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

5. MENSA.

THE Mensa, is, the Interval, or Space betwixt the Thoral and Epatica, the which is given to Fortune: Whence the Thoral is called The Line of Fortune.

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Est Pollex Veneris; sed Jupiter Indice gaudet: Saturnus Medium; Sol Medicum{que} tenet. Hinc Stilbon Minimum: Feriente candida Luna Possidet: In Cavea Mars sua Castra locat.

Venus the Thumb, and Jove the Index guides; Saturn the Middle; Sol the wanton Brides: Stilbon the Least, Luna the Ferient, And Mars in Cavea doth pitch his Tent.

Here we must Note, That there is some difference amongst Authors concerning the places of Mars, Venus, and Mercury: For some give the Tuberculum of the Thumb to Mars, The Cavea to Mercury, The Regio•• of the Little-finger to Venus. Now, to satisfie my self, I first of all observed such Men as were Venereal, [that is, such as were given to Jeasting, Fair, Merry, Agile, Lovers of Musick, &c.] And thes•• I found had the

Region of the Thumb plainly Marked with decent Signs, comely Notes and Characters: And that, not without their Nativities portending the Luxury of Venus, she being either collocated under her Proper Prerogatives in a competent place of the Figure, or in a good Aspect of some Planet. The like regard I had concerning Mercury. Wherefore the Cavea be∣longs to Mars.