Aristotle's legacy: or, his golden cabinet of secrets opened. In five treatices 1. The wheel of fortune. 2. The art of Palmestry. 3. A treatise of moles 4. The interpreter of dreams. 5. Observations on fortunate and unfortunate days. With many other secrets and experiments, never before published. To which is added, a compleat book of riddles. 1. The fortune teller, or knowledge of good & bad fortune, ... 7. Also the best and most powerful receipt for making love powder. To which are added twenty merry and pleasant riddles, with their solutions or explanations: the whole illustrated throughout with curious cuts, proper to each particular: being the best, most exact, and accomplished book of this nature.

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Aristotle's legacy: or, his golden cabinet of secrets opened. In five treatices 1. The wheel of fortune. 2. The art of Palmestry. 3. A treatise of moles 4. The interpreter of dreams. 5. Observations on fortunate and unfortunate days. With many other secrets and experiments, never before published. To which is added, a compleat book of riddles. 1. The fortune teller, or knowledge of good & bad fortune, ... 7. Also the best and most powerful receipt for making love powder. To which are added twenty merry and pleasant riddles, with their solutions or explanations: the whole illustrated throughout with curious cuts, proper to each particular: being the best, most exact, and accomplished book of this nature.
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[London] :: Printed for J. Blare, at the Looking-Glass on London-Bridge,
[1699]
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Riddles -- Early works to 1800.
Fortune-telling -- Early works to 1800.
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"Aristotle's legacy: or, his golden cabinet of secrets opened. In five treatices 1. The wheel of fortune. 2. The art of Palmestry. 3. A treatise of moles 4. The interpreter of dreams. 5. Observations on fortunate and unfortunate days. With many other secrets and experiments, never before published. To which is added, a compleat book of riddles. 1. The fortune teller, or knowledge of good & bad fortune, ... 7. Also the best and most powerful receipt for making love powder. To which are added twenty merry and pleasant riddles, with their solutions or explanations: the whole illustrated throughout with curious cuts, proper to each particular: being the best, most exact, and accomplished book of this nature." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A75577.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 8, 2024.

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Good or Bad Fortune known by the Eyes, Nose Mouth, Ears, &c. of Men or Women.

LArge Eyes, denotes the party stout and Couragious, but Deceitful, and of a Quarrelsome humour. Eyes party colour, denotes a Woman much given

[illustration] a male and a female face with exaggerated forehead lines
to Love, but instable and Unconstant. Greenish little Eyes, standing inward, denotes wisdom and Councils, Fortunate in success, &c. A large Nose, much

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hanging down, denotes Covetousness. A round Nose at the extremitys 〈◊〉〈◊〉 small Nostrils, denotes, in a Man Pride and incredulity; in a Woman, much given to Love and lust. A red Nose, naturally so, denotes a Contentious Turbu∣lent, and Quarrelsome Person If in a female the Gristle of the Nose seem to part from the Bone▪ or to be dinted at the end, she hath (undoubtedly) lost her Virginity. A great Mouth, standing unseemly wide, denotes the party foolish, but a great babler, and Devulger of false storys, delighting to make Mischief. A little Mouth, well proportioned, denotes the party wise, peacable, loving and chast. The Ears large and thick, denotes a defect in Memory, and foolish: little and thin the contrary: A fleshy Face denotes a merry chearful person: A thin lean one, a wise, but malicious, and covetous Person.

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