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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

are threatned If on the twenty fifth day bad success is predicted in especially Rural Affairs And so for the twenty-sixth and twenty-seventh for so many days besides hour and minutes is the Sun making her progress through the Twelve Signs of the Zodiack as being the nearest Planet to the Earth so that to her are more immediately attributed the rule of all watery Bodies she drawing after her in her Rises and Fall not only the Ocean and the Blood in the Body of Mankind and other Creatures of substance causing them to ebb and flow but by her increase and Wain causes a liveliness or decay in the parts of life both Man and Beast naturally appearing more heavy and lumpish in her Wain than in her Increase And thus much for the signification of the Moon 's course relating to good or bad fortune CHAP. XXXIV The manner of Resolving doubtsul Questions in relation to Friends Marriages places of Abode Health Prosperity or Adversity love or business with many more of the like nature within the rules of Astrology c. REsolving of Questions in this kind has by many been held a curious Art and by the Ignorant wonderfully esteemed who generally conceit it can be brought to pass by no less than Conjuration though therein much mistaken but however though like other Arts and Sciences it is not altogether infallible yet it is lawful and of much efficacy rendering in many particulars such satisfaction as the Inquisitive have thought impossible to meet with in their inquiry though in this the Rules are not difficult if seriously weighed and considered As thus Observe the question and the time wherein it is demanded consider the Planet that is Lord of the Ascendant and the Sign that is posited take the dimentions and erect the Scheme in which by comparing and making exact parallels division of the Figures by which means the Nativity being brought within view you may by understanding how the Planet that ruled in that disposes orders or influences as a secundary cause and from thence drawing your conjecture make your solution as suppose the question be whether the party shall marry the party desired if Venus a Planet properly influencing affairs of Love and Conjugal felicity be in the seventh House which by Astrologers is termed the House of Marriages or the third Angular House the affair will be prosperous if begun at that time and the party have success If any person make a Voyage when the Moon is in the fifth House it will be prosperous but if Mars be there let him expect to suffer much by storms and may be in danger of casting away And so if any one sicken Saturn or the Moon being in the eighth house termed the House of Death the recovery is to be doubted if you contract Friendship the Moon being in the third which is the House attributed to Friends and Relations it will be to your great advantage prove happy and lasting but if Mercury be there the contrary The first House is termed the Ascendant of the Horoscope whence is gathered the condition of man's life wherefore to undertake any business when Jupiter or the Moon is there will prove very fortunate If Jupiter be Lord of the Nativity in that House honours and great preferments are promised The Moon being in the fourth House at the Nativity called the house of Inheritance and Treasure the party shall have an estate fall unexpectedly If a Woman conceive when Venus is in the fifth House the Child will be Male. If in the sixth a weak female Child If Mercury Venus be at the time of the conception in conjunction in the 5th house there happen twins or if but one it proves for the most part to be a Hermophrodite participating of either Sex Business begun the Moon being in the 12th House shall meet with many crosses and disappointments going for the most part preposterously If a party be born when the Sun is in the ninth House and Mercury be Lord of his Nativity he shall travel into many strange Lands advance himself thereby and increase in wisdom and piety dying in his Native-Countrey in a good old-Age If a party is born the Moon being in the tenth House and the Sun the seventh Mars being Lord of that Nativity good success is promised in Rural Affairs but in other imployments the party will be unfortunate The party born when the Moon is in the twelfth House and Mars Lord of the Nativity is born to discontent disorder strife and reproach In fine the Houses have these properties attributed to them in case the Planet that is Lord of the Nativity be in one or other of them as that it must consequently The first house so termed is the Horoscope or Ascendant from whence the condition and manner of life is resolved The second is the House of Riches Servants Substance as also the expiration of youth The third is that of Brothers Sisters and Kindred farther of The fourth is that of Inheritance and Possessions The fifth is that of Children Pleasure Delights Substance c. The sixth is that of Sickness and Health The seventh is that of Wedlock Contractions Marriages happy and unhappy breaches of Love mistrust and the like The eight denotes of what kind of death the party shall die and what befals him in his latter days The ninth is that of Piety Wisdom Learning Philosophy and Travel as well in Voyages at Seas as by Journeys by Land The renth is that of Government Advancement Learning Eminency Lordships Laws and has great Influence on the middle part of the life The eleventh is that of Benefactors Friends Servants and the like much influencing old Age. The twelfth