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
of meates and the fumosities of them which dayly ascende on high vnto the partes of the Iawes much lyke to the smoke of an Ouen heated that passeth so long through the thincks of the same vntill those passages through the heate are wholy stopped that no more smoke can after passe through them Euen the like doe the fumosities of man issue forth into the maner of heares which are properly named the heares of the Bearde The colour of the Beard doth sometymes expresse the qualities quantityes of the humors yet hitherto hath not the same béene heard of that any man saw a flaxen white bearde for as much as the flegmaticke humor is not founde so mightie as to engender heares of the lyke colour through the depriuing and lack of naturall heate to â—leuate the sufficient matter vnto the engendring of the lyke coloured heares Here perhaps some will argue and affirme sayth the Phisiognomer that there is sundrie tymes séene women bearded yet these are not founde of a flegmaticke qualitie but rather the same doth happen in that the humors are so subtil that of nature such are procured to be hote For out of these creatures doe heares spring yea they sometymes appeare on their Iawes but properly these appeare about the mouth where the more heate doth abounde and such a woman séene the lyke is named of all men bearded here conceyue sayth Cocles that the like woman founde is iudged to be verie luxurious through hir hote and moyst qualitie of which the lyke creature séene is not onely noted strong of nature but to be of a stowte courage and manly in hir factes The persite woman is knowne to be sufficiently naked of heares especially about the mouth such a creature after Phisiognomie is reported and iudged to be of a good qualitie that is to say bashefull fearefull honest weake of courage gentle of behauiour and obedient Here sayth the Phisiognomer doth a solemne doubt arise and the same is why men are séene bearded not women for the more part which doubt séemeth to be put forth by the learned Gulielmus Nurice to which Cocles aunswereth in this maner that the same maye be gathered to procéede of the efficient the materiall and finall cause for as much as these properly serue vnto an ornament and comely bewtifying of the woman and in euerye kinde the Males are séene comelyer bewtisted with the same than the Females Which condition of the heares properly serueth vnto a defence of the iawes in man that the woman for the like defence and necessitie nothing néedeth at the least so much as the man through which the sense of féeling is knowne to be of greater force in man So that the man by this reason may better indure to go bareheaded and naked in other partes in the bitter colde weather than the woman and suffer greater stormes on the bodye than she maye without harme to insue A strenger reason maye be rendred and giuen of the effecient and materiall cause seing the Males in generall are knowne to be whoter than the Females For which cause the fume in men that is the matter precuring the heares is founde both more and mightier than in women which seing the same is knowne not able to be consumed for that cause God and nature togither ordayned two apt places in man for the passages of them as the one by the head other fitly by the chinne iawes which forme the beard of man Which maner fumes consisting in the woman for as much as they appeare not to be so many and mightie as well knowne they are to rest in the man for this cause are these properly and naturallye sent forth by the heade And a note of the like effect we sundrie â–ª times knowe and sée by women founde of a hote and moyste complexion that appeare bearded we sée contrariwise that in the colde and dry men these for the more part haue verie little or no beardes By which reason we gather sayth the Phisiognomer that the séemely beard waxeth not in the gelded person for as much as those partes haue then loste the benefite of their hotter qualitie through which these shoulde engender the hote humours and fumes that properly are the matter of the heares in them And by a like reason of the former wordes it appeareth that the thicknesse of the beard and great hearinesse in generall is an euidente note and iudgement of the substantiall heate and moysture and of naturall strength consisting in that creature Here may this argument also be propowned that seing children are knowne to be hote and moyst why they waxe not bearded as men to which doubt the Phisiognomer thus answereth that the smokie superfluousnesse which is the especiall matter of the heares that issueth forth of the heade and other partes of the bodye doth in them passe and serue to their increase and nourishment the like wordes in a maner appeare afore vttered by the singular Constantine Conceaue sayth the Phisiognomer that how much the plentie and force of heate consisteth so much the more store and quantitie of heares succeedeth in that creature For which cause a man must carefully beware of those persons which ouermuch abounde in the most great store and plentie of heares on the bodie when the complextion of such is especially founde adust The Phisiognomer Cocles wylleth a man to beware of those persons which haue a red beard in that the same coloured bearde indyeateth a heape an abundance of adustion and a mightie hotenesse to consist in these creatures through which such are knowne to be luxurious deceauers and lyars and in them by report of the Physiognomer doe the principall heape of vices rest vnlesse that grace godly education séeme otherwise to contrarie the abouesayde The bearde decerned comely and well fashioned doth innuate such a creature to be of a good nature of reasonable conditions congruent to all thinges and manered after his bringing vp Contrariwise iudge of them which haue the beard not séemely formed or euill fashioned in the length as appeare thin the gelded persons which after these are depryued of their genytours be then greatly chaunged from the nature of men into the condition of women as reporteth Aristotle in libro de Animalibus The singuler Phisiognomer Cocles obserued and noted in sundrie subiects which hauing long and séemely beardes came after certaine yeares vnto a frensinesse and some of them to be starcke foolishe The Phisiognomer also reporteth that he obserued and knewe sundrie creatures which possessing and hauing verie long beardes fell from their estate and were oppressed with myseries and these in his time yea he knewe and vnderstoode of certaine noble persons which were expelled their proper country and of these especially in the precincts of Italie The like iudgement sayth the Phisiognomer may in a maner be vttered of the beard decerned soone hoarie as afore was taught in the chapiter of the heares in generall for as muche as their
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
by the custome of it That person which hath a fyrie rednesse on the breast and face is inâ—amed with yre and easilye commeth franticke and mad as the like of these the Phisiognomer hath knowne by experience in sundrie persons and referred to the passion The redde colour of the heares of the head intensed is a note of craftie wiles and deceytes of much yre and of fransinesse when as the same declareth the aboundance of choller The browne Chestnut colour doth declare vprightnesse and the loue of iustice and all report especially Nuncius naturae in the seuenth booke of the nature of beastes and in the first Chapiter of the condition of a Nurse where he vttereth that of those the better and healthfuller sort are they which be browne in colour than the whyte woman and haue a helthfuller milke the selfe same affirmeth Auicen 4. de animalibus Those persons hauing a flerie redde colour or néere to it doe retaine anger long that harde to be qualified and appeased and harde to be ruled when they be angred and suche are referred to the passion that is vnto the maner appearing in any such grieuously angred Those persons which haue the veines of the necke extensed and appearing bigge and eminent out with a red colour tincted doe retaine anger long and suche an vngracious anger that harde it is to be appeased Those also as the Philosopher wryteth be referred to the maner appearing for that in such an yre this hapneth as that the veines to be extended and magnified through the boyling and swelling vp of the bloude and spirites from the heart which so retch out those veines as is aforesayde and the like iudge in the forhead where we vtter iudgement of the lynes there séene The iudgement of the colour and substaunce of the heares of the head and in all other places of the body The xiii chapter NVncius naturae vttreth in lib. 2. de partibus cap. 14. animalium that of all lyuing creatures man in especiall is thickest and hath most plentie of heares on the head The cause of which matter is applyed as well vnto a necessitie as vnto the reason of a helpe and succour For necessarie it was that the heares should be both for the moysture of the braine and seames of the scull for where the most quantitie of humours and heate is there of necessity must the great plenty of heares growe for the reason cause of a defence that the daylie increasing growing of the heares couering the head may so defende and succour it from the extreme colde and mightie heate Seing mans brayne in proportion is greatest and moystest for that cause it néedeth especiallye a defence c. Isydore reporteth that the heares of the heade were ordayned of nature to couer and beséeme the head that these might so defende the braine from the colde and heate of the Sunne Albertus in lib. de animalibus cap. 3. reporteth that the heares procéede of the grosser vapours issuing by the poores of the skinne of the heade sent forth by heate through the narrowe holes of the skinne which dryed and hardned in the comming forth through the outward colde of the ayre And the heares of the head which slowly increase through the lacke of bloud is a note that the complexion to be verye moyst That if these spéedily increase is a note that the body declyneth vnto a drynesse But to come to the matter the heares of the head doe naturally declare the qualities quantities of humours and the conditions of the spirite or minde The Phylosopher also in 5. de generatione animalium cap. 3. vttereth that the cause of the bignesse and smalnesse of the heares of the head is most chiefely caused and growe out of the skin and not out of the flesh when the humour in them is euaporated and breatheth forth seing we sée that the grosse heares doe spring out of a thick and grosse skinne and the small heares out of a thinne and soft skinne these hytherto Aristotle So that when hotenesse and drinesse be conioyned the heares of the head doe much sooner grow waxe many thick For as much as the much quantity signifieth a hotenesse and the bignesse of them a much fumositie And for that cause in yong men there is a more quantitie than in children for as much as the matter of children is vaperous and not humerous And the contraries of these doe folow their contraries Further the signification by the part of the figure is that the crispednesse declareth a hotenesse and drinesse for the same is caused when it findeth a tortuousnesse both of the holes and powers but this doubt is not here resolued when as the complexion is altered although the two first matters be chaunged The playnnesse and flat lying of the heares of the head doth signifie a contrarie that is coldnesse and moystnesse as euidently appeareth As touching the part of the colour the blacknesse signifieth a hotenesse which blacknesse is here ment like to the cléere horne with a roughnesse and somewhat tortuous The whitishnesse signifieth a coldnesse but the citrinnesse and rednesse signifieth an equalitie and the whitishnesse doth eyther argue a vehement coldenesse as the horinesse or a strong and mightie drinesse which like hapneth in the vegetalles when they are dried which from their blacknesse or gréenesse passe into a whytenesse and this like hapneth not to men but in the ende of drying sicknesses Auerroys quarto colligit capitulo of the notes of the complexion of the whole bodye reporteth that the signification of the colour of the heares of the head is not verified for the more part but in temperate climates although in euery climate may be somewhat coÌ„prehended in comparing the men of that climate dwelling there vnder As for example in the Germanes and Moores of which the Moores are black and their heares are crisped with an vttermost tortuousnesse yet not for this is their complextion hote but rather these notes ought to be attributed to the outwarde heate seing they are knowne rather to be colde through the heate vaporating But the Germanes Wendenland people and those which dwell in the colde countries are white of body their heares yellow and plaine yet not for this is it generally to be sayde that they be colde but rather that their complexion is very hote in that the heate is included in the inwarde partes of their bodies as the like hapneth in the winter time Gallen vttreth that the white heares of the head doe declare a cold complexion and the quality of a deminished coldnesse hath the heares of the heade yellow to Gold and the complexion of a diminished hotnesse hath the heares of the heade redde in colour Auerroys wryteth that in whome coldnesse is lesser than hotnesse hath golden or yellow heares on the heade in that the yellownesse doth signifie the complextion of a diminished coldenesse And the rednesse of heares on the head doe declare a complextion of
c. 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
