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.
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- 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.
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- Roussat, Richard.
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- Printed at London :: By Iames Rovvbothum and are to be solde at his shop in Chep[..]syde, vnder Bovve churche,
- [1562?]
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A20862.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 20, 2024.
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THe tongue is made to tast and to pronounce woordes and to vtter the voyce. The tongue that is tourned right downe, or that stutteth or stumbleth, signifieth the flixe of the belly: they that be subiect to laskes and flixes become stutters, because of the matter whiche descendeth from the head, whiche entreth into the poores of the tongue and muscles, whereof it commeth to passe, that the tongue is the greater, and thereby made broder, and so shorter: and therfore some stam∣mer and stutte. The tongue that is ti∣ed before, can not well pronounce wor∣des or letters, but pronounceth C, in¦steade of S: and that maketh the man to stutte. And yf it be tyed behynde it can not well pronounce the letter R, but in steade of R, it pronounceth L, they that stutte feare wyne, for they wyll bee dronke commonly, and there∣fore drunkards doe stammer, and can not well pronounce this word (Tren∣tatry). The heauines of the tongue in
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youth, signifieth soddayne death after it waxeth once lyghte. The greate and broad tongue declareth a rude wytte and vnderstandynge and flematycke humours. He that stutteth and repe∣teth often the fyrste syllable of a worde is readye to melancolynes. The tonge that is touched wyth a lyght mouynge and is cause of repetynge the wordes by corruption of speeche, betokeneth follye violence and wrathe: because of the moouyng of the spirites, and of the heate whiche hasteth the prouocation vnaduisedlye. When the tongue is longe and redde withall, it is a sygne of wysedome: for it declareth good and commendable humours. A whyte tongue betokeneth pouertie and mi∣serye. The tongue that is hurte or marred wyth heate vnnaturall sygni∣fieth distemperaunce and euyll dispo∣sition speciallye of the belly and breast. A longe tongue, grosse and so rounde that a man maye wype hys owne nose with it, declareth a nature lyke an
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Oxe. The tongue that is shortened wyth some humours loseth hys taste. All men that stutte be rude of bodye and proude.