I ILLINOIS Production Note Digital Rare Book Collections Rare Book & Manuscript Library University of Illinois Library at Urbana—Champaign 2019 .“ 1 “sun? NV ’ f mm .1 w 1 I H , v‘f‘m’ \U’ \V‘ “| I' ,J‘ / l‘/:,1(a«‘/‘I*(‘(I /. ,1 ’\ LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAICN RARE 33a 5 “ - R0 LOGIA ~OR THE NATVRALL LANGVAG . OF THE . , HAND 5 .Compofed of the Speaking Mon; ons,and Difcourfing Gcfiures tncrcof ' Wkermnta 22': added CHIRONOMIA Or, the Art of ~ ‘ MANVALL RHETORICKB‘V Confifiing afthe Natural} Exptcffions’ d1- , ’gcfled by Art mtbc H A N D as the chcheft InfirumentB of YEloquéncc , v HiSTORICALL WANIFESTOS EXEMPLIFIED ' Out oftbe Authcgtique Regif’cms of Common . Life, and Civill Converfation With TYPES, or czjrxocx AMS A mlang xvi/21’ dfor illM/fmtion of :59: Arngth 2 By} B Gent Phxlochxrofophus MMMMS WSW/5mm homiim' [aqMMciflimMm. i0 ND 0 N, Printczd by Tim. chrper, and are to be fold by A ., «K W171Mk,7,at bis (boy :11 Paula (“hm 1%de 16% v / N cad“ a? J To H13 HEROIKE FRIENI EDWARD GOLDSMITH ”j ofGRAIEsINNE; ET? I ,. SIR, «rib/Mg” b 111; Hen I firfi (according \f' to my open and free ' manner of communia cation to my intelleétmall ‘ Fri’mdes) mflxewed you a. , COPie ($me Mm , which ac; quainted you with my {cope and generall projeé’uon upon -- Cj’efiure you wereplgafcfifi as m a Platoni(.1ue ex afi: OI ape. A 2+ ‘ PW firchenfion) to admire the Vail; hefle 9f the Defigne,te applaud the rife thereof; and the promii. ling ,alpeé}: it had to the ad- .vaucement ,ofLearning; info» much as fill’d with the beu’eyoe lent influenee and illufiratiou of ;a Prophetique rapture , you gurn’d Cbiromancer, divining by? éthe~ lines of life and profleriv , whieh appeared faire untp you in the firl’: draught ; that" the Hand would be embraced ané. killed bythe more intelligent part 6f the World , and in time have“ and learne to fpeake (as it thh naturally) f0 literally gall Languages, This firong ttfiwftiefi of you! gen-cats: on W my early undertakings ,'“ yeti have by the vivacity of a ma"? fleeing phanfie,~ ofizentimes" endeavoured to propagate in the opinions of your mofli generom dog‘mintancex, which as they were the friendly efl‘orts ~ of afubtle perfpicacity ofyome Iu’dgement {which I have: heard a Great Critique to ac; knowledge to he the genuine; fez“ licit} of yourintellefl, wherebyf - you are able to diffecft the leafl: » ato me ofa ‘P/Ji/O/bpbimll pro/13,; 511022;) I have (though the railing of exPeé’tation proves many nmesvan 1n junous C001“; zefie} took as a good omen" r95 advanee upon. VVhat was? A 51 V fheff then a cloud that ha& neither the {hape, nor hignes of a mans Hand, 15 now growne fit to be held up, and byi: sowne fuf- {rage to chufe and confirme you its Patron: Foxy! affeét‘ing no Dedication that rifes above the level! of Friend/hip, having in, tentionally confecrated all the iffues of my recefle and leifure to certaineleleét triends This bath by are/criptian and flgniol rity of acquamtance as by a ‘Prerogmim, and bya recipro’ cation of love for yOur afieéhon to 11:1, falls to you? ‘7 1122:2022. I, . confefle fome other of my (11» g: fled thoughts firugled for Preeedenete , gleaming by the anal analogie 10f“ Mfures .ufinfl cau‘r‘fe, andthe Lima! Wau'id "have had! the priviledge off/r1" magem'mre: But it fell out in rhe contention {omcwhm like“ as in the cafe of Tam“ twinsmlfmg' Zamzé put {Orth his Hand, and“, » the midwife faidi grlvxkumme wtfirfl. HOWQVEI th‘r’s Chm/0» pbie or firfl" Fruits Qfmy Hand be accepted abmad, héwing pm ‘ forth my Rngz Hand in figme’ ofamity to youfind for perfor :- mance of promi c than: re“; maines nothing C mofi'fnoble Cbirop/ajlmjbut thew you Iakfi it , between Yours in token of Warranty and pratéé‘tfinfis thé tender 053 fpring 050116 who is Your afiefiiomazc Frimci, EC: H N Bu LVV a Re '>«*Httmane V"',.'