gogling of the eyes is caused through the mollifying and loosenesse of certayne Lacertes c. and after the same he reporteth that this gogling is sometimes caused through a drynesse as the like hapneth in sharpe agues c. and this sayth the Physiognomer serueth aptest vinoÌ„ our purpose in that the same corroborateth the drynesse which is cause of the heares and tâ—â— causes also are assocyated vnto the procuring of a wicked effect And I neuer saw sayth the Physiognomer the goggle eyed person wythout a mightie heape of vices full of fraudulent iniquities and contumelious and the like doe I affirme of the one eyed persons hauing the other notes aunswering as aboue taught The auncyent Rasys affirmeth that such hauing much heare on the ouerbrowes are noted full of thoughts and very peâ—siâ—e or most commonly sadde and their spéeche vnséemely â–ª and grose So that this text confirmeth choller adust and melancholie humours and is the cause also of many thoughts and that such muse and be thinke great matters A like note the Phisiognomer diligently marked in sundrie robbers by the high way as aboue reported by the sayde Cocles And such also are deâ—â—oâ—rers of Maydens théeues and murderers for the more part â–ª if their faces be couered with a palenesse or wholy pale and on sundrie like formed the Phisiognomer pronounced iudgement by order of lawe and death to insue which not long after hapned to the admiration of such which knewe of the same An example of a notable théefe and ingenious in stealing and robbing who in the Physiognomers tyme was hanged for his wicked factes doth he here place by the waye for the better furthering of such as minde to iudge by the Arte on subiects like proportioned Thys person to come to the matter was figured on thys wise he was of a meane stature leane and slender of body proportioned in the â–ª members and partes of the same The heares of his head black curled thinne and long â–ª the forheade square and in the middle euen the heares of the ouerbrowes bended and thicke and in the discending ioyned in the cone of the nose The eyes were meane of forme déepe standing in the heade hauing glystering and firie spottes the cheeks somewhat bearing out through the helpe and meanes of the bones there placed The face was long the nose meane as the same protensed vnto the mouth and chollerick of forme the part vnder the nose foucated the mouth small the lyppes thinne and the neather as the same were downward folded The chinne extending to a sharpnesse or in a maner sharpe downeward on the top foucated and rounde the bearde small and thinne The colour of the face was whyte shed or couered with a certayne palâ—nosse his paâ—e in going like to the Pecockes and that in a soft maner His stature after nature was rather vpright than stouping or crooked yet crookedly did this person walke by hymselfe as one musing by the waye His legges were slender the féete small and fine the héeles little and very flat he went verie séemely and neate in apparell The shoulder poyntes behinde were somewhat bigge and a little crooked The handes fayre and comely with the fingers long and paulmes long He was a person by report of the Physiognomer of fewe wordes yet quick of spéeche and his actions for the more part were done with much expedition through a passing wyt great boldnesse and courage â–ª In as much as vnto the Physiognomy of the Planets the Phisiognomer affirmeth that the blacknesse of the heares of the heade and thinnesse of them and cryspidnesse and quicknesse of spéeche and motion of the body and nose protensed and chollerick or hooked these indicated that Marses vertue to beare swaye in him for as much as in the respect of bodye he had the breast large and shoulder pointes bigge which togither were a note of hotenesse â–ª in that person The thinnesse of the heares signified a drynesse to be in him His pase musingly or as one full of thought with the eye liddes drawne or gathered togither and ouerbrowes ioyning through the thicknesse of heares ouer the cone of the nose the eyes hollow or déepe standing and Peacockes pase The eyes thus lowe situated did denote a Saturnine disposition in him and thys especiallye the fewnesse of wordes and hardnesse in vttering them The longnesse of face with the chéekes like figured as aboue vftered the lippes thinne and colour of the face wanne indicated a Mercuriall disposition the forhead especially square The ouerbrowes arcuated the lippes small the sharpnesse of chinne and the Fossils of them the decking or euen dressing of the heares and fine apparelling of the whole bodye fine féete with the héeles small and flatte indicated a veneriall disposition The glystering eyes and spottie were by reason of the dryeth of the Animall spirites consisting in the brayne For that the same fyrinesse and adustion procureth men without the great grace of God vnto theftes robberies Saturne also increaseth drynesse in that person of the Sunne the Moone and Iupiter I wryte not in that I remembred not the notes agréeable at the wryting of this It suffiseth vs sayth the Phisiognomer that we onely wryte howe Saturne and Mars beared swaye and procured this person vnto theftes Venus vnto gaming Mercurie was in place in his genyture which caused him to be ingenious And hereof it succéeded that this person had a small and thinne beard To conclude this conceaue that the members which possesse a colde and moyste matter the Phisiognomer attrybuteth to the Moone the members which inioye a hote and drie qualitie he applyeth to Mars the members which containe a colde and drie nature he applyeth to Saturne the hote and moyst to Iupiter the hote and drie more temperate to the Sunne The hote and moyst members vncompact and not much solyde and rounde nor very loase nor much erected and cléere doth he attribute to Venus The members long not protensed and slender are of Mercurie Of the Saturnine and Martiall slendernesse doth the Phisiognomer here omit to write willing the iudgers in this Arte diligentlye to consider the Saturnine lines both in the foreheade and hand and to learne the Phisiognomie of the Planets before they enterprise to iudge on any subiect In that the formes colours clenly decking of parts all other speciall members of the body aâ—e to be fully consydered and beholden afore anye mindeth to phisiognomate on the proper indiuiduate And thus aboue his stocke and kindred aduanced was at that time infortunated and throwne into prison This person was most vile in déedes and bolde in woordes in that the Satuurnine dysposition bare sway in him And of this it came to passe that he was so great a dissembler and deceyuer of many for when he was come vnto his vttermost cyment he vanished as a smoke or vapour in that Mercurie of the Alchymisters was euill fixed and coniealed But the salt Armoniacke and salt Alkali were seperated
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 fâ—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 â—ouer and hide the eies in saâ—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 â—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
weakenesse of strength and courage séeing the same is knowne to bée the note of a femenine lightnesse If the Nosetrilles in the toppe directly eleuated extende whole doe indicate an euill gouernment and distemperaunce in that creature And such are those which in the inwarde ende of the gristle be raysed vp vnto the creast and doe so discende to the Nose which when these be direct doe after the opinion of the Phisiognomer procure the disorder of the tongue in the vttering of speach and sounding wordes The greater and wyder Nosethrilles simplie are of all the Metoposcopers better allowed and commended than the lesser forme of them The lesser Nosethrilles by the agréement of Plato Phylemon and Ptholomeus paruus are naturallye ascribed vnto seruile wittes ouerthwarters wranglers and to théeues The Nosethrilles formed large open do witnesse such a creature to be addicted or giuen vnto myrth and strong in the composition of bodie The Nosethrilles séene very narrow rounde formed and as they were confusedly shutte togither do witnesse after the opinion of the learned Conciliatore in his Rubricke of Phisiognomie foolishnesse the vnaptnesse to learne and the féeblenesse of courage in that creature The auncient Rasis and Albertus report that the largenesse of the Nosethrilles and the muche quantitie of flesh on the Iawes and the little quātitie of heares on the chéekes doe signifie a moyst complexion The Nosethrilles appearing very blunt doe argue such a person to be foolishe but the Nosethrilles formed final do indicate a peruerse mind and péeuishe conditions The heares which growe within the Nosethrilles of man if these be many thicke growing and bigge appearing doe argue an vnstable minde and grosse witte as Conciliatore reporteth and the Phisiognomer Cocles of experience affirmeth the same If the heares within the Nosethrilles are found fewe and soft doe witnesse after the minde of the Phisiognomer a ready witte apt to learne and honest condicioned The iudgement of the forme and condition of the eares The. xxiij chapter THe eares declare the temperament and proportion of the principall members and especially the brayne which experience certifieth vs For that the braine doth sometimes sende forth a noysome matter behinde the eares of which is there ingendred and caused many tymes an impostume and the same according to the diuersitie of the humours Of which the Phisitions name these the clensing places of the members and superfluities The eares great are ingendred and caused through the multitude of matter in the beginning of generation of the strong vertue And all such in a maner which haue great cares as the Phisiognomer hath noted are knowne to haue a short necke and head sufficient comélye and are Sanguine and such for the more part tending vnto choller or vnto grosse bloude somewhat adust Such also are vnpacient and lightly angrie For which cause the Philosopher reporteth that such are foolishe this being excepted that they are of a good minde and intention that is after the departure of the inflammation and kindling about the heart for as much as this declareth a hotnesse of the hart through the veynes arteries as in the Anothomy may wel be decerned And such are of a good memory in that they haue a séemely neck being an expresser of the braine and demonstrating a good disposition and perhaps through the Collericke qualitie is the retention of kinds and through the qualitie of the sinewes which are of a drie nature After the quayling abating of iniuries such are of a good intention in that these cause a good discourse and noted to be long liued for as much as in them is a good proportion betwéene the heate and moysture And such a persō which possesseth a meane is moderate in his actions The selfe same is confirmed of the Philosopher in lib. i. Animalium cap. 11. Where he reporteth that those which are most apt and readie in hearing be well nurtexed and conditioned Such sayth he haue a note of the best maners which possesse meane eares The eares great and directed aboue measure are notes of foolishnesse or that such to be bablers as the Philosopher Aristotle vttereth The selfe same reporteth Auicen pri de Animalibus that when the first pulpe that is of the eares is ioyned with the fleshe of the iawe doth signifie a foole and vaine person The Philosopher also vttereth in Methaphoricis that such persons which haue small eares like to the Ape haue of that reason Apishe conditions But such that haue bigge eares are noted to be dullards and applyed to the Asse And if any shall sée a person haue the eares formed like vnto the Dogges are noted to haue the best and to be in a meane maner these hytherto Auicen So that such hauing the eares ouer small are noted Apishe that is they haue Apishe conditions in which a man may see that malignitie and deceyte to haue dominion in them Such hauing the eares ouer great in respect of the quantitie of body are Asses that is fooles and of a dull vnderstanding as the former Aristotle reporteth primo de Animalibus Such hauing the eares meane in quantitie is a good note for that the same prooueth by the similitude of the disposition in good Dogges Rasis reporteth that whose eares are bigge is a foole yet long lyued after nature when the eares are erected vp and very great doe indicate the multitude of matter and the same inobedient as to the due forme and the dominion of drynesse indicated which is cause of the erection or standing vpright The eares flexible or bending doe demonstrate the proportion of heate and moysture and the moysture is cause of the bending as the like appeareth in a skinne and woode which when they are crooked or winded inwarde are moyst for otherwise are their partes broken if we sée their matter to be drie And of this it is that Ptholomie the Philosopher reporteth that the eares great and bended downeward doe denote riches When the eares are very small the paucitie of matter and weake vertue of the braine is signisied and the chollericke matter argued of which the subtill spirits caused so that such haue a wyt or be ingenious in euill workes and are théeues foolishe and so couetous that they desire all things And through that coueting such are luxurious vnderstanded perhaps of the immoderate appetites and not of the power or force of the matter The learned Palemon vttereth that when the eares shall be promynent and verie great foolishnesse and garrulitie is signified in that creature and such are knowne to bée couetous But the eares which are as they were cut and verie short and parted doth Loxius report to attempt and commit a deceyte The eares formed semicircularly and creasts connexed in the middle somewhat flatte toward the centre and of a meane bignesse which decently stande to the heade doe wytnesse a goodnesse of nature But the eares ouer rounde signifie suche a person to be vnapt to learne The eares long and narrowe are reported
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
wytte of an honest conuersation and trustie For a meanesse of the belly sayth the Phisiognomer is procured of a hotnesse proportioned in that creature of which lawdable spirites insue Where the Phylosopher vttereth wyth a strayghtnesse of the breast this is here ment to be formed with a proportion of the same breast for if this should be compowned with an ouermuch largenesse it woulde indicate a hotenesse of the heart in that creature to hinder vnderstanding Of the same minde and iudgement by the report of the Phisiognomer is the learned Loxius where he wytnesseth that such a forme of the belly is knowne to be soft Conciliatore reporteth that the bignesse of the belly doth denote an ouermuch desire vnto the veneriall acte Whose stomacke and belly are decerned fleshier are reported to be strong He also affirmeth that the belly soft in youth doth witnesse that the same in many to become flatte drawne togither in olde age econtra of which this lyke doth indicate a heauinesse in olde age The learned Aristotle vttered vnto the mighty king Alexander that the person hauing a great belly to be vndiscréete foolish prowde desiring to coeate A meanesse of the belly decerned as aboue taught with a decent narrownesse of the breast wytnesseth a déepenesse of vnderstanding and readie counsaile in that creature These hitherto Conciliatore The bignesse of the bellye procéedeth of the great heate reuerberating in the emptinesse of the same especially vnto the region of the genitors In that as it is sayde the vertue Morall or intellectiue is not scituated in a body ouer hot and of this such are procured to be vndiscréete and foolishe Such also are noted to be great drinkers gluttonous féeders and delighted in sluggishnesse and gyuing their minds much to luxurie As hath bene noted in sundrie persons which ledde an easie lyfe A hearinesse decerned on the belly doth argue such a person to be full of wordes applyed for the forme vnto the kinde of birdes in that it is knowne that the propertie of such which are thus hearie on the bellye to be talkatiue and full of wordes and this note onely conceyued and taken of the chattering of birdes which through their light spirites are thus mooued to chatter and the lesser birdes are knowne much lowder to sing and to haue many more notes as the Nightingale and such lyke which are so procured and caused through the subtilnesse of their bloud and lightnesse of the spirites in that these are of an ayreall nature through which they are so lightly mooued vnto myrth and diuers desires which in theyr many songs and chaunging of notes endeuour to expresse And the Cockes of those kinde more exercise song than the Hennes doe forasmuch as they are formed hoter and by the consequent haue subtiller bloud and lighter spirites than the Hennes And that hearinesse or manye more feathers appearing on theyr bellyes procéedeth through the abundance of the heate vaporatiue in that the same more aboundeth in this place through the digestion there bearing greater sway whose note is that the fleshe of theyr bellyes is found farre swéeter and more sauerie in taste than any part of their bodyes besides so that of the lyke causes sundrie men are knowne to be very hearie on the belly Of which to conclude in that these possesse a subtill bloud and light spirites through the light motion of bloud and the spirites For that cause are diuers fantasies in those subiectes lightly procured and conceyued in minde which of them vttered in theyr speach and talke So that of these a certaine reason of the cause appeareth why the chattering and many wordes in them doe indicate a hearinesse to consist about their Bellies The Phisiognomer knew sundrie persons of the like condition which were very leacherous and that much desired to frequent the same And the lyke condicioned creatures sayth Cocles are these knowne to be which possesse or haue but a short space betwéene the heart and braine especially if such are found Collericke Thus by diligent considering the notes in this Arte taught maye a man attaine vnto manye other hidde secrets of this Arte not here vttered Here note that Ptholomie the Philosopher and