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.

❧ Saturne Lorde of the Birthe.

SAturnus whersoeuer he be Lorde of birthe, doth draw the minde of those whiche are borne vnder him, hauing the bridle at libertie: to bee hie minded and stubburne, to malice, and to manie mise∣ries and calamityes. Howbeit, he ge∣ueth faieth and wisedome to perswade, and to discerne that whiche is iuste and true in all matters but in his owne, in the whiche he shal not be so circumspect. He shall trust muche vnto him selfe and to his owne witte, a small eater, but a

large drinker, not greatly affectioned to∣wardes his wife and children.

Moreouer, he causeth the bodye to be leane, colde, and drie, filling it ful of euil humoures, maketh palenesse, bringeth sickenesse sone, and heapeth all diseases together; as the inflammations of the lunges, with a feruent ague, the dropsy, the gout, the kings euil, botches & biles, fallinge of the heere, and blindenesse, fal∣linge sickenesse: and finallye, the whole seas and floude of noughtye and vicious humours. He dothe also cut of and shor∣ten the life, either in a moiste place, or els in a straunge or deserte place, oute of his natiue countrye. It is also very euell if Mercury do fal in the house of Saturn, for he maketh an inchaunter, a coniurer, a Southsayer, a truse breaker, and an enemy of his parents and brethren, and of al other men.