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A68187	The contemplation of mankinde contayning a singuler discourse after the art of phisiognomie, on all the members and partes of man, as from the heade to the foote, in a more ample maner than hytherto hath beene published of any. In the place next after the chapter of the forehead, hath the phisiognomer added a proper treatise of the signification of sundrie lines seene in most mens foreheads: which in sundrie disputations with a skilfull Iew, he at the last obtayned. ... In the ende is a little treatise added of the signification of moles ... written by a worthie Grecian named Melampus. All which, englished by Thomas Hyll.	Hill, Thomas, b. ca. 1528.; Cocles, Bartolommeo della Rocca, 1467-1504. Chyromantie ac physionomie anastasis.; Malampus, 3rd cent. B.C. Peri elaiōn sōmatos. English.	1571 (1571)	STC 13482; ESTC S104092	171,153	456

wordes Quando tu vidi quisti zoppi e glombi Impio fo el segno de la parte Et anche quisti cum li flexi lombi Defecto corporal fa lalma ladra In pegiorando dicon le lor carte Sonno superbi e de la mala quadra The shoulder pointes well formed both in the length and bredth doe denote a good disposition and nature to consist in that creature after the minde of the learned Conciliatore The shoulder pointes decerned thinne in the composition of nature doe signifie such a person to be a nyggarde couetous and fearefull in attemptes or enterprises The shoulder pointes formed of nature vnequall doe like indicate the vnequall actions and that such a creature to be of a dull capacitie The shoulder pointes séene thinne and leane of fleshe doe wytnesse as Michael Scotus reporteth a weake person féeble of courage fearefull not well bearing or induring earnest labour lightly credyting quyet of behauiour and conuertible eyther vnto the good or euill The shoulder pointes formed large and bigge through the fleshe doe signifie as writeth Michael Scotus a strong person and faythfull yet a nyggarde of a grosse wyt and féeding simple well induring painefull labour féeding sufficiently and willingly and desiring quietnesse The shoulder pointes appearing bonded inwarde doe innuate after the minde of Scotus such a person to be warie sluggishe and after a maner ingenious secret and an vnder groper of men The shoulder pointes decerned flatte lying in a maner to the body doe signifie as affirmeth Michael Scotus a simple person a nyggard laborious modest both in his talke and féeding and quiet of behauiour yet credyting lightly and conuertible eyther vnto the good or euill The shoulder points decerned vnequall that the one be bigger or larger than the other doe denote a sluggishe person of a grosse wytte of a dull capacitie and vnderstanding simple grosse in féeding yea a nyggard deceytfull a betrayer bolde and hardly credyting if we maye credite Scotus in these The shoulder pointes séene farre bearing out doe wytnesse suche a person as affirmeth Michael Scotus to be of an open lyfe in his conditions that is to say vaine simple vnstablē a lyar enuious bolde vnshame fast and a brawler The iudgement of the Armes The. xxxvij chapter THe Armes so long that the handes reache vnto the knees doe denote the subtilnesse of wit arrogancie and the desire to rule Aristotle reporteth that these notes séeme to signifie boldenesse honestie with a liberalitie The lyke long armes some suppose that the mightie king Alexander had Nor it is vnlike to that which the sonne of Zacharie affirmeth that in some to argue arrogancie and in other some a desire to rule gouerne and both a boldenesse and stowte courage The selfe same reporteth Albertus in de Animalibus and in compendio suae Theologiae and like Hierommus de Manfredis and the learned Rasis For that lengthning out and longnesse of the armes procéedeth of the great heate of the heart with a moysture proportioned which is the cause of the lengthning out as may well be comprehended by the former wordes of the Phisiognomer When suche a length or longnesse is extended vnto the thighes or hammes doth innuate wicked conditions and such to ioy in others harmes in that those persons vndoubtedly are maruellous enuious And some affirme that this note doth argue fearefulnesse to be a louer of discorde and ignorant Such which with a gréedie desire to meate doe bring the mouth to the handes being especiallye caused through the shortnesse of the armes and euill forme of the handes not orderly wrought are iudged to be wicked and enuious for that enuie is the daughter of coldnesse and drine●e the Planet Saturne ingendring hir The armes thinne or slender if they shall bée weake doe witnesse a rude person and vnapt to learne The armes bigge through the bones sinewes and flesh doe indicate a strong nature and if the veynes appeare doe then declare a hote qualitie When the armes are bigge with soft fleshe doe then demonstrate a womanly nature The Phisiognomers reporte that the armes very hearie do denote such a person to bée luxurious Aristotle vnto king Alexander wryteth that when such a person whiles he talketh mooueth the handes to and fro is iudged enuious a deceyuer and one pleasant in wordes Such a person which refrayneth moouing of the handes whiles he talketh is argued to bée of a perfite vnderstanding well disposed of à singuler witte and readie counsaile verye commendable the reason doth the Phisiognomer vtter in the