.‘7\(atttre. For bal/a/Z to the/Ma ' Jeff ,' ana'to mafie the" matter in Hand more fill“! and fitbflan— ' ti've , I Mall annex con/altatiom wit/9 Mtare , afora’ing a g/ofle- oft/9623* caufi: 2 find/‘07? tbefttr’ > , tber embel/ifla‘iag thereof ', lfltall * (writ/9 mo/Z paint: If Expre ion wit/9 {; gt fl { ‘ ‘ K v $ .m» ”Mf‘\‘ fi' (7;; ‘ Mt!) example: 601:1?) 91%;:ch 4:25! propba‘ne wutboritj, more q/fea daily drawne from V’oet: and Hillorimzmbe only great @0520)”: Zin-t/QéP-aint of Humane literag; tare; wberein, é} the my, I/Zmlli Iggy claime to all ”temp/90m , pro,»- 7 weréia/l tran/latiom er “fur/mm om,- mzd a]! @inde of fiméalimll Elegancie: taken and éorrowed' from (jg/lure: oftbe Body, raid: the depredatiam we fuétiler’ 11”: 9f Speecb have made upon them for five advancement andex‘ dltation of theirpartimlar in wen» lion: and deflgnex. will the/e ' (togetber wit/J t6: civil! ritemnd ceremoniom ext/lame: and/afliam 0f 512?er Nation: in their 3335 ”22222220222le exprflono hy Gig/22m 5 5With the per/22222211 12201222222: 222221 ”5222222222 hahfl? 22222222221222 222222) 7’ 2mg hut 225 fi) 2222222}: fiverczll‘ 2222.2 2192222222222 222 2222 422gle', 222221 1 o22ch 222 2/223“ 1202;222 1 2222e2221 to 222212222 222221 hr222g‘ home to their , funtazrze 222221 20222222022 122222222 he Body of 2222222. 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FRA: GOLDSMITH. 3......“ V gimme» It; IQ lm ingenious Friend the Antiwar; ‘ [THe Hand: difcourfing Gel’cures, ever rife, ' F Though no: [0 much ,obferv’d in common life, (Notes wherein Htflm‘c delights to place TI he circumfiantiall beauties of her grace) . éThy 84ml hath, like a cunning Motifi. foufié In all the Senfes,wherein they abound : ‘Which in one Bundle with thy Language ty’dsfa Ore-tops the poring Book-wormes highefl pride. ’aAt the firft fight we learne to read 5 and then By Natures rules to perce‘and confirue Men : So commenting upon their Geflure, finde In them the trueft copie of the Minde. The Tongue and Heart th’intention oft divide: .;T he Hand and Meaning ever are ally’de. All that are deafe and dumbe may here recrnte . ' I heir language , and then blclfe Thee‘for the mgr Enlargemeuto‘fThy,Mphahefs,’ whofc brief: ‘ EXprefl'es gave their Mindes f0 freereliefe. ' ' " And of this filent fpcech,Thy Hand doth ih'ew More to the World then ere it 100156 to know. He-is (that does dehie Thy Ham’this sight) AStoiqueor an-AreoPagite. 