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 head.

THey that haue a great head, and yet not out of measure, are com∣monly faire and well condicioned. They that haue a greate head oute of measure be fooles, idiotes, dull heades. When the head is great proporcioned to the body, and specially to the necke, so y^t the neeke be stronge, and meanelye great with the sinowes great & strong, it is a very good signe. The head fashi∣oned lyke a Sugar lofe, declareth the man to be paste shame, a deuourer, bold and rashe, which thing commeth of the heat and drynesse of the brayne. It is a another thyng when the head is great and the other members are not great accordynglye. The head is of a good fashion, when the ventricle before is also of a good fashion, and moyste ynoughe. For the takynge of the kindes commeth of the moysture, and the re∣teynyng commeth of drynes in the part behinde. The head with a meane ven∣tricle

somewhat pressed together about the sides, declareth the ventricle cogi∣tatiue to be ready to comprehende and deuise, that whiche is comprehended, and that because of the vnitie of the spirites that are in that place.

The head rounde signifieth, mobili∣tie, vnstablenes, forgetfulnesse, smale discretion and lytle wysedome in the man, for sometymes the mouing of the spirites stayeth. The lytle head necessa∣rily sheweth an euill signe, for asmuch as it soone falleth into a sickennes, be∣cause that in it there is litle brayne, and the ventricles narowe, wherein the spi∣rites to straightly kepte doe not theyr office: for they are oppressed, enflamed, and choked vp, wherefore they imagine not well, they dispose nothing wel, they haue no memory. Suche men are com∣monly soone angry, & are fearfull, & kepe their anger long, by reason of the great drought, and whote temperature of the braine. Thei take in hand false matters thei speake yll, & haue a double tongue.

The longe head withoute measure, ha∣uynge the Organes a wrye, and not ryghte, noteth vnshamefastnes and follye. The head lowe and flatte beto∣keneth insolencie and dissolutnesse.

The head high before betokeneth pride. The head that hath as it were a holow hoole behynde and is lowe and holow, declareth man to bee subiecte to angre and deceyte. The greate head wyth a large forehead and a face lyke a Gy∣aunt, is a signe of a slowe man, gen∣tle, stronge, and not easye to be taught. When the head is ryghte and almoste flatte in the myddest, and of a meane greatnes, it sheweth the man to haue greate wytte, and to bee couragious. If the head bee in all poyntes of a good measure, it is a signe of a great wytte and that the man is sharpe and libe∣rall. We meane the head not to great nor to smale, but accordynge to the quantitie and measure of the bodye.