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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

of thin Clouds The Rain bow is caused by the Suns Beams darting ascance or in opposition to a thick and watery Cloud making the Colours lighter or darker according to the deepness of their penetration The natural Winds are caused by the suddain and violent motion of the Air and that directed from the turning of the Spheres more or less according and the reason why it so often varies and changes is to purge off and carry away the gross Vapours which would otherways infect the Earth by corrupting and render it uninhabitable Rain is caused by Misty Vapours exhaled by the heat of the Sun which being drawn up thicken and are carried about by the Winds till they are too heavy and then fall down in showers for the Clouds are of no solid matter but only composed of moist and dry Vapours and where it so falls out that the Wind is exceeding scant before the moist Vapour can ascend to its height or thicken then does it fall again in Mist Hail and Snow are moist Vapours conduced by too near approaching the Region of cold If the Vapour be thick then it is Hail or Drisle if thin and expanded then it is Snow if thin and close Rime or hoar Frost And thus much for these particulars CHAP. XLII Of the perfect Composition which are in the Nature of things by which the four Elements are to be considered AS for the four Elements they may be fitly termed to resemble living Creatures Plants Stones and Metals as for Stones they have their Original and Foundation from the Earth and agreeing with its nature ever descend Metal may be said to be placed upon the second Watery Angle of the World as agreeing in their Liquid Matter with Water all Metals have their Original from Quicksilver and Sulphur stewed or boyled in the Bowels of the Earth and are finer or courser according to the firmness or grosness of those Originals upon the third or Airy Angle of the World We may find Plants for they neither grow nor fructufie but in the open-day and do properly retain the nature of Air which they always require as being fittest and aptest for them Upon the fourth Angle namely Fire may be centered or put all living Creatures whose lives as the Learned hold subsist by fire obtained from the Empireal Heaven and Spirit of Life which is a quickning fire and distributeth Life to all the Wheels of the World True it is that under every Universal kind of these there are divers particular species distinct the one from the other for although stones may properly enough be termed Earthy yet are they sometimes nominated of some other Element which most prevaileth in their composition for doubtless all the Elements do meet together in the Procreation of them but chiefly Earth and Water and may by their grosness or pureness be observed which most predominates or contributed to the composition for the dark stones are called earthly and the clear ones watery As for Metals they participate mostly of a watery substance though they have in them the composition of all the Elements and may be resembled to the seven Planets as Gold to the Sun Silver to the Moon Iron to Mars Quicksilver to Mercury Brass to Jupiter Lead to Saturn and Tin to Venus being each of them imagined to have the fire or influence of the said Planets As for Plants although they may be by Nature Airy yet there are some whose Roots Leaves and Blossoms are hot in the first degree others are cold and dry some are moist which diversity happeneth according as the Plant participateth more or less of the sundry Elements The like is to be observed of living Creatures for although they are said to participate of the Region or Element of Fire yet the composition of all the Elements are found in them and without them no Creature can subsist nay divers are of Opinion that all the glittering Frame of Nature as well Celestial as Terrestrial has a participation though more ratified and refined And thus Reader I hope to your satisfaction I have performed my promised Task though but small to the eye yet a work large to the mind and not without much serious deliberation easily comprehended As for the pains I have taken here I exact no applause but if advantage accrue hereby give the glory to God who is the only Omnipotent Wise Creator and disposes of all things and in whom all Created Beings are centered FINIS ADVERTISEMENT THere is lately brought from Chily a Province in America a most excellent Natural Balsam found by several eminent Persons to excel that of Peru and Tolu in curing of divers diseases hath given demonstration 'T is a Remedy that no man under the Sun can compose being a most Odoriferous and Natural Balsam It cures most Diseases in humane Bodies particularly helps all pains coming from Cold chiefly pains in the Stomach want of Appetite Corroberating and strengthening the whole body 't is a wonderful Remedy for all inward sores bruises or ulcers of the Lungs reins bladper or womb c. it helps shortness of breath cough consumption or wheesings 't is good in most diseases of the head as falling-sickness apoplexy palsey trembling convulsions head-ach and giddiness of the head and strengthens the brain and nerves It kills the worms and helps the stone and is a good provoker of urine and brings away the sand and gravel which oftentimes obstructs the urine It helps all Fluxes of the belly and 't is a wonderful thing for most Diseases of the Ears especially Deafness And outwardly apply'd cures all manner of green Wounds Ulcers and Fistulas and cures most diseases in women c. 