7 ‘ a ‘ . : a"? éaxgaefilfigaiwfi . ‘. , é, . ; €93 I fiafiaésé V W §§é§$$§§égfiw§fi§$ §§§‘§%%‘5‘?r§3 Q To bfifingulargaod and approved Friend: 2:135: Exprefl'e or Signature of z‘mtgfieé'tuafl Amitia, [Wynn bi: CHIROLQGIAg ’GUILs Dicousom joy (dea‘re friend) to fee'thy Paliize'idifglayfV '_ I A new? Chiroflapbie, Which'hidd'efiiay- § \ In Natures Hierogiyphique grasp’d,the granéid' ~ ’ 3’ And expreffe Pantotype of Speechsthe Hand. Me thought thy Encéiiidiozz; at fiififi View, Seem’d like that Manual! clmd, t‘hacfwihiy grew, g. T111 the moyf’c Curtaine had the heavens oeewfgreadg For firaightwaies it became th’ Encycloped. . ’ Who’ll no: heleeve, with de’ep‘Cégzron) that men; May have more fenfes then they exit did ken a? ‘ Since Speccb, that doth within thy Ham! commenw; ‘ l - DeferVes. the double honour efa Senfe, And may obteine unto a better end, Jhafato which gingm didin vain: pretend; V V..y the V How might .Antiqm’ic now blufla‘ to {cc , Such main: deficiencies fupply’d by Thee? ‘ inset-{prams henceforth grow out Qfdatc, . VVhsic Politiqaes 11f urpc the Salim flares; And (know-«Communerg in dumb: difpufes i O umc th’imeiiigcncc 0531! his Maw. _ ‘ ‘V " The: bab:,whofc harps: of3peecé is yct unfirung,‘ Spmkcs {cafe and reafon 9n this EnfanfiTonguca P :1 Tribes {hall now each. other underfland, Which ( though mt of‘om: ,1 5p) are 050m {Mazda [C‘Ijzrblag’fe :cdcsmcs from Babel: doo‘mc, ' ‘ :And is {he univcrlall Idiome. ‘ QM madam; REmch EbePiflm, and fef out thc Bar; ' *' , ' ’Th’oid Neplm ulzm’: narrow bcunds, as far. J As aflzwe Wit imploycs a [Peaking Hzmd : For, same though it hairs an {In/minim? land, ,YC‘I: thcrc’s noé‘tratgéts ormmafl Thule fer, 'lnvcmiuns new Dii‘cuverics to let. ~Sh‘ice the Great Inflmmtion of thc Art’s By memiw Secure», whaie parts , Advaizced Le-zmirz‘g #0 :2 pcrfeé? Hates J Than 3.2-": the 541% that from his 5.23:2: durfi: daté ' Ear Arts Emm‘em’d defi?é35r, ain‘t-w [ygzufy ;, , 3, : v {35%}: mm inézimc in H‘vupmirim) ’ g , ,7 fifl? ich doth i5: my :erjefizbm émpie ifihearc,‘ . ._ ‘, mm WWW?’S‘WW WW" " \du. :9 And as we much unto Thy Hand doe owe i i; For Augmentatim, fume a§ fatre {hill gee Another way, :0 thew their ieatned might, .J While Science, Cmfccnt—likc,extends her light; Thus while the gratefull Age offer whole fprings "Of Palm, my Zea}: an humble Daétyle brings :_. Which lawful! pride (like Burn/m his name : ‘ He fit-eve to faften (an 054 via’: frame) ‘ Shall be my highefl: glory : MayJ Rand k Butas Excrcfcentc on thy well—limb'd Hard. THOMAS DI coxsox; Med. Temp]. fl’bbz’s tie/email} banoar’d Friend, Mr?! ’ “I“. B. “(490% Ink excellent piece a Iziefimmpowg E S I it 5 ‘1 l N thefe Antique times, when men were good, And fiudied the now vice cail’d Gratitude: ,Thofe that in Arts inventions firfi did flame, 3N“; hoqongfd with theTitle of Divine. , r e s ‘ ” Wit/i *,~.r, w P byfick ané fading, in his flamfiag Chaim LP!ae’d‘l’bafilzw3 and. befiow’d that blazing Hake": \Whence cfcen it hath” been obferv’d and {66135 . Phyficians have the befl ofPoets been. , , . V , Haw fllould we hemor Thee then,wh0fe lurid: gain Hath added to his Gifts a higher veine :' In thefe canfumiag dayes, hafi eas’d our 7' 0141355315 And rais’d an Art m favour oft'ne Lungs. ' Le: 3mm fault: flee-p fweet: the time is came ”film Ggfi‘m {hall no longer now be dumbe; And Natures; filent {notions {hall advance Above the Vocall key of Utterance : Where every Digit di.6tates,*and dorh reach um our feiiafe a mouth-excelliag Speech. Arts Parrféfilztar E What 3466!! did denie Te Lipg and Bare, Th’afi: given the Hind and Eye; . Hafi reconcil’d the.Worid,,and its defeaé't Suppfiy’diby one unetring Diakéf. . ‘ ‘ To Thee this hexane we owe; for which great Worth 'W e afidefirous are to limb Thee forth : But biuflaing3 muff confeire, none can command A penal}! Worthy Thee, but: Thy own Hand. JquICKENSOfi/j.