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 heare by the substaunce.

THe heare smooth and thicke beto∣keneth meekenes, colde and moi∣sture. The further that the brayne is from heate, the more hearye is the head. The heate of a man that goeth to the vpper partes percinge throughe from all partes goeth thorowe the skinne of the heade and maketh an hu∣mour to comme oute of the holes that it maketh, and the fynest parte of this humour vanysheth away but the gros∣ser remayneth wythin and is turned in to heare. Whyche is harder than the

skinne and that by the meanes of the outward colde, & the heare is as bigge as the pore or hole, and as longe as the violence and force of thrusting it out is great. When the heare commeth oute slowlye, it is a signe of a moyste com∣plexion and not sanguyn. If they come a pase the body shall enclyne rather to drynesse than to moysture. And whan heate and drougth doe ioyne together the heare commeth out the sooner, and therewithall grosser. The multitude of heares declareth a hote man and the grossnesse of theym sheweth him to be full of fumosite. And therefore that happeneth more in yonge men than in yonge children. For in children the sub∣staunce is more vaporous than moyst. But in yong men it is contrary wher∣fore contraries folow their contraries. Abundaunce of heare in yong children sheweth their complexion that encrea∣seth and augmenteth, to tende to me∣lancolines. The curlinge of the heare signifieth heate and drines, & cōmeth of

the crokednes of the pores. The heares that be right vp in the head & the heare also that standeth vprighte in the rest of the body betoken fearfulnes in y^e man. The heares right or thicke declare the man to be cruell and whan they be rare then they shewe him to be a deceiuour and if they be curled and turninge vp∣ward it is a signe of a hoate complexiō. And they be fast together appearing vp on the forehead they declare a myghty courage and a brutall as the courage of beares. The heares that be pressed downe and couched together vpon the myddle of the forehead rysing together vpon the toppe of the heade shewe the man to be hoate, and without know∣ledge of honestye. The heares that be thine slender and fewe in number be∣side the temples declare the man to be colde and without force. The reason is for in that place, are the great arteres & that place ought naturally to be hoote, and consequently to haue aboundance of heares for asmuch as the generation

and growynge of heares commeth of heate. Therfore whan the heare is thin and slender in that place, there is lacke of heate, and this ought to be ascribed vnto women for thei neuer haue a bon∣dance of heare in that place. The heare thinne and hard besyde the temples de∣clare the man to be colde and feareful. And when they be thycke in the same place and besyde the eares it is a sygne of heate & whordome. And thei be there stable, blacke or yellowe they signify a violēt mind or courage. If thei be grosse and somewhat whiter, it is a signe that the man shall be indocible whom men shall not rule nor tame. The abundāce of grosse heares & pressed downe, with the abundance of heare in all the rest of the body, doe shewe in an infante a me∣lancolines to come, that is to saye, that he shall fall into a furye or folly. When heares growe in a man that is already aged it is a token of great adustiō by na¦ture, y^t which engendreth folly & priua∣tion of wytte and sense. Women are ne¦uer

bald, for their nature is like the na∣ture of infantes or children. The gel∣ded men lykewyse neuer waxe bald for they be almost of the nature of womē. The heares y^t are made curled by tou∣ching like vnto the wrinkling of pepper doe sygnifye weakenesse in the vertue digestiue and age comminge haste∣lye on.