The contemplation of mankinde contayning a singuler discourse after the art of phisiognomie, on all the members and partes of man, as from the heade to the foote, in a more ample maner than hytherto hath beene published of any. In the place next after the chapter of the forehead, hath the phisiognomer added a proper treatise of the signification of sundrie lines seene in most mens foreheads: which in sundrie disputations with a skilfull Iew, he at the last obtayned. ... In the ende is a little treatise added of the signification of moles ... written by a worthie Grecian named Melampus. All which, englished by Thomas Hyll.

The signification and iudgement of fee∣ling, after Phisiognomie. The. xl. Chapter.

THe Philosopher (in libro de regimine princi∣pum) reporteth, that y^e sence, which consisteth in the hand, is the ••actiue or palpatiue vertue, and the course of them resteth in the heate and colde, rough and soft, moysture & dryth. And it is a ver∣tue contayned betwéene two skins, of which, the one is in the vpper face of the bodie, & the other, in the same which belongeth & cleaueth vnto the fleshe: so that when eche of these sences is attay∣ned: which God by his mightie vertue, hath mi∣nistred to this kinde: thinne skinnes so light as the Spiders webbe arise, and come from the roote of the braine: and are as a fine scarffe and thinne Curtaine to this kinde: insomuch, that when the same is presented, which eche sence hath: and the same commeth vnto those skinnes, which are in that substaunce of the braine: the passages then of all the sences are gathered with the yma∣ginatiue vertue, which representeth these to the cogitatiue vertue, which consisteth in the middle

of the brayne: that it may beholde these, and both gather and studie in the figures and examples of them, that it may knowe in them the nociue and innatiue, and that the same may be wrought ac∣cording to measure, which procéedeth or commeth to it of them. And as Auerrois (in de sensu & sen∣sato) vttereth, that the féeling is ••iesh: and is pro∣per to al instruments of the senses: this considred, that these nothing possesse of all the senses in the acte of them, which they properly comprehend, but the instrument of féeling: which is compowned of the qualityes, which it comprehendeth: and for that cause doth this not comprehende, but the in∣tensed matters, through his temperament: and for the same reason, howe much the temperater the flesh shall be founde, so much the more doth it comprehende the simple qualities, as heate, colde, dryth, and moysture. For these doth man inioye farre aboue other liuing creatures, and is of fée∣ling better and sensibler, which especially is decer∣ned by the hande (as the fleshe of the paulme) and the flesh especially of the fore finger. But the tongue (at the ende of it) hath no taste in the act: and for that cause, when the same is imbybed and filled of certaine humors, the taste then is corrup∣ted: and lyke is to be conceyued of the instru∣ments, of the other senses. The selfe same vtte∣reth Albertus (in libro de anima) where he wil∣leth

to conceyue that the skinne is wouen with sinewes very small, and wyth hearie veynes contayned wythin the same wouen, wyth which the Lyuer, and bowelles are wrapped: that these maye defende them from outwarde harmes: and for this, the skinne in beastes, is ve∣ry thicke, and hearie. For that the same hath not anye protection or outwarde defence: but the skinne in men is thinne. For which cause it is pro∣tected and succoured by garmentes, from winde, colde, and raine. Séeing the skinne compowned of the sinewes, is naturally white: for that cause is the propertie of the sinewes procured, that y^e same retcheth out and draweth in, & is white in coulour: but the rednesse of bloud, passing by them, appea∣reth to the eye. So that whose colour of the hande or face is white or redde (as Phylemon vttereth) and of a good féeling: doe denote the faythfulnesse of minde, constancie, and truth: & this confirmed, if a commensuration or comelinesse of forme con∣sist in the other members. These hitherto vttered of féeling, shall here suffice.