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

heares thicke growing about the temples and eares doe denote that person of experience knowne to be of a hote nature and prone to the veneriall act The heares in that place if they shall be bigge and whiter doe then denote vntaught manners and rude conditions applyed to those brutishe sort named the Fryselande men The heares in the same place if they shall be eyther perfite blacke or flaxine of colour ▪ doe then argue a violent and furious mynde applyed of the likelyhood to the Boare The heares soft thinne and excéeding small doe then declare an effeminate minde and courage and that this person not onelye lacking bloude but to be dull of sense and slow When the heares shall be yet much thinner doe then innuate a craftie harde or néere and couetous person applyed after qualitie to the fearefulnesse and couetousnesse both of the Barbarian and Assirian for that the Assirians are by nature excéeding couetous The heares much and grose and flatte lying with a hearinesse of all the bodie in a childe doe witnesse the Melancholie to ensue that is to saye to become franticke and madde When the heares in age are much increased then doe they represent the much adustion aboue nature which so causeth the sickenesse of innocencie and foolishnesse The vttermost line or creast of the heares of the heade if the same reacheth and goeth from the forhead doth then argue a craftie person hauing a peruerse and wicked vnderstanding The vttermost line or creast of the heares if the same extendeth to the forhead doth then note suche a person to be stoute and somewhat wilde This like is thus pronounced by reason of the hotenesse and suche are properly applyed to the nature of Mars The vttermost line or creast if behinde the forepart of the heade at which ended the beginning of heares discendeth towarde the nape of the necke doth then argue such a person in wicked matters to be crafty but in the good lacking discretion and lecherous Such a lyne from the forepart when the same is farre higher from the nape of the necke doth then demonstrate such a person to be slow fearefull of an effeminate minde and many times irefull The heares of the head yellow as Golde doe declare suche to be right Sollistians that is to say of a prowde and hawty minde and vaine glorious The heares of the head soone hoarie doe indicate the lacke of naturall heate or putred flewme and these somtimes witnesse veneriall condicions If a man by the Arte and skill of Phisiognomie maye finde to place in the forhead and face both Mercurie and Mars then suche of skill knowne be founde through the inclination to addict their mindes to Alchymie and in the same to inuent the great deceyte in mettalles and false coyning of money and imagine manye euilles pernitious of which condition being at Uenice I saw two like beheadded for suche a wicked fact in the yeare 1565. Whose bodies and heades after the order of the Countrie were immediatly burned with the scaffolde into ashes but of these the elder and principall was much more spiced with the notes of Saturne retro grade Women by nature waxe not balde in that the qualitie of them draweth néere and is like to the nature of children The gelded persons waxe not balde in that they be chaunged into the feminine or womanly nature but few such at this daye be here with vs except those by happe caused through the incision of a rupture To conclude the horinesse and whitish flaxen colour of the heare of the heade is caused of a flumaticke qualitie such of nature draw néere to the qualitie of women as experience like teacheth of the same Of the iudgement of the head by the bignesse figure and disposition The. xiij Chapter SEing the heade of all other partes of man is most open to be séene it shall therfore be good to vtter largely of the constitution and forme thereof Which the Philosopher seemeth to destinguish and deuide into seuen formes of these the first forme he vttereth to haue no imminencie or bearing out before but behinde the second forme that an imminency contayneth in the forpart and net in the hinder the thirde forme that the head againe lacketh an imminency before not behind and that the same be formally round the fourth forme that the temples in respect haue a more bearing oute then eyther the forepart or the hinder the fift forme that it be in forme like to the Pine Apple the sixt forme that there be a greater distaunce from the eares before then behinde the seuenth forme that it be in a most comely maner proportioned and in these doe Gallen Auicen Auerroys and diuers other learned agrée So that the heade being eyther ouer bigge or ouer small proportioned is nothing at all lyked of them in that the same is corrupted and hindered of the proper vertue For such hauing the like forme when they approche vnto an vnderstanding appeare euidently to be harmed and hindered As a small heade is euermore corrupted euen so a bigge heade appeareth sometimes good and sometimes viciated and euill But the best formed heade alowed of the learned is that which hath an exact round●nesse and is on eyther side a little depressed with an imminencie before and after so that where the temples are a certaine playnenesse may appeare as by example that a certaine balle of waxe made exactly rounde shoulde be somewhat depressed of eyther side than shoulde that rounde forme as the Geometricians affirme most apt to receyue formes aunswerable to proportion For