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Branches and Quadrates they depend upon Jupiter a happy Planet and promises good success The usual Characters that point at misfortune in Marriage are to have the lines broken and abrupt like Grates or Chequered the Character of Saturn the resemblance of Hair the mounts turbid crooked and wrinkled CHAP. XXX Rules to be observed to know the eminent danger any person is in as to his or her health IF the body and face be yellowish the veins distended the sight weary heavy and irksome an unwilling heaviness to motion or action hang about the party it denotes the vessels full of humours which ought to be purged out or by a gentle means dispersed and brought away to prevent diseases that may by their continuance be contracted If the Senses appear dull and melancholy without affliction or disorder of the mind the face look dull and of a leadish colour puffed and swoln if wringing pains happen after Meals it denotes obstructions If tears without a sensible cause fall from the eyes the lips quiver at times as likewise the Legs seem feeble if the memory grows bad and the senses stupified as it were the body hot and cold by turns the breath short and fetched with pain and pain in the head if these Symptoms in any critical time happen they denote a conflict of Nature a Sickness approaching through Ejection If the Eyes are dull and Rheum much afflict them if the Nostrils are red if the Midriff and short Ribs stretch without pain if the Breath be difficult a pain of the Head Nose and Face itching pain of the Temples they denote some sharp disease at hand with Efflux of Blood especially these Symptoms happening or continuing on a critical day If the Face be sad dark and cloudy the Breath drawn with difficulty the lower Lip tremble the Spittle thin and the Navel extended they denote a foulness of the Stomach which must be removed in time to prevent violent diseases that through that occasion may befal the party These and many Symptoms I might urge but seeing the brevity of this Treatise will not permit I shall wave them and proceed to some Physiognomical signs of approaching Death as they are laid down in Rules and Canons by the Learned CHAP. XXXI Divers Rules to know by the Art of Physiognomy the danger of Diseases relating to Death 1. THE Philosophers and Sages of the World always conclude that if the Sight or Image in the Ball of the sick Parties appeared dull or after a manner not usual that it argued Death was at hand 2. If the Eyes withdraw themselves or sink extraordinary deep in the concavity or hollow it presages Death for a penetrating ●●me from the Cerebelle or hinder part of ●he Head entering the Optick branches ●ender a Chritaline contracted hardness from whence it comes to pass that the Eyes in a Convulsive manner are drawn inward so ●hat if it happen Death does not immedi●iately insue yet the sight is in extream ●anger of being lost if not irrecoverable 3. If in sickness the Eyes change to an ●zure or reddish colour being before of some ●ther colour they foretel great danger if ●ot Death it self 4. If the Nose grows sharp and pale du●ing the time the party is under any fit or agony Death is threatned If the Nose be writhed or depressed it is the like If a pale yellowish water distil from the Nose the danger is the same 5. If the Mouth as if the Membranes of the Jaws were loosed appear to open for Air drawing quick and short in any Disease Death is eminent 6. If the Teeth appear smaller and longer than usual as if they were shooting out Death is thereby eminently threatned 7. If the skin of the Face and other parts be converted into yellowish or pale ashy colour it prognosticates danger to the sick party 8. If any person being sick suddenly languish and growing worse become pale and megre yet being still sick his or her Face become ruddy it denotes danger and affliction 9. If in the extremity of sickness the Breath of the party change to an ill Scent and the Eyes appear as if they were fixed Death is threatned 10. If the party that is afflicted in the height of his sickness stammer abruptly his voice become hoarse and sharp changing from what it was before being as it were inward it is a sign of Death 11. If the Breath be drawn with heaviness and pain so that the Lungs seem to rise and obstruct the passage the Breath being gross and fumy it denotes the party will hardly recover 12. If in extremity of sickness the Teeth the Nails the bottoms of the Feet change colour and become dusky it is a bad sign 13. If the Intestive issue at the Fundament by reason of sharp humours Death is threatened 14. If the Face and Lips suddenly change into Earthly pale-colour in time of extraordinary sickness it denotes Death especially if the Body be weakned and decayed by the force of the Disease 15. If a darkness appear and seem to cloud the whiteness of the eye the sight dazle the eye-brows writh and shrink up as it were in puckers or the eye cast a squint not usual to do so the sickness will prove very tedious if not mortal 16. If one eye on a suddain contract it self ●ess then the other if water flow fast from the left eye and the other be bleared and if the eyes are fixed a hard strugling to open them or white Pussels appear under the eye they are all dangerous signs 17. If in a sharp disease the Face be smooth and shining a Flux of the Belly happening no desire but an extraordinary inclination to sleep are ill signs 18. Sleeping with the Lids of the Eyes open and no moisture issuing forth are signs of danger 19. To lose ones hearing in the time of a dangerous Disease with a contraction of the Ears is the forerunner of much pain if not Death it self 20. To observe the Teeth blacky rough and disordered in an extream Disease and that the party is wonderful incliable to rub them denotes great danger and almost a dispair of recovery 21. After a Sweat if a cold quaking or shivering seize the party the Hair stare and a cold Sweat follow chiefly about the Neck and Head it is an ill sign threatning the party with Death 22. If the Tongue be black the Mouth noisom and contagious the Lips writhing and distorted the Mouth opening without yauning a pimple upon the Tongue as it were a Pea and the desire of hot things are arguments of Death 23. To contract the Yard and the Testicles in an extraordinary manner denotes Death especially if it be in a contagious sickness 24. A hot vapour arising from the skin the Breath being cold and the coldness of the extream parts are arguments of Death 25. A yaxing or straining to vomit after having much vomited the Flux of the Belly the Jaundice before the seventh day of sickness the