Pontius Gallicus wryte that he which hath one line on the nauill doth signifie knowledge and skill in Artes. He which hath two lynes vnder the nauill is iudged to be a person which shall haue many wiues If thrée lines be séene vnder the nauil than doth it denote that such a person shall haue many children If foure lines there appeare then doe they promise long lyfe vnto that perso And if fiue lynes be there séene then doe they denote great aduauncement or great honour vnto that person But if any vnder the nauill shall haue two vnequall lynes is then iudged to be a person so wicked that there is little trust to be had in him c. The iudgement of that 235r 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2cil 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 named n2tc2 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The. xlviij Chapter HEre the Philosopher doth instruct to Phisiognomate by the dispositions of the Pecten for the Pecten is the neather Pubes of the man or woman in which the heares grow on the mentula of this the Philosopher vttereth thrée notes He which hath the n2tc2 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2p1rsh that is to say 2p1rsh beneath and large aboue after the maner of a shielde and well boned without ouermuch fleshinesse are noted strong such are applied to the Male kind after the mind of the Philosopher Such hauing the n2tc2p of a contrarie condition to that afore as much fleshie fatte and well boned are weake persons and applyed after Aristotle to the female kinde Suche hauing the n2tc2p ouer leane as if the same were so dryed vppe by the heate of the Sunne are euill conditioned and applyed vnto the Ape of lyke disposition as well in minde as in the bodie the same reported of Auicen libro secundo de Animalibus and the lyke vttered of Aristotle and Albertus The learned Conciliatore affirmeth that such which haue a bonie n2tc2p and protensed into a sharpenesse are denoted strong persons The skilfull sr2r2hc2l affirme that if the breast bone in the mm455 shall be thinne of fleshe and protensed into a sharpenesse is then iudged to be l5ftr5h to 2t124c ht355 and that r3h 2353r 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2cil 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 also to be 2â—rgl Further conceyue that the hammes hearie with a thicknesse of heares there growing doe witnesse luxurie in that person And when the same is there with a thinnesse of heares doth then through the littlenesse or smalnesse of them argue the contrary and signifieth also the dominion of coldenesse as the same well appeareth in the place where further and more at large is written of the nature and conditions of the heares c. And these of the pecten that I maye not séeme to stande long in the rehersall of matter shall here suffice
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
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
black and variable colour whose looke is â—iscerned like to one merrie the hands formed plaine with a séemely diuision of the fingers and modest articulation the heares on the head séene betwéene many and fewe and a meane condition consisting betwéene the plaine and crisped blackishe and yellow in colour hauing a meane bearde and fayre and sufficiently thinne these hitherto Conciliatour The signification and iudgement of the abouesayde vttered by the auncient Rasys THis worthye Physition openeth the notes of the abouesayde person that he ought to be of an vpright stature hauing the fleshe of the bodye throughout equall the skinne whyte â–ª myxed with a small rednesse The heares on the head discerned a meane betwéene the plentie and fewe and betwéene the plaine and crysped and abourne in colour The handes formed seemely and plaine and the fingers comely distaunt a sunder The forheade in respect of the heade formed bigge the eyes comely conditioned and a meane betwéene the black and variable the fleshe soft in the féelinâ— gentle of countinaunce and the looke discerned as one smyling These hytherto Rasis The signes of colde and moyst bodies after Rasys The. xi chapter THose bodies be iudged soft in the féeling and naked of heare which haue gentle and soft heares on the head the veines appearing narrow and the ioyntes hidde hauing besides corpulent bodies and very fatte And that make their sléepes weakely and vnquietly and slow of mouing but slower in their pase going Further such bodies be eyther colde and drie or hote and moyst haue mixte dispositions according to the dispositions of the simples of which they be compouned and as the lyke to any of them they doe approch or that there be betwéene them a meane These hytherto Rasys The deuyding of mankinde into two formes or natures and a perfite description or distinction of the man from the woman after Physiognomy vttered by the singular Conciliatour The. xij chap. THe wyse and skilfull Phystognomers in their examinations doe diuide mankinde into two formes as into the Masculynitie and Feminitie according to the propertie of the spirite For man naturally except his procreation be hindered is perfiter than the woman both in conditions and anions First he is of a liuely minde and courage and vnto a brunte or an attempt prest and vehement yet slowly mooued to yre slowly pleased aduised in businesses in due and fytte tymes studious abroade lyberall stowte iuste trustie vnconstaunt or wandring from place to place and true of his worde Of which Auicen wryting of the conditions of persons reporteth that man is the subtiller and that women are more pittiful and gentle than men more conuertible lighter perswaded sooner seduced enuiouser fearefuller vnshamefaster more foolishe lyars more fraudulent more receiue frawde more estéeming trifles slower tenderer weaker and more prone or sooner drawing into familiaritie and into companie with an other This like vttereth the Phylosopher in lib. 9. de hystoria Animalium cap. primo that man in nature is perfitest and for the same cause the proportions of al the members and parts are séemelier and stronger compact in so much that the woman is more pittifull and mercifuller yea readyer to teares wéepe than the man yet enuious full of complayntes euiller speaking backbyting and slaundering Besides more sorrowfull carefull and dispayring than the man yea more impudent a greater lyer lighter deceyued apter to call to memorie or remember matters vnto these watchfuller sluggisher lesser sturring abroade and lesser desiring meate But the man as aboue vttered â–ª lyuelier more stirring and stronger Auerrois primo phisico commen 81. vttereth that the woman is â—npeâ—fiter than the man and the femininitie hapneth to man by accidence an other texte openeth of the depriuing And the learned Ioannitius in hisagogis reporteth that the man differeth from the woman in the same that he is hottér and drier than the woman and shée contrariwise colder and moyster than he And the singuler Aristotle vttereth in primo de animali that the worthiest noblest and with vs more common and knowne yea and the more stable and safe creature is man And in the. 〈◊〉 de animalib Aristotle reporteth that man among all other creatures is accounted the worthier and of the virill kinde the Males are stronger and stowter than the Females except in the Beare and Lybarde as 8. de Animalibus In all the kinds of Beastes the Females haue a more dead minde and are lesse pacient and maye sooner be conuerted and are sooner angred and sooner appeased and aâ—e of aâ—â—â—â—er heate they are bosides rashe and hastie and inuericundious and haue a small head the face and neck stender the breast and shoulder points narrower the rybbes lesser but the haunches bigge and buttockes the likeâ— the legges also are slender the handes and féete slender and thinne The Females in al the kindes of Beastes as afore reported are fourâ—â—e fearefuller and pâ—â—uisher or â—â—owarder condicioned than the Males These hytherto Almansor secundus The woman for the more part is light of beliefe and vngracious or frowarde in conditions The light beliefe signifieth the malice of vnderstanding but the temperate is more congruent as reporteth Hyppocrates in lib. secretorum But if the man possesseth the womans properties whose note appeareth that he is vnfaythfull an yll reporter and a lyar and thys rather when he draweth néere to the woman by the counterfayting the often shifting and decking of partes The like may be sayde of the womans qualities when shée often exercyseth and foloweth néere man in the apparelling and decking of hir bodye like to hym as did that manly woman Fracassa of whome shall fullie be vttered in the proper place The Phylosopher Arystotle reporteth that the person which leaneth with the body to the right side in the going to be effeminate in that he is of a moyst qualitie and soft of skinne The like of these Cocles noted to haue a soft skinne a cléere and fayre throte effeminate legges and for the more part were slender but the haunches were bigge and soft the face whyte and pympled the voyce small lowe and horsely lyke to the common Harlot haunting verie often mans company and these haue many other notes which for that they are more at large vttered in other places of his booke he doth here wittingly omyt them And in his tyme was a certayne noble person imprisoned being one of these And an other effeminate person he sawe of the Citie of Luca being of lx yeares which hanged or leaned to the left side as he went and had a red colour in the face so fayre a throte as the cléere woman the face pimpled the heares of the heade trussed and finely trimmed the voice small and soft and to be briefe he was a verie effeminate person and Cyned The man to come vnto the matter by the part of the composition of habitude ought to be as Conciliatour vttereth that is the perfite man if the lasciuious nature disturbeth not the order
hath a bigge head the face in bredth and length equallie stretched out according to proportion the neck bigge liuely sinewed the breast strong and large the shoulder pointes and ribbes bigge to the backe and afore strongly coupled and ioyned togither the back throughout sinewed and strong ioynted the belly but meanely fleshie the hips and buttockes lesser and smaller than the womans to conclude in all parts much bigger and stronger than the woman vnlesse any accident may contrarie the abouesayde as in the kinde of rapine or gréedie catching birds a temperate nature found The woman ought to haue a contrarie composition as a small head a long face a small necke a large throte and somewhat eminent the breast narrowe the shoulder pointes flatte lying the flanckes and ribbes slender the back lyke but the hips and buttockes bigger than the mans the legges in a maner of one bignesse throughout the féete small the héeles flat short armes the hands and fingers small the lippes thinne and the chin round with a certaine pit or denting in whether the same be of length or bredth the fleshe soft in féeling and long comely heares on the head yet little and small heares on the breast belly hands and féete through hir cold complexion and of the same weaker of strength and courage and lesse bolde through hir narrow breast which shée hath yet coupled she is to man to yéelde by their consents a naturall tribute to the worlde The gelded persons become not onely weake of bodie but in minde and courage little differ from the woman as the Phylosopher Aristotle reporteth This worthie lesson also the Philosopher vttreth that he wisheth to flie and eschewe that womans company when she is of composition manly for there is a sure token in hir both of luxurie and wickednesse but contrarie iudge the courage of such men which in composition be effeminate The iudgement of the colours of the vvhole body The xii chapter THe colour is manye wayes chaunged according to the commixion of the humours and according to the dominion of them intensiuely and remissinely by which also a man must Phisiognomate For the iudging of colours except the proper effect be adioyned to his cause errour to the iudger must in manye happen So that their natures and qualities cannot easily be iudged except a man diligently consider the proper country in which eche be borne for that we sée in many places and chiefely in Italy manye nations dwelling togither lyke as the Iewe Turke Schauone Gréeke and highe Almayne and many others Whose mixt natures must be considred if a man wil rightly phisiognomate and iudge vpon anye of these aboue named or of any other nation besides Seing those people dwelling farre North be strong of bodie comely of colour soft of flesh bigge bellied yet simple yrefull of small learning meane of counsell vnstable lyers deceyuers and boasters And on such wise temper your iudgement according to the nature of the place and countrie where such are borne which in an other chapiter happily I wyll further write of But to returne vnto the matter vnderstand that the whyte wanne and yellowish colour is a note of the deminished decoction if this dimunition therefore hapneth the goodnesse of nature shall like be diminished For which cause flie and eschue the companye of a wanne and yellow coloured man for that he is gyuen to vices and luxurie but this luxurie doth the Philosopher here meane to be the immoderate appetite of the thankfull matter in causing euil works vnto others hurt and lesse and not of the coeating alone in that coldnesse is a contrarie vnto that lust seing the lust is caused of hotenesse and moystnesse For the wanne and yellow colour doth here rather argue coldnesse Further the wanne colour is the way beginning of the mortifying of natural heate and extinction of the same by which reason appeareth that the wanne colour doth no otherwise differ from the black but as to the remission of the mortifying And by thys wanne colour is to be vnderstanded the leadie colour The learned Auicen wryteth that the whytenesse of colour is a note of the depriuing of bloude or the scarcitie of it with a coldnesse for if this colour should procéede of a whotnesse and that with the Cholerick humour then shoulde it tende vnto a cytrinesse Further Auicen writeth that the ruddie colour doth signifie the plentie of bloude the red and somewhat red colour doth declare the hotenesse of qualitie yet more doth the somewhat red colour declare the red choller and the red colour the sanguine choller Here further is to be noted that the colour somewhat red doth signifie the depriuing of bloud although there appeareth not the red choller as the lyke hapneth in the helthfull bodies But a very swart colour as betwéene the black and yellow appearing doth rather signifie coldenesse throughe which the bloud then is deminished congealed and that little so congealed is through the same turned into a blacknesse which chaungeth the colour of the skinne And this we name a wanne or yellow colour according to the intensine and remissiue dominion The honie colour signifieth a coldnesse and drienesse for as much as the colour is the same which insueth a pure blacke choller So that the whytenesse of colour foloweth the condition of flewme and qualitie of the moysture but the gréenenesse of colour doth rather argue the bloud congealed which then tendeth to a blacknesse so that the same commixed to the flewme is made gréene yet doth the whytishe graye colour rather signifie a flewmatick coldnesse mixed with a little red choller And after the opinion of many Phisitions the colour is for the more part chaunged through the lyuer vnto a reddishnesse and whytenesse and through the milt into a swartnesse Further Auicen writeth that the swart yellow colour doth argue the redde choller but the darck browne colour doth signifie the black choller And the like in a maner to this affirmeth Auerrois which wryteth that in an equall climate the swart yellow colour doth declare that the redde choller to gouerne the chollerick but the darcke browne colour doth testifie in the same climate the dominion of the blacke choller Auicen also wryteth that the body commeth red through the dominion of bloud and whyte in colour as the Iuorie of the flewmatick humour Besides these the complexion hauing a mixte colour both of the whyte and red is after the estimation a meane temperated Rasis also reporteth that the qualitie of the bodie through the colour and habitude of the same of the féeling and operations and of the matters yssuing from the bodie is so knowne For the whyte and swartishe colour and of a whytenesse and graynesse mixed and the wanne and leadie colour doe innuate a colde complexion But the red reddish the high red and blâ—ake red all these demonstrate a hotenesse of complexion and if a cléerenesse and thinnesse be conioyned to the colour the cléerenesse and
