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SUch are usually tall of stature, yet are their Bodies somwhat slender and dry, their Skin rough, hard, and cold in feeling, they have but very little Hair on their Bodies, and are long without Beards, they have also much superfluities at the Nose, the Face of a dark pale colour, their Hair usually of a blackish brown co∣lour, their digestion weak and somthing less than their Appetite, their Pulse slow, their Urine subcitrine and thin, their egestion sallow colour'd and somthing thin; dreamings are of falling down from high places, vain idle and fearful things.
As for Conditions they are very gentle and sober, wil∣ling to do good, admirable students, delighting to be alone, very shamefac'd and bashful, somwhat fretful, con••tant to their Friends, and true in all their actions.
Excess of eating, drinking, and sleeping, are as great Enemies to the Nature of such a man as R••ts-bane, for they fill the Bodie full of tough and congealed Humors, from whence proceed Morphew and other Infirmities of the Skin, and other Infirmities that are more than Skin deep, as stoppings of the Liver, corruptions of the Lungues, Asthma, Phtisick, Wind, Belly-ach, Chollick. If such will be ruled by me (if they will not I cannot help it) let them eat and drink moderately, let their care be to suffice Nature and not to stuff their