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 body by the colour.

BLacknes in a man like a glistering horne is a token of adustion as wel in the members as in the heare. A blacke colour sheweth the man to be of a small courage in feates of warre fearefull and craftye and is to be com∣pared to them that dwell in the southe. A greene colour, darke, or blacke, de∣clareth the man ready and prompte to anger. Men that haue a verye redde or redde headed in colour are subtile and craftie. As the common sayeng among the Frenche men is l'ay veu bein peu de petites gens humbles, & rousseaux fideles, that is to say I haue sene fewe litle mē humble or lowlye, & fewe redde head∣ded men faithfull and true. They that haue a pale and a dead face, and yet a redde forehead and lowe eyes, are alto∣gether shamefaste. And to them you may attribute passion. The white co∣lour & samewhat ruddye, signifieth the

man verye stronge and courageous. Suche are the northen men. The co∣lour that is verye whyte sheweth the man to be contrarye to vertue. A pale coloure sygnifyeth the man to be withoute courage in deedes of warre, fearefull, and a turner of his backe, yf syckenes be not the cause of thys pale∣nes. When a browne colour is myxed with a pale, it declareth the man to be a blabbe of his tonge and a prater, sone angrye, and a speaker without any tem¦perature. This colour then tendeth to an extreeme folly. They that be but a lytle red and freckled and haue quaue∣ring and moouinge lyppes and wyde nostetrells be commonly couragious and readye to wrathe and anger: and to theym also is passion attributed. A meane redde colour noteth a readye and pregnaunt wytte and vnderstan∣dynge. They that be of a fyrye colour or verye neere, keepe theyr anger longe and are harde to pacyfye or to be ruled when they are angrye. When

the vaines of the braine and of the tem∣ples be seene and the eyes sanguyne, it is a sygne that the man is subiecte to vehement wrath, and that sometime he is folyshe & out of his wyts. When the face is redde, it is a sygne of shame or dronkennesse you shall then knowe this colour by the sygnes of the eyes.