of the foreheade which with a certaine musculous and thinne substaunce fastned to it is vnited or ioyned togither that the inner partes of the hands and soales of the féete with the tendons doe agrée and worke togither The foreheade distinguished or deuided of the bones lying vnder the vtter skinne doth onely consist of two mouable skinnes and briefly the whole is lose in it selfe and of the same is vndoubtedly mooued by a voluntarie motion The skinne of the foreheade doth mooue togither with the eie liddes by certaine muscles and sinewes at the opening and shutting togither of the eyes The musculous thickenesse lying vnder the skinne of the foreheade by which the eye browes are drawne vp and the motion of the foreheade caused hath his hearie fastnings tending downewarde which cut ouertwhart by an vnskilfull Chirurgian doth after cause that the whole skin of the foreheade doth slyde or fall downe to the eyes The plaine and euen forheade without anye wrincles is the same which doth beare or bosse nothing outwardes but contayneth or hath a certayne euennesse thorow out And suche persons are noted of the Phisiognomer to be contentious and full of variances the reason is for that the same signifieth a grosse skinne of the foreheade and of the consequent a like witte and the hardenesse of flesh which cannot be placed of which the rudenesse of vnderstanding ensueth through the Organ not due proportioned And such also be hote and drye persons which is the cause of the tention of the foreheade so that through the paucitie of vnderstanding they be caused brawlers and contentious In all matters is their a certaine outwarde note by which we finde those that are not answering to the eyes that is to say the inward notes not séene Of this appereth that the nature of the proper matter hath his and Philosophie naturall hath his which it skilfully noteth The person that hath a bigge foreheade is slow and dull witted compared vnto the Oxe in that the Oxe is a slowe beast which hath a bigge foreheade But the foreheade small doth denote an vnstable person The foreheade large doth indicate such a person to be inclined often to chaunge both minde and purpose but if the foreheade be very large then such a person for the more parte is noted to be a foole of small discretion and dull witted as both Aristotle and Auicen write The foreheade to be large after the agréement of writers is ment to be formed with a due quantitie both in the length and breadth The foreheade rounde and fleshie doth argue such a person to be irefull if the same especially be bearing or bossing out and with this lacking discretion dull and slowe who of the Philosopher aptly applyed to the Asse The forehead ouermuch standing forth that the same séemeth bossed out in the middle doth signifie the excesse of choller and such for the more parte are disposed and inclyned vnto the Chollericke and hastye passions as vnto the fransinesse and furious hastinesse A like to this that if the foreheade hath as it were a proper bearing forth or knobbe bossing out and certaine dentings in or little furrowes to be séene doth by practise of the Phisiognomer signifie such a person to be rashe wylie and false of promise yea this like by the reporte of Adamantius doth denote sometimes foolishnesse and fransinesse or madnesse in that creature so that the other signes and notes of the partes aunswere and agrée The foreheade little and narrowe doth indicate such a person to be foolish and a small likelyhoode in him to be taught or to conceyue anye learning to purpose yea nastie sluggish and a gluttinous féeder applyed for these to the grunting Sowe But the foreheade small that is thinne of skinne and very narrowe in a swarte person doth denote him to be lasciuious soone mooued to ire ouer liberall séeking desirouslye acquaintaunce and a note of small witte in him Here note that the foreheade small and hauing a thin skinne doth indicate in that creature subtill and moouable spirites econtra For the spirite is a subtill substaunce aereall cléere and produced of the lightest and most thinne part of bloude by which the vertue of life is caried vnto the proper actions of the same So that where the ouermuch thickenesse is of the foreheade there of necessitie must the grosse spirites be ingendred which are not apt to meditate or conceyue déepelye for the expulsiue vertue which is weaker in that person And the vertue vnited is stronger or mightier than the same dispersed so that the spirites vnited can not aptly discerne the congruent actions through the ouer emptie large and flegmatick place The foreheade ouer thinne of skin and wrineled doth argue the lacke of braine and consumption of the substauntiall moysture as the like appeareth in aged persons and in those which by dayly and continuall sicknesses are wasted and brought very leane The foreheade long doth witnesse suche a person to be wittie apt to learne or to be taught yet somewhat vehement in causes many times For these of the Philosopher aptlye applyed to the fierce Dog. new acquaintaunce and a note of small witte in him Here note that the foreheade small and hauing a thinne skinne doth indicate in that creature subtill and mooueable spirites â—contra For the spirite is a subtill substaunce aereall cléere and produced of the lightest and most thin part of bloud by which the vertue of lyfe is caried vnto the proper actions of the same So that where the ouermuch thicknesse is of the forehead there of necessitie must the grosse spirites be ingendred which are not apt to meditate or conceyue déepely for the expulsiue vertue which is weaker in that person and the vertue vnited is stronger or mightier then the same dispersed so that the spirits vnited can not aptly discerne the congrueÌ„t actions through the ouer emptie large and flegmaticke place The foreheade ouer thinne of skinne and wrinkled doth argue the lacke of braine and consumtion of the substanciall moysture as the like appeareth in aged persons and in those which by daylye and continuall sicknesses are wasted and brought very leane The foreheade long doth witnesse suche a person to be wittie apt to learne or to be taught yet somewhat vehement in causes many times For these of the Philosopher aptly applied to the fierce Dogge The foreheade square hauing an equall and moderate largenesse agréeable to the heade and face or according to the maner of the other parts doth argue such a person to be vertuous wittie of honest condicions and of likelyhoode to be hardie and couragious for which of the Philosopher Aristotle aptlye applyed vnto the Lyon. The foreheade playne and wholye without wrincles doth indicate suche a person to séeke and be desirous of great honour and the same aboue his reach and possibilitie to be compassed being one also of small discretion spitefull and very irefull or that continueth long angrie obstinate and full of strife A
like to this doth Adamantius write that the foreheade long leane and holow to testifie suche a person fearefull craftie and desirous of honour The foreheade that bosseth out vnto the edge is of some allowed especiallye if the same well aunswereth to the heade But if such a roundnesse occupyeth and causeth the smooth and playne stretching out at length of the temples and that the same is bare of heare doth indicate in that person the towardenesse and worthynesse of wit the desire of honour and arrogancie suche also valâ—antly attempt bolde and mightie enterprises as the same noted sundrie times of the worthye Phisiognomer Cocles The person that draweth or knitteth togither the skinne in the myddle of the forehead with the ouerbroowes is not onely noted to be wayward and irefull but gréedilie bent and fixed to the horrible excesse and gréedy coueting of money much to be detested as Palemon Loxius Morbeth Conciliatore write The foreheade as Thaddeus Hagecius reporteth stretched out playne and euen and the same as one smilyng doth argue such a person to bée a flatterer and hardely to be trusted as the same of experience noted which maner of appearance the Philosopher Aristotle doth attribute and apply to the kinde of the passion in that the forehead thus stretched throughout equal and smoth is laboured as it were by a made or dissembling meanes The same also is named of the Phisiognomer and Thaddcus agréeeth thereto a counterfayted foreheade when it thus appeareth wholy retched out playne and smooth As by a like may well appeare in such persons at what time they flatter and in the Dogge fawning for an intent which then maketh smooth the foreheade The foreheade clowdie through wrincles doth signifie such a person to be bolde fierce couragious and terrible compared of the Philosopher for the like to the furious Bull and Lyon. A meane condicion of the foreheade betwéene the former vttered doth by iudgement of all writers decently agrée and suche a person hath béene noted for the more part to be gentle ciuill of an honest nature and indued with good condicions as these of experience noted by the well practised Phisiognomer Cocles The foreheade appearing in a sadde maner with a heauie countinaunce doth argue suche a person to be full of mourning and heauinesse and applyed to the effect in that such which wayle and mourne haue then a heauie countinaunce and be full of sorowe The foreheade drawne togither or wrincled in the midle doth signifie such a person to be irefull and reuenging The foreheade long leane and holowe doth denote such a person to be fearefull craftie and desirous of honour The foreheade hanging downe and shadowed as it were doth indicate such a person much inclined and prone to shed teares for which reason these of the Philosopher are aptlye applyed to the kinde of the passion and to this doe the later writers agrée The foreheade bigge is alwayes caused thorowe the bignesse of the bone grosenesse of the fleshe and thickenesse of the skinne contrariwise the foreheade small is through the thinnesse of the bone fleshe and skinne as both the Philosopher Aristotle and Palemon with others doe write The foreheade appearing deformed through the manye wrincles déepe by which the same named fowle doth signifie a sorrow full person and applyed of Aristotle to the kinde of the passion in that suche which sundrie times vexing and gréeued in minde doe then vtter and shewe a like wrincled and deformed foreheade The foreheade bare of heare as Thaddaeus Hagecius writeth and hauing a plaine and euen skinne except the same within the vpper face aboue or ouer the nose doth signifie a malicious person deceytfull and full of ire yea contentious many times The forehead clowdie or lowring and wrincled yet in the mydle of the same more wrincled doth togither indicate with the two best vertues as both stoutnesse of courage and witte the most hatefull vice of crueltie to consist in that creature after the minde of the Philosopher The foreheade very great rounde in forme by the bearing out and bare of heare doth not only argue by the agréement of all writers such a person to be hardie and stoute of will hardlye to be brideled but a dissembler and lyare the rather if the other partes aunswere The foreheade long with the countinaunce or face long and slender and chinne like slender and thinne doth not onely after the minde of the Phisiognomer and Thaddaeus denote such a person to be rigorous and cruel but bearing rule to be a Tiraunt The foreheade confused by wrincles and the face appearing puffed vp through an ouermuch fatnesse doth indicate an vnstable flegmaticke groâ—e and dull witted person by the agréement of Palemon and sundrie other learned The foreheade narrow to be foolishe and the same long in forme vnapt to learne This high swolen or bolned out and rounde to be a deceyner subtill and wilye The foreheade wrineled to haue déepe cogitations and burdened with cares The same rounde in the bossing out to be not onely enuious but craftie The foreheade large after breadth doth denote suche a person not onelye honest condicioned but frée of expences and liberall in giftes as Loxius Philemon Palemon and sundrie other writers reporte Certaine reporte and rightly in the same that the foreheade ouermuch wrincled doth argue vnshamefastnesse in that persone the reason is when the vertue apprehensiue and conceyuing is weakened the same then cannot orderly discerne the congruent from the incongruent of which insueth those that are wrought without shamefastnesse The cause of this is in that the forepart of the braine â–ª is very moyst and of the ouer much moysture is this great wrinckling caused of the forheade Yet note that the wrinckling of the foreheade may like be procured of two causes as of drinesse and moysture sauing the difference is that the same which procéedeth of drinesse doth not occupy the whole foreheade so that this signifieth irefulnesse in that creature and anger in the other person of a moyster qualitie The reason is for that the person discerneth not the same which causeth and retayneth both the ire and hatred without due cause and suche also are knowne for the more part to be full of variaunces and strife yea couetous and euill tongued Oh how many vaine Phisitians be there sayth the Phisiognomer which nothing at all regarde nor care for the science of phisiognomy yea they in a maner wholy deride the professors of the same thorow their simple trauaile and studie bestowed in the science Auicen reporteth in secunda quarti Capi. 26. that necessarie it is for a Phisition by Phisiognomy dilygently to consider in the face eyes and other members the euill forme not naturall and that he especially regardeth at the first whether the same forme note be naturall according to the indiuiduate like aunswering so to pronounce iudgement The like wordes in a maner reporteth that worthy man Galen in his first booke of complexions Henricus and Guido
