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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The Sunne in Capricorne.

CApricorne maketh the childe angrye and light, accompaniynge him selfe with vyle and suspicious persons. Also painefull, and distracte and vexed wyth diuerse variaunces, the whiche aduer∣sities he shall boldely and stoutlye beare out and sustaine. He shall be readye to dye for the loue of some pore aud simple

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maide, the which at length shal cast hym into some disease and sickenes.

It maketh them also meanelye riche, beneuolente, chearefull, and merye: but vnstedfaste, if the natiuitye be by night. In his age, when hee seeth his rychesse increase, he will beginne to loue mony, and decline from his former liberality, vnto couetousnesse, for in youth he was easye to be handeled. He shal prospere in nauigations, and speciallye towarde the East, for hys fortune shal come out of the Easte from greate menne. The Phisiognomye of these children for the moste parte is suche: a little heade, hol∣lowe eyes, and a meane voyce. Bathes be profitable vnto hym beynge sicke. The women are tymerous, and verye shamefast, and shal haue dominion and vyctorye ouer their ennemyes, and shall straye farre abroade.

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[illustration] astrological diagram

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