The most excellent, profitable, and pleasant booke of the famous doctour and expert astrologien Arcandain or Aleandrin to fynd the fatal desteny, constellation; complexion, and naturall inclination of euery man and childe by his byrth: with an addition of phisiognomie very delectable to reade. Now newly tourned out of French into our vulgar tonge, by Williamd Warde.

¶The Iudgement of the Iawes and chekes.

MAlae be the emynent partes vn∣der the eyes and Maxillae is the diminutiue. The chaffes be the parts of the Iawes oute of the whych the beard groweth. The Iawes are taken offten times for the chaffes. The Iawes specially declare the complexi∣on of y^e man. The Iawes that is to say the eminent cheke of the vpper part of the mouth with the length of y^e Iawes of the parte of the composition sygny∣fye malicious men. The short Iawes and farre out from the vpper part of the mouth sygnifye malyce backbiting violence enuie, specially whan in those partes there is no fleshe. The leane Iawes & of a thinne substance browne or somewhat yellowe declare a hote & a dry complexion. The Iawes that be as it were black, wyth a purged substance of fleshe signifye exces of dryenes and colds as it appeareth in a melancolye

man. The grosse fleshe of the Iawes is a signe of a grosse nature of coward∣nes and sometyme violence. The Iawes that be to thynne betoken ma∣lignitye. And they that be softe and long sygnifye importunate babblynge and prating. The chéekes that be ful, with full and blowen temples, be∣token great wrath. Whan the chekes are small and so sytuate, that they appeare cutte and seperated from the eyes, it is a sygne of aboun∣daunce of euyll humours.

The roundenes of the chéekes de∣clare enuye. Whan the chéekes be lyghte and euyll sette, they sygni∣fye length of tounge, importunitye and much talke. Redde chéeks (as is a∣boue sayd) signifie dronknes.