man of the Phisiognomers The voyce vttered bigge and distensed in the kinde doth indicat a strong person forasmuch as the same procedeth through the plentie of heate This grosse or bigge voyce doth the Phisiognomer here meane to be like to the base Organe pype The person which vttereth a slowe and bigge sounde of the voyce is iudged to be quiet tractable gentle merie of these certaine are knowne to be verye iust and vpright creatures in theyr dealings after the minde of the Phisiognomer The voyce decerned bigge yet the sounde of wordes perceyued very corrupt is an apparant note of a franticke creature iniurious and a glutton The strength of the voyce ensueth the largenesse of vaynes and multitude of the spirites which altogither are caused of heate as the Philosopher Aristotle reporteth The persons possessing a bigge voyce and that heauily or bassely calling are indicated to be apt persons to beare iniuryes and wrongs applyed for the forme vnto the asse Such creatures which call or beginne bigge and ende in their wordes with a small voyce are denoted to be both yrefull and pitifull at tymes yea soone pleased and tractable applyed vnto the Oxe for the forme of the crie the reason of thys is often taught afore Such a person which hath a grosse high and sounding voyce is reported to be eloquent bold fierce and valiant in armes or a warriour The voyce decerned small and lowe doth indicate such a creature to be fearefull and enuious By this low voyce is here ment sayth the Phisiognomer the small and faint voyce and not the bigge in any maner Here conceyue that the voyce is diuers of sounde forasmuch as the voyce is a sounde with an ymagination by the mouth of the creature vtterod to demonstrate any effect But the sounde is any kinde procéeding of the sounding which vnto the hearing procureth a passion And the speach is a thirde kinde hauing a diuersitie vnto either of these The voyce decerned small soft in the hearing and in a broken maner doth witnesse a womanly fearefulnesse to consist in that creature and to be effeminate The voyce heard slowe doth indicate after the mind of the Philosopher such a person to be sluggishe in actions rashe at tymes and impudent The voyce decerned weake doth argue a straightnesse of the arteries and paucitie of the spirits which are especially caused by the meanes of colde 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 applyed vnto Beastes of lyke condition The voyce hearde grosse and highe doth indicate a hotenesse of the heart and lunges and a largenesse of the wesand that both fréely draweth and expelleth the ayre or breath without impediment for which cause the voyce heard lowde doth denote such a creature to be talkatiue bolde and contencious The Philosopher Aristotle in de secretis secretorum vttereth that whose voyce appeareth
sensitiue power easily mooueable that is lightly reducible from the power vnto the act of perceyuing But such which about the spondiles of the necke appeare hidden are noted to be persons lacking witte forasmuch as these hardlye being soluble which about the knottinesse are decerned weake to receiue the motion of the senses The shoulder poyntes decerned sufficiently distaunt a sunder doe denote such a creature to be liberall after nature applyed for the same vnto the decent apparancie and forme for that lyberalitie aunswereth and agréeth to suche a forme and the like formed are the shoulder poynts of the Lyon by the report of the Phisiognomer The shoulder pointes séene néere ioyning togither doe contrariwise signifie niggardship and vncurtesie to rest in that person The shoulder pointes appearing sufficiently distaunt a sunder and decently spaced from the knotte or ioynt of the neck doe argue such a person to be of a simple perceiuerance and vnderstanding and by the consequent knowne to be a dullard as the learned Aristotle wryteth The shoulder poyntes after the minde of the Phylosopher well brawned with an eminencie or bearing out of the fleshe and these strong formed are applyed after nature vnto the Male kinde For as much as the nature of the muscle is to possesse the ingendred hotenesse strong and of the reason of the heate is this procured to increase the forme of the members according to euerie Dametre The shoulder points decerned bigge large in forme doe indicate a hotnesse to consist in that creature The strength of euery person consisteth in the sinewes and bones for which cause when the muscles are sufficiently formed fleshie then must néedes insue a mighty strength to consist both in the sinewes and bones of which the spirit conioyned in such an habitude or body may well exercise and attempt or doe strong actions if néede requyreth Of which Rasis reporteth that the shoulder pointes decerned large doe indicate a strong person of an honest minde of good conditions and perfite vnderstanding The reason of this appéereth in that through the bredth of the shoulder pointes the muscles are indicated to be large and strong which procéede from a strong beginning that is in the braine where the beginning consisteth of the sinewes and the seate of the spirites So that of necessitie this must néedes insue that the forme of the heade to be capable vnto the retayning and possessing the goodnesse of senses as the Phisiognomer vttereth of hys skill and practise knowne The muscles formed weake and yll compowned of strength that the shoulder points appeare in a maner flatte and peraduenture matched or couered with a softnesse of fleshe doe argue a flegmatick qualitie of the contrary nature to rest in that creature as afore vttered in the proper place and if these appeare and be without a softnesse they import the like qualitie after the mind of the Phisiognomer Of which Rasis vttereth that the shoulder pointes formed thinne doe indicate the smalnesse of wit and vnderstanding The Phisiognomer Cocles reporteth that he knewe and sawe sundrie women in his time which drew by Arte and through their bestiall indumentes the shoulder points so néere togither that they formed in a maner the like vnto O◠ventris in the part behinde and they garnished or bewtified these with Cosmeticall waters This Cocles also noted sundrie Italians and fonde French men which he aptly nameth by that byworde Hermaphroditi that vsed and exercised the like practise with their shoulder pointes A