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.

II. Of the Epatica, or Naturall-mean.

1. THis Line being streight, continued, and not dissected by obverse litle Lines, de∣notes a healthfull Body.

2. If it be short (or Broken) and reach not beyond the concave of the Hand, it bodes Dis∣eases, and shortnesse of Life.

3. By how much more the same is pro∣duced, by so much longer the Life may be warranted.

4. If cut at the end thereof, by a small in∣tervening Line, it threatens Poverty in Old Age.

5. If in the upper part, it be distant from the vitall by a great space, it bodes distem∣peratures of the Heart, as Palpitation, Syncope, &c.

6. This also shewes Prodigality, especially if the Table be broad.

7. If Tortuous, [that is, if it wind and turne severall wayes,] unequall, of a different colour, and dissected, it argues an evill constitution of the Liver, and thence Diseases proceeding from the weaknesse thereof: covetousnesse also, & a Pravity both of nature and wit; especially, if from under the Region of the Middle finger,

it approach towards the Cardiaca, thereby making a short or narrow Triangle.

8. If Decently drawn and well coloured, it is a signe of a cheerfull and ingenious Dispo∣sition.

9. If it have a Sister, it promises Inhe∣ritances.

10. If continued with fome litle hard knots, it demonstrates Manslaughters, either perpetra∣ed, or to be perpetrated, according to the number of those knots.

11. If therein a crosse be found under the Region of the midle-finger, it denounces death at hand.

12. If it terminate with a Forke towards the Ferient, it is a signe of a Depraved wit, of Hy∣pocrisy, and evill manners.

13. When it tends to the Mensall, it is a token of a slanderous and reproachfull tongue, and of Envy.

14. When it projects a remarkable cleft through the vitall, to the Mons veneris, and the sister of Mars, especially if the same be of a Ruddy colour, it bids beware of Theeves! and intimates also Fraud and Deceipts of E∣nemies.

15. This cleft likewise insinuates a most vehement Heat of the Liver, proceeding from the Rayes of Mars, whereby the Life is dis∣quiered, for that the Line of life is dissected.

16. This Line having some Breach, yet such a one as that neverthelesse it seemes to be al∣most continued, showes, that the manner of life will be, or is already changed. And this in a Declining Age, if the Breach be under the Ring-Finger: But if under the Middle-Finger, in the strength of years.