and last is that of Enemies sighting Labour Envy Treachery and falls upon the latter end of man's days Now from these the Question rightly stated the hour and minute of the Nativity the constitution and complection of the party rightly considered may be drawn strong conjectures as to health sickness long or short life marriages happy or unhappy voyages travel children friends riches prosperity in one place more than in another and the like And indeed this is the foundation on which all the pretenders to such Solutions build and draw their Inferences from which many times come exactly to pass though sometimes the expectations of the Inquisitive are left in the mist of Ambiguity CHAP. XXXV A further Observation of the Planets and their Operation on Mankind IF it so fall out that the Moon be in Gemini or Cancer when the child is born she has not the power of the birth but it must be attributed to the Lord of the next House If the Sun be in Leo which is his proper house at the time a child is born yet his power by reason he is in his own house is of no force but it must in that case be attributed to Mercury being Lord of the next house being Virgo If the Moon be in Virgo Venus is Lady of

As for example if the party be white have a long Nose fair Hair and thick Eye-brows a brown and shining Eye he or she so having is born under Venus being ad Instar in the first part of Taurus which is found to be the first House of that Planet and that known in the manner aforesaid proceed by way of question having well considered the month day hour and minute you will past doubt find this Sign Taurus whether it be in the House of Life which is the First or Tenth called Helligiack the House of Dignities and Honour Riches and Prosperity and from the figure you shall thereupon erect you may draw the certain significations as the learned Belat did of a great man in France of which he gives us this description My procceding says he were thus without desiring to know the day or hour of his Nativity or his Age having well considered his Physiognomy I plainly perceived he was Flegmatick having black Hair red Eyes great Eye-brows and a Mouth sufficiently rising up great Teeth a fat Neck and corpulent Body my question being made the eighteenth day of March at seven of the Clock in the Morning in the Year 1623 I sound that the Ascendant of his Physiognomical question was Libra in the tenth Degree which is the last of the first part My question was to know how long he should live what should be his fortunes or misfortunes briefly what should happen in his days I erected the Figure and thereupon made certain quadrains and resolutions the better to have the signification understood As thus The FIGURE The Tenth House 12 of Cancer The Eleventh House 19 of Leo. The Twelfth-House 17 of Capricorn The Ascendant 10 of Libra The Second House 3 of Scorpio The Third House 3 of Sagitary The opposite Signs and Degrees making the Figure compleat thus The position of the Planets Saturn in the 5 of Capricorn the North-Angle Jupiter in the 3 of Virgo Mars in the 2 of Aries Sol in the 2 of Sagitary Venus in the 13 of Capricorn the North-Angle Mercury in the 22 of Sagitary The Moon in the 3 of Gemini the Angle of the Ninth House So that computing these he found he would be very prosperous in his affairs but be of an unhealthful constitution that he should live long be happy in his relations that he was born in 1601 on a Tuesday 2 Min. past 3 in the Morning Mars being Radix in his Nativity which all appeared to be true and gave the party infinite satisfaction And thus much may suffice as to Nativities and their Calculation a thing not to be pried too far into seeing we are Gods Creatures and therefore ought to submi wholly to his will and disposal CHAP. XXVII A short Discourse of Corilimancy and of the Rod by which hidden Treasure is sound THis tho' it may seem strange to some has been proved to the advantage of divers If you seek for a Mine of any Metal or suspect Treasure to be hid in any place you may take a Hazel-rod forked in the manner of ♈ and it being according to the Rules of Astrology gathered when the Sun enters Aries or Leo Mercury being combust strip off the Bark and fasten to the forked ends a string with a piece of Metal at the end of it equally poized and then stick it lightly in the ground the Metal hanging above ground and notwithstanding your endeavor to poize it never so equal it will by degrees bend or incline towards the place where the Mine or Treasure is doing so by sympathy or a secret instinct for which no man could ever give an exact reason no more than for the Needle touched with a Load stone's turning to it beloved North and by this means some Persons have enrich'd themselves in discovering Mines and hidden Treasure But ever observe the Metal on your Wound must be the same with that you search after that is of the same sort whether Gold Silver Brass Lead or the like and this fortune mostly happens to such as have a V or Y in their hands a sacred character of which I have before spoken CHAP. XXVIII A second Observation of Nativities here known or give wonderful guesses by the marks or lines of the Hand Eyes Forehead and the like CErtain is it that man according to the opinion of Ancient Philosophers and Learned Men of all Ages being a little world that is the Epitome of the great one many rare and wonderful things are to be observed if seriously considered but more especially in these particulars for from the Nativities of either Sex many future events derive their power and efficacy and fall not out