of knowledge we affirme the good happe and fortune to be especiallye if these shewe and be strayte in that such lines appéering crooked do eâ—ermore argue the contrary and the same eyther more or lesse according to the strength and weakenesse of them Further the thrée ages in all persons are attributed vnto the two vpper and sixt planet Mercurie as here vnder by this figure doth plainer appeare liuely counterfeyted to the eye Of which the first and neathermost towards the nose is named Mercuries line which representeth the first age for that in such an age and time all persons then be aptest to conceyue and attaine both learning sciences handie craftes yea this is named of most men the floorishing age although the same somewhat wanton and vnconstant The seconde line vpwarde named Iupiters representeth the second age which the Phisiognomer nameth the time of veneration and wisedome for that in the same age are the large showe of decent condicions liberallitie vttered yea both the stabilitie in religion discretions in men and their laudable actions Further where vertues are embraced vices left and detested Where also is in men a fruitefull and commendable witte vttered where besides is the mother of honestie indicated all which by Iupiters lyne are after the agréement of sundrie writers represented and expressed The thirde line after the minde of the Phisiognomer representeth a thirde age which of all men is knowne to be the time of sadnesse and couetousnesse yea the wearing out of pleasurs and the ende of naturall life If this line be fortunate the same then doth indicate an increase by husbandry lande howses and all such matters which appertaine vnto the office of olde age so that to such a thyrde lyne are all these agréeable which are attributed to Saturne Some perhaps will argue and say to the Phisiognomer that this is the age of deuotion to which I thus aunswere that olde men in verye déede be then more inclined and bent to serue God séeing that age is then dissolued and become impotent vnto the wanton pleasure luxuries through which these are the more prone and disposed vnto prayer and the faythfull seruing of God â–ª The time to come to the matter of youth is knowne to be naturall not through endeuour for which cause a more affiaunce and trust is to be had and founde in them for the more part So that in the same place where this line is broken there the infortune is as eyther sickenesse impouerishment or any other hinderance If the two neather lynes next the nose be whole and that these forme as it were an angle and cone aboue doe then denote as the Phisiognomer hath many times experienced that such persons to haue a notable fortune vnto the attaining and purchasing both of riches and promotions Although few such there be which possesse and enioye the lyke note Further the sayde two neather lines vnder the thrée principall are thus applyed that is the right line vnto the planet Saturne and the left line vnto the Moone The right line also is attributed to the father but the left line to the mother By which vnderstande that according to the presence and forme of the lines so iudge of the fortune and infortune of that person But when the sayde two lines doe retch and méete into the forme of a triangle and that there appéereth an ouerthwart line stretched and crossing aboue the nose yet in such maner that the same formeth not with the others a perfite tryangle doth then denote a competent fortune vnto suche a person and this according to the strength of the lynes there séene For where these lines are broken of lacking or crooked there they wytnesse and signifie the infortune to succéede â–ª If a lyne appeareth in the myddle vnder the lynes in the Dyameter of the nose doth then argue a singuler fortune and the great increase of ryches The Philosopher Ptholomeus paruus wryteth that if one lyne reacheth along the forehead as from the right side vnto the left doth then promise such a person after nature to liue thrée score yeres If two lynes shall the lyke stretch a long the foreheade doe then promise such a person to lyue vnto the age of thrée score and ten yeres If thrée lynes the lyke then vnto foure score yeares If fower lynes the lyke stretched a long the foreheade doe then signifie foure score and ten yeres And if fiue lynes the lyke stretched a long doe then declare a hundred yeres as the learned Ptholomeus wryteth If the thrée lynes aboue described are crossed of other lynes doe then denote hatred troubles and persecutions for the more part If the sayde crossings of the lynes shall make an angle and that one lyne be bigger then the other in such maner that the same stretcheth ouer the angle aboue the nose doth then signifie that such a person hath enimies but they shall not greatly harme him But further of this forme of the angle crossed maye a man learne and vnderstande in any worke of Paulmestrie that vttereth matter of the quadrangle of the hande as touching friends and enimyes And euen the same is wytnessed by the signes of the forehead If neyther angle crosse or ouerthwart lyne shall appeare on the forehead doth then signifie a luckie continuaunce and glorie in workes and a most happie estate vnto the ende of lyfe The sharpe crossing of lynes to the maner and forme of a pinnacle doth then demonstrate both housholde and familiar enimies or enimies of the owne kindred as Morbeth the Cardinall wryteth If any two lynes of the forhead are néere ioyning togither in any part doe then demonstrate discorde and contention with many persons The comlinesse and good proportion of the thrée princypall lynes of the forehead doth denote a worthy fame and singuler wyt as sundrie Authors wryte and the same affirmeth the Phisiognomer If many lynes are discerned in the foreheade then so appearing those are named the sisters of the three principall lynes as wryteth the former Morbeth If but one line only is séene or doth appéere in the forehead then according to the maner and forme of the same place where that appeareth with the age of the person and dominion of the Planet must a man like iudge If no lyne at all shal appeare in the forhead then by reason no iudgement at all can be pronounced When in the breaking those lynes appeare crooked in this maner as the example here vnder of the one playner expresseth doth then signifie the greater infortune to that person As the lyke by obseruation was noted in a certaine Italian and sundrie others If any of the lynes appeareth crooked or bended vpwarde as a Bowe doth then indicate the greater infortune But if any line downewarde stretched then the lesser infortune is signified by the same as Mantuanus and Cocles wryte When in the crooking any of the lynes shall be crossed especially Marses lyne doth then
agréement of all wryters The especiall colours of the eyes are knowne to be foure as the black whytishe variable and gray as the worthy Canamusalis in libro oculorum cap. tertio reporteth and the like Iesuhalis The rounde forme of the eyes is better mouing perfiter and vncorruptibler through the lacking of corners as al the learned agrée in the same The cornered eyes haue very often superfluous moysture standing in them as wryteth the singular Constantine in libro oculorum A perfite forme and condition of the eyes doth denote an honest person as wryteth Gulielmus Nurice Conciliatore Albertus others The eyes bigge emynent doe argue weakenesse and a feeble courage in that these be so caused bigge through the much aboundance of moysture of the brayne in which is coldnesse that sheadeth a long by the members and extinguisheth the bloud So that such a brayne is colder and moyster than it ought to be and in such a body should be the lack both of naturall bloude and courage And as the spirit and store of bloud procureth boldnesse in men euen so doth the cold and moyst qualitie contrarie worke and cause fearefulnesse Rasis reporteth that the eyes emynent bigge doe argue such a creature to be fearefull and applyed to the Hare Cunny and Frogge The eyes outward extended doe denote after the minde of Rasis such a person to be foolishe but the eies déepe standing doe denote such a person to be subtill and of euill condicions through the part of the wicked qualitie yet such be of a good and sharpe sight and sée further than the emynent eyes doe in that the visible spirite is more gathered in the déepe eyes and the seing vertue stronger yea the light is receiued in greater quantitie as by experience is knowne in the Gunner which minding to shoote strayt winketh with the one eye and like the Carpenter in the laying of his lyne right these hytherto Auerroys But through the contrarie cause such hauing the eyes emynent be weake of sight and sée nothing so farre off The large eyes tending into a breeth of the bodye like vnto the eyes of the Parthians doe indicate the moysture of body in that creature Such hauing the eies eleuated and standing highe out doe sée from them as aboue vttered but a little way the cause is in that when the eie is eminenter it is then further distaunt from the braine which is noted the well spring of the eyes So that through the farre distaunce from their spring that is the braine such eies are hindered to sée farre where otherwise the eies standing déepe doe see sooner and further yet such are noted to be of euill condicions Further conceiue that through the eminencie of the eies diuers matters visible are represented so that such in a shorte time can discerne and iudge matters Such also are bablers wythout iudgement through the forepart moyst as afore vttered of the forehead And for that cause are noted vnshamefast and foolish the selfe same in a maner doth the learned Asculanus in his mother tongue write in libro Cerbae on this wise Gli ochij eminenti et in figura grossi Gli ochij veloci cum lo batter sermo Matti e falsi de mercedae scossi By which he concludeth that such are without dyscretion through the small discourse and paucytie of vnderstanding He also vttereth an other kinde in these as the eies moouing fast and quick whych are a note of hotenesse and argueth irefulnesse luxurie and boldenesse applyed to the Hawke and Fawcon The slow moouing of the eyes is a note of coldnesse and declareth sadnesse and fearefulnesse in that creature Such which with the eies mooue the eie lids togither are weake of a feeble mind as Palemon wryteth The eyes whych shut and open togither doe indicate a wicked trayterous person If water shall stand in them doth then denote a studious person and an earnest searcher of Arts as writeth Aristotle Albertus Phylemo Conciliatore wryteth when the eyes are difformally mooued as that one whiles they runne and an otherwhiles cease running although by these as yet no wicked facte or michiefe be committed and done in cogitation notwithstanding the minde is knowne to be occupied with the like And such generally the Phisiognomer hath noted to be of wicked condicions prone through such a conioyning to come to a violent or euill death Yea such a lyke note hath the Phisiognomer often obserued in many robbers by the high waye The Philosopher Ptholomie writeth the the eyes yellow so that the same procéedeth of no sicknesse doe signifie such a person to be a deceyuer and cruell as the Phisiognomer Cocles obserued and noted in sundrie Bawdes and Murderers Further such a colour doth indicate the dominyon of choller wyth a most great adustion of which occasioÌ„ cannot otherwise be caused but the dominion of malignity The eyes which swiftly mooue with a sharpenesse of sight are noted théeues vnfaythfull and deceyuers yea such a note hath the Phisiognomer experienced and iudged many which after were hanged Of these one the lyke was the sonne of M. Iulianus de Pontremulo brought vp and frayned couragiouslye from childe age vnder a valyaunt and pollitike Captayne named Francesco Rouerso on whome he pronounced iudgement in the yere of mans redemptioÌ„ 1492. And before the presence of M. Bartholomew de S. Marino a famous Chirurgian and a most speciall fréende of the Phisiognomers â–ª And as this Cocles hadde afore pronounced and iudged of the yolig man euen so came it to passe through the lacke of grace that he was hanged in the yeare of our Lorde 1496. And this Physiognomer on an other named Tadeus Guâ—dottus pronounced a lyke iudgement which also for theft as he reporteth was hanged by sentence of the lawe For these are well knowne to haue a subtill wyt and the same proner or readier vnto the euill The like confirmeth that worthie Conciliatore where he wryteth that the eyes swiftly moouing and appearing sharpe of looke are noted craftie vnfaythfull and Theeues as of nature these are vttered â–ª The cause is in that through the subtilnesse of wit theft proceedeth and the straunge deceyuing For the subtill wyt proceedeth through the subtilnesse of humours of which insueth the hotnesse of complexion as aboue vttered And the moouing proceedeth through a hotnesse so that when the hotnesse is great then is the swiftnesse intensed The wanne and yellow colour both sometimes indicate the complexion or qualitie of choller adust yet the same tending vnto Melancholy If to a whytenesse to which a gréenisse is admired heate inseweth which of the Phisitions is properly named a leadie colour as wryteth Almansore lib. secundo capit 1. So that this is a swartishe colour if the same appeareth nighe so a rednesse or a rednesse mixed to it which demonstrateth that the grosse bloud to beare sway euen as the quantitie which approcheth to it or as the rednesse which is mixed to it
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
redde K The Sunnes monte euill conditioned L Mercuries Tubercle appeared obscure or darke shadowed The Moones place ◠figured with such a character M The lyfe line was grosse betwéene the thombe and forefinger Thus was this moste wicked man formed in personage and lyned in the hande So that through such a habitude he vsed both kindes of coei2ngt3 as well with the 2l1sm as 2le1smf and other detestable matters he exercised not here méete to be vttered To conclude he was the most vicious person of all others that euer the Phisiognomer vnderstoode or knewe in his time In a man the face remayneth but the countenaunce doth alter so that the countinaunce is named of the Latine worde Volando which properly in Englishe signifieth a flying or vanishing away The countinaunce appearing sowre through the forme and condition of the lippes chéekes forehead and grinning doth indicate such a person to be a foole and frantick at tymes by the report of the Phisiognomer A cheerefull and smyling countinaunce séene doth innuate suche a creature to be gyuen vnto myrth and to be lybidinous after nature The face often sweating and that of a light or small stirring doth argue hotnesse or a hote condition to consist in that person And suche a creature is knowne of experience to be leacherous gluttonous and a great féeder Of which insueth indygestion and a siknesse to come as the Phisiognomer hath sundrie times noted The face appearing valled or dented in and rather more leane than fatte doth innuate such a creature to be iniurious enuious a lyar contentious cruell yea a murderer if the same especially be annexed vnto adustion and that the colour be eyther wanne or yellowe appearing as the same the Physiognomer sundrie times hath obserued and knowne And euerye countenaunce when the same appeareth full of fleshe and fatte doth denote by the agréement of most wryters such a creature to be sluggish and giuen vnto pleasure and wanton actions The face appearing verie much awrye leane and long procureth after the mince of the Phisiognomer a rude creature in condition malicious and enuious and the same affirmeth learned Rasis A sadde countenaunce doth indicate sadnesse and heauinesse of minde in that creature but the frowning looke doth denote such a person to be a bethincker and an imagyner of déepe matters yea wylie fearefull in actions and indeuoreth himselfe to be craftie The face séene hollow from the beginning of the forehead vnto the ende of the chinne that the nose and mouth séeme placed as they were in a valley doth innuate euill conditions especiallye if the same be with a wanne or adust colour For suche hath the Phisiognomer knowne to haue béene murtherers full of wordes contentious yea Pirates and théeues Take héede sayth Cocles that you be not deceyued in the iudgement of the leaprous for as much as their eyes are round the veynes eminent or bearing outward a cytrinesse of colour mixed vnto the rednesse and such are caused very quicke of styrring and possesseth a straitnesse the Nosethrilles with a most vehement or mightie horcenesse in such maner that the like creature is knowne to speake as it were in the nose The Gummes also of such creatures and the endes of their noses are knowne to be eaten away their skinne besides is caused rough and the heares of the ouerbroowes shed away al which by the face may artly be knowne as the learned Arnoldus de villa noua reporteth A small face and countinance doth witnesse a small and base witte The countinaunce formed excéeding bigge doth denote sluggishnesse in actions a dull capacitie and foolishnesse VVhat to be noted and iudged of the condition and forme of the nose and Nosethrilles