‘ ., .5: p 5555455 55555555555552 ”5 5:5 Ad cruditum Camowmae Authotcm omnifq, reconditioris Pbilofophix Scrut‘arorem afsiduum. " " N 0» prim 55555.5 S opbm dmfermla My]? Et Tm convims excipz‘t mm MA Nvg *5 Btu quad poflicz'm: flap: :5; lmtorq; widcre kaummamfiripm impo/uij]? Mdnum ° Expanfique M5152“ Capitis myfleriapandes, - H as w fafim‘um 4’51: mibi Chirogmpbum Ad cundcm. ‘23:; J‘é'm; in 03755555.: 721760? 7&0 335429: mfg-u" V Amao'léynv, wkfimflw‘ woAvauJaAéml. 24th 22 ge'gyotgw fia’pmgs; Ev pawn-g «Ibonim var/vhf: )égafy E * Swflwlemtttimidmjfidem ad alm mam”. ‘Virgfl. ' HenCe farém in Virgil is laid IEneid. j < Malta Iawm‘kmaniém E flapplex omflhjfnpiukr Idemlih. Thus Anchi’fe: in the fame Poet, 3' Enddo At pater Mncbz'fer pa :5 * de littore palm} Naming: magma wear. ‘ Idem 13.5,, $0 [leantbug " ,1 Ni * 1741de ponto tendcmlmmfy‘; (“ham/m [Fudifl'etq; pmcer, a’iwfq; in mm muffin] OvidJib. Thus [reflex in Ovid, > 8. Mctam. ‘ ' ‘ dedeemfupplex (reg); mam: tolls»: ' SILItal. So Scipio in Sil‘Imlicm, lib-4» * Suélatzk in Cesium maniém [pmmtun] Their manner was to turne thcmfelves t0 the Eaft, with an ereéted countenance, HA ND 5 o‘ Valet; man s PREAD, LIFTED up, AND STRETCH‘ EaCCJi'z'ED our TOWARDS HEAVEN. - Whence Valeria: F 140cm, I mpemt lainc‘kalte Phoyéi furgmté‘ ad orétm Ferre mm”: .._...._.. in the life In this pofiure we finde vintanim L I H I NC Sign“ up H; 3 HAND 5 To HE AV E N, making atbfi‘ ' rifahle meager to the gods for his army when he Idemin Was to encounter the Parthians‘. And (M. F”‘ 23c 15?; °f rim Cami/1m ufed the fame gei’cure of his Hand! m" “""in his pgaper at the taking of the Citie VeieI. Idem-in Thus Alexandra” in his third battaile with ‘9‘“ the life of rim, before he gave charge upon the enemiesi‘, “3““ he woke his Lance in his iefi hand, and H0 LD' great. ) ~ 1 N ,3; The naturafl Language oftbe Hzmd. 1N6 HIS RI em- HAND uN-r'o Hews N, {39,1de in fought fl}? 5035 (as 5 411191401“ writeth) that if it the life at were true he was begorten of fupiter, that it Alenthe would pleafe them that day to helpe him , and Grca‘o t to encourage the Grecians. And the, Heathensi when they came forth in the trimming to plough; they laid one Hand upon the {tilt of theplougm and LI FTED THE OTHER up to (cm the god-e defle of‘Corne : beginning both their aé’tions of Warre and peace with this gefiure. So remark-3 able was the mixt and double office wherein Nature hath interefled the Hand, For as we mfg thefe to Heaven, {0 with them we worke Land the Handthrives but ill that workesgunlefl‘c it 93.31725 : which thefe Heathens by the infiinfl: of Nature were Wrought to acknowledge. And ' the melt defpetate Atheil’cs and Hypocrites, in {time eittremities and damages , doe LI FT uP’J Them to?