as some will have it by chance but in a manner by course and are liable in a great nature to be foreseen though hardly to be prevented for when man intending so to do uses divers means and moves with great circumspection yet by ways he perhaps dreams not of many accidents and contingencies fall out between the Cradle and the Grave some happy and some unhappy and the best way to prevent any danger threatned by the malignant influence of the Planet or other causes is with humiliation and low prostration to beseech the Supream Maker Governour and Disposer of all things to avert it who is only able and whose sole will is fate in whose power all things are and with the same readiness obey his voice Mankind excepted as at his word they were made still we see the Sun keeps his course distributing to the World light and suffering darkness to take its turn the Moon and Stars move orderly and know their appointed times and seasons heat and cold dispossesses each other by turns The Clouds give rain and the Earth fails not to give her Increase the Fowls of the Air the Fishes of the Sea and the Beast of the Field serve to the end for which they were ordained with many more too tedious to recite when men for the most refuse to live up to that more immediate knowledge that they are endowed withal and improve that to their Maker's Glory which in the end will redound to their immortal felicity But not to paraphrase too long upon the general I shall proceed to the proposed particulars As thus Taking the hand of the party the day of whose Nativity and what future Observations you are desirous to make it being that Hand on which the lines are fairest for in some Hands by labour they are worn out and well marking the middle natural line where it ends the beginning of it being at the root of the line of Life take notice whether there be a cross there or not or that some other line cut it not as also to what part of the Hand they bend for if so it happen that it bend and end near the Moons mount it signifies the party to be born on a Monday being the tenth of June if there be two crosses it denotes the Birth to be on

denoted the swift and victorious progress of the Grecians and the Persian Habit denoted to Alexander the Persian Empire should become subject but his sudden vanishing signified he should not long possess it Cambyses dream'd that he sat in his Brother Smirdis Royal-Seat and that his Crown touched the Sky it was interpreted that he should shortly die and his Soul being free from the incumberance of his Body should mount aloft Xerxes upon his entering Greece with a numerous Army dreamt that he was Crowned with Olive Branches which shadowed all the Earth it was intepreted that he should be overcome by the Greeks and end his days in sorrow A Runner in the Olimpick Games dream'd he was carried in a Chariot with four Horses and imparting it to Antiphon a wise man of that Age he told him that he must expect to lose the Race seeing four run before him the Horses by their strength signifying the celerity and ability of those that run before him A certain Person dreaming he saw an Egg hang by a string at his Bed-side told it to an Interpreter who bid him search the ground directly under that place and he would find great riches which he accordingly did and found as he had been told Ptolomy Alexander the Great 's Favourite being wounded with a poysonous Arrow in a Battel against an Indian King Alexander one night dreamt that the Dragon that his Mother Olimpia kept brought him a Root in his Mouth and having delivered it lead him to the place where many of those Roots grew and informed him that by their virtue Ptolomy's wound should be cured which made such an impression in his mind waking that he caused the place he dream they grew in to be searched and finding the Roots experiment was made and it not only cured Ptolomy's wound but divers others made by the like invenomed Weapons The Lord Stanly in the time that Richard the Third was Pretector dreamt that a Boar set upon him and the Lord Hastings and so gored them with his Tusk that the blood ran about their ears whereupon considering that the said Richard had a white Boar for his Cognizance he conjectured that the mischief might proceed from him and was so far possessed therewith that he sent a Servant immediately it being then about midnight to acquaint the Lord Hastings with his Dream and the fears he had of the Event as likewise further to desire him to withdraw himself e're Morning which Message being delivered the Lord Hastings thus replyed Good Lord does your Master lean so much upon Trifles to put such Faith in Dreams which either his own fear fancieth or else do rise in the night by reason of the days thoughts go back therefore and recommend me to thy Master and pray him to be merry and have no fear for I assure him I am as sure of the man he thinketh of as of my own hand Notwithstanding the next day he lost his Head by the commandment of the Protector and the Lord was dangerously wounded by one amongst divers armed men that came into the Council-Chamber to slay him Dr. Moor in his Treatise of the Immortality of the Soul tells us a very strange passage 〈◊〉 that two Gentlemen 〈…〉 Magara one of them took up 〈◊〉 Lodging 〈◊〉 a Friend's house but there being no more room the other who had a considerable sum of money about him he went to an Inn when about Midnight the former being asleep dreamt that he saw his Friend stand by his Bed-side beseeching him to come to his assistance for he was set upon by his Host and in danger to be slain At which