Selected quad for the lemma: day_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
day_n	friday_n	saturday_n	thursday_n	6,102	5	12.5325	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94280	The true fortune-teller, or, Guide to knowledge Discovering the whole art of chiromancy, physiognomy, metoposcopy, and astrology. Containing 1. A discription of the planets, their power and influence over the bodies of men, women, and children. 2. Of the several lines, ... characters in the hand and wrist; ... 3. Of physiognomy. ... 4. Observations on the eyes, ... 5. Metoposcopy, or the signification of the lines in the face. 6. of moles, and their signification. 7. Of dreams and interpretations. 8. Of nativities, ... 9. If the rod ... 10. Of marriages, ... 11. Rules to know the dangers of death. 12. The manner of resolving doubtful questions, ... 13. Of Pythagoras his wheel of fortune. 14. Of the good and bad days of each month relating to health.	J. S.	1698 (1698)	Wing S99; ESTC R232143	73,968	200

a Monday the twentieth of June If a line in the like nature end in the plain of Mars with one cross denotes a man born on the tenth of March two crosses on the twentieth If so it happen to a woman or woman-kind she is born on the same days in October If it end toward Mercury's mount in the like nature then Wednesday for man in May the woman in August If so it end under the mount of Jupiter Thursday is the day and November and February the months assigned The middle line failing towards the mount of Venus denotes Friday the day in April or September If the same line fail towards the mount of Saturn then is Saturday the day and the month December and January If it fail towards the mount of the Sun it falls out on a Sunday July being assigned for the month And so according to the crosses and figures which frequently happen at the end of that line according to their signification may be found any day of the months already assigned Now the next thing which remains is to know the hour which is generally observed by the colour of the Eyes if they retain their native colour and are not perished by bruises or defective by other accidents and must be taken thus If the Birth be directly about midnight then will the eyes appear extream black If at one of the clock they will be somewhat shining At two of the clock the party being born the eyes will have somewhat of a dark green in them with dusky balls Those that are born at four will be greenish but the green a little lighter inclining to an Olive-colour After four or at five the party being born the Apples ●f the eyes will incline to a whitish though somewhat related to a bluish The party born at or between six and seven will have the apples of his eyes half blue and the remainder a kind of a wall colour The party born at or between eight and nine hath the circuit of the centre of the apple blue and the centre of a party-colour At or between ten and eleven the party born has the eyes all blue with a few marks At twelve they begin to be somewhat greenish though much shining At or between one and two in the afternoon the party being born has eyes between blue and green At or between three or four they are of a pale green At or between seven or eight they are coloured yellowish with some small matter of green At or between nine and ten they have red spots in them though being of the same colour with those immediately foregoing The party born at or between eleven and twelve are as for the eleventh hour somewhat inclinable to redness but from that time blacken to the twelfth And thus much for the hours of Night and Day in every one of which throughout the year either Male or Female if not both are born and although it cannot be positively affirmed to be an infallible sign yet it is wonderfully to be observed seldom failing the party in his Judgement who makes due inquiry As for the year if we have regard to Chiromancy in that case it is known divers ways as by the lines of the Wrist Forehead as for the Wrist the lines signifies thirties of years but as age increases those lines are extinct decreasing by little and little as if the first line be half extinct then shows it that the party is fifteen years of age and to be quite extinct thirty four lines in the Wrist being generally the most though some have five and by an equal measure in this case any year may be known by dividing a whole line into thirty parts a half line into fifteen and so to the quarter or almost extinction or end As for Age it 's likewise seen in the Forehead and this by the Rule of Metaposcopy and on the first year appear but to the seventh year when upon the left side extending to or towards the Temple from the Ear there is a little line which denotes that age and if it descend to the Forehead it denotes the party to be between ten and twelve years of age if it so fall out that it is apparent in cutting through the Forehead it signifies the party to be in the twenty fifth year and according to its length the years under twenty five are to be guessed or imagined according to the Rule of this Art and Science If there appear considerably divided thirty years are signified and from five and twenty to thirty according to the length of the third If there happen a fourth it signifies by its length forty fifty sixty seventy and eighty years especially if there happen another half line on the right side the Forehead but beyond this or especially exceeding five they are referred to the Alfridaries and cannot or at least but with great uncertainty in this case be known but is better understood by wrinkles or lines in the extremities of the Eyes reckoning twenty years to every line and equally for the rest though in young people especially of the Female Sex these rarely unless they laugh or frown much and then you must take heed lest you are deceived by taking those for lines that are none but rather appear so by the parties distorting his or her Face CHAP. XXIX A Discovery of the time of Marriages or in what year of their Age the party will be Married by certain marks and rules appearing in the Hand IN this case several things are to be considered as first Consider the space between the root of the little finger and the end of the Table-line upon the mount of Mercury measuring from the root of the little finger to the middle of the mount not on the edge or side for in that a great mistake oft happens and in so measuring account from the root of the finger to the middle of the mount thirty years and from thence to the Mensual or Table-line the like quantity of years and so begin at the root of the finger according to proportion counting half of the first half which amounts to fifteen and proportion it by degrees to seventeen eighteen twenty or more till you bring it to thirty observing what year according to this proportion touches the first line and at that number of years according to the division of the proportion the party whether Male or Female shall alter his or her condition by Marriage if more lines appear measure them by proportion from thirty thirty-five forty fifty and all the years between according to a due proportion a second Marriage is to be noted or a third if any such thing is designed or more and may thus fully be known by a due proportion and mensuration answering to Marriage or Marriages according to the division and course of time To know your fortune or misfortune on this occasion note that where the lines are fair as also the usual Characters as Parallels Crosses Stars Scales