matter which séemeth in my opinion incredible to be exercised of any faithfull christian but the Phisiognomer séemeth trulye to vtter what he sawe and knewein sundrie places The bearing of the heades of the shoulder pointes verie farre out doe denote foolishnesse to consist in that creature which maner Aristotle reporteth vnto king Alexander to be a note of rygorousnesse and vnfaythfulnesse to dwell in that person The Phisiognomer Cocles vttereth of experience knowne the he sildom saw any person being crooke backed which were of a good nature but that these hauing the like bearing out or bunche on the shoulders were rather trayterous and verie wicked in their actions And such sayth the Phisiognomer were knowne in his time to be the founders of all wicked deceites yea wylie vnder myners and gropers of the people and had a deepe retching wyt and wylie fetches in wicked actions So that it seemeth impossible after nature that such deformed persons shoulde possesse in them laudable actions for as much as the spirite connexed in such an habitude doth yeelde a retrograde forme and propertie which sayth the the Phisiognomer is knowne for the more part to be Melancholike For which cause a man ought carefully to beware and take héede of fellowshipping or kéeping company with such infortunate persons for the aboue sayde reason and worke of nature For these sayth the Phisiognomer are the lyke to be eschewed as a man of skill would refuse and shunne the company of a person lacking any principall member of the bodye And the like Aristotle in secretis secretorum vttereth that a man ought diligently to beware and take héede of an infortunate person lacking any speciall member as he woulde of his proper animie daungerous The prouerbe like warneth vs to beware of the creatures marked in an other place of the persons marked in anye member that a man trust not them The reason is for that the spirites like insue vnto the forme of the body so that out of an euill shaped bodie can no lawdable actions procéede or be caused as afore vttered and this of him vttered Phisiognomically The Philosopher also vttereth that the great number of children liuing is cause many tymes of the yll happe of parents For these lacking prouision for their naturall sustenaunce are caused to worke mischiefes not tollerable by lawe For the Phisiognomer learned and saw sundry times that diuers fathers of many children not able to prouide sustenaunce for them were constrayned through great néede to steale through which practise exercised their children like endeuoured for the helpe of their parents néede and confessed a lyke matter at the place of execution So that the Philosopher giueth or sheweth this not as an inforced precept but rather perswadeth that in the cause of a necessitie the same to be procured as a rule in miserie which to the beholder may lyke appeare And the Mother Philosopher Asculanus vttereth a summe of the matter afore taught Ben se voria plicar li cinqui rami Metendo el primo fra le do piu apresso Dicendo hor toi poi che tanto mami Poi laltre cinque del sinistro tronco Voltare in verso gliochij de si stesso Chi mai si fida in rosso guercio e cionco By which he concludeth that no trust is to bée had in those women and men being red of colour and gogle eyed or one eyed and bunch backed also the reason is alledged in the same booke where he reporteth these
waxe fatte are by that meanes procured that their veynes and arteries are caused strong and indure large Of which their heate by that reason is not so soone extinguished as the singuler Phisition Galen vttereth So that such an habitude with the Phisiognomer is accounted lawdable and this generally ment in all the body Here conceaue sayth Cocles that the heart in man is cause of all the workings if the principal members are duelie formed of which the goodnesse and malice of minde insueth according to the positure of dyuers partes in the creature The contrarie of this is to be iudged when as the neck is long the breast large with a much quantitie of heares as in sundrie places afore vttered The thinnesse of flesh on the breast with a due proportion of the other members doth argue hotnesse of the heart and by the consequent a warlike boldenesse as appeareth in the chollericke And as the lyke by the former words afore may be gathered ¶ The forme of the pappes is to be considered which as it is written are compowned of white flesh hauing many kernels little holes like to a spunge through the veynes arteries sinewes and of this they be ioyned with the heart the lyuer and the braine with the generatiue members The Philosopher Ptholomie reporteth that hée which on the left side of the breast hath a bigge fleshie Mole high out and round with one or many heares on it doth then promise the increase of riches and honor This experienced of Pontius Gallicus of the Physiognomer Cocles Such women which haue bigge pappes and shorte are denoted sluggishe and rammishe of smell as some affirme Such women which haue no veynes appearing on the breasts are vnfitte to giue suck vnto children For that such a positure doth argue a flewmatick and an inordinate matter Such women also are of a rude nature and beastly and giue sucke with paine through some gréeuous accydence The pappes of a meane bignesse not soft and the veynes apparant and straight out doe argue a good mylche Nurse especially if hir skinne be swartishe in colour The pappes small and leane or slender thorowe drynesse doe denote such a woman to be weake of body When the pappes beginne to arise then doe they denote that such shortly after to be prouoked vnto the veneriall acte The pappes sufficient bigge and full after Galen doe argue a perfite digestion The forme and iudgement of the hollownesse on the breast The. xliij chapter THe ingenious Phylosopher Aristotle doth Phisiognomate of the noblenesse of the part of the breast which commonlye is decerned betwéene the breastes The same properly named Methafrenon where frenes and the Midriffe consisteth and this is a pellicle deuiding the region of the naturall members from the region of the nutritiue which through a lyke deuision is the same named the Midriffe as it were parting or deuiding in two and knitte or fastned to the back bone and breast in the compasse of the breast hauing a circuler forme This hollow