starting he leaps from his Bed and made towards the Chamber-door to have gone to the Inn but finding it locked and considering it was but a dream he went to Bed again when sometime after falling asleep he dreamt he saw his Friend a second time all bloody who earnestly requested him that seeing he had neglected to come and rescue him whilst alive yet that he would not be wanting to revenge-his death saying he was murthered by his Host who was carrying him out of the City in a Cart covered with dung Which made such an impression in his mind waking that he immediately put on his Cloaths the day by this time dawning and running towards the City-gate found a Cartladen with dung accordingly which he causing to be searched the dead Body of his Friend was found therein and the Host confessing the fact was deservedly executed The Night 〈…〉 King Henry the second was 〈…〉 Eye by Montgomery in a Just of which wound he died Queen Margaret his Wife dreamt she saw his Eye so put out and warned him of it but neither her warning nor Montgomery's using many endeavours to avoid the Combate could avert his destiny Morison in his Book of Travels relates that whilst he was at Prague he being asleep in a Sun-shining morning fancied he saw an Image pass by him which told him his Father was dead whereat being somewhat troubled he awoke and wrote down the hour and day which he put into a Box and looked not on it till he came into England and had strictly inquired the time of his Fathers death which as near as could be computed agreed with his Paper And thus much may suffice for dreams c. so much observed in former times that their Interpretations were looked upon as Prophetick they imagining that some Angelical or Divine Power more immediately conversed with the Soul and dictated things strange and wonderful when it was in a manner freed from the Body which lay dissolved in drowsie repose Though all dreams are not to be considered alike for their verity in significrtion for some proceed meerly from the action or observation of the day past others ill digestion and ascending vapours but those more especially that proceed from neither of these and make a perfect Impress upon the memory and whereat you are more immediately concerned are chiefly to be noted especially such as are confirmed by dreaming the same over and over as it often happens the Soul being therewith more than ordinarily affected as it happened to Pharoah and divers others that I might instance but for brevities sake think convenient to omit and pass on to relate something relating to Nativities the most curious and nice part of Astrology and indeed of that this or any other Science whatsoever the perfection of which few or none have been hitherto able to attain CHAP. XXVI A Discourse relating to Nativities and their Calculation so far as is warrantable from the Rules of Astrology IN this particular many things are to be considered but chiefly the coherence or incoherence of the Coelestial Bodies agreeing with the frame and temper of Terrestial Bodies moving or disposing them according to the greater or lesser Influence or Prodomination for although to the operation of the Planers we can attribute no more than the effects of second causes bounded and limited by the infinite

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

the birth by reason Libra follows which is her proper House As for Mars and Saturn it is held on all hands that their Influence is not so pernicious in their own Houses as in Houses proper to other Planets by reason their proper Houses being more natural to them they pour not out their malign influence to that degree as is other cases As for the rule of the Planets by turns they are these On Saturday the first hour of midnight reigneth Saturn The second hour Jupiter The third Mars The fourth Sol. The fifth Venus The sixth Mercury The seventh the Moon And so beginning again in the like order hold on their course throughout all time making their changes each Planet ruling the first hour of that day attributed to it as Sol Sunday Luna Monday Mars Tuesday Mercury Wednesday Jupiter Thurday Venus Friday Saturn Saturday And their dispositions are these Saturn causes a firm and stable prudence Jupiter a righteous justice Mars a constant force and puissence Sol an ardent charity and good nature Venus mildness and affability Mercury fluentness of speech and a wary cunning Luna a moderate temper softness and effeminancy Therefore the hour of Saturn is good to undertake deep Councils and Affairs that require great prudence to conduct and bring them to perfection The hour of Mars ●o undertake warlike enterprizes or any ●iolent or dangerous attempts Jupiter's hour ●s good to enter upon Places Offices and Preferment The hour of Sol is good to require and seek for the favour of Potentates and great men The hour of Venus to sollicite Love and seek a reconciliation with those who are at enmity with you The hour of Mercury to undertake the out-witting or circumventing your adversary The hour of the Moon to enterprize business of Navigation or any thing relating to Water Again Saturn causeth death dearth and peace Jupiter a cessation of quarrels and strife a quiet and temperate life Mars Winds Thunder Lightnings Quarrels Contentions Strife and Blood-shed Sol Long-life Health and Prosperity Venus causeth Vigor-Love Friendship and Fruitfulness Mercury causeth Controversies Law-suits Contests and Contentions The Moon causes great Floods and Inundations Dropsies and all watery Diseases incident to either Sex And thus much as to these particulars