which cause the more lawdable heade is that which hath a meane forme in the proportion and bignesse and cōtaineth a decent roundnesse which besides enioyeth an imminency before and after tempered with a little compression or flatnesse Auicen writeth that the cause of smalnesse of the head in the creature is the paucitie or small quantitie of matter but the cause of bignesse of the heade is the great quantitie of matter being spermaticall The braine after Rasis ensueth and aunswereth to the forme of the scull for if the scull shall be small then will the braine be like ●contra The figure also of the scull if the same be corrupted then is the forme of the braine like corrupted Besides the head in smalnesse superfluous must of necessitie be euill That heade is commended which in bignesse is a meane hauing a comly roundenesse and decent eminencie both behind afore hath from both the eares a little flatnesse this Almansor So that mans heade among all other beastes hath proportionally much braynes The males of knowledge vttered haue more braines than the females although the effect may sometimes shew a contrarie to this But of these which are seldome caused or rather by accidence is neyther Arte nor science vttered Mans heade of the diligent search is knowne to haue more ioyntes than all other beastes The man also is founde to haue more ioyntes than the woman The

a Mole on the knée then he shall obtayne a comely and wealthy wife If the woman shall haue a Mole on the right knée doth signifie hir to be both honest and vertuous But if a Mole appeareth on the left knée then such a woman shall enioy many children If the Man shall haue a Mole on the ancle of the foote doth denote that he shall take vpon him the womans part And the woman hauing a Mole the like placed ▪ shall take vpon hir the mans part If eyther the man or woman shall haue a Mole on the foote doth promise the great good lucke and enioy of many children To conclude this is to be learned that the notes or Moles séene on the right side eyther of the man or woman doe euermore denote honestie and riches but on the left side to be harmed with calamities and continually poore FINIS The conclusion to the gentle Reader THus after the possibilitie of my skill haue I perfourmed my booke though not altogither in so learned an order as I woulde to please my Countrimen withall for well I knowe that nothing doth more content and satisfie the eares of men than to vnderstande and knowe straunge matters and the hidde properties and natures consisting in vs which this worthie Art of Phisiognomie liuely setteth foorth In the same I haue vttered such pleasaunt matter as I thinke both delectable to reade and necessarie to the furtherance of the singular Arte. If to some men I shall séeme not fullie to haue satisfied theyr desires herein according to their expectation or not haue so cunningly handled the same as the liuely matter it selfe offereth and is worthie of in respect of the great commoditie that this laudable Arte bringeth and causeth in a common weale being throughly knowne to men I referre mée then wholy to the learned correction of the wise beséeching them friendly to giue knowledge vnto the Printer or to me being detected of my fault will willingly correct and amend the same for wel I wote that no treatise can alwayes be so workemanly handled but that somewhat sometymes may fall out amisse contrarie to the minde of the wryter and contrary to the expectation of the reader Wherefore my petition to thée gentle Reader is to accept these my traueyles wyth that minde I doe offer them to thée and to take gently that I giue gladly in so dooing I shall thinke my paynes well bestowed and shall bée encouraged hereafter to trust more vnto thy courtesie I may here compare my selfe with two or thrée examples not altogither impartinent to my purpose It is written of one Falarus Thebanus a Capitaine who béeing in the fielde with his Armie readie to giue battaile notwithstanding hée was marueylously at that instaunt vexed with a sore disease of the Lunges yet couragiously hée set vpon his enimies in the ioyning of which battaile he fought himselfe and béeing then stroken on the breast with a speare his griefe ceassed and was for euer after healed of the same A like example to this we haue of Mamillus Bubulus King of the Tuskanes who hauing a stripe in the necke there remayned behynde a péece of yron which through the smalnesse of it coulde be by no meanes got out He on a tyme ryding on hunting his horse happened to ouerthrowe him the fall was so boystrous that the little péece of yron flewe out of his mouth and so was healed As those two Falarus and Mamillus béeing both diseased men were contrary to their expectation healed of their griefes euen so I béeing weake in skill and in knowledge and therefore doubting my successe yet boldely aduenturing this my booke into print shall by your gentle accepting of it contrary to my desert be released of my feare But I feare me I shall not be so happie as eyther of these were but rather chaunge that fortune with Cornelius Rufus who dreaming he had lost his eye sight and that one did leade him in the morning when he awaked found himselfe blinde in déede euen so I in doubtfull maner dreaming of Momus when I least thinke of him shall finde me encountered of him for what fault is there so small which Momus will not finde If the learneder sort brought vp alwayes vnder Minerua are sometymes touched of him