chapter of the paces The perfite length of euerye person after the minde of Albertus in compendio suae Theologiae in accounting from the top of the forehead and beginning of the creast of the heade vnto the s●le of the foote is noted to be so much these being of sownde limmes and composition as is the space decerned betwéene the two endes of the middle fingers the armes right retched out The armes so long that béeing stretched out reach to the knees which seldome so happeneth doe then denote such a person to be liberall bold high minded of a gréedie desire weake of bodie simple of witte foolishe and vaine glorious as wryteth Michael Scotus The armes ouer short in respect of the stature of the bodie doe signifie a contentious person vnthankefull bolde enuious prowde foolish and a niggard as affirmeth Scotus The armes bigge through the bones sinewes and much fleshe doe signifie a person sufficient strong prowde of a light cause presumptuous enuious desirous of bewtifull things and lightly crediting as wryteth Michaell Scotus The armes fatte and brawned doe signifie a person vaine glorious coueting pleasaunt things and more foolishe than wittie in the doyng of things as witnesseth Michael Scotus The armes very hearie whether they be leane or fatte and soft of flesh doe argue a leacherous person of a weake capacitie weake of bodie very suspicious and craftilye malicious as wryteth Michael Scotus The armes verye naked of heare doe denote that person to be of a weake capacitie long angry lightly crediting vaine lasciuious a lyar lightly deceyuing warie in the euill and but weake of bodie as affirmeth Scotus The forme and iudgement of the handes The. xxxviii chaprer THe regytyue nature of the whole bodye formed the hande with the paulme long and the fingers in séemely length through the goodnesse of the matter regulated as the like in many creatures appeareth in such maner that the same is sufficiently prepared and formed vnto the doing of all workes that is to be wrought and in expressing the mightie force of the members and singularitie of the wytte the iestes and other skilles in euery creature This also formed of nature as a strong helper to retche and take vnto it all such things which are néedefull so that this necessarily and aptlye serueth both to take and doe Isy dore learnedly vttereth that this part is named the hand for that the same is the officer presenter vnto

with himselfe Certayne of the auncient report that the creature which is hardly procured to laugh is affirmed to be wittie a foreséer of matters vnto himselfe nyggardly and verie studious in the Arte which he daylie exerciseth yet suche a creature sayth the Phisiognomer is prone to be a surmyser and yrefull The person which is heard to laugh lowde or a highe with a certaine noyse decerned in the laughter is indicated by the report of some wryters to be inuericundious and rashe in actions Such a creature that without cause procured laugheth and in his laughing séemeth often to coughe or gape or to draw the head awry is indicated to be variable of purpose and minde enuious lightly or soone credyting and conuertible eyther vnto the good or euill as Loxius and Phylemon report The learned Conciliatore in his Rubricke of of Phisiognomie vttereth that the creature coughing when he laugheth or is at the instaunt encumbred with the hardnesse and shortnesse of breath is iudged to be inuericundious fierce and a Tyraunt as the like the Phisiognomer Cocles obserued and noted in a certaine Prince of Lumbardie Certaine of the worthie Phisiognomers report that whose chéekes are discerned often is smyle is denoted to be of an euill minde of a peruerse cogitation and a lyar and such persons generally or for the more part are malicious dissemblers so that these are not friendly to be trusted but rather to be doubted if we may credite the Phisiognomer when the like especially is matched and ioyned with other accydences of the minde and that their eye lids appeare wrinckled togither with the eye browes ioyned or in a clowdie forme gathered such are then shedders of bloud murderers robbers or théeues by Sea and lande as the Phisiognomer often obserued and noted in many which were the like The creature that smyleth vnto himselfe when he talketh is indicated to be foolish and of a simple vnderstanding as the like the Phisiognomer obserued in a certaine Italian and such are reported to abounde in the Melancholick qualitie The chéekes decerned wrything in the laughter as they were so procured in the derision of an other doe witnesse such a person to be arrogant deceytfull couetous a lyar yrefull and a betrayer or vtterer of secrets The person that lightly laugheth sayth Michael Scotus is denoted to be simple of vnderstanding vnstable vaine lightly credyting of a dull wyt grosse in féeding and seruicable yet in factes or actions not secret The creature that sildome laugheth and séemeth soone to haue done is argued after the minde of Michael Scotus to be stable warie nyggardly yet of a good vnderstanding secret faythfull and glorious in his actions The condition and iudgement of thē breath The. xxxi chaprer THe much breath doth argue the aboundance of the spirites econuerso whose cause procéedeth two wayes the one through the smalnesse of the lunges and the other through the default and straightnesse of the breast Of which the creature much breathing is of great