CHAP. XXXVI Of the Pythagorean Wheel commonly called the Wheel of Fortune and what is to be observed thereby as to good or bad Fortune relating to man or woman ALthough this by some may be esteemed needless in a treatise so amply furnished with variety yet that nothing that may contribute to the advantage of the Reader in this nature may be omitted I have thought fit to insert these following Instructions Would you know the result of any Question chuse a number not exceeding thirty that you best fancy to that add the number or the day and the first Letters of your Name which probably may stand Figures divide the number by three and if the result be even then will what you demand come to pass but if odd not or at least not without vexation and delay Would you know whether you shall enjoy the party you love in this case take the first Letters of your Christian and Sirnames add thereto the number of the Planet and day of the Week all which in one conjunct number divide by thirty and if it fall out in the upper part of the Wheel you will have your wish but if it happen in the lower part you will find many crosses if not altogether miscarry therein Another understanding of this Wheel is thus Chuse a number according to your pleasure add to it the day of the Month then the Letters of your Name which united in one sum divide by thirty which number if it happen to be 154 so divided the overplus will be 14 which number being found in the upper part of the Wheel promises success but if in the lower part renders it doubtful if not altogether impossible to bring to pass Another way there is by Alphasier in case of Victory or who shall overcome which is by comparing the Names of the parties and substracting the numbers of signification adding to each the number three and in such cases the day of the Month and the Planet being the additional if the three or thirteen remain the Supernumerary to one of the parties he may expect success and so in other cases relating to love business friendship fidelity riches truth falshood prosperity and adversity honesty dishonesty malice evil intention fraud or the like too tedious herein to be inserted CHAP. XXXVII An account of the good and bad days in each Month relating to Sickness and Health IF any party fall sick on the first day of the Month the third day is to be feared the which if he pass he will in all probability recover If on the second day he or she fall sick though the sickness may be tedious yet is there great hopes of recovery He rhat falleth sick on the third day if he pass the next change of the Moon there is great likelihood of his recovery He or she that falleth sick on the fourth day is in danger of continuing sick to the twenty-eighth day To fall sick on the fifth day denotes much pain and trouble yet promises a recovery To fall Eck on the sixth day threatens the party with danger of death after a long sickness To ●ll sick of any dangerous disease on the se●enth day may notwithstanding hope for recovery To fall sick on the ninth day pro●ises a speedy recovery To fall sick on the ●enth day is dangerous To fall sick on the ●leventh day promises a speedy recovery To sll sick on the twelfth day is in danger of ●eath within fifteen days following To fall Eck on the thirteenth day denotes the recovery will not be besore the eighteenth day To fall sick on the fourteenth day promises ● quick recovery To fall sick on the fifteenth day denotes danger of life unless the party recover within eighteen days after following To fall sick on the sixteenth day promises a recovery after much affliction To ●ll sick on the seventeenth day denotes the party to be in danger of death To fall sick on the eighteenth day denotes the party soon to recover To fall sick the nineteenth day ●enotes the party shall recover To fall sick the twentieth day signifies that sickness to be ●hort and that it will end in health To fall sick the twenty-first day promises a recovery if the party escape the ten days following To fall sick on the twenty-second day promises the same with the twenty-first He that falleth sick the twenty-third day though he shall endure much pain shall recover To fall sick the twenty-fourth day signifies the sickness to be very short and the like is signified to the party falling sick on the twenty-fifth day he that falleth sick on the twenty-sixth day shall before the sixth day of the insuing Month recover He that falleth sick on the

debility of the parts with extream leanness are tokens of Death And thus much I have thought worthy to be noted as to these Observations useful in many kinds whereby the sudden or latter approach of Death is signified or threatned to languishing Mortals and is one main pare and one main end of Physiognomy CHAP. XXXII How to find out the Genius of a Countrey and be sensible of its wonderful effects THough this may seem strange to the in credulous even to such as will not be lieve any thing beyond the ocular demonstration yet certain it is there is a secret influence proper to peculiar places more immediately affecting and protecting one place than another that is participating of th● nature of the Planet has greater Influence and as a secundary cause much augments to the felicity or infelicity of Mankind and therefore is called the good or evil Genius and by the Ancients was much observed in all their undertakings nay was stiled their Guardian or the Goddess Fortune To know the Genius consider the humour that predominates in the Body whether Flegm cholerick blood or Melancholy which may be known by the lines in the