The works of that late most excellent philosopher and astronomer, Sir George Wharton, bar. collected into one volume / by John Gadbvry ...

IV. Of the Thoral Line.

1. THis is also called the Line of Fortune; It is termed likewise the Mensal, because it makes up the Table of the Hand: Which Line, when it is long enough, and without Incisures, argues a due strength in the Principal Members of Man, and withal, Con∣stancy: The contrary, if it be short or crooked, cut, or parted.

2. If it terminate under the Mount of Saturn, it shews a vain and lying Fellow.

3. If projecting small branches to the Mount of Ju∣piter, it promiseth Honours.

4. If there it be naked and simple, 'tis a sign of Poverty and Want.

5. If cutting the Mount of Jupiter, Cruelty of Mind, and excessive wrath.

6. If it project a branch betwixt the Fore-finger and the Middle, in a Man it threatens a Wound in his Head, in a Woman, danger in Child-bearing.

7. Three Lines ascending directly upwards from this Line, viz. One to the space betwixt the Middle

and Fore-finger; a second to the space betwixt the middle and the Ring-finger; and a third to the space betwixt the Ring and the Little-finger, argues a Con∣tentious Person in many Respects.

8. A little Line only thus drawn to the Interval, or space betwixt the middle-finger and the Ring-finger, Sorrow and Labour.

9. If annexed to the Natural-mean, so, as that it makes an Acute Angle, it bringeth Sorrow and La∣bour.

10. If the Natural-mean be wanting, and the Tho∣ral annexed to the Vital, it threatens Decollation, or a Deadly Wound.

11. If no Mensal at all, it shews a Man Malevo∣lent, Contentious, Faithless, Inconstant, and of base Conditions.

12. Confused little Lines in the Mensal, denote Sicknesses: If under Mercury, in the First Age: Un∣der the Sun, in the Flower thereof; under the Mid∣dle-finger, in Old Age.

13. When in this Line there are certain Points ob∣served, they argue strength of the Genitals, and burn∣ing Lust.