strength and courage by reason of the heate resoluing the moysture especially that dewie moysture after the minde of the Phisiognomer The breath sent forth in due course and order that is betwéene the great and small appearing a meane doth indicate ▪ the quietnesse of heart and a man in minde well pleased as the Philosopher reporteth That person which sigheth without cause and fetcheth the sighes déepe and long doth witnesse the Melancholie to come and that mightie to perseuer in that creature The breath appearing cut betwéene being after an order which in the ende through straightnesse of the breast commeth forth with a heate and sighing doth argue such a creature to be encombred with thought and the disquietnesse of minde And the same to be mixed to some euill if the head especially shake withall That person which with the sighing draweth the eyes awrie is iudged after the minde of most wryters that he then bewayleth the matter come vnto minde deuising with himselfe in what maner he may aptliest bring about and compasse or atchieue the same The creature which breatheth with a certayne noyse through the larger opening of the nosethrils doth then indicate crueltie brutishe furiousnesse and violence to consist in him which of Aristotle is applyed to the passion The breath passing forth troubled and thicke as if the same were after a course of running or through some strong accidents doth then denote such a person to be violent vnaduised hastie and yrefull When the breath shall be decerned short and thicke and through a much cutting off stopped betweene such a creature of the Philosopher Aristotle is iudged fearefull weake of courage and strength That person which with the sighe and countenaunce séemeth as he were bereft with a certaine godlynesse and pittifulnesse suche a one sayth the Phisiógnomer is iudged to be then taken and wrapped wyth the furious passion of loue The singuler Philosopher Aristotle vttereth vnto the mightie king Alexander that when sayth he you shall sée a person much and long togither beholding yea and earnestly looking on your face and that when you againe behold him so looking is of the same abashed and therewith blusheth and giueth especially at that instaunt a sighe against his will and that teares appeare standing in his eyes such a person vndoubtedly loueth and feareth you But if you sée the contrarie vnto this then iudge that creature to regarde you little and to be one that is both enuious and disdainefull The breath decerned lowde cut betwéene and the sighe appearing the like doth witnesse sorow and heauinesse for some losses happened to that creature Hipocrates Galen and certaine other Phisitions report that the breath perceyued passing forth colde by the mouth and nosethrilles in a sharpe sicknesse doth innuate death shortly after to ensue The Philosopher Ptholomeus Paruus vttereth that he which often wéepeth for no cause reasonable shall alwaies be poore and néedie The breath by the report of Michael Scotus comming out so soft that the same can scant be heard doth denote such a person to be greatly encombred with thought which conditiō of thought the eyes in a maner will declare The breath which is decerned sometymes still and within a good while after is drawen and fetched in ouerfast doth argue such a creature as that Scotus writeth to be then occupyed wyth a present great heauinesse of the minde The head if it shaketh as he sigheth according to the minde of Scotus then for the weight of the matter euill handled and euill spoken of it argueth him to be sorie If he doth the like wyth the eyes intentiue or steddie looking such a person bethinketh him rather of the euilles than repenteth him as Michael Scotus wryteth The breath heard light breathing out by little and little without noyse doth denote after the minde of Scotus such a person to be of an vpright minde The person which is heard to breath lowde and smileth withall is iudged of Michael Scotus to be

reason of the ouermuch hotnesse consisting in him was knowne to be a a foole full of wordes furious yrefull euill tongued and vnpacient whose positure and forme of partes was on this wise He had the heade pinaple like the voyce lowde and sownding quick of speech and in stature small musculous Sanguine yet tending vnto choller The eares were great the forehead bearing or bossing out after a round maner the ouerbrowes ioyned togither and much hearie the eies small hollow standing glistering and fierie the nose flatte and holowe in the middle the chéekes bonie and somewhat flat the mouth great the lips thicke and folded or turned outwarde the téeth bigge the chinne sharpe and longe the face long the neck grosse and shorte small was the distaunce betwéene the heart and braine by which appeareth that the skill of the Anothomye is very necessarie in this Arte. The shoulder poyntes were great and eleuated with a largenesse of the breast the part afore named Methaphrenon was eminent and fleshie the Hipocondria great the legges shorte and musculous the armes long and grose or bigge the féete bigge and articulated the héeles great the soales of the féete holowe a swiftnesse in pace and treading short Hée bare the heade by turning hyther and thyther after the maner of the Hart ouer all the bodye he was most hearie hauing a redde colour in the face which notwithstanding was a darcke f●erie In the hands he hadde the Cardiacke