The. xxij chapter MAns face after the minde of the Methaposcoper is thinne and verie passible and no part there is of mans bodie which like expresseth and vttereth the passion of the minde as the face properly doth Of which the minde altered by any cause the Methaposcopers can readily espie and iudge The passible place also of the face are the eies which the Philosophers name to be the windowes and messengers of the minde and next to these is the forehead For we daylye sée in the place that the veynes extenced in many subiects when such are angred do swell in a marueylous bignesse The next part passible to these is the Nose in that the same is Cartilaginous as without flesh except that when the vertue of ingendring is mightie from the beginning of generation So that this before the other partes causeth mans face especially to be eyther comelye or deformable When the nose is stretched and retching vnto the mouth with a decent bignesse doth then argue the bignesse of the Cartylage and the multitude or much quantitie of flesh which compasseth the same Cartilage in that the same cannot bée caused but through a great hotenesse For the property of heate is to dilate and lengthen out so that the Nose when the same is protensed or stretched vnto the mouth doth indicate the complection of the whole indiuiduate to be hote of which both honestie and boldnesse procéedeth and is caused in that creature The Nosetrilles bigge and large doe witnesse the Testicles great and that such a person to bée leacherous a betrayer deceytfull a lyer enuious couetous a niggarde of a grosse witte and somewhat fearefull as certaine report yet the cause of this matter they alledge not as the Phisiognomer witnesseth Here the Phisiognomer reporteth that the nature of heate is to dilate but of colde to shrinke and gather togither so that through the largenesse of the Nosetrelles is the cause of the hote complexion knowne of which the great testicles procéede and luxurie in that creature forthrough the multitude of Sperme must the receptacle of necessitie be great and large that the same maye receyue and contayne the Sperme or matter of the Sperme vnto the digesting of it Of the grosse humours is the grosenesse bignesse of members procured by the cōsequent are the spirits grosse so that of this grossenesse is the rudenesse of wit caused as the Philosopher Aristotle vttereth in libro 2. de partibus Animaliū capit 4. of which a tenacitie and couetousnesse insueth in so much as suche cannot through the same rightlye discerne The nose doth argue the qualitie of the heart in that a big nose doth indicate the hotenesse of the heart and irefulnesse in that creature And through this hotenesse after the minde of Conciliatore is the priuitie of man inlarged and caused great as afore vttered Of which certaine reporte these wordes in Latin. Ad formam nasi dignoscitur hasta Baiardi By a lyke reason sayth the Phisiognomer may a man argue of the womans priuie place vnder these wordes in Latine Nam mulieris pes est signum oris verendae The nose eyther bigge or small doth argue by the lyke the mans and womans 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to be in that the same being great doth procéede of
of the eyes signified that the fore ventricle of the braine was flewmatick which to conclude fortified as he sayth the shortnesse of lyfe and according as the Phisiognomer had iudged on this king euen so he learned and vnderstoode that a short tyme he raigned Of which notes Almansor secundus vttereth that the sharpnesse of the nose the long neck the voyce sharpe or small and the comlynesse of complexion demonstrated togither a drynesse in that creature through the part of the chollerick qualitie But his composition of bodye was founde small and the place of the stomacke decerned narrow his digestion also of meate was knowne to be both weake and small through the little and narrow stomack his hart was founde to be cold through the length of his neck hée was besides conetous and fearefull which is contrarie vnto magnanimitie or boldnesse in that the same proceedeth of a hote qualitie Yet had thys person a readie wit through the comely forme of the head for as much as the knitting and conioyning of the spirites was laudable by which the decent Organe aptly serued vnto reason especiallye for the eminencie of the foreheade in bredth but the breast the ribbes the héeles and the necke were founde all effeminate which as aboue vttered be contrarie vnto magnanimitie the Aquyline or hawked nose indicated as the Phisiognomer reporteth his couetousnesse that so mightily by his report bare sway in him Thus sayth he a man must proportionate all the members togither for otherwise shall it be in vaine to iudge or pronounce any matter at all after the minde of the Physiognomer on any subiect The nose séene flatte doth signifie such a person to be luxurious hastie in wrath and faynt hearted for the dominion of the moysture and flowme in that creature as the learned Conciliatore reporteth Here concraue sayth the Phisiognomer Cocles that when the nose appeareth flatte then is a hotnesse and moysture indicated in that person for as much as the hotnesse of the Aquyline or hawked nose is caused with a drynesse So that the flatte noses are procured through a hotnesse and moysture in that the moysture causeth the inlarging of the nose of which such are knowne hote and moyst that properly cause the luxurie in them When any report such persons that they are hastie in wrath the same procéedeth as the Phisiognomer reporteth of an ouermuch hotenesse and the inflamation of spirites moued and procured through the aboundance of matter and of that inflamation by the report of Cocles is the prefulnesse caused in such An other cause shall here be vttered in that the inflamation of the spirite can not soone or spéedily be cooled through the narrow passage as shall appéere in the matter folowing Of which the singular Philosopher Asculanus in the mother tongue wrote these worthie verses ensuing EL concauato è anchora il naso simo ciascun di loro a la luxuria acosta Piu del secundo dico che del primo chi la subtile e ne lextremo aguzo Ouero rotundo cum obtusa posta mouesi ad ira el primo come cuzo Laltro e magnanimo e dae graue stile The person which hath a short nose and the same flatte is iudged after the minde of the Phisiognomer to be lasciuious and as some wryte to be a théefe The nose séene short the mouth formed small and the teeth founde short and bigge doe denote after the minde of the worthie Conciliatore a moyst and colde complexion The sharpenesse of the nose séene the necke founde long the voyce heard small and comely are apparaunt notes of a temperate chollerick qualitie as the learned Rasis the worthy Albertus Ptolomeus paruus and other report and Cocles with them The Phisiognomer Cocles reporteth that hée hath many tymes noted of experience in infinite subiects in all his life time he neuer sawe any which were not possessed with a heape of vices especially for lying or for theyr ymagining lyes and this caused by the Chollericknesse consisting in them for which cause this Cocles willeth a man to beware and take héede of the felowshipping with such as of all which sayth he experience in short time will instruct thée perfite The Nose formed sharpe at the ende doth indicate such a person to be a lyar contentious and yrefull the reason is as the Phisiognomer reporteth in that such are of a chollericke qualitie for as much as the leannesse and sharpenesse of the Nose doth for the more part happen through the abundaunce of choller The same ende also hath narrow passages in which the ayre can not passe nor enter to coole the heart so that of this it long remayneth inflamed which is cause of the contending and quarrelling of that person The lyke creature by report of the Phisiognomer was that Antonius a learned scribe and notarie Yea he noted many other Countrie men of his to be lyke among the number of which Cocles obserued and knewe a iolly fellowe of the lyke nature and conditions named Vandinus de Fauentia which was a betrayer of his curteous Lorde and principall ayder sonne vnto the noble Astorgius Fauentia by whose meanes and other mightie deceyuers aboute him was this gentle Lorde by commaundement conueyed or caryed vnto prison in Rome and shut vp as close prisoner in that goodly strong Castle named Sancti Angeli where not manye Monethes abyding was lamentably murdered of a most cruell Bastard by a headlong fall as the Phisiognomer learned and vnderstoode which wicked creature after the fact committed miserablie pyned away euen like an ymage of war standing in the hotest Sunne When the Nose shall bée meanely small a little drie vpwarde and at the ende raysed vp and the neather part or ende turned agayne vpward or that his cleft be procéeding from beneath vnto the part turned vpward towarde the cone of the Nose doth then indicate luxurie or such an abuse of the bodie not here decent to be vttered as the learned Conciliatore in his Rubricke of Phisiognomie reporteth The lyke of this the Phisiognomer Cocles obserued and noted sundrie tymes especiallye in one of the Senate house of the noble citie of Bononie which for reuerence vnto the noble house honesty sake he refuseth to name The cause is forasmuch as such are of a moyst and sanguine qualitie tending vnto choller and these vniuersally by report of the Phisiognomer are luxurious in both the kindes euen as the same through the pricking forwarde of choller which dayly inflameth the bloud And the regitine nature of the whole bodye mooueth or stirreth forward the expulsiue vertue vnto the sending forth of the noyous matter superfluous and expelleth the same vnto the congruenter places by the apt passages and sendeth the same foorth vnto the â—rdâ—y in that it is the cause of the erection of it So that such helpe forewarde themselues by a proper industrie not decent for honestie sake to be here vttered when as the desired subiect is not at hand
formed doth witnesse by the report of the Phisiognomer a foolish person and vnapt to learne The necke decerned so louse that the same séemeth to leane vnto the one side doth innuate such a creature to harme those that are not able to resist wilfull and deceytfull as the learned Conciliatore reporteth Such that aboute the ioynt of the necke aboue are séene ouer fleshie be those which haue the knot bearing out and the neck hardly moouing and be also without féeling to exercise the same orderly yea such are knowne to be dull vnapt to exercise good workes yet these in the euill or wicked actions to do iniuries very prone and forward as afore in another place the Phisiognomer obserued And certaine Apostates and Princes this Cocles sawe and noted that mooued their neckes neuer vnto the right nor left side without the moouing of the whole bodye togither and such were knowne to be double tongued dissemblers and very wicked But such which haue the contrary to this shall you iudge sayth he to be of a contrary disposition that is honest conditioned and gentle of behauiour The necke formed long with a largenesse in the positure doth denote such a person to be yrefull and vnapt to learne applyed for the forme vnto the grunting Sowe The neck decerned bigge and fieshie with a certaine shortnesse doth argue such a person to be a foole and a verie great féeder When a certaine bearing out shal be betwéene the knytting of the shoulder pointes and beginning of the neck that the growing out of the knottes be sharpe doth inoicate such a creature for the more part to be prowde and arregant as the Phisiognomer Cocles obserued and noted many the like The neck declyning or leaning vnto one side doth innuate such a creature to be of a dull capacitie and vnapt to learne The neck bearing to much vpright doth argue that creature not only to be vnapt to learne but high minded and selfe willed and one that will not be admonished of nothing he doth The neck decerned stiffe and as the same were immoueable doth like declare such a person to be vnapt to learne and vndiscréete in his doings by which note for the more part such are knowne to be fooles The difference betwéene the moouing and not moouing of the neck is easily decerned so that the necke appearing fast or stiffe or quick moouing doth witnesse the more foolishnesse to consist in that creature but if the same appeare stiffe and in a maner fixed doth demonstrate dull capacitie and the vnaptnesse to learne That you may not much erre the Phisiognomer doth here discouer and open that there be some which minding to hyde this note in them the rather to beguile the iudger doe vse customably and oftentymes in the daye to rubbe and chafe well their neckes with a warme lynnen cloth whereby these maye moue and turne the heade hyther and thither somewhat the easier in couering by such meanes their foolishnesse As the like note the Phisiognomer obserued in a certaine Citizen of Bononia in Lumbardie which creature besides as he talked manye times smyled to hymselfe So that by this appeareth that the stiffe turning of the necke is a note of the proper foolishnesse to consist in that creature by the report of the Physiognomer The nape of the neck from the ioynt vnto the heade decerned rough doth denote such a person to be verie rude conditioned and luxurious But the whyte neck séene rough doth signifie a Belluine vnderstanding and rude wyt as Conciliatore reporteth in his Rubrick of Phisiognomy The neck bending vpwarde towarde the head doth demonstrate such a creature to be arrogant stubburne in actions and voyde of honestie as the learned Conciliatore in his Phisiognomie vttereth When you shall decerne a loosenesse of the neck with a certayne gathering of the lippes vnto a laughter and that the eyes appeare out of order in the rolling with a certaine lightnesse of countenaunce shewed in the sitting or standing of the creature and a trembling voyce to rest in him doth not only indicate an effeminate minde but euill conditions to consist in hym after the minde of the Phisiognomer The neck decerned bending toward the breast doth innuate such a person to be much encombred with cares and thoughts yea this creature sometimes occupied with niggardship and sometimes moued with that euill vice of malignity The neck also is varied sayth the Phisiognomer according to the knitting of the other members in man. The neck séene bowing downewarde as the learned Conciliatore in his Phisiognomie writeth doth indicate a foolishe person a niggarde frowarde at tymes and knowne he is to be neyther simple nor of an vpright minde The neck decerned leaning vnto the right side doth denote such a person to be wyttie of séemely maners and conditions and circumspect in the actions that he attempteth or goeth about But the neck séene leaning vnto the left side doth argue such a creature to be currishe or churlishe rashe in his actions and foolishe as the learned Conciliatore reporteth in his Rubrick of Physiognomie The necke formed strong and very bigge whether the same be of length and that this hardlye turneth doth innuate such a person to bée a gréedie proller and gatherer of goodes togither howsoeuer the same be The necke decerned crooking after the bredth of the bodye as eyther from the right or the left side doth denote suche a creature to be full of wordes deceytfull wily and vnfaythfull as the same the Phisiognomer Cocles obserued in many subiects For which cause this Cocles warneth a man especially to eschew the felowship company of such which of nature are wrte necked haue a drawing in or narrownesse to be decerned betwéene the shoulder poyntes in that these are knowne to be wicked persons enuious fraudulent and hypocrytes as the same the Phisiognomer Cocles obserued in sundrie of the obseruant brothers in his tyme and in many Melancholicke persons The necke formed in a meane maner both in the bignesse and length doth demonstrate such a person to be strong of nature apt to learne and of a singuler witte but these oftentymes are knowne to haue a subtill or craftie witte and to bée deceytfull The condicion and iudgement of the shoulder poyntes The. xxxvi chapter HEre conceyue sayth the Phisiognomer that such persons hauing the shoulder poyntes sufficiently distant from the knottinesse or spondile of the neck which first appeareth aboue the shoulders where the shoulder poyntes or necke are continuated and not to neare ioyned to it are of a good nature and hauing rype or good senses and by the consequent of a good vnderstanding The Philosopher in Methaphoricis vttereth a reason of this saying that the shoulder poyntes beeing sufficiently soluble that is sufficiently distant from the spondile or knottinesse in such maner that the space betwéene them be equall doe denote that such indiuiduates readily receyue that is easily the sensitiue motion For these haue the note or