“ 0 HAND; To HEAVEN, as a figne and token offome Dehfitiogt, though they have no faith not beliefe. {T‘Thus alfo they gave thanks. It is reported that when Arc/yidama had overcome. the Arcadians,‘ and returned home Plume“. ' ' ’ in the hf: ongcfie 3 laus. vit‘torious to Sparta, from that tearleffe battaile; neither man nor woman would keepe the City, but came flocking down to the River fide, H o L- DING up THE! R HAND 5 To HE AVEN, and thanhen the gene, as if their City had redeemed andretovered her {hame and loll: honour, and began to rife againe as before it did. . And to, the , , ; figmficauen of this gel‘ture that offirgi] may be 32:3de 4,. _ “C! u a5 referred. .. *Suflulz’t mm ninth} 4d 01m [942,242. ,. he 1 I FTI NG up TH E H321 ND: inpgaget, asié 15 a nature‘ll expreflionafo it {cents necellarya for; Q * {Bed w ““2725”! t. ,,-: «3. :..» , if“ 18 CHIROLOGIAtOt,‘ God requireth the whole man ; there being a Woe pronounced te fainting Hand:,that is,Which faint in prayer. When Mafia: HELD up H13 Ex.t7.31- HAND s, [fraclprevaiied : but when Mofc: 1. ET B I s HAN DS DOWN. c/fmalecla prevailed. And when fl/lofi: Ham: were heavie, they teokea [tone and put it under him, and he fate upon it: and Aaron and Hm Pcayd up his Hand: the one on the one fide, and the other on the other fidc ; {0 his Hmdx were Ready untill the going downe , / of the S'unne : and. flu/ml: difcomiited Amalccb. P3110] U‘- Upon which Pbilo allegorizing, (Lewes that vi- imam [florious geflure OfCfl/Za/e: Hand: doth fignific xod. _ . . 5 that by the mettle an?) mtmtton cf mam all things ate eherwme : or it implyes the elehation uttbc intense to fublime contemptatieue, and then Amnlecla, that is, the affeé‘tions are over- Come. Origen Origen defcanting upon the pofiure of Ma/e: Horn-1h Hazzdgebferves that hee did elevate, not extend m Ema” his Handy, that is his workq: and 465m: to God, and had not his HANDS DE I E CTE D. He LIFTS up HI 5 HAND s, that lament; tt‘Ba-l {are tnhea‘hett. For where welo‘mz, thither re- {otts the eye and the Hand. He that keepcs the Law, orecomes ; he that doth not, lets 21mm _ prevaiie. Eimcm' Elia; Cretwfi: thus: This gei‘tute of Lil/loft! 2:22;?“ Handy, ifyou iooke to that which falls under the WM“ ,afpefl‘. of the eye {ignifies magma Hence m an (Eng. old Scheme of [Yodowm there are tWo armeS_€- N32. teased to Heaven, {uppetted by two otherS,W1Ih this Motto, Tm s s’ I mu 5, with reFErence to the $11.9;qu etihqaeting Hench" of" Mnfw. To teach C0“? Sane. wanders, that 3335?? Mike: the greatei‘t {troke 1;} a The naturafl'lflflgtmge aft/M Ham”. ‘ l9 fillliéftailesi, {Smopffix Who with an o‘Cver firaié- 69mg). 58 Bedaph‘ahcic following his owne Conceit, makes ngr’oglg ' gfe’ofthe naturalleijjreflldns of [the Hana, for l ' ' tfiéi‘ ~ef’lfézlting the‘C;Imb1-ian or old . Tentenique "t'ofi'giie‘ into thepeefieminencies fof‘the original! , la n‘gug’ge, Drelehés his {uperfiitiohs 'oberVatlenS ' thus: To joy‘ne the hands in prayer,‘ and To ten" 'a'p‘p'liefheir ‘ upper parts to the mouth, dothfig— jjifiéthét men in: prayer fhould leeke to be cone joy‘ii’d to one that is mol‘t High} and becanfq pr‘ayefpz’bce’eds From the. mouth, and the Hdfldfi itiprighe‘ with the mcuth tranfverfeieeme re deli-5- ‘ :heit'e aRoman T,he‘ hath another inference from Vithét’firfi‘ilitude. ‘ ‘ ‘ “a The S‘l‘RE'fCHZNG ou'r THE HANDS TC? {Gordie {emetin‘ie's taken in Seripture for the ' é:k:m§flleb*em2ratcam:9315231552, as in the mayor 1 King, 55; e ' of Salmon at the cohfecratibn of the Temple: 38. ‘ kind Salomon pgaging , STRETC HE D FoRTH 1 King. 3111 3 HAND 5 TC) HEAV E N‘ after this manner, 8.22.0 , And thus Mofe: gauging: STRSETCHED 011*? 5363.55, 3"mfs HANDS [INTO THE Loni). Thus 725514;; 29.