and middle naturall line very large seperated and were most redde with the mensall line naked and alone in the paulme of the handes were onelye thrée lines with the rest of the tubercles and other lines infortunated and depressed that denoted a most beluine or brutish nature to consist in that person For as much as Michael Scotus hath friuolusly written of the ouerbroowes for that cause doth the Phisiognomer Coeles wittingly ouerpasse his sayings in this Chapter considering they doe so farre disagrée from the liuely Arte. And the learned Ioannes Picus greatly discommendeth this Scotus affirming him to haue written no weightie matters of importaunce but rather trifles and of these full of superstition These hytherto of the ouerbroowes with the liuely examples described of the Phisiognomer much furthering all such as be delighted in the Arte next to this doth he vtter both of the vses and iudgement of the eie liddes The forme and iudgement of the eie liddes and heares of the liddes The. xviij chapter ISydore writeth that nature ordayned the couer of the eies or eie liddes to defende the eies from outwarde harmes as from flyes moths dust strawes and such like that might otherwise fall into them The eie liddes also be the couers with which the eies are couered and of Isydore named the eie liddes in that these ●ouer and hide the eies in sa●tie For the same cause the like is to be learned and vnderstanded of the nature and diuersitie of the heares as afore in the other chapter of the ouerbrooines Here in this chapter hath the Phisiognomer diligently gathered togither the sayings of the learned Conciliatore and others although but a fewe notes of them were to be founde The eie liddes which on the eie aproched nigh the angle in the lacrimall part if the ●ame be excéeding small and thinne doth denote the disposition of the maner and malice of the forme The cause of the smalnesse of heares doth litle the matter indicate The lacrymall or inner corner of the eie when the same is little and narrowe doth signifie a craftie person as Auicen reporteth primo de Animalibus The vpper eie lidde bearing out rather blowne vp then full appearing and somewhat declining ouer the eie doth argue that person to be hawne and disdainfull That if the neather eye lidde shall be small a narrow drawne togyther in such maner that it couereth but the whyte of the eye doth denote the body to be gouerned of a drinesse of humours If this like hapneth in any cause of verte sharpe passions vnlesse nature hath so wrought the same as Hypocrates wytnesseth doth then pronounte death at hande The auncient Rasis reporteth that when the heares of the eye liddes so named of the beating of them doe crooke downewards or be naturally wrythed vnto one part doe indicate such a person to be craftie and a lyar Why the liddes are placed on the eyes doth Gulielmus Nurice thus define that by them the condition and qualitie of the eyes might the readier and better be defended and preserued from the outwards matters euen as the sheath on a sworde for that cause such a person which hath a grosser or thicker eie lidde doth further sée from him for as much as these preserue the light of the eyes from the outwarde heate and cold And of this manye beastes sée further off than men and this caused through the grossenesse or thicknesse of the eye liddes The corners of the eyes when they be delated doe then argue a sicknesse or disease of the eyes And if these haue anye fleshie bearing out doe denote dronkennesse especially when the eies are bearing out and the eye liddes be drye as in many the like the Physiognomer hath obserued and noted The vpper eye liddes couering the neather doe argue by the report of Conciliatore Albertus and others long lyfe The corners of the eyes dylated and large through the cause of a smyling eye doth indicate a leacherous person and this note applyed of the Philosopher to Venus The often beating or panting of the eye lids doth argue such a person to be feareful and vexed often with a frensinesse as Palemon Loxius and sundry others report The eye liddes thinne and in health are best commended For these declare a lawdable minde nighest approching to God through an vpright behauiour The iudgement of the spases betweene the eye brovves after the minde of Michaell Scotus The xix chapter THe spaces betwéene the eye broowes néere ioyning togither declare that person to be a niggard enuious verye much desirous of bewtifull things hauing a straunge fortune and more rigorous than gentle in behauiour The spaces betweene the eye broowes if they be large doe denote such a person to be of a dull capacitie yet of a great boldnesse verie trustie in neede of a perfite an vpright friendship these hitherto Michael Scotus if we may credite the agréement of these sayings The nature and iudgement of the mouings of the eyes The. xx chapter THe Phisiognomers confirme their sayings by the signes and notes of the eyes in that the notes which are discerned in the eyes be figures and vtterers of the affections of the heart The eye is the instrumentall member of sight whose qualitie is moyste in a rounde forme figured with a certayne playnesse and formed with seauen coates and three humours as wryteth the learned Sillanús super nono Almansoris The passions of the minde as trouble mirth loue hatred and such like are especially declared and vttered by the eyes after the