place of the breast is here ment of the Phisiognomer where the heares commonly grow on men and right agaynst the Midriffe The person which hath this part of the breast appearing bigge sufficient fleshy and brawned is of the Philosopher noted strong according to nature and applyed of him to the male kinde The creature which hath this part appearing weake not fleshie nor brawned are denoted féeble and weake after nature and applyed for the forme vnto the female kinde Such a person which hath this part so bending in through the méeting there of the muscles right agaynst the furcle of the two semicircles méeting at if that they cause there a déepe hollownesse or pitte in the middle of the same doth denote such a person to be euill conditioned and not to felowship withall rude and of a disdainefull nature But the maner of his disoayning he couereth and hydeth for that he is close minded as touching his malicious stomacke which he subtilly cloaketh by his dissenibling woordes The Phisiognomer Cocles noted a certaine husbandeman in his tyme which had the Methaphrenon so hollow standing in that a man might well haue hidde the whole fist in the same who he diligently noted and knewe to be euill conditioned especially a wrangler contentious and double tongued He which hath this part appearing eminent is noted to be very yrefull in that the bearing out of this part procéedeth through the ouermuche heate of the hart and of the same cause is mooued to be verye yrefull as reporteth Galen in libro Tegm and through this yrefulnesse caused to bée forgetfull of himselfe vndiserete and vnaduised of that he doth and applyed for the nature and propertie vnto the horse for that the horse hath such a forme of the breast and is of a vehement furie as Aristotle vttereth This part consisting a meane in the hollownesse that is the Methaphrenon neyther to high bearing out nor to deepe formed inwarde as the breast plate of a harnesse is a laudable note after the minde of the Phisiognomer Cocles and such a person sayth he is knowne to be of a temperate qualitie and well conditioned The selfe same vttereth Conciliatore and the lyke taught in the Chapter of the signification of the breast The condition and iudgement of the ribbes The ▪ xliiij chapter HEre the Philosopher doth skilfully instruct a man to Phisiognomate by the disposition and forme of the ribbes and learnedly vttereth certaine notes of these The first note is that such creatures which are decerned to be well ribbed be accounted after skil knowne to be strong and applyed for the forme vnto the male kinde But such séene and founde weake ribbed are denoted féeble of strength after nature applyed for the forme vnto the female kinde which are knowne sayth the Philosopher to haue but small and séeble ribbes and weake muscles The Lyon of all beastes is the strongest and perfitest compowned in his partes yea he for the proper composition néerest agréeing vnto mans forme The discription of whose forme the learned Aristotle Artly vttereth in this maner Such persons sayth the learned Conciliatore in his Rubricke of Phisiognomie which are strong and well ribbed be denoted liberall frée of giftes bolde desirous of victorie gentle in behauiour iust in actions and louing wel those with which they fellowship And applyed for the forme vnto the Male kinde in that the same hath great ribbes through the largenesse of the breast and bredth of the backe which properly procéedeth of the nature of heate Forasmuch as the nature of heate as afore vttered is to encrease and dilate the forme of the members Such persons which are founde weake and small rybbed are knowne of experience to bée féeble of strength and after nature applyed vnto the female kinde Such persons which appeare to haue the ribbes much couered and compassed wyth the great quantitie of flesh that these séeme swolen or puffed vp withall are argued to be ful of ydle words
and foolish in actions as both Almansore and Conciliatore report And for the like forme aptly applyed vnto the Oxe and Frogge hauing such condicioned rybbes The rybbes of the woman formed narrowe and the flancks like are especially caused through the lacke of naturall heate in that creature The auncient Rasis vttereth that the smalnesse and thinnesse of the ribbes doth innuate in that creature the debilitie and feeblenesse of coeating The condition and iudgement by the notes decerned in the quantitie of the space betweene the necke vpward and the Nauill downeward vnto the mouth of the stomacke The. xlv chapter THe Philosopher Aristotle doth Phisiognomate by the quantitie of the partes which are betweene the nauill and necke and the mouth of the stomacke saying on this wise that suche persons which haue the same space larger which is from the nauill vnto the bottome and ende of the breast than that coÌ„sisting from the end of the breast vnto the neck are iudged gluttenous of a dul perseuerance The reason why such are reported to be gluttons is for that such haue a big belly and great stomack a great stomak â—ayth the Philosopher requireth much meate or foode by reason of the great quantitie and not of the qualitie of which these by an earnest desire couet to eate much meate And such are knowne to be of a dull vnderstanding and perseucraunce through their mightie filling of meate more than néedeth which of the same procureth weake senses in them But such a creature which hath the space consisting from the nauill vnto the breast lesser in distance than the same which is from the breast vnto the neck hath by the report of the Phisiognomer a great or large stomack the stomack here ment for the proper belly of which this person is knowne of obseruation to be weake of body short liued The reason of this is in that the bellye or rather the stomacke consisteth colde through the smalnesse of the same of which this ventricle or stomack sayth the Phisiognomer doth not orderly and well digest but rather ingendreth superfluities in it and of the same such are prone vnto diseases or sicknesses and to be short lyued And the multitude of sicknesses procured in that creature are occasioned and caused through the intensed hotnesse which the same purchaseth and by the meanes of the bowelles and other members néere placed that hastily drawe from the stomack the meate by a force vndigested The learned