compounded of the same Elements with other Creatures though somewhat refined and purged from its grosness rendring this reason viz. that they could not be visible were they not made of visible matter and that it is unlikely that visible things should be made of things invisible from whence they conclude that there is in the composition of Celestial Bodies some portion of Earth and Water and that they are more lucid and bright they attribute to the nature of the Air and Fire others are of Opinion that the Heavens are composed of another nature of substance which they term the fifth Essence of most rare and different substance from the Elementary and much more excellent and noble but whatsoever may be subtilly invented in this matter it may be very well conjectured that heat is the substance of subsistance of Celestial Bodies which is inseperable from brightness the similitude and semblance of light having the substance of it and of heat so annexed with it self that it is almost nothing else so that the light brightnes and heat may be taken for one and the same thing the substance and matter of Heaven and of all the Spheres neither are they more wearied worn and corrupted for all the labour they have performed by the space of so many thousand years than they were the first day of their Creation for we must not hold it for a change and alteration of their natures and qualities in that according to their divers courses the Stars and Planets are sometimes far from and sometimes nearer to each other and that they have conjunctions oppositions and divers aspects according to the variety of their motions not yet for the Eclipse of the Sun occasioned by the interposition of the Moon 's dark Body between us and that glorious light or of the Moon by the interposition of the shadow of the Earth between the Sun and her lightness or be for such changes are not in their proper Bodies substance and quality but only in regard of us and our sight though in the end they shall wax old like a Garment and pass away but till that appointed time sealed up from the knowledge of all Men or Angels in the Bosom of infinite Wisdom they shall keep their course without alteration CHAP. XL. A Treatise of Fiery Meteors and their Generation THE Generation of the fiery Impression oft seen in the Air called burning Stubble or sparkles of Fire is on this kind viz. When the matter of the Exhalation being an Unctious or Oily Vapour extracted from the Earth by the influence of the Stars or Beams of the Sun into the highest Region and there being in all parts alike thin one part takes fire before the other can arrive so kindled by degrees it flies abroad like sparkles or falling Stars The flying Dragon or fiery Drake another sort of fiery Meteors is a Body of a vaporous matter ascending to the Region of cold but by reason of its grosness not capable to pass it so that being driven down by the vehementness of its agitation takes fire forming it self into the shape of a Dragon very fearful to behold and in the like nature are generated and kindled fires in the Air resembling Shields Globes Bowels Lamps Pyramids and the like according as they fall into fashion by reason of the opposition they meet or their sooner or later kindling There is a Light seen upon the Earth called Will with the Wish which in Moorish or Marshy ground is seen to go before men in a dark Night called by the Latins Ignis Fatuus or foolish fire which is indeed no other but a Vapour kindled by vehement agitation moving and skipping up down by the motion or direction of the Air when through the darkness of the Night men many times fixing their eyes upon it they are so dazled as they loose their way which they foolishly attribute to the power of this Vapour which indeed has no such operation There are other flames which appear upon mens beards hair as likewise upon Beast's these are caused by clammy Vapours scattered in the Air and taking fire by their swift and vehement motion which ingenders such heat that in motion many times Arrows have taken fire and Bullets have melted Comets or Blazing-Stars are no other than a huge Mass of vaporous Unctions which by reason of its subtilty reaches the Region of Fire and there blazes till the matter that feeds it is consumed the Train or Tail being the blaze and the round Head the Body of Fire that continues it and cannot be seen where the Sun beams make any impression but is very discernable when the shadow of the Earth passes about it but for the most part these Exhalations threaten mankind with divers Calamities appearing as the Beacons of Heaven to warn the sinful World to repent CHAP. XLI A Treatise of Airy Impressions their Nature and Generation c. THE cause of many Suns and Moons appearing at once that is the representation of many though indeed not real is as to the first when the Sun casts a full reflex upon smooth and watery Clouds and in them impresses its likeness so that sometimes there appear two three or five Suns in this nature so are produced the Images of many small Suns like little Stars and in like manner are produced the Images of the Moon seen oftner than the former by reason of her nearness to the Earth Lightning is caused by a hot Vapour ascending from the Earth and Water which in its Ascension taking fire yet not being able to break through the cold Region it forces its passages downward when meeting with watery cold it plunges into them and rend them in pieces with horrible Bellowing which is called Thunder but when no Clouds interpose or at least very thin ones then are flashes of Lightning only seen but no Thunder heard the reason why the Lightning is so long seen before the Thunder is heard is for that the sence of seeing is more quick and instant than that of hearing Earthquakes are caused by Winds in the Bowels or hollow Caverns of the Earth fighting with the heat and opposition they meet with so that struggling for vent they often in forcing their way rend and force the Earth in sunder and fly forth in prodigious Whirlwind doing great mischief Whirlwinds properly termed so is caused by a strong Vapour or Airy Contraction that forces its way through a flock of Clouds without any noise of Thunder of flash of Lightning Another sort there are called fiery Whirlwinds which is when a Vapour in such a case takes fire which sort overthrows and destroys all dry things that oppose it Circles about the Sun and Moon are caused by the thick and grosness of the Air for the Beams being shot direct reverberate or are beaten back making a round Circle or Halen according to the roundness of the body of Light which occasions it and sometimes it so falleth out through the Interposition