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.

XVII. MERCƲRY.

MErcury, Happy, and Fortunate, makes Men ingenious, desireous of Sciences, and seeking diligently after secrets, such as be apt for any thing; Orators, Poets, Eloquent, Crafty, Variable, and ready to learn any thing, Mathematicians, Arithmeticians, and Men addicted to Merchandize, &c.

Hee governes the Tongue and Memory, &c.

If he be Unhappy, he denotes Men full of Le∣vity, Lyars, Pratlers, Theeves, Cheats, un∣constant, Faithlesse, Traytors, &c. Hee suscitates dry Diseases, Madnesse, Fury, and acute Feavers, according as the rest shall as∣sist him.

But forasmuch as hee very seldome yields the Rule to one Planet onely, (the Familiari∣ty of Two, Three, or Foure often concur∣ring) wee ought to proceede very warily in finding out their Decrees: For, to collect and dispose the Mixtures of the Planets rightly, is, a thing very hard to be done, especially of those who are but slenderly excited: because such Mixtures are almost inscrutable, in respect of the generall influence of the Heavens.

Neverthelesse, the Worke is sooner effected, where the Lines and Signatures are Faire and clear: but if they be obscure, the judgement is more intricate.