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The boke of Palmestry.
❧ The first Chapiter of the distinction of the hand.
THE auncient Grekes, who (as it may ap∣pere by yt long and old vse of the word) did vse this sorte and kinde of Diuinatyon, whiche is ga∣thered by the beholdynge of manne his hande, called it by this propre name of Chyromancia. Wherfore I intendynge to write the rules & obseruations therof, do thinke it necessarye and mete first of al to discribe the hand of man, and point out & set forthe his partes, whereby such rules and preceptes as shall be geuen v∣pon this manuell diuination, maye the more easily be vnderstand and knowen. The hand therfore being extent or ope∣ned