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 forehead.

THe face is the onelye partie where the man onely becommeth. They that haue a great forehead are cō∣monly slouthfull and are compared to oxen. They that haue a broad forehead commonly chang their minde and yf it be very great, they be fooles of lytle dis∣cretion and rude of witte. Vnderstand take this brodnes w^t the iust quantitye of the length and largenes. They that haue a rounde forehead are subiecte to wrath and anger specially if their fore∣head be open & plaine. And they be also insensible like vnto Asses. They y^t haue a litle forehead and narrow be fooles, & doltes, not easely to be taught, slouens, deuourers lyke swine. They y^e haue a metly long forehead haue good wits & ar easely to be taught but yet they are som what vehemēt as dogs be. They y^t haue square forehed of a meane greatnes for mall to the heade are vertuous, wyse,

and couragious like Lions. They that haue a plaine and flatte forehead and w^t out wrinkle will not bowe, & be w^tout wytte contumelious, and much subiect vnto anger, obstinate, and full of contention. They that haue a longe and stretched oute foreheade be flatte∣rers and such haue their parte of passi∣ons. They that haue a darcke and coue∣red foreheade be audatious and terri∣ble. A lowe forehead and obscure, ma∣keth the man readye to weepe, and in that he folowethe the pecockes. The forehead that is great hath euer muche grosse fleshe, and contrarye the lytle forehead hath fine & thinne fleshe. The lytle forehead and finesse of the skynne betoken a fyne wytte and wauerynge. Nowe than the spirite or wytte, is a fyne body engendred of the vapours of the bloode. And this spirite or wytte beareth the vertues of the soule to the spirituall mēbers. And therfore where there be grosse humours there a good wytte cannot be. When a foreheade is

to much wrinkled, it is a signe of a man wythout shame, and this wrinkling cōmeth of to much moysture, although that sometime it proceedeth of drieth, & if the same be not in all y^e forehead, it de¦clareth the man to be full of anger, and very subiect to anger and kepeth longe hys anger and hatred wythoute cause. They that haue a shorte foreheade, the temples and the checkes flatte preste downe, & large chawbones he subiecte to the disease called the kinges euyll. They that haue as it were a litle cloud on y^e toppe of their nose or in y^e middes, as narrowe are coumpted angry men as bulles and Lions. A hygh forehead large and longe signifieth encrease of goods. A low foreheade is no signe of a manly mā. The forehead that is some what swelling vp aboute the temples wyth a grossenes of fleeshe wyth the Iawes also full of fleeshe, declareth a greate courage anger, pryde and a grosse vnderstanding.