Keiromantia [sic] or, The art of divining by the lines and signatures engraven in the hand of man, by the hand of nature, theorically, practically. Wherein you have the secret concordance, and harmony betwixt it, and astrology, made evident in 19. genitures. Together with a learned philosophicall discourse of the soule of the world, and the vniversall spirit thereof. A matchlesse piece. / Written originally in Latine by Io: Rothmanne, D. in Phisique, and now faithfully Englished, by Geo: Wharton Esq.

IV. Of the Thorall Line.

1. THis is also called the Line of Fortune; It is tearmed likewise the Mensall, be∣cause it makes up the Table of the Hand: which Line, when it is long enough, and without Incisures, argues a due strength in the Prin∣cipall Members of Man, and withall, constancy: The contrary, if it be short or crooked, cut, or Parted.

2. If it terminate under the Mount of Saturne, it showes a vaine and lying fellow.

3. If projecting small Branches to the Mount of Iupiter, it promiseth Honours.

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

5. If cutting the Mount of Iupiter, cruelty of mind, and excessive wrath.

6. If it project a Branch betwixt the Fore-finger, and the midle, 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 th••••d to the space betwixt the Ring and the Little-finger, argues a contentious Person in many Respects.

8. A little line onely thus drawn to the In∣tervall, or space betwixt the middle-finger, and the Ring-finger, sorrow and labour.

9. If annexed to the Naturall Meane, so, as that it makes an Acute Angle, it bringeth sor∣sow and labour.

10. If the Naturall meane be wanting, and the Thorall annexed to the Vitall, it threatens Decollation, or a Deadly wound.

11. If no Mensall at all, it showes a Man ma∣levolent, contentions, faithlesse, inconstant, and of base conditions.

12. Confused little Lynes in the mensall, de∣note sicknesses: if under Mercury, in the First Age: under the Sun, in the Flower thereof, un∣der the Midle-finger, in old Age.

13. When in this Lyne there are certaine Points observed, they argue strength of the Genitall••, and Burning lust.