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 vnstableÌ„ 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 drineâ—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 sâ—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
there is any assured trust to be had in him If any woman hath manly hands such a creature hath a bigge midriffe and bigge bellie port intumescent and such a one maye lightly conceyue yet bring forth no perfite childe If any hath bigge handes and fatte do argue such a person to be of a dull capacitie and witte Such a woman hauing the like handes doth earnestly desire the laerenev act If any hath the handes slender is denoted to be a parson nymble and readie in his doinges and that he much delighteth in womans companies If any hath hollowe fingers and these euill fashioned and not well ioyning togither is iudged to be a person prone to pouertie and vnconstant in his wordes so that he performeth little in his déedes as the same the Phisiognemer noted in one named Seraphinus de Pisis a Phisition Such a creature which hath the fingers not standing close togither or not straight out lying doth signifie a miserable lyfe and pouertie to succéede The reason of this is through the euill proportion which formeth not there a good vnderstanding but an euill and inordinate The fingers formed little doe denote suche a person to be a dullarde enuions and a foole after the agréement of Authors The learned Morbeth the Cardinall in hys paulmestrie wryteth that the fingers long and slender and well proportioned togither doe argue an apt and readie wit especially in handie crafts yet doe these demonstrate an euill gouernment through which ensueth that such are miserable and poore Vt in politicis patet If the fingers shall be much or wyde standing a sunder doe denote pouertie and miserie to insue to that person as the same the Phisiognomer often noted in such persons which begged from dore to dore Certaine report that the fingers very short and little doe denote such a person to be strong and wittie which reason séemeth not to the Phisiognomer simplie to be allowed The hands bigge if the fingers be ouershort doe argue such a person to be an ouerthwarter deceitfull a théefe after the agréement of writers The handes crooked and slender doe denote such a person to be a gluttenous féeder and full of woordes Morbeth in his Paulmestrie vttereth that the woman hauing small handes and bigge fingers at the endes is iudged prone to luxurie and of a dull capacitie A certaine Authour of a small Paulmestrie reporteth that the woman which hath a short paulme of the hande in respect of the bodie shall be grieued with the harde deliuerie of childe and this onely caused through the straytnesse of hir 23u3rp 2clip which length is aunswerable to that length which is on the backe of the middle finger nigh the first ioynt comming by the Paulme euen vnto Rascetta or the wrest Or thus playner the length of this 2cilp is aunswerable to the iust space which is from the roote behinde the middle finger vnto the wreaste of the hande and this do4bl2d is the iust measure of r3h 2toof vt dicunt recte A certaine wryter whose name the Physiognomer knewe not reporteth that the handes short bunching oute and slender doe denote such a person to be a scoffer and a glutteneus féeder The cause of which matter is the ende of the sinewes which through a drynesse is drawne togyther and bowed inwarde and thereof crooked or bunched out Of which men crooked at the endes of partes through the daylie exercise about fyre or by a sicknesse these well and true reported yea these well drinke and eate When the ende of the little finger shall not reache vnto the vpper ioynt of the ring finger vnlesse the same be otherwise shortned of some accydent is then thought a perfite note of a Bastarde as the same the Phisiognomer hath noted in many but this warily to be iudged If the fingers bende at the toppes doe denote such a person to be enuious and conetous and such are craftie and false of promise applyed to the 〈◊〉 But when these bende inwarde then contrarie iudge If the thombe bendeth towarde the fingers and the fingers like towarde the thombe inclyned doe argue such a person to be couetous and malicious And this disposition of the members proceedeth from the spring vnto which it ensueth as afore vttered The creature which of a custome vseth to holde the hande straite out and the fingers at length stretched is iudged to be a person fearefull full of wordes and vaine If any vseth to holde the hande most commonly shutte togither signifieth such a person to be prefull and hastie in his wrath The fingers small and slender in a man doe denote him to be a foole as certaine of knowledge report If the fingers be short and bigge doe argue such a person to be bolde and enuious as Formica wryteth When the fingers are well compowned of a comely forme and séemely length doe indicate honest conditions in that person He which in talking moneth much clappeth the handes and hath many â—â—stures besides is noted to be a fayre speaker enuious and a deceyuer Certaine report as that auncient Hermes that the shaking or quiuering of the handes in a healthfull yong man doth demonstrate such a person to be soone angrie For this procéedeth of a great heate and moouing forwarde of the spirites If this shaking or quyuering of the handes shall be verie strong the same is a note of a corrupt qualitie and such a person is lightly angry melancholicke desirous of manye and dyuers things and malicious The handes hollowe in the paulmes with a goodnesse and emynencie of the Montes and proportion of the lynes is an assured note of long lyfe But if contrarie to this you finde the hand then the contrarie iudge The fingers of what forme so euer they be with the ioyntes grosse or bigge doe indicate miserie and infortune as the Phisiognomer hath many times noted Here conceaue that by the forme of the fingers a man may like distinguishe thrée ages in euerye creature as the Phisiognomer afore taught and vttered in the Phisiognomie of the lynes séene in the forheade In holding the handes vpright and close togither against the lyght marke where any open place appéereth at that age the infortune of the creature shal happen This maner of accounting must begin from the first ioynt of the force middle finger in procéeding like vnto the endes of the fingers on such wise consider a long from finger to finger where any open place is for at that age where the â—â—ace signifieth shall the infortune come and on suchwise may the fortune and infortune of the thrée ages be knowne and founde If the closing or shutting togither of the fingers be whole with a most comely forme of the ioyntes doth denote a singuler fortune to that person especially if the annexed doe aunswere the like The learned Albertus and Conciliatore write that when the fingers be so full and rounde that lifted vp before the eye a man can not sée betwéene them do
indicate a couetous person and malicious If the fingers stretched out these bende towarde the backe of the hande doe argue such a person to be vniust subtyll and wittie especially if the fingers be slender If any whiles he walketh doth of a custome shutte the thombe within the fingers is noted to be a couetous person as the like the Phisiognomer obserued in a certaine Lâ—â—barde The fingers long doe like argue the length of the eares of the lyuer and the bignesse of the fingers doe like denote the largenesse of the eares of the lyuer But the sâ—â—â—lnesse of them as Albertus reporteth doth lyke signifie the eares of the lyuer to be little the selfe same vtter Auicen and Galen in libro 〈◊〉 If any shall haue redde handes whether the same be manne or woman is of nature noted â–ª Sanguine and luxurious as wryteth the learned Formica and the same a truth knowne Ptholomie the Philosopher vttereth that the creature which hath the vpper ioyntes of the fingers grosse or bigge and turning backwarde doth denote that if he shall then be â—iteh within a periode a certaine tyme after to become poore or else by some other infortune shall be shorte lyued The handes crooked in the length is a note as some Authors wryte of sodaine death and this in sundrie hath bene noted For as much as some are founde to haue sixe fingers on one hande as the two last towarde the eare finger in like maner lyned yet in the greatnesse dyuers the ioyntes and nayles séemely formed and proportioned through the goodnesse of matter And the first person which I sawe and considered before the presence of M. Iulius Vitalis was a Iew named Helias After him many others whose names for breuitie the Physiognomer omitteth and this person he behelde in the Citie of Bononie Thus briefly the Physiognomer Cocles endeth this Chapiter of the hande and fingers crauing pardon of the reader if the same be eyther vnperfitely or superâ—â—uously handled The forme and iudgement of the nayles of the fingers The. xxxix Chapter THe prince of the later wryters both of Phisiognomie and Paulmestrie affirmeth that the nayles and the same a truth are produced or doe procéede of the superfluities of the heart in that the heart is founde to be the nobler member of action So that by them is somewhat to bée vttered He also reporteth in differentia 54. that the nayle is a bodye extensed thinne produced caused of the superfluities and hardned on the fingers endes for a speciall helpe to them being there situated and groweth on the fingers endes and toes as the heares vttermost of the skinne doe occupie on the bodie And Auicen vttereth that the nayles both on the fingers and toes were ordayned in the endes of these members the better to strengthen for to take and holde things firmely and to couer the flesh at the endes which ioyntly being well matched giue a more strength This well appeareth in that if any of the small bones be lacking at the endes of any of the toes or fingers then like doe the nayles lacke at the endes of those members as the same may euidently appeare in any large scarre on the fleshe where after groweth no heares to be séene The maner also of the original cause of those nayles is proportionall to the production of the heares through the grosser superfluities not so much adust The nayles playne white soft and thinne reddish and sufficient cleare doe indicate a singuler witte in that person and this is one of the notes which very seldome fayleth forasmuch as such nayles doe procéede of the best qualitie as Albertus reporteth so that the spirites which produce the nayles delated from the heart are cleare and thinne through whose superfluitie are the nayles engendred The nayles rough and harde doe denote such a person to be prone to the venereall act as the learned Morbeth reporteth The nayles ouer short doe argue wickednesse in that creature And lyke the blacke small and bending nayles doe argue imprudencie compared to the gréedie catching fowles These also after the minde of the Phisitions with a leannesse of the fingers doe witnesse a consumption of the bodie When the nayles fall of without cause doe threaten the leaprie to come or euen at hande as the learned Conciliatore vttereth The childe borne without nayles or hauing them but weake doth witnesse the mother to haue vsed the dayly continuance or ouermuch eating of salt as witnesseth the Philosopher Aristotle in septimo de natura animalium cap. 4. The nayles in the middle déepe grosse or bigge and thicke doe denote a rude person and knowing little especially if the flesh about the fingers endes be high and grosse Ptnolomie the Philosopher reporteth that the nayles long doe signifie pouertie to that person and to liue in bare estate or beggerie all his lyfs tyme The same is confirmed of Pontius Gallicus Certaine authours affirme that whose nayles of the fingers of the left hande growe faster than the right doe witnesse pouertie the lyke if the nayles be without colour I much maruayle sayth the Phisiognomer that all the legitimate authours doe affirme that the white prickes in the nayles to signifie happinesse and friendes which as it shoulde séeme hath many tymes béene obserued and noted and iudged of the Phisiognomer by the order of the fingers as thus the white prickes séene in the Sunnes finger doe signifie the encrease of honor worship offices and friendship with noble persons c. The reason of this is forasmuch as these denote a good humour and benigne presupposing there a good qualitie and vnderstanding of which a good discretion and curtesie ensueth so that such persons through the same do attaine friends and commended of many The lyke pricks founde in the little finger doe denote friendship with the Mercurians and that Mercurie to be well proportioned and stronge in that place aboute similia But the blacke prickes séene in the nayles and chiefly in the middle finger doe argue harmes persecutions imprisonment and all kindes of detrimentes that may happen to any as the same the Phisiognomer vnderstood of a certaine friend which noted the lyke in many persons And these he reported to like succéede according to the diuersitie of the fingers forasmuch as the infortune and losse of richesse happened after the positure of them on the fingers But some Autours report that these doe indicate hatred The reason of this is through the excesse of the drie Melancholie which then aboundeth and lacke of the naturall heate which fayleth So that the blacke prickes doe alwaye demonstrate that the colde Melancholie and an earthly drynesse to insue Yet it séemeth to mée sayth the Phisiognomer that experience maye contradict the same séeing I haue alwayes séene sayth he that the blacke and white prickes on the nayles to come and passe awaye within a fewe dayes and that these to be caused of determinate effectes which otherwyse can not procéede or be caused