much more I who neuer tasted of the learned Lake but rather alwayes rudely taught among the Smithes of Vulcanus forge muste néedes be stung of him Séeing therefore I doe halfe perswade my selfe that I shall not obtaine the friendly countenaunce of all men yet I doe not doubt but the wise will giue me their good worde and will consider mine intent as it is in déede that is to please the common sort for whose onely sake I haue taken these paynes and haue published this booke and will not so much regarde the yll or well handling of the matter as my good intent And therefore gentle reader once againe I craue at thy handes the thankfull accepting of these rude labours of mine and thus the fauor of God be with thée alwayes FINIS The Bookes and Treatises of mine sundrie tymes printed 1 An Epitomie of the whole Arte of Phisiognomie gathered and imprinted by Iohn Wayland for me in the yere of mans redemption 1556. 2 A pleasaunt Almanacke inuented for these thrée yeares as 1560. 1561. and 1562. vttering such necessarie matters as yearely are published and these in a most ample maner with a Table for the rysing and setting of the Sunne euery day in the yeare seruing especially for London and worthie rules named extraordinarie for the weather and other husbandly rules for the common sort right profitable This imprinted twise by Thomas March dwelling neare to Saint Dunstons Church Anno. 1560. 3 A pleasant Treatise of the interpretation of dreames gathered part out of the learned worke of Ponzettus and part out of the Gréeke Author Artemidorus with many new additions helping the booke and this imprinted a thirde time by Thomas march Anno. 1567. 4 A briefe treatise of Gardening instructing the apt ordering preparing and sowing of the Garden with sundrie profitable helpes and remedies agaynst the noyous wormes beastes flies c. that commonly annoy Gardens increased by me and imprinted a seconde tyme by Thomas march Anno. 1563. 5 A pleasant Treatise intituled naturall and artificiall conclusions imprinted twise by William Copland in the yeares 1567. and 1568. 6 A little Treatise of the interpretation of dreames fathered on Ioseph that godly person c. with a fewe Probleames added in the beginning of it aunswering to the matter and imprinted by the sayde Copland in the yeare of our Lord. 1567. 7 A large discourse and Hystorie of Gardening by me a thirde tyme increased in which is not onely vttered a number of pleasaunt secrets néedefully to be knowne in a Garden but the Phisicke helpes that the herbes serue vnto and that easie to be prepared annexed orderly to which in the ende added a profitable Treatise of the hunnie Bées and

The Contemplation of Mankinde contayning a singuler discourse after the Art of Phisiognomie on all the members and partes of man as from the heade to the foote in a more ample maner than hytherto hath beene published of any In the place next after the Chapter of the forehead hath the Phisiognomer added a proper Treatise of the signification of sundrie lines seene in most mens foreheads which in sundrie disputations with a skilfull Iew he at the last obtayned In the worke also hath the Phisiognomer learnedly placed for instruction sake manye straunge and rare examples that he knewe and iudged in his tyme. In the ende is a little Treatise added of the signification of Moles seene in any member or part eyther of the man or woman written by a worthie Grecian named Melampus All which englished by Thomas Hyll 1571. The glorie of the Honourable is the feare of God. HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE To the Noble and Right worthy prince Thomas Duke of Norfolke Earle Marshall of Englande and Knight of the honorable order of the Garter AS Man the excellentest Creature doth confesse the Almightie to be the authour and framer of the whole worlde with all things contayned therein euen so of duetie must hee faithfullye graunt God to be the fountaine and spring of all wisedome and knowledge out of which this science and Arte of Phisiognomie as a part of Philosophie hath hir proceeding for if a man diligently beholde not only the sundry and variable formes and shapes of liuing creatures but also the forme fashion of man himself shall wel perceyue such marueylous differences of countenances such diuers lineaments of the body they all greatly diffring one frō another so that man maye not nor ought to attribute it to hap casualtie or fortune but onelye to the great prouidence and will of almighty GOD which extends it selfe vnto the numbring of the heares of mans heade as our sauiour witnesseth in the Euangelist S. Mathevve And therefore it is no absurde thing to affirme those small and little lineaments appearing on sundrye parts of mans bodye by God to be appointed for the great comfort and behoofe of mans nature to th ende he might enioy the perfite vse and full knowledge of them And althoughe the weakenesse of mans nature be such as it cannot redily attaine the knowledge of them yet it is the part and dutie of euery good and well disposed minde to searche oute the excellent workes and secretes of nature so farre forth as the almightye power and heauenly gouernor doth permit and suffer him and therein to note and consider the magnificencie and w 〈…〉 me of the highest workeman the which very bright shall shine out and as apparauntlye be seene in the least and smallest creatures as in the greatest and largiest bodies The learned Aristotle in his booke De