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.

Example II.

Another borne (Spurcè puta) in the Coun∣trey of Uratislavia, of Ignoble Parents, in the Year 1590. Feb. 2. New stile, Hor. 1. 30. After-noon.

AS soone as I saw this Child (in my Tra∣vailes) I desired to know the time of his Birth: For, he was hardly Foure years old, and looked with an exceeding Free and com∣ly Face: And perceiving him Illegitimate, I did the more diligently observe and describe the Lineaments of his Hand; And how ex∣actly they Agree with the Starres in his Geniture, shall be the next presented to our Enquiry.

We finde Foure or Five of the Planets ex∣cellently well dignifyed; in which respect, it might fittly be called, A Regall Geniture. Venus her selfe is in her Exaltation, and more then so, in mutuall Reception with Iupiter, from Houses. The like Reception there is betwixt Saturne and Mercury. Mars is in his Tripli∣city, and very strong in that part of Heaven. Sol, Saturne, and Iupiter make a Triangle, in Aery Signes, and so doth the Part of Fortune.

[illustration] depiction of palm of hand with markings.

1. They all premonstrate not onely length of Life, and constancy of Health, but also an absolute Wit, and a Mind that is Noble.

In his Hand you finde an excellent Concin∣nity of Lines, and the places thereof admirably well adorn'd [viz.] The Tubercula of Venus and Iupiter, then the Tuberculum of Mercury, and lastly the Moon's: yee behold a conspi∣cuous Sister of Mars: whereby wee may pronounce him a most Fortunate and Formi∣dable Warrier.

2. Mercury enclines Him to all Manner of Sciences, and gives a Profound Wit.

3. The Region of Iupiter is Grac'd with his proper Character. So you see, in the Ge∣niture, the Great Dominion of Iupiter with the Virgins Spike, not without the Reception of Venus.

4. In like manner the Tuberculum of Venus, beautifyed with convenient Incisures. And therefore in describing the Genius of the Na∣tive, wee must make a Mixture of the signi∣fications of Mars, Venus, Iupiter, and Mercury.

5. Saturne letting downe Three Litle Lines from his Tuberculum, and therewith cutting the Thorall, denounce Sicknesse in his Old-Age, Poverty also and Needinesse.

6. The Capaciousnesse of the Mensa, shewes the Goodnesse of his Nature.

7. The Via Solis designes him to Honours, but (being touched by Diminutive Lines) not without some slender Impediments.

8. The Line of Saturne Ascending (by a streight Path) even to the Midle Finger, confirmes the Excellency of the former Iudge∣ments.

9. The Ferient tells of Iourneys: And the like are signifyed in the Geniture, by the Po∣siture of the Moone in the West-Angle: so also by the Trine of Mercury to Saturne, Lord of the Ninth House.

10. The Epatica (having a Breach in the End thereof) denotes a Change of the Man∣ner of his Life, in Old Age, &c. The Excel∣lent Reception of the Planets disposing of the 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12^th Houses, what further concernes the State and Condition of the Native.