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 other partes of the body.

THey that haue a lytle Necke and a long, haue a good voyce & great & are fooles, feareful & malignāt.

But they that haue a short necke, are very whote and great deceyuours.

They that haue a greate necke, are great fooles, and great eaters: the nod of the necke long and broad, signifieth good courage and pryde: the eleuation of humour, signifieth a rude & vnfaith∣full nature. When the armes of the body that is right vp, are so longe that the hands reache to the knees, it is a sygne of actiuitie and nymblenesse at worke, of audacitie, and of goodnes, with liberalitie: But when they bee shorter it is a sygne of a louer of dis∣corde, and of an ignoraunt person.

The paulme of the handes long, with longe fyngers, signifie an apte man to manye artes, namelye to mecanycall & handye craftes, & prudent and ware in all hys affayres. For there is in hym a sygne of good regiment and gouer∣naunce: the greatnes of the fingers sygnifie folly and imprudencie.

You must also measure the place from the nauell vnto the ende of the breast

and to the beginning of the necke. If the parte of the breast be bygger, it is a sygne of prudencie and wysdome, but yf that whiche is in the breast vnto the nauell, bee greater it is a sygne of a de∣uourer. If the bellye bee to slacke, as though it were emptye, it is a sygne of fearefulnes, of wyckednes and of de∣uouryng: the bellye that is somewhat softer and deeper, is a sygne of the force and vertue of the wytte, and of magnificence. The sydes thynne and narowe and deepe, betoken feareful∣nesse: But when they bee moore fleshy and harde, they shewe the man to bee dnapt to be taughte. And they that bee round, as though they were swollen, sygnifie much vnprofitable talke.

The backe broad and sound, is a sygne of manlynes, & the womans is contra∣rye. If the body of thē that haue croked bodyes bee softe, it is not so euyll as yf it were in a thick & hard body. If the lo∣wer part of y^e chyne of the back be hid∣den in the breadeth and to abundaunt,

and enuironed with fleshe, it agreeth with women. That whyche is longe and sharpe at the ende, it declareth dis∣temperaunce of the carnall desyre, and fearefulnes. Then the chyne of the backe of a man is that whiche is mani∣fest in the bones moderate and sound. The haunches harde and solyde, and seperate from the bones, betoken a stronge and warrelyke man. But yf they bee broade, ample, and full of fleshe, they signifie a feminine vnder∣standyng and witte: But yf they bée to leane and full of wrynckles and com∣passed about with a thyn skynne, they signifie the wickednes of Apes.

When the knees touche one the other in goynge, they bee referred to the wo∣man kynde. When the lower partes of the shynnes nexte to the heeles, and the heeles, and the vnder parte of the feete bee broade, and full of fleshe, it is a sygne of a foolyshe man, or wyth∣out wytte. The vnder part of the féete seperated from the synowes and ar∣teries,

sheweth a cleare vnderstan∣dynge, noble, and manly. If the feete bee soft, and enuyroned with fleshe, it is a sygne of a softe and womanlyke wytte. The feete verye longe shewe the man to bee vigilant and geuen to deceyte, seekynge the hurte of manye men. The féete very thynne and short, betoken malignitie. The shorte feete hauynge the sole hollowe is an euyll sygne.