Aristotle also vttereth that when this space aboue described shall be decerned equall such a positure and condition of the lyke is commended highly of hym for that thys argueth a due proportion of the members contayning in them an apt and good digestion in that creature But a contrarie to these aboue vttered doth Aristotle report that such persons which haue the partes from the Nauill downewarde as vnto the belly larger appearing than the partes which are consisting vnto the breast as vnto that named Pomum granatum are denoted féeble and weake persons of bodye and of likelyhoode to be short lyued for the reason and cause aboue reported Such persons which haue that space larger consisting from the ende of the breast vnto the neck than that extended from the Nauill vnto the poynt or ende of the breast such after the minde of the Phylosopher Aristotle are denoted strong wyttie and of a readie vnderstanding Gulielmus Nurice in his Phisiognomie reporteth that the like wordes in a maner to be vttered of the singuler Aristotle where he wryteth that when the partes consisting from the nauill downewarde shall be decerned larger than these which are appearing from thence vnto the breast are iudged to be weake of body and short lyued The condition and iudgement of the inner partes which are consisting from the nauill vpwarde vnto the beginning of the stomack The xlvj chapter IF the Hypocondria or inwarde partes so named shall be decerned harde in the féeling and sufficiently or well compowned with bones doe witnesse the Masculynitie and that such persons to be fierce cruell and quarrellers or fighters as the auncient Palemon Albertus and the learned Conciliatore vtter Such Hypocondria doe certaine report that the worthy Plato possessed yea the like creatures as Albertus and Conciliatore report are applyed vnto the fierce Lyon. But if these partes named Hypocondria shall be decerned to be couered with a soft fleshe these then sayth the Phisiognomer Cocles doe denote an effeminate minde and womanly courage to dwell or consist in that creature and the lyke affirmeth Conciliatore in his Rubrick of Physiognomy Such which shall haue these partes weake boned and wrinckled and compassed with a thinnesse of fleshe like vnto the Hypocondria of the Ape are of the Philosopher iudged wicked of behauiour and full of shrewde or euill turnes applyed for the like condition and forme vnto the Ape The signification and iudgement by the notes of the belly The. xlvii chapter THe Phylosopher Aristotle doth here instruct howe a man maye Physiognomate by the habitude of the belly in that the belly is knowne to be the same which receyuing the meate as Isydore reporteth doth throughly digest it and conueyeth the excrementes forth that be superfluous for which cause this of nature formed bearing and appearing outward Suche which are sufficient fatte aboute the bellye that is well brawned and that the bellye beare not to much outwarde are denoted strong after nature applyed for the forme vnto the male kinde And such a condition of it is reported to be naturall so that the composition of the belly after the minde af Constantine is formed fleshie after nature yea hotte and moyste and this through the occasion of digestion properly Of which Rasis vttereth that such creatures which possesse bigge bellies after nature are noted to be libydinous great féeders and that spéedily digest meates Such creatures which are decerned in a contrarie condition to this as hauing flatte bellyes not sufficient brawned and these founde soft are denoted and iudged to be weake of body and for the forme applyed vnto the apparaunt congruencie In that we commonly sée sayth the Physiognomer that such possessing leane bellyes procéeding of anye accydent as eyther of to much fasting or of a sicknesse caused or procured otherwise of any accydentall cause are argued to be vnapt to learne and to conceaue déepe matters yea weake of body and courage And howe long soeuer such continue in the like passion and so long they tende or leane vnto the womanly condicions and courage after the agréement of Aristotle Albertus Conciliatore and others The learned Aristotle doth also vtter in secretis secretorum that he which possesseth a bigge belly is denoted and iudged to be an vndiscréete person prowde foolishe and often desiring to coeate for the hotnesse resting in him A meaue proportion and forme of the bellye decerned with a narrownesse of the breast doth indicate such a creature to be of a déepe vnderstanding of a good discretion and
the same agréeth with the naturall maner in causes and in the name proper The Philosopher also vttered vnto the mighty king Alexander that the much quantitie of flesh decerned about the knées and the same soft doth indicate the weakenesse of strength and féeblenesse of courage to consist in that creature And this caused through a weakenesse of the sinewes which by reason of the moysture loosing the lygaments of the ioyntes is like procured And such persons as the Physiognomer reporteth of experience through the weakenesse or debilitie of the ioyntes can not so well indure to beare anye waightie burdens nor doe anye other lawdable workes in which the force of strength consisteth or is requyred Such creatures also are knowne to be so féeble of body that they can not long indure to walke on foote at the least anye reasonable distaunce yea these besides are knowne to be effeminate For the superapparaunt maner is the same which hapneth of purpose with diligence and studie as the lyke these inioy which studie of a speciall purpose to procure and cause themselues amyable and gracious to men or worke otherwise besides the contrarie dispositions in that the maners or apparancie of such are knowne to be accydentall but these which are not wrought and caused of a set purpose may aptly be reduced vnto the minde euen as an action natural And on such wise may their notes of the conditions super apparaunt be demonstrated as the like vttered of the maners apparant And the reductions a like caused into these as the same in purpose consisteth and as afore of the Phisiognomer in manye places it hath béene taught Michael Scotus in his Phisiognomie vttereth that the knées full of fleshe and fatte doe indicate a fearefull person lyberall vayne and of small labour The sayde Michael Scotus