¶The maners and condi∣cions of men & prouinces.
THe Spaniards are meanly strong but for to doe all other thynges, which are possible to be done, they surmount & passe many other nacions.
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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"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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And there be many among them very excellent, and that in diuers maners in castyng the stone, in nymblenes and in manye other thynges.
In Portugale the men are melan∣colye and sanguyne for the most parte: manye of them are sufficient stronge, althoughe they haue no lyuelynesse of witte or spirite.
The Sicilians are collericke, and melacolicke, and stronge of bodye: they exercise them selues in wrastelynge, or at the castynge of the barre, and are nymble and quycke.
The Italians for the moste parte are weake men, and some amonge (althoughe the number bee smale) haue greate strength, and are wont to bee moore excellent than other, but yet rather of imitation then by inuention. They bee slender, and of a stature be∣twene greate and meane.
In Germanye the men are flema∣ticke, whiche shewe manifestlye the nature of that complexion, that is to
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saye, that they bee flematycke and ve∣rye Chollerycke. Furthermoore, they hee of a greate bodye, but yet fewe there are amonge them that haue great bodylye strength, or anye greate actiuitie and nymblenesse, to doe anye harde thynges, though they bee ve∣rye industrious to doe materiall thyn∣ges, whiche concerneth anye worke of the handes.
The Frenchmen be made and pro∣porcioned of fleame and of Chollere, and are for the moste parte slowe and weake. Yet there are some of them sin∣gulare, and surmounte others in ma∣nye thynges, but the number is smale. They bee robute and stronge, but thei haue not the meane and waye howe to vse theyr strength.