animalibus diligentlye beholding and considering the two small beasts the Bee and the Ante doth not a little marueyle at their diuine workmanship and cunning But to be briefe ▪ there is nothing contained in the excellent frame and Theatre of this worlde that requireth not great admiration and the same of purpose appointed for the only vse of nature ▪ therefore in times past among ▪ the auncient Philosophers it was an vndoubted principle taught in their schooles that all things were formed and made vnto some certaine ende and purpose This mighty wisedom of God although it doth most bountifully shewe and expresse it selfe in euerye worke yet in mans nature which farre excelleth all other in dignitie and worthynesse and in whiche the singular impressions of God are decerned it doth offer all thinges to consideration and vewe more plainly more cleare and more abundaunt This well vnderstoode and known to the auncient students of wisedome did preferre mans nature to be considered before all others and in the same they asmuch ●arueised at the great diuersitie and disposition of minds as at the lineamentes of the bodye And they both carefully and diligently endeuoured to appoynt euery condicion and qualitie his proper body and to ech body contrarywise his proper qualities and condicions thereby to obtayne and purchase the truth The auncient Poete Homere tooke vppon him liuely to describe that worthy Thersites in comparing his maners and condicions to the notes seene on his body The lyke also did Dares Phrygius in his long Catalogue of noble Piers where he cunningly applyed their condicions with their formes and lineamentes seene This Dares wrote that the valiant Aeneas was well coloured of body tending vnto a rednesse in personage square set hauing cheerefull and smyling eyes and these somewhat declining to a blacknesse and therfore Dares reporteth him eloquent gentle friendlye of behauiour wittye and politike in his counsels pleasant at times valiant in his attempts and vertuous The iolly warrier Antenor he describeth to be talle of stature slender in bodye in his members nimble and quicke and therefore iudged to be warie and craftie in his doinges But the valiant Achylles is described to be bigge and large breasted fayre spoken gentle strong membred and with great strength of the armes hauing a curled heade a cheerefull or smyling countenance and the heares of the heade of a browne Chest nut colour by which notes he was iudged not only fierce in armes but also of great courage mixed with curtesis liberalitie Many moe examples of antiquity might herebe alledged were it not that I thinke these sufficient for our turne to note the antiquitie of comparisons betweene the bodily formes lineaments and betwene their dispositions courage and wit Like to these many may be read seene in Aristotle Suctonius ▪ other of the Poets who haue left in wryting to vs sundry Pamphlets of this Art extant in manye places in which it may euidently appeere how much it hath bene accounted and esteemed in times past For the skilfull Antenor by the report of Homere being a man expert in the Arte of Phisiognomie tooke vppon him to consider and diligently to vewe the personages and formes both of the couragious Vlysses Menelaus pronouncing the one in condicions nature farre diffring from the other Menelaus sayth he was a person of few wordes yet graue wise in counsel but the iolly Vlysses for his prowde shewe and boasting in words did he pronounce like to the winter snowes Seeing this knowledge hath so long time bene obserued and exercised of so excellent and famous men what shall it let or staye me not to applye my study and penne thereto and the rather for that it is lawfull for euery man to decerne as farre as he can the qualitie and condicions of the hart seeing the secret matters lying deepe in the breast are many times bewrayde by the outward gestures what singular cōmoditie the knowledge of this Arte bringeth with it may euidently appeare in this that oftentimes men happening into acquaintances and friendshippes such as they suppose to be most friendly

be so long tedious as the aduenture great I should hasard a greater enterprise than any heretofore durst take in hande but generally whatsoeuer procéedeth from reason it is Philosophie If reason procéedeth from a naturall disposition or inclination if it come by experience or forced by learned meanes it is Philosophie Peraduenture some there be more curious a great deale than theyr holye liuing requireth that doe impugne some part of Philosophie as a thing or Art not necessarie or méete to be knowne and studied These men I suppose eyther neuer knewe or else haue forgotten what maketh a man Reason telleth if a whole bodie or substaunce lacketh a part it is become lame and vnperfite If a man wanteth a member or ioynt it cannot be said there is the whole and perfite forme of a man no more can Philosophie bée perfite if anye one part bée plucked away The Arte of diuination by the Starres the face and hande is a percell of Philosophie and grounded vpon long experience and reason and therefore not so wicked and detestable as some men do take and repute these Although it be an Arte wherewith many be deceyued through the gréedie desire of gaine yet it is no good consequent to say that the Arte therefore is friuolous naught Diuinitie being the words of God perfit and most pure where lurketh no deceyte nor leasing suffereth abuse for the deuill coulde alledge