reporteth that the knées leane and thinne of fleshe doe argue a strong person bolde well induring labour secret and a good goer on foote The learned Albertus by the authoritie of Aristotle vttereth that the knées which in themselues are turned as they in a maner knocked togither are applyed to the femynine propertie vnlesse this may otherwise happen by reason of the exercise As the like is to be séene in Bakers Porters and such like persons which carrie heauie burthens in whome such a note is not naturall but by accidence for that cause this note is ineffectuous The learned Conciliatore reporteth that the knées appéering louse as they were seperated froÌ„ the rest of the bodie doe denote such to be weake in their going Such hath the Phisiognomer séene and noted to haue gone with the toes and knees turning towarde the siluester part that is outwarde and their knées tended vnto the domesticall part that is inwarde And such persons euermore are effeminate and for the more part Cyneds as the Phisiognomer experienced in many subiectes and founde the same to be like Such also are of a péeuishe nature that aptly they may be attrybuted to women for their like Thus I thinke sufficient vttered of the knées The iudgement of the shankes and legges The. Lii chapter HEre the Phylosopher doth Physiognomate by the shankes and vttereth thrée notes by the tryple disposition of the shankes conceyued The first note is that if the shankes shall be sinewed brawned strong and bigge not by reason of the fleshinesse but rather by reason of the greatnesse of the bones and sinewes doe argue such a person after nature to be strong applyed after forme to the Male kinde Aristotle vttereth a seconde note that the shankes slender and slnewes strong doe denote a leacherous person light and vnstable in motion And thys note here conceyued of the byrdes hauing the like legges which for that according to life are light and vnstable and haue but a little of the earthly grauitie yet much of the ayreall lightnesse Insomuch that these are vnstable and not tarying any time in one place Conciliatore vttereth that the shankes slender with a weakenesse of the sinewes doe denote such a person to be fearefull as afore vttered in sundrie places A thirde note the Phylosopher vttereth that the shankes ouer bigge by reason of the ouermuch fleshynesse and not with an equallitie or iust proportion so that beneath the ancles these are bigge and fleshie as the womens are doe denote such a person to be weake of strength grosse wytted of a dull perseueraunce vnshamefast and hatefull as wryteth Rasis To the same addeth Aristotle that hauing the like shankes are applyed to the apparaunt comelynesse of them which apparauncie is to be vnderstanded by the contrarie in that the apparauncie is a comlinesse to haue the contrarie disposition and forme in the fleshe as that the same be moderated or meane proportioned and not out of forme The singuler Philosopher Aristotle vnto king Alexander wrote that the thinnesse and slendernesse of the legges doth argue a weake person and ignoraunt But the bignesse of the legges doth signifie a strong and stowte person and this of the bignesse is here ment when as they be well boned strong sinewed and brawned The legges slender sinewed and rough after Aristotle séeme to indicate the earnest desire to the veneriall acte Forasmuch as their nutrymentall matter is conuerted into Sperme and applyed vnto byrdes The shankes ouer bigge and yll fashioned doe denote an odible and vnshame fast person Albertus reporteth that the legges soft are notes of an eâ—â—eminate nature Antonius Cornazanus in his booke de re militari concludeth that the legges rounde filled after length doth argue manlynesse in a yong or freshe Souldiour Conceaue also sayth the Phisiognomer that the legges verie hearie with much heare about the Eiuâ—rp Ecalp doe signifie such a person to be verie lybidinous and applyed for the forme to brute beastes Such which are hearie vp to the hippes and the like on the partes downewarde are noted to be much and often desiring â—o coeate as vttereth Aristotle in libro de animalibus The shankes so fleshie behinde that they beare out in a maner like to a woman with childe doe denote a filthie temperament in that creature as wryteth Conciliatore Michael Scotus wryteth that the shankes soft of fleshe doe denote a semynine nature in that person The shankes bigge through the bones fleshy and hearie doe signifie a strong person bolde warie trustie of a grosse witte sluggishe and of a dull capacitie as affirmeth Michael Scotus The legges stender strong sinewed rough doe denote a gréedie desire vnto the veneriall acte for that their nourâ—â—hing matter is conuerted into Sperme and applyed to the byrdes as wryteth Michael Scotus The legges slender and not sufficient hearie doe argue a weake person of strength fearefull of a good vnderstanding faythfull seruiceable and syldome such are leacherous as affirmeth Michael Scotus The legges euermore naked of heare doe signifie a chaste person weake of strength and lightly or soone fearefull as affirmeth Michael Scotus The legges verie hearie doe signifie a hearie person about
and to be a presumptuous foole and an effeminate person And this the worser if he hath no beard for then is he compared to the gelded person and his conditions If the heares be decently small on the backe of the hande towarde the neather side and vpwarde on the backe of the foure fingers and vnto the two first ioyntes of the fingers and that they be fewe in quantitie small and of a chaungeable colour doe argue a readie witte subtill and a déepe vnderstanding The iudgement of the stature and quantitie of the bodie The. Lvj. chapter INasmuch as vnto the whole bodie briefely belongeth to vtter Plinie and Solinus report that the perfite boundes of the length and largenesse of the bodie haue not as yet béene discribed of any yet doe the Phisitions witnesse that the naturall length of mans bodie to be seuen foote and that the valiaunt Hercules was founde to be within this bounde And that the largenesse or breadth of his bodie to be lyke so much for howe much the distaunce is betwéene the two endes of the middle fingers the armes and handes stretched out and so much is the distance betwéene the crowne of the heade and sole of the foote By this reason