Chirologia, or, The naturall language of the hand composed of the speaking motions, and discoursing gestures thereof : whereunto is added Chironomia, or, The art of manuall rhetoricke, consisting of the naturall expressions, digested by art in the hand, as the chiefest instrument of eloquence, by historicall manifesto's exemplified out of the authentique registers of common life and civill conversation : with types, or chyrograms, a long-wish'd for illustration of this argument / by J.B. ...

Suspicio∣nem & o∣dium noto Gest. LIX

TO DRAW BACKE THE UNWILLING HAND INSTEAD OF REACHING IT OUT TO IMBRACE THE HAND OF ANOTHER, is a sign of enmity likely to prove inveterate, used by those who flatly refuse to agrée, & reject that proffered amity which they have in suspition. The example of Caius Popilius may seem very aptly to belong unto this gesture, who when he had met Antiochus foure miles distant from Alex∣andria, after greeting and salutation, at the first comming, Antiochus PUT FORTH HIS RIGHT HAND to Popilius; but he delivered unto him a scrole written, and wished him before he did a∣ny thing to read that script; after he had read the writing through, he answered he would devise with his friends, and consider what was best to be done. But Popilius according to his ordina∣ry blunt manner of speech which he had by na∣ture,

made a circle about the King with the rod he had in his Hand, and withall, make me an an∣swer (quoth he) I advise you, such as I may re∣port to the Senate, before you passe the com∣passe of this circle. The King astonied at this so rude and violent a commandement, after he had stayed and paused a while; I will be content (quoth he) to doe whatsoever the Senate shall ordaine; then and not before, Popilius GAVE THE KING HIS HAND as a friend and ally. The stoutnesse of Sylla, and his resolution to be reconciled upon no other tearmes then his own, discovered it selfe by the same neglectfull carri∣age of his Hand towards Mithridates, who when he came to him, and OFFERED TO TAKE HIM BY THE HAND; Sylla asked him first if he did accept of the peace, with the con∣ditions Archelaus had agreed unto; nor untill Mithridates had made him answer that he did, would he accept of his proffered and suspected amity; for then, and not before, he resaluted, embraced and kissed him. Thus Fredericke part∣ner and consort in the Kingdome with Uladisla•••• the second King of Bohemia, REFUSED TO GIVE HIS RIGHT HAND to Sobieslaus whom his father received into favour after he had at∣tempted to raise garboyles in Moravia, preten∣ding he had the gout in his Hand. And so that lofty and stately Prelate Dunstan REFUSED TO GIVE KING EDGAR HIS RIGHT HAND, be∣fore he was excommunicated, because he had defloured a Virgin, but rating him, Darest thou touch my Right Hand that hast ravished one de∣voted to God, I will not be a friend to him that is an enemy to God, & injoyned him seven years

penance, after which he was absolved, and the childe christned.

Notes

• Liv. l. 45. V••••er. ••••x. l. 6. cap. 4.
• Plutarch in the life of Sylla.
• Vincentius l. 24. c. 87.