it agaynst Christ and Antichrist therewith persecuteth hys members bicause some men with wine be druncken is wine therefore naught Put a knife into a mad mans hande he knoweth not how to vse it but a wise discreate and sober man will neuer hurt himselfe wittingly with it Though some men do ghesse at randon as touching the proper conditions and qualities of persons yet the Arte laudable and certaine is not to bée blamed neyther is it to be condemned though sometymes he pronounceth cleane agaynst the persons maners and conuersation Tullie witnesseth 4. Tusculanarum about the ende of a certaine Phisiognomer named Zopirus which tooke vpon him to beholde and iudge the natures and dispositions of many persons by the formes of their faces and lineaments of the bodie among which he was requested to beholde the forme of the learned Hippocrates and fayling in hys iudgement for that he onely pronounced by the lineaments of the bodie what by nature he was inclined vnto and not what by learning and vertue he was become was of many laughed to scorne although the wise Hippocrates well allowed and confirmed his iudgement saying by nature he was the lyke that the Phisiognomer had pronounced of him Therfore I admonish euery one that will rightlye pronounce and iudge in this Art that they first consider and vew all the partes of man and not to iudge rashly by any one member alone so shall they be sure not to be deceyued I meane to vnderstand and know the truth of the naturall disposition and yet may they faile of the mans conditions which Socrates well declared in himselfe For when he on a tyme as vttereth Aristotle sent two of his scholers with his table or Image liuely drawne and counterfeyted by a cunning workman to that famous Phisiognomer Phylemon who after he had diligentlye viewed and considered one member with another pronounced Socrates to be a leacherous person subtill a deceyuer couetous and giuen to wickednesse This iudgement so much mooued the schollers that they bitterly rebuked the Phisiognomer And in their returne opening this iudgement to Socrates confessed that Phylemon had truely reported of him in all poyntes and swarued not one iotte from a truth after nature but the studie of Philosophie and honestie had so brideled his desires and wicked nature that he became a new man By this a man may conclude that our will to be subicct vnder the gouernement of reason and grace and that through these we may bridle nature in vs turning the prouocations of them vnto goodnesse For the Chollerick or yrefull man may eyther by grace represse his furie and lust or else alter the same in correcting of vices The malicious man also may either by grace aswage his lust or else turne the same agaynst the euill and so lyke may be done in all other naturall inclinations resting in vs Experience teacheth how many giuen to sundrie kind of vices after they by Gods grace begin to haue a swéete taste of Gods worde doe shake of their woonted nature and become altered and chaunged fellowes Saule by Gods spirite of a persecutor became a Martyr of a bloud sucker an innocent and méeke Lambe I might here recyte a number of Godly examples it I wist these were not ynough to prooue mine intent It is not to be decyded what Gods holy spirite can doe It worketh myracles it worketh wonders contrarse to nature it turneth olde Adam in vs into new Adam contrary to all sence and vnderstanding of man and then no marueyle though the Phisiognomer doe faile where nature fayleth Much more gentle Reader I might say but that I suppose this is sufficient to shew vnto thée the right vse of Phisiognomie I will leaue the whole commendation of the Arte vnto thine owne iudgement and experience If by practise thou shalt find anye certaintie in it then reiect it not as vaine and friuolous but if thou canst not attaine vnto the certaine knowledge thereof yet let not thine yll fortune condemne the iudgementes and experiences of a number well learned and practised in this Arte neyther thinke yll of me who wisheth vnto thée verie well and haue taken these paynes altogither for thy sake Somewhat I haue séene by experience all that thou hast here gathered oute of the best wryters muche more I haue reade and the best of that I also giue thée So many as shall receyue any fruit or commoditie by me let them giue thankes vnto the worshipfull and high learned man Mayster Dée by whose helpe and ayde at the beginning I receyued such monuments and principles as gaue me great light vnto this knowledge and vnto whome also thou art greatly bound for that he wisheth well vnto his Countrie men and hath taken great paynes to do his Countrie good Thus leauing gentle reader to trouble you any longer I commit you to God wishing onely your fauour in the furthering of thys my simple worke Et feliciter vale Ioannis Coci ogdoastichon INternae facies spectabilis indolis index Aestus quo rapimur prodere signa solet Hinc foris augurium capitur natura quod intus Seminat motus indicat ipsa satos Sed retrusa rei latet experientia tantae Ni iuuet experti nos manus artificis Praestitit at nobis insigniter Hillus ab arte Pectoris vt iudex quilibet esse queat Nicolai Leihi ogdoastichon ad Lectorem INdole qua quis sit vultu dignoscere Thomas Hillus depingit qua ratione queas Plurima doctorum peruoluens scripta virorum Optima decerpsit sedulus instar apis Nec

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 2●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