also the olde wryters named man the little worlde in that if a circle were drawne about him he woulde then be founde as wholye round For which cause if any person doth excéede this quantitie of length he is then noted to be tall and long of stature but the person which lacketh of this or is lesser of stature then this discription aboue is then noted short of personage And whose length and bredth are not a lyke is named yll shapened of personage So that the quantitie euermore of the partes or of the whole bodie in respect of a meane ought to be applyed vnto the measure of the whole bodie The Phylosopher Aristotle doth Physiognomate by the quantitie of the bodie as by the 〈◊〉 and bignesse of the fame first aâ— touching the quantitie of the bodye verie small he reporteth that the small persons in quantitie and stature are of a readie and quick wyt prompt in attayning anye thing and passing both in the conceauing and knowing of matters And this in as much as to the quantitie of body absolute in as much as is by reason of the space in which the fame is to which Gulielmus adding a reason of this matter reporteth that those in which the aâ—terâ—all bloude and both the spirite and naturall heate spéedily and forthwith procéede from the heart vnto the braine and vnto the cogitatiue vertues those are of a sharpe and prompt wit in taking and generally in conceauing And this in as much as by reason of the space in which such a motion is and I here name that an apprehension or conceauing and knowledge and of that knowne iudgement and discretion of which maner and condition are the persons small or little of quantitie For in those as the Physiognomer affirmeth the bloude the liuely spirite and naturall heate hastily and swiftly procéede and are moued from the heart vnto the braine or vnto the cogitatiue vertues in which such a motion is on the small and short space and euen the same is in very small persons in as much as by the quantitie of the body Although the Phylosopher séemeth in the first to Physiognomate by the smalnesse of the body in comparing vnto the chollericke complexion or the hote and drie qualitie And the Philosopher meaneth that although the smalnesse signifieth a sharpnesse of wyt and the goodnesse of perceyuing in as much as is of that quantitie yet by reason of the compleâ—ion maye the contrarie be For the small which are of a drie qualitie which he meaneth vsing hote and drie meates and such which abounde in the hotnesse of body as if he sayde the small chollerick in qualitie and in whome a drynesse and superfluous hotnesse consisteth and that lesser beare sway doe performe little or nothing that is they are alwaies vnapt or vnable vnto the performing and perceyuing especially vnto the well iudging or decerning For the motion of the bloude and spirites in them is ouer swift and by reason of the smalnesse of the space and ouermuch hotnesse causing them cursible that they neuer can consist in the same as this in perfitely perceyuing and knowing In the second the Philosopher instructeth to Phisiognomate by the greatnesse of bodye in comparing the same vnto the cold complexion and moyst or flegmatick In the thirde the Phylosopher vttereth to Physiognomate by the smalnesse of bodye in comparing the same vnto the colde and moyste complexion And he meaneth that the small which are of a colde and moyst complexion are perfite that is apt vnto the performing although the bloud and spirite in these are moued vnto the hart spéedily for the smalnesse of space yet neuerthelesse caused vnmoueable by reason of the complexion or coldnesse in that moysture restrayneâ—h the dryth and heate and thus of the short and swift motion of those spirites by reason of the space and in a slowe maner by reason of the moysture of those spirites shall the motion be caused commensurated and both a meane and temperate apt vnto the perfourming In the fourth he Phisiognomateth by the greatnesse of bodye by a comparison vnto the hote and dry complexion in that such are perfite and quick in conceauing Although in those the space of motion be great yet the bloud and spirite in them are verie swift mooning by reason of the great heate and on such wise in these is a temperament of motion caused and are apt vnto the performing Here is to be conceaued that although the hote and dry and generally the chollerick are of a difficill or hard conceauing and of a dull wytte by reason of the dryth which hardly receaueth neuerthelesse the chollerick bigge in bodye are more perfite and apter conceaue then the small in quantitie of body For when these giue and apply their wit vnto the conceauing and attayning of any thing they long retayne the same with them and although they haue the spirite and bloud moueable yet for that the space of the motion is great for that cause before any other thing or matter occurreth they first conceaue and take strongly retaine For a more drynesse than moysture consisteth in the hinder part of the braine of this creature So that drinesse hath the propertie to attaine and receaue with difficultie and when this hath receyued a forme the same purchased it retayneth for a long tyme which contrarie is of the moysture For the moysture or moyst braine behinde doth lightly receaue a forme and soone looseth the same in that the formes which are imprinted in the moysture are not preserued any long tyme but soone vanishe awaye And for as much as the chollerick small in body doe not so long consist in any maner that any forme in their spirite can be fixed yet are these neuerthelesse noted