&3§.: Mace/945m: encounu‘ing the army of Mé'flmr. 2 Much; _3TRETCHE 1) 0111‘ H Is‘ HANDS TOWARDS Is-zu iii E w E N, and called upon the Lord that wor— " 'keth Wonders. $750 the fignification ofanguilh‘ \‘gnd afilifiion belongs thatof the Prophet 7cm; ’ Mia/glion 391113 A 151—. 'r_ 11 FORTH HERHAND s', Lav-Win andlrfhere is Kane to comforther. For they who 1-“:79 . 92a); fometimes s TRE '1‘ CH OUT TEE-1E I R HAW s “ 8: loflfiimes L1 25 r f H 1-; M u 1". Hence Lam-etikmo "S’PRE AD OUT, or EXTEND Tm; HAND,‘ is to 0: ‘ Pen; dilate, and unfold that which was llraitned Emmet: and folded in. To SPREAD ou'r’ "em; HAND is SY‘V'A‘»e ‘élfo' to fifth up a but to r. xi- TEND, is‘to ereflc and 1"‘é' C 2‘ ’ me E? 20 Ifeiah. andjob Ii SH‘dlar. in Pralm- very elegantly difiinguiflieth betweene the E x- 'W ‘ " ' y. z“:- CHIROLOGIAIOfi V raife them up.So he eXporindingthe {acred {age of thefe {peaking gefiurés (5f 9239913- StrvHi/I‘Vi? ' P Ansxorn‘ and E LE v ATWI ON ofthe Hand:,which in this matter of wage): are promifcuoufly ufed Pfal.63.4. in Scripture. 30 upon that; of the Pfalmifi, I will up '1' up my H A N n s in thy Name, bee doth, not take it for the habit of pgatjirtg,rbut for a deelara- tion of'a worke Ora high elevation. So likewife Pfa. 140-2 upon {nah a pafiage of another Pialme : Let my prayer'ne {etpforrh before thee as incenfe, and the merino u? 01: MY HANDS as the charting 8.13.3131 to gamma. He {hewes that the Apofile where he Timoth. ' exhorts them to 1.1 F r he pure Handx, hee does not appoint ahabit of merging, but addes a rule of Divine operation. So the noble Prophet, when you s PRE AD FORTH YouR HANDS, I will hide mine eyes from you; yea, when you make many mergers I will not: heate : if you E x- TEND YOUR. HANDS, not if y‘Ou LIFT THEM up; but ifyou n XTEND YOUR HANDS : becanfe the habit ot'pgarer is in the s P R E AD our HANDS; but the power ofa perfef’c Worke is in the E m- ‘ VATION. Therefore the L1 FTING up THE ‘ HANDS is an @hetting @atrifite. But this,fo‘t all I can finde, is but the peculiar fancie of this Father. For (rarely the E LEV'ATION as wellas the EXPANSION or STRETCHING our 0? THE HANDS,- are both fignificantly naturall in {3.13:ch am this Enfe. Indeed St. Hieromc drawes thefe two 1'" BK"3‘9 gefiures of prayer into Allegories, not much un- like,thus : To 513m) F 0 Km TH E HAND to God, as it were to feeke out for reliefe, is to direfr our aéi'ions to him, and not to Worke for Vain glory- He aifo 5 FIRE ADS FORTH ms HANDS to Gad; W G ‘ * ”mama/a Hm. who dilates in the evaporation ofa vain mot fish: and who againfi the grace of the Giver, is proud of the virtue ofhi's Workes. - Calvin in his Comment t1pon7'z'motl:y,(upon Calvin; which place Cornelia: zi‘Lapz'de hath alfo noted ‘é‘imme’tt- many things,) obferving that the Apoi’tle hath ‘” I 1‘1”“ put the figne of prayer for the thing ligniiieti, 7'“ ‘fa‘yes that this expreflion of gefiure is very a- greeable to true piety ; {o the veritythat is figu- .. red thereby doe anfwer the fignification;to Wit; that being by nature admomfhed that God is = to be fought for in heaven, that firf’t wee {hould _ ,put of? all 'terrcne and carnall imaginations of , Him,that nothing may hinder us in the raifing oft our {elves above the world. Idolaters and Hy-s pocrites, in LIFTtN G 111’ THE IR HANDS in. prayer, are but Apes, whowhile they by the] {outward Symbol profefie to have their mindes eret‘ted upwards, the firft of them Iticke in the: Wood and (tone, as if God were inclofed there 1: the Ramos! fort intangled in vaine cares, or VViCe ked Cogitatious, lye groveling on the earth, and . ‘by a contradiétion of gef’ture, beare witnei’fe a5; gainitthemfelves. , a ,4 ' > The Ancients are very copious inexprefling thefe outward formes of Devotion in the Harm, . .