Briefe introductions, both naturall, pleasaunte, and also delectable vnto the art of chiromancy, or manuel diuination, and physiognomy with circumstances vpon the faces of the signes. Also certain canons or rules vpon diseases and sickenesse. Whereunto is also annexed aswel the artificiall, as naturall astrologye, with the nature of the planets. Written in the Latin tonge, by Ihon Indagine prieste. And now latelye translated into Englishe, by Fabian Withers.

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Briefe introductions, both naturall, pleasaunte, and also delectable vnto the art of chiromancy, or manuel diuination, and physiognomy with circumstances vpon the faces of the signes. Also certain canons or rules vpon diseases and sickenesse. Whereunto is also annexed aswel the artificiall, as naturall astrologye, with the nature of the planets. Written in the Latin tonge, by Ihon Indagine prieste. And now latelye translated into Englishe, by Fabian Withers.
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Indagine, Joannes ab, d. 1537.
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Londini :: Apud Iohannis Day [for Richarde Iugge],
1558.
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Palmistry -- Early works to 1800.
Physiognomy -- Early works to 1800.
Astrology -- Early works to 1800.
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"Briefe introductions, both naturall, pleasaunte, and also delectable vnto the art of chiromancy, or manuel diuination, and physiognomy with circumstances vpon the faces of the signes. Also certain canons or rules vpon diseases and sickenesse. Whereunto is also annexed aswel the artificiall, as naturall astrologye, with the nature of the planets. Written in the Latin tonge, by Ihon Indagine prieste. And now latelye translated into Englishe, by Fabian Withers." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A03968.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 20, 2024.

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Of the Horoscope in Libra.

LIbra being ascendente at the houre of natiuity, causeth sicknesse, daungers, enemies, & great strifes and debates, how be it, after all those daungers, it decreeth victory and triumphe. Also promotions, religion, sincerity, and integrity of iudg∣ment. In nothing so vnfortunate as in hauinge of children, for when he hathe gotten certaine children, and beginneth to put all his hole confidence and truste

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in them by and by, they shall decaye and dye, euen those in whome he had set his ful hope and trust in.

If any mā desire to know what digni∣ties he shal haue & in what place, ye may very wel be perceiued by Cācer being as¦cendēt in the midest of the heauen. Who promiseth ecclesiastical promotiōs or sti∣pend, and to haue his liuing oute of the common treasure. Hither also are to be referred the substance, nobility, and chil∣dren, which shal happen aboundantly in age: how be it he shal not be so fortunate in children, except Iupiter do behold him with some foundly aspecte.

Aries being in the accident, shal mini∣ster all these thinges in watery places, or about the water: shal also bring him in∣to great daungers, lōg iourneys, and de∣sert places, into pearils by his wife: and peraduenture into a frensye or madnesse til he draw in age, and then he shal haue an end of all these miseries.

Capriobrne shall tesse him hither and thither, and seldome suffer him to be in quiet, nether wil he suffer his patrimony

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to be in suretie, but now vp, now down, now losse, now recouered again: because for the most parte they be wanton whi∣che haue Capricorne in the nether parte of the heauen. Also be shall haue a sonne by an vnlawfull woman.

[illustration] astrological diagram

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