hand A● for instance if they be red he or she is of a cholerick humour which sympathizeth with the nature of fire and consequently the Genius is of the fiery Region of the Hierarchy of Gargatel or depends upon Tariel Tubel Gaviel his Substitutes which may be discovered by the colour of the lines according to their agreeableness with Fire Air and Water or consistent with Earth The first being red the second pale or whitish the third of an azr re or bluish and the fourth of a dusky or dar kish colour and the Genius's participating of these Elements have their stations assigned in the four Quarters of the Universe If i● happen to be one of the fiery Figures of Geomancy which are in number four viz. Fortuna-Minor Amisso Rubeus and Cauda Draconis or if it happen in one of those of Mars which are Acquisitio Puer Tristitia past doubt the Angle or Genius is of the Region of Fire having its Regency in the South and coucludes Tuesdays to be the fortunate days of those who are born under their influence If in the Hand the lines and veins be narrow and long appearing of whitish complection somewhat inclining to redness they denote an airy or sanguine Constitution the Genius in that case being of the Hierarchy of the Air attributed to Raphael and under him to Miel and Seraphiel and those born under them are generally wise virtuous great studiers of Arts and Sciences having their happy days on Wednesdays If in the Hand Lines and Veins appear long and bluish mixed with white strokes that denotes the party to be of a flegmatick Constitution the Genius in that case referring to water and have their Regency in the North the principal is Gabriel having under him Samuel Mediel Mael and the person born under their protection shall be wonderful fortunate in Sea-affairs If the Lines and lesser Veins in the Hand are found broad short and thick of a dark dusky colour the Constitution is Melancholick in which cause the Genius is found in the West Uriel being Superior and under him Cassiel Salchiel and Assasiel inducing to learning the study of profound Sciences and their happy days are Thursdays As for these Geniuses they do not always dispence their immediate influence or assistance to mankind but predominate more at one time than another communicating strange things As for the Genius of the fiery Hierarchy ruling in cholerick persons it is to be observed powerful in its operation when the Sun is in Aries and Leo in the Months of March and July As for the Genius of the Air it is most powerful in March and April the Sun being in Aries and Taurus The Genius of the Water when the Sun is in Capricorn and Aquarius in the Months of December and January The Genius of the Earth when the Sun is in Libra and Sagittarius in the Months of September and November and at these times in Critical hours the Ancients affirm that they appear to the sight of such as they protect or infiuence in sundry shapes representing their power and grandeur according to their Hierarchical degrees but it being a mystery too deep for the capacity of the unlearned full of ambiguities I shall the brieflier pass it over and proceed to other useful matters CHAP. XXXIII Observations taken from the days of the Moon with Relation to the Birth of Mankind as to the undertaking of Business by that means rendred fortunate or unfortunate IN this case the Observation according to the learned Antients is to be taken from New Moon to New Moon As thus if the party be born in the first day of the Moon shall be vigorous lively fair and increase in riches If born the second day his or her undertakings shall prosper but sickness is threatned if the third day expect crosses and vexation in Love by reason of inconstancy If the fourth day the party will be fortunate in affairs but be much subject to pains and disorders of the head occasioned by watery contractions If on the fifth day mischief is threatned by Thieves or Robbers If on the sixth day good fortune is promised by marriage unexpectedly brought to pass If the seventh day riches are promised by the death of Friends If the eight day losses by Sea are eminent If the ninth day the person is promised long life though attended with several crosses and vexations If the tenth day he or she shall be fortunate in finding things precious which shall turn to their great advantage If born on the eleventh day the party shall be fortunate in Children of the Female Sex If born on the twelfth day the party shall be subject to travel and be often in danger of drowning If born on the thirteenth day he or she shall be light and inconstant If on the fourteenth a calm estate is promised accompanied with many blessings If on the fifteenth the party is promised success in Tillage If on the sixteenth day the party be born he or she is subject to Rheums Catarrhs extraordinary Colds and the like If on the seventeenth day it denotes the party of a peevish disposition one given to quartel and contention by which many mischiefs shall insue if on the eighteenth day the party being born much happiness is promised If on the nineteenth day it denotes the party slothful much given to sleep and drowsiness not desirous of labour nor thoughtful of business If on the twentieth day it denotes the party from a low station to rise to a high degree If one the twenty-first day the party is promised riches by Navigation If on the twenty-second day he or she shall be unfortunate in Children or Relations If on the twenty-third day then shall the party be feeble unhealthy and fall into many disorders If on the twenty-fourth day the Dropsie and Gout