The true fortune-teller, or, Guide to knowledge: Discovering the whole art of chiromancy, physiognomy, metoposcopy, and astrology. Containing 1. A discription of the planets, their power and influence over the bodies of men, women, and children. 2. Of the several lines, ... characters in the hand and wrist; ... 3. Of physiognomy. ... 4. Observations on the eyes, ... 5. Metoposcopy, or the signification of the lines in the face. 6. of moles, and their signification. 7. Of dreams and interpretations. 8. Of nativities, ... 9. If the rod ... 10. Of marriages, ... 11. Rules to know the dangers of death. 12. The manner of resolving doubtful questions, ... 13. Of Pythagoras his wheel of fortune. 14. Of the good and bad days of each month relating to health.

CHAP. XXVIII. (Book 28)

A second Observation of Nativities here known, or give wonderful guesses by the marks or lines of the Hand, Eyes, Fore∣head, and the like.

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CErtain is it, that man, according to the opinion of Ancient Philosophers, and Learned Men of all Ages, being a little world, that is the Epitome of the great one, many rare and wonderful things are to be observed, if seriously considered, but more especially in these particulars, for from the Nativities of either Sex, many future events derive their power and efficacy, and fall not out, as some will have it, by chance, but, in a manner, by course, and are liable, in a great nature, to be foreseen, though hardly to be prevented; for when man, intending so to do, uses divers means, and moves with great circumspection, yet by ways he perhaps dreams not of, many accidents and contingencies fall out between the Cradle and the Grave, some happy, and some unhappy; and the best way to prevent any danger threatned by the malignant influ∣ence of the Planet, or other causes, is with humiliation, and low prostration, to beseech the Supream Maker, Governour and Dis∣poser of all things, to avert it, who is only able, and whose sole will is fate, in whose power all things are, and with the same rea∣diness obey his voice (Mankind excepted) as at his word they were made; still we see the Sun keeps his course, distributing to the World light, and suffering darkness to take

its turn, the Moon and Stars move orderly, and know their appointed times and seasons, heat and cold dispossesses each other by turns. The Clouds give rain, and the Earth fails not to give her Increase; the Fowls of the Air, the Fishes of the Sea, and the Beast of the Field serve to the end for which they were ordained, with many more too tedious to recite, when men for the most refuse to live up to that more immediate knowledge that they are endowed withal, and improve that to their Maker's Glory, which in the end will redound to their immortal felicity. But not to paraphrase too long upon the ge∣neral, I shall proceed to the proposed par∣ticulars. As thus,

Taking the hand of the party, the day of whose Nativity, and what future Observati∣ons you are desirous to make, it being that Hand on which the lines are fairest, for in some Hands by labour they are worn out, and well marking the middle natural line where it ends (the beginning of it being at the root of the line of Life) take notice whether there be a cross there or not, or that some other line cut it not, as also to what part of the Hand they bend, for if so it happen that it bend and end near the Moons mount, it sig∣nifies the party to be born on a Monday, be∣ing the tenth of June, if there be two crosses,

it denotes the Birth to be on a Monday, the twentieth of June. If a line in the like na∣ture end in the plain of Mars, with one cross, denotes a man born on the tenth of March, two crosses on the twentieth. If so it happen to a woman, or woman-kind, she is born on the same days in October. If it end toward Mercury's mount in the like nature, then Wednesday, for man in May, the woman in August. If so it end under the mount of Ju∣piter, Thursday is the day, and November and February the months assigned. The middle line failing towards the mount of Ve∣nus, denotes Friday, the day in April or Sep∣tember. If the same line fail towards the mount of Saturn, then is Saturday the day, and the month December and January. If it fail towards the mount of the Sun, it falls out on a Sunday, July being assigned for the month. And so according to the crosses and figures, which frequently happen at the end of that line, according to their signification may be found any day of the months already assigned. Now the next thing which remains, is to know the hour, which is generally ob∣served by the colour of the Eyes, if they re∣tain their native colour, and are not perished by bruises, or defective by other accidents, and must be taken thus.

If the Birth be directly about midnight,

then will the eyes appear extream black. If at one of the clock they will be somewhat shining. At two of the clock the party be∣ing born, the eyes will have somewhat of a dark green in them, with dusky balls. Those that are born at four will be greenish, but the green a little lighter, inclining to an Olive-colour. After four or at five the par∣ty being born, the Apples ••f the eyes will incline to a whitish, though somewhat rela∣ted to a bluish. The party born at or be∣tween six and seven, will have the apples of his eyes half blue, and the remainder a kind of a wall colour. The party born at or be∣tween eight and nine hath the circuit of the centre of the apple blue, and the centre of a party-colour. At or between ten and eleven the party born has the eyes all blue, with a few marks. At twelve they begin to be somewhat greenish, though much shining. At or between one and two in the afternoon the party being born, has eyes between blue and green. At or between three or four they are of a pale green. At or between seven or eight they are coloured yellowish, with some small matter of green. At or between nine and ten they have red spots in them, though being of the same colour with those immedi∣ately foregoing. The party born at or be∣tween eleven and twelve, are as for the ele∣venth

hour, somewhat inclinable to redness, but from that time blacken to the twelfth.

And thus much for the hours of Night and Day, in every one of which throughout the year, either Male or Female, if not both, are born; and although it cannot be positively affirmed to be an infallible sign, yet, it is wonderfully to be observed, seldom failing the party in his Judgement, who makes due inquiry.

As for the year, if we have regard to Chi∣romancy, in that case it is known divers ways, as by the lines of the Wrist, Forehead; as for the Wrist, the lines signifies thirties of years, but as age increases those lines are ex∣tinct, decreasing by little and little, as if the first line be half extinct, then shows it, that the party is fifteen years of age, and to be quite extinct thirty; four lines in the Wrist being generally the most, though some have five, and by an equal measure in this case, a∣ny year may be known, by dividing a whole line into thirty parts, a half line into fifteen, and so to the quarter, or almost extinction or end.

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As for Age it's likewise seen in the Fore∣head, and this by the Rule of Metaposcopy, and on the first year appear but to the se∣venth year, when upon the left side extending to or towards the Temple from the Ear, there is a little line which denotes that age, and if it descend to the Forehead, it denotes the par∣ty to be between ten and twelve years of age; if it so fall out, that it is apparent in cutting through the Forehead, it signifies the party to be in the twenty fifth year, and according to its length, the years under twenty five are to be guessed or imagined, according to the Rule of this Art and Science. If there ap∣pear considerably divided, thirty years are signified, and from five and twenty to thirty,

according to the length of the third. If there happen a fourth, it signifies by its length, forty, fifty, sixty, seventy, and eighty years, especially if there happen another half line on the right side the Forehead, but beyond this, or especially exceeding five; they are referred to the Alfridaries, and cannot, or at least but with great uncertainty, in this case be known, but is better understood by wrinkles or lines in the extremities of the Eyes, reckoning twenty years to every line, and equally for the rest, though in young people, especially of the Female Sex, these rarely, unless they laugh or frown much, and then you must take heed lest you are deceived, by taking those for lines that are none, but rather appear so by the parties distorting his or her Face.