the generall difficultie or hardnesse of these consisteth of the iudgement euen as the like doth the same both in the Arte of Astronomy and Phisicke practise depende And of this Galen affirmeth that the Physiognomer maye erre in his iudgement for dyuers causes First in that to any one note ▪ a man may not trust except the same be proper of it selfe as is aboue declared Therefore no one note alone maye be taken of any speciall parte of the body in that by the nature of one particuler doth not the nature of man in generall consist In the second there is errour caused for that to the alteration of nature and age they doe not sometymes agrée in that there be notes which sometimes declare the matter rather past than to come like as in the person of thrée score yeares olde which may be hearie that doth then argue his leacherousnesse to be past and not present to be affirmed And sundrie wryters affirme that the notes gathered by the fore part of the bodie are knowne to be mightier then those conceyued of the hynder part as witnesseth Hypocrates who willeth first to beholde and note the face of the sicke And others also affirme that those to be the mightier notes which are taken of those members by which the passion is exercised as the notes which doe vtter and declare the yre of the breast and ribbes which is exercised by the heart within those parts placed Further in that by the shoulders armes legges and féete strength is exercised therefore are the mightier notes for strength gathered and taken of them And thus of the other members gather and iudge in the like maner But here for a playner vnderstanding of the Art and that you may learne howe to iudge by the lyke shall here be propounded an example or two and thus ende the worke A briefe rehersall of the notes of all the members with their significations in the forme of a table Of the heade FIrst the heade bigge doth denote a dull person and applyed to the Asse The heade little to bée foolishe and applyed to the Dogge The heade meane of bignesse doth argue a good witte naturally The head Pineaple sharpe to be vnshamefast and a boaster The heade short and verye rounde to be forgetfull and foolish The head long in fashion to the Hammer to be prudent and warie And in the forepart of the heade a hollownesse to be wylie and yrefull Of the foreheade The foreheade small to be vnapt to learne vnconstant and applied to the Sowe The forehead very bigge to be slowe and applyed to the Oxe The foreheade rounde to be of a dull perseuerance yrefull and applyed to the Asse And being somewhat a plaine foreheade to be circumspect and applyed to the Dogge A square formed foreheade to be bolde applyed to the Lyon. The foreheade smooth and euen to be a flatterer applied to the fawning Dogge The forehead bigge wrinckled to be sturdie and bolde applyed to the Bull and Lyon. A low forehead to be sad applied to the passion A long foreheade to be a flatterer applyed to the Dogge A high foreheade to be liberall applyed to the Lion. An ouer wrinckled foreheade to be vnihamefast And puffed vp in the temples to be high minded yrefull and of a rude witte Of the eyes The eyes small to be faint hearted applyed to the Ape The eyes bigge to be slow and tractable applyed to the Oxe The eyes hollow standing to be enuious and wicked applyed to the Ape The eyes standing out to be foolish applied to the Asse The eyes somewhat hollow to be stowte of courage applyed to the Lion. The eyes somewhat bigge and a little eminent to be gentle applyed to the Oxe The eyes very wide open to be impudent The corner of the eyes fleshie vnto the nose ioyning to be malicious The eyes of length to be craftie and a deceyuer The eyes bigge and trembling to be desirous of women applyed to the passion The eyes small and quiuering to bée shame fast and yet a louer How much the bigger eyes so much the lesser malice yet the more foolishnesse The eyes thwart wrything to be deceytfull a niggarde and yrefull The eyes bigge out to be foolish fearefull faint hearted and vnshamefast The eyes disorderly moouing as one whiles running and an other whiles staying to be rash disquiet and troubled in minde wicked and a bryber The eye liddes quiuering to be fearefull applied to the passion The eyes swiftly moouing with a sharpe looke to be fraudulent vnfaythfull and a théefe The eyes stedfastly looking to bée troubled in mind and a deceyuer The eyes situated as into a length to be monstruous a deceiuer and enuious Little bagges or bladders swelling out from the eyes to be great wine drinckers applyed to the passion Little bladders swelling out before the eyes to be great sléepers and applyed to the passion Of the nose The ende of the nose bigge to be desirous of that he séeth applyed to the Oxe The ende of the nose bigge and turning vp to be without discretion and sluggish applyed to the Sow The ende of the nose sharpe to be of a fierce yre applyed to the Dogge The nose round being blunt at the ende to be stowt applyed to the Lyon. The nose rounde with a sharpenesse at the ende to be wauering of minde applyed to the byrde The nose wholy crooked from the foreheade downewarde to be vnshamefast and vnstable applyed to the Rauen. The nose crooked lyke the Eagles bill to be bolde applyed to the Eagle The nose flatte to be leacherous and hastie in wrath The nosethrils large to be yrefull applyed to the passion The nose stretched long to the mouth to be honest and bolde Of the eares The eares small to be a scoffer applyed to the Ape The eares bigge to be a dullarde applyed to the Asse The eares hanging to be a foole applyed to the Asse The eares of a meane bignesse to be faythfull and honest conditioned The eares ouer rounde to be vnapt to learne The eares long and narrowe to be enuious The eares standing verye nere to the heade to be a dullarde and sluggishe The eares hearie to be long liued and quicke of hearing Of the face The face fleshie to be slowe applyed to the Oxe The face leane to be carefull and circumspect The face very fleshie to be fearefull applied to the Asse and Hart. The face bigge to be slowe applyed to the Oxe and Asse A narrow face to be a niggard The countenance looking downeward to be an hypocrite and wicked The face hollows without any bearing out to be contentious Like to a drunken countenance to be lightly druncke Like to an yrefull countenance to be yrefull and applyed to the apparancie Like to a shamefast countenaunce to be shamefast The face deformed and a wrie to be euill conditioned The face long to be vnshamefast The face of a small cause sweating to be craftie leacherous and a great féeder The face