head And the inner members haue their receptacles great and the knittings of the motiue sinewes are of a due proportion Et econtra contrarium denotatur By the loynes the ingenious Phylosopher Aristotle meaneth from the gyrdlestéede vnto the beginning of the buttockes So that when the same place hath a largenesse doth argue strength in that creature through the plentie of muscles and such are delighted in the hunting of beastes and applyed to the Lyon and Greyhound in the forme The condition and iudgement of the breast throte and pappes The xlij chapter THe breast is that part which conteyneth the spirituall members for that in it are certaine partes conteyning and certaine conteyned The partes conteyning are fower that is the fleshe the brawnie part the pappes and the bones The partes conteyned are eyght that is the hart the lungs the pannycles the ligaments the sinewes the veynes the arteries and Hysophagus The Phylosopher Aristotle vnto king Alexander vttereth that the largenesse of the breast and bignesse of the shoulders and back doe argue such a person to be honest bolde of a readie vnderstanding and wyttie The worthy Conciliatore reporteth that when the neather part about the weysande the shoulders and breast shall be euill distinguished and flatte doe signifie the rudenesse of wytte and foolishnesse and that such a person not to be apt to attayne any speciall handie craft When the weysande beneath shall be farre dystant from the shoulders and large doth denote such a person to be of a féeble courage The weysand being a meane doth then argue such a person to be honest conditioned strong These hytherto Conciliatore Here conceaue that the weysande appearing emynent and large doth denote an effeminate person especially if he be double chinned The breast large and well proportioned with the other parts large is a most perfit true note to be conceyued in euery creature forasmuch as this largenesse of the breast is proper to man. The breast thinne and weake compowned doth argue a weake courage and will after the minde of certaine Autours The breast thick couered with fleshe doth denote such a person to be vngratefull as the Physiognomer reporteth Whose breast is mightily bending in and that the Muscles so procéeding that through these are caused lyke to an hollownesse doth denote a peruerse person and wicked When this is verye emynent the heart of such a person is hote of a small vnderstanding daylie wéepeth or singeth Rasis affirmeth that the qualitie of the heart if it shall be hote doth argue the pulse to be quick mouing and often and the breath fast Much heare seene on the breast and thick and that in the féeling the same perceyued hote such a qualitie of the heart doth demonstrate that person to be bolde sturdie and verie yrefull The composition of the body both in the bignesse and smalnesse is to be considered for that the same demonstrateth the qualitie of the heart So that the breast formed bigge doth argue properly the hotenesse and bignesse of the heart and this the more confirmed if with the same the heade appéereth small or that it be not bigge which if it shall so be a man néedeth not to haue regarde vnto any other signes In like maner the breaâ—â— formed small and the heade appearing séemely or but meanely bigge doth demonstrate by that reason the smalnesse of the heart coldnesse of the qualitie in that creature If the bignesse of the breast appeareth to aunswere vnto the bignesse of the head or that the smalnesse of the breast shall be proportionally formed to the smalnesse of the heade then ought a man to haue regarde vnto the other notes The colde qualitie of the heart doth procure a weake pulse and féeble breath through which the breast is caused to possesse fewe heares on it those but small so that the breast by the meanes is found colde in the féeling The person being of such a qualitie is noted fearefull and stuggish The qualitie drie hath a hard pulse and is therowout the bodie brawned swartish of colour The breast also thinne of fleshe but the veynes apparaunt and hearie of bodie and the skinne both thick and harde But the moyst complexion doth cause a soft pulse the breast naked of heares the fleshe also softe and gentle and such a person is noted effeminate The complexion or qualitie hote and drie causeth a harde and quick pulse and the same often and engendreth much heare both thick stiffe on the breast and on the thighes The breath also out of the same qualitie procéedeth both great and often and the whole bodye besides is in the féeling decerned hote and brawned and the veynes apparaunt The person being of this qualitie is noted yrefull and obstynate But the qualitie decerned colde and moyste worketh the contrarie to these aboue vttered these hytherto the wordes of the auncient Rasis To come vnto the matter and purpose sayth Cocles that is when the breast is founde well compowned and orderly formed doth indicate strength manlynesse boldnesse the others lyke and aunswering which properly belong vnto the man as the Philosopher Aristotle meaneth and such a habitude ought not to appéere much fleshy nor so soft in the féeling as the softnesse of the woman The lyke wordes vttereth the singuler Physition Galen that the bodye appearing not ouer fatte nor ouer leane and contynuing the lyke doth argue such a person to lyue long yet the body decerned rather leane than fatte is the more commended and doth lyue longer after the agréement of the learnedst Phisitions The veynes of fatte bodyes are euermore decerned narrowe whereof such appeare to haue but a weake and small breath and little bloude consisting in the speciall partes of the bodye Of which such growing elder in yeares are reported to be short lyued and to be abreuiated lyfe thorow a fewe and these small accydences to insue When any considereth a subiect let him first sayth the Phisiognomer marke the condition of the breast after the forme of the head and other members of the body For if the breast be formed large and bearing out and the head séemely bigge with a shortnesse of the neck doth then indicate the hotnesse of the heart so that there appeareth a nakednesse of heares which after nature doth procéede through a largenesse of the powers consisting in that creature that properly can not retayne the matter of the heares or else of the occasion that the straightnesse of the passages be so narrowe and close that these let the issuing forth of the heares after the due propertie and course of nature As touching the leane bodies after nature these are in a contrarie maner formed to the fatte for as much as their principall members are knowne to be open and able by the report of the Phisiognomer to indure but small matters and traueyles But the persons knowne of a temperate qualitie dyeting themselues daintilye or rather after discretion that these maye so
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
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
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
of the commoditie of theyr hunnie and waxe purchased with other secretes opened in the same seruing to Phisicke and Chirurgerie right profitable to be knowne and at the ende of this an other fruitfull treatise added intituled certaine husbandly coniectures of the state of euery yeare in the forme of an euerlasting Prognostication with rules as profitable for Cattaile as lessions for the benefit of health c. and thys imprinted by Thomas march An. 1568. 8 A fruitfull Treatise intituled the Contemplation of mysteryes contayning muche laudable matter néedefull to be knowne in this our time vnto all ages and imprinted by Henry Denham dwelling in Pater noster rowe Anno. 1571. 9 A Contemplation of Mankinde contayning a large discourse of all the members and partes after Phisiognomie from the heade to the foote and a Treatise in the proper place added of the iudgement of certaine lines séene in the forehead purchased by earnest traueyle of a skilfull Iewe and in sundrie places of this booke hath the Phisiognomer learnedly added many notable and straunge examples that giue a great light helpe and furtherance vnto the professors and yong students of this Art with a Treatise of the signification of Moles séene in any part of man or woman written by a Gréeke Autor named Melampus and imprinted by William Seres Anno. 1571. The bookes of mine in a readinesse to be imprinted and resting with the Printers 1 A delectable Treatise intituled the Ieweller of inuentions conteyning certaine marueylous and of these profitable and pleasaunt practises gathered out of certaine worthie wryters and this in a readinesse wyth the Printer Henrye Denham 2 The second Tome of the worthie Treasures of Euonimus contayning the perfite wayes in drawing many excellent waters for the preseruation of health the distilling of Oyles out of most Spices wyth the attayning of manye royall baulmes and Oyles out of the Brimstone Uitrioll and Ambre verye comfortable to man the purchasing also of Potable Golde with the sundrie newe inuentions of Aqua composita and other laudable matters to long here to write For the better helpe and furthering of these the Printer of his part hath endeuoured to beautifie the booke to his great charge with sundrie excellent Furnaces and rare formes of bodyes the rather that many Oyles and waters may the cunninglyer be drawne and this looke for at the handes of Henry Denham dwelling in Pater noster row 3 A profitable booke contayning large principles and fruitfull â—â—structions for the ignorant in the Latine tongue that be desirous â—o attaine the delectable commodities of Astrologie in deuining vniuersally of most matters with many laudable rules of Astronomie seruing for saylers and to other worthie purposes This worthily named a Methodicall document into the singuler skilles of the celestiall motions which remayneth in a readinesse with the late wife of Edward Sutton 4 A proper Treatise intituled the Myrrour of Tyme in which manye singuler predictions of dearth and plentie for euer are vttered in a diuerse maner and a large discourse of the Comets with their significations at the appearaunce and the threatnings generall of the Eclipses both of the Sunne and Moone happening in any of the twelue signes with extraordinarye rules for the weather not the like hitherto published of none besides profitable instructions for the preseruation and health of bodie c. This also remayning in the handes of the sayde wyfe of the late Sutton 5 A delectable Treatise contayning manye fruitfull Probleames or demaundes and their Apt aunsweares as touching sundrie phisicke poyntes about the state of bodie and rules after the maner of Probleames that vtter the cause of the more death of persons hapning in the Equinoctials and Solsticis with other Probleames that vtter the causes of straunge appearaunces in the ayre gathered by a singuler man named Ponzettus out of the Arabians Gréekes and auncient Phisitions in Latine This in a readinesse with the Printer Thomas Marsh. The Bookes which remaine with me fully ended and neare brought to an ende 1 A paradoxall Compasse contayning a large description of all the celestiall Cyrcles of the Sphere a marueylous order taught in the motions of them with the infinite vses that these serue vnto for the knowledge of the true distaunce of places besides a larger description of the places situated and lying néere to the North pole and how temperate and habitable the places are their founde to be a further discription also of places toward the South pole howe habitable they are and a large description of the Celestiall ymages lying aswell on the North and South side of the Equatour as of the Ecclipticke with the rysing and setting of the fixed Starres c. gathered out of the best and latest wryters in our tyme and in a maner readie to the printing 2 A proper Treatise for the iudging of vrynes contayning a playner and easier Methode for yong practitioners in Phisicke than hitherto hath béene published of any to which for clenly helpes sundrie pleasaunt cautelles added and these profitable in iudging which is in a readinesse to the printing 3 The guide of the Matrone contayning many singuler practises for the skilfull midwife in the bringing a bedde of daungerous birthes and of these desperate both with the instrument and learned medicines to these the occasion why so many marueylous formes of monsters are conceyued and borne and the remedies for the most diseases hapning to women learnedly taught and of singular practise knowne besides a liuely garnishing of all the partes of women from the heade to the foote added in a more skilfull maner than hitherto hath béene vttered of any and these practises purchased of manye iolly Dames and Countesses of Italy Such minded to haue a priuate Copie written out of this worthie worke let them resort vnto Maister Barkers shoppe or Mayster Walleyes in Paules Church yarde and there they shall vnderstande of the Authour with whome they may common when the worke is fully brought to an ende 4 Two pleasaunt Bookes of Paulmestrie I haue traueyled to set forth into Englishe in the first doth the Phisiognomer and Paulmester Cocles go about to conuince the false principles and vaine reasons of one Anthiocus Cesenatis in placing of the Planets in the hande with other vaine arguments very friuolous that this skilful Cocles seemeth to confute both by his Authorities alledged and experiences knowne and this handled in Dialogue maner as betwéene the maister and the scholler In the other hath Cocles bestowed great diligence in gathering togither the opinions of manye wryters and placed manye handes liuely figured with his experiences annexed for a playâ—er conceyuing and vnderstanding of the Art which booke he here séemeth to name his great worke of Paulmestrie That if any be minded to haue a priuate Copie of these two bookes let them resort vnto maister Barkers shoppe and there they shall common with the Author 5 A pleasaunt Treatise of Metoposcopie or a diuining and iudging on all the lynes séene in the foreheade written into sundrie Aphorismes for a readier instruction vnto such as be desirous of the skill of this Art vnknowne to many to which is adioyned lx examples liuely counterfeyted according to the diligent obseruation of the Authour who appeareth to be a learned Doctor of Phisick and singuler Mathematicane as Myzaldus and others witnesse of him named Thaddaeus Nemicus Hagecius of Hagek This in a readinesse to the printing yet if any be desirous to enioy a priuate Copy of this let them resort vnto maister Barkers shop and there they shall common with the Translatour and knowe his minde for the writing of the Pamphlet 6 A proper Treatise intituled the Phisiognomie of the Planets gathered out of the best wryters by a singuler Chirurgian destiller Phisiognomer Chiromanticer and Geomanticer named Bartholomew Cocles of Bononie for the vse and commoditie of his deare and especiall friend M. Alexander Bentiuolus c. This in a readinesse to the Printing The two seuerall Treatises which I promised to set forth as the one of Phisick conteyning speciall secretes in the drawing forth of Oyles out of the seuen Mettalles and other simples for the vse of Phisick and the other a last part of Alexis Piemont to which I promised besides the skilfull practises to annexe sundrie newe inuentions in the drawing of many costly Oyles and waters to be applyed as well inwarde for the preseruation of health as outwarde for the liuely garnishing of partes with the colouring of the heares of the heade yealow or flaxen of colour This tranaile haue I fully accomplished in the seconde Tome of the Treasure of Euonimus and added many other newe inuentions and secretes that are not to be founde in the Latine Copie this as afore vttered in a readinesse with the Printer 6 A proper Treatise instructing the daungerous tymes of the ficke according to the Moones course throughout the twelue signes written by the auncient Physition Hypocrates To this annexed a pleasant Treatise intytuled the agréement of Phisicke with Astrologie and this in a readinesse to the printing 7 Certaine learned secretes of Phisicke helping the most diseases that happen from infancie vnto olde age with many newe and care inuentions added as the lyke not exstant At the ende a singuler Treatise annexed for the letting of bloud out of any veyne of the bodie after the instructions both of Phisicke and Astronomie with the skilfull iudgement of the bloud let out in the knowledge of sundrie diseases and other secretes profitable to be knowne this in a readinesse to the printing 8 The manifolde and rare practises of the Astrolobie inuented by the learned Stoflerus and others is in a maner readie to the printing to which in the ende shall be adioyned the ysagogicall introductions and rules of the Ephemerides gathered out of the best writers and fieldes Tables of Domifying for the latitude of London shall be annexed in the proper place of this Treatise FINIS Imprinted at London by William Seres dwelling at the West ende of Paules Church at the signe of the Hedgehogge Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum Anno. 1571.