Batman vppon Bartholome his booke De proprietatibus rerum, newly corrected, enlarged and amended: with such additions as are requisite, vnto euery seuerall booke: taken foorth of the most approued authors, the like heretofore not translated in English. Profitable for all estates, as well for the benefite of the mind as the bodie. 1582.

Of the Forehead. Cap. 10.

THe Forhead is called Frons, & hath that name of the holes of the eyen, as Isidore saith. And the forhead shew∣eth outward the imagination and dispo∣sition of the thought by gladnesse or he∣uinesse. Constantine saith, that of verye truth and soothnesse, the forhead is aboue halfe rounde, and not full hard neither full softe. And that is néedefull that it be temperate y^t it hurt not, neither griue the place that is nigh to the eyen. It is safely warded and couered with the skinne to defend it selfe, and to conti∣nue the other lymmes of féelyng, and to hight or adorne all the head. The ver∣tue and worthinesse of all the beast shi∣neth namely in the head.

The Philosopher saith, that the for∣head of a man and woman, is the seate of shame and of worship. And that is for the highnesse of the vertue imagina∣tiue. By the vertue imaginatiue, things that be sorrowfull either gladde, seemely either vnséemelye, are sodaynly brought to the perseueraunce of reason, and there they be déemed. Also the forehead is the tower of defence of all the sinnewes that come downe from the brayve, to make the féelyng somewhat perfect. Within the hollownesse of the Fore∣head commeth downe sinewes to all the lymmes and instruments of the ne∣ther powers. By the seruice of which sinewes in the house of reason, is iudge∣ment made of all things that is felt and knowen.

And therefore Gregory saith, That the forehead is the worthiest part of the vtter head, wherein is set the print

and token of the Crosse, that was som∣time token of payne and of torment, and now hath place in the forehead of Em∣perours. Then a forhead well disposed sheweth all things that be sayd afore: but and it be passing out of kinde & out of meane, it signifieth and figureth other things as the Philosopher saith. Aristo∣tle saith, liber. 1. If the forhead bée too much, it betokeneth slownesse, or selfe-will, that draweth to follye: and when it is meanely lyttle, it betokeneth good∣nesse of vertue. But when it is too high, and it were round without, it signie∣fieth excesse of cholar and of feruour, & sharpnesse: and ofte such be disposed to the passions of Cholera, as to frensie & madnesse. In comparison to other mem∣bers of the face, the forehead hath lyttle of flesh and of fatnesse. And Haly and Aristotle saith, that the cause thereof is: for that much flesh and superfluitie of fatnesse letteth wit and vnderstanding. And therefore too much flesh in the fore∣head with a manner shining and stret∣ching of the skinne, is a token of cor∣ruption, as it fareth in leprous men. Al∣so too much leannesse of the forehead, & riuelyng of the skinne, is a token of de∣fault of the braine within, and finall wa∣sting of the subtill humour, as it fareth in olde men, that be beyond helpe consu∣med, spent, or wasted by age, either sick∣nesse, and euill of long time.