The iudgement by the notes of 2hc 2râ—yd and s3clt2st The. xlix chapter THe reason why Aristotle hath not entreated of this part is for that he wrote but a briefe instruction in maner as an introduction of the science which he comprehended in a fewe lynes so that an Epytomie onely of the same he wrote yet Conciliatore somwhat intreated of the same as I shall vtter sayth Cocles and whatsoeuer is here added of vs the same by experience was knowne and founde Rasis reporteth that the gelded person is euill conditioned in that he is a foole couetous and presumptuous But the person not gelded yet borne without s1l35c3ts2t or at the least hauing them very smal is then conditioned much lyke to the gelded person Such a person which neuer had bearde growing on the chinne is farre worser conditioned Such persons which haue the s4l5c3ts2t not a like are noted great fornicators as Ptholomie the Philosopher and Pontius Gallicus affirme But such persons which haue them bigge are denoted luckie and fortunate as Ptholomie the Philosopher wryteth Such persons which shall haue them equall or alike shall attaine vnto a happie fortune as Conciliatore affirmeth Such persons which haue them very bigge with the 2l1t3n2g the lyke are denoted foolishe sluggardes and Asses I neuer sawe sayth the Phisiognomer that such hauing a great 2dyâ—r were euer ingenious vnto vertues but rather that such came vnto a lamentable lamenesse and miserie in the ende as Conciliatore vttereth These séene hanging on htgn2l doe denote liberalitie yet weaknesse to 2t124c as Ptholomie affirmeth and the like Pontius Gallicus Aristotle in lib. de Animalibus wryteth that he which hath a verie bigge 2l1t3n2g through the spirits not mightie to discend vnto the due place and through the coldenesse of them and through the often and longer 2gn3ln1h of them is thereby caused weake to 2t124c Aristotle affirmeth that the 3l5c3ts2t ought to 23l 2r2n vnto the fundament and of this men do not so much desire to 2t124c in the Summer as in the winter time If vndecently the sinester of the s3lc3ts2t shall be r2ggâ—b than the right such a person shall then beget altogither women children in that he is of a colde qualitie as Conciliatore vttereth Conciliatore in his Rubrick of Phisiognomie vttereth that the 2lâ—tâ—n2g 2ggâ—b doth argue such a person to be a dullarde and a foole And like the crooke backed or suche which possesse a great bunch on the backe And such also short of bodie haue for the more part a 2ggâ—b 2l1t3n2g Ideo Matronae solent vt plurimum famulos similis staturae eligere Solent enim fortitudinem secundum alioruÌ„ membrorum conglutinacionem ostendere Qui habent mentulam cum venis crassis apparentibus sunt calidae Naturae saepe illis accidit vlceratio virgae vt notaui inquit Cocles curaui cum oleo omphacino rosacea aqua parum cerusae aliquantulum Camphorae in forma line amenti aliter talibus accidunt vlcera putrida Cuius rei causa est imbibitio materiei quae influit propter raritatem latitudinem meatus quia verenda sunt complexiones calidae humidae Et nimia fatigatione calefit excoriatur virga sic complexionata Inquit Conciliator The learned Aristotle reporteth that the 2lâ—t3n2g â—uum found excéeding long doth hinder conception yea the same perhaps already performed this may also through a lyke occasion destroye it And not vnlyke sayth the Phisiognomer doth this many tymes happen that no conception at all is procured when as the same is decerned ouer small and short in respect of the whole bodie The reason why the ouer length is not commended nor apt vnto conception is for that the gignitiue spirites in that creature are knowne to be weakned through their long iourney consisting in the way The iudgement of the haunches and hippes The. L. Chapter HEre the Philosopher instructeth to Phisiognomate by the dispositions of the haunches or hippes First the hippes bonie so that they be great and bearing outward and sinewed and that the hippes be bigge by reason more of the bones and sinewes than of the ouermuch fleshinesse do then argue such a person to be both strong and hardie The selfe same vttereth Rasis where he reporteth that when the bones of the hippes shall bée bearing outwarde doe then denote such a person to be hardie Here Rasis meaneth the same when as the Hippes are well brawned and bending to the out part For then is it a note of strength in that person And the Phisiognomer hath noted that such runne light and swift on the grounde and are great goers of iourneyes Michael Scotus hath truely vttered in this which I much maruell at sayth the Phisiognomer seing in all his Phisiognomie he hath so mightily erred not knowing what he wrote as a person euill experienced in this Art although hée durst attempt to vtter manye matters But to come to the matter the hippes founde sufficient fleshie doe signifie a strong person hardie and no lesse prowde as the same well appeareth in the Gelding Faulcon and Cocke Michael Scotus vttereth a seconde note that such hauing the hippes bonie yet in such maner that the bones appéere not bigge but much fleshy with a smalnesse of the sinewes doe declare the lyke persons to be weake of strength and applyed to the female kinde Rasis vttereth that the hippes hauing much fleshe outward doe argue the lousenesse of them and weakenesse of strength Conciliatore reporteth that the bones of the hipprs tended and bearing outward doe denote strength and a manly courage in that person vnlesse a womanly fleshinesse in them doth otherwise happen A slendernesse or thinnesse of the hippes doth signifie such a person to be a louer of women fearefull and weake of body The hippes bigge and well brawned full and solyde doe argue such a person to be strong The hippes bearing outwarde through the ouermuch fleshinesse doe denote a weake person and feeble of courage The hippe bones bearing out after a maner doe argue strength in that person Rasis also vttereth that when the haunche bones are tended or beare outwarde doe demonstrate much strength and a manly courage in that person The slendernesse or thinnesse of the haunch-bones doth signifie such a person to be both weake of strength and fearefull and a louer of women Aristotle in libro de secretis secretorum writeth that the largenesse of the legges and ancles doth signifie a strong person These hytherto of the hippes may here suffise The iudgement of the knees The. Li. chapiter HEre the Philosopher Aristotle doth Physiognomate by the dispositions of the knées and vttereth sundrie notes as touching the condition of these that such persons hauing the knées formed slender are denoted to be feare full and applyed for the forme as he reporteth vnto the apparaunt congruencie or comlynesse of the same in that the apparaunt maner agréeing by great studie may be named the apparaunt congruencie for as much as