‘for they {ay,thc HANDS ST RET c HED ou'r, PUT mourn, HOLDEN ABROAD. E XP‘ANSED and, E RE CTED, and alit‘o imply the naturall visit} of the Hand in this expreflion. With Term/[inn the] Hand: thus affeéted are 1:; x a AN 5’1) :with Virgil, H o I. D E N AB R0 A D : as Nomi»: interpreteth the afiion , they are the o PEN AND 'E XTENDED. HANDS. And in this geiture many things are containedg , _ C 3, Ma? LEFalJ :9. 39,9. ' gSam. 119.3". jm'lggdy 30b 33.14. .- " ”gi— C m R o L 0;- G H ;' GE”; Malahmt C(‘mceiVfiS the (136311ng of this Ila-é jturall ELEMf MON 0 F THE Emma is to teach its that 19mm; it; this thgum, A am: as: it were thg Grathemall illicitthlc (if (1301}. Pimm thinktSthis gellure l'hewcs that (150nm mt high, ants that all thihgfi 51mm he'hhpth fa; at law 19mm}: Crefizfi’im fiycs, that this department of out: Had: declares. that me affcdlmmttlh 6;} who; ihe mutation u'f (1503 am: hzahznlh Father. Even as little ghildrexi difabled by fome fright with firctcht Out Hands run into the lap of their pa4 rents: qr as men in the midl’c of {hipwracke l-‘ct'etgh o'ut their Hand: to form friendly Savieurt» Ear, fince the force ol‘this Orgamm organomm; ghe Hazel, the mol’t excellent inl’trument of com.» gnon life doth ~chiefly confil’c in three things, in (givizsg, 90ing,and Repayingwho L lFTSUP mg HANDS {hams whmly to helmet and commit him= {elf am all that ht: is into the fatten pains: of the dfiohheah, as ifwith 'Daw'd he had his {oulc in his Hand: {mm the Egg/9:42am offiharitp, and the Left-hand of 23mm, bOth joyn’d together m make their intentions more acceptable, as from the living cenfgr orinccnfe-pan ofpray 61‘: thm afccndsfin a fwtet kind of articulated filenccathe {peaking favou; ofthefe fignifications, ' 3333mm: cf the Woglh 1 @0D, thtz maker of - all thing 1 thifi faulmll that Bl am, a tbfifl‘ faith. timm has :0 thy ‘gaajeffg ant: g‘ratioufi dfionnncfie, 31 rennet- aim refer to its: Siountaillfi huh mgigihall. @611 hat e’re my Hands tau doe, oz. my tactic: unnztfianhthg aim inviting enh‘eahour, let it he Ebine! E51193 (fzhuczn by ill counlel) a halt; wilhhatt‘ua ants llhtt aingttth, with??? « The natural} Laqguagé oftlae Hand: Gifts, am by thicken machinations repelled ant tbzomne them from me. 1152110113 my; leaning I ~ whit!) ittbou pleafe tummanh to be ham-rib, am: we, at: unmogtby graying, (who babe finn'n with a big!) ham) to be Ugamnz to punflhmeut; who ban net lib‘mmleife Eben habit lent me»: life; {until} El have alarm, am) rehelltuufiy that: [IIEBOM my them agaitzft (£1399,th my atone Im— ftmottah, aim the remnant) arm militarism effing flame. 'All'tbefe (ignificant expreflions (as Craft)”. ' Crejlvfiim hath happily obfervad) are contain’d’urmyfisg.‘ ‘ , L033. in this Gellure. \ , "St/fugufline very elegantly and {weetly gives us the rationality and religious convemency oi’this ‘manuall expreflion. When men: 'in‘prayer 3.r‘wg. 51mg? CHT our THEIR HANDS,.0r-:ljfc an vifible expreflions,they doe that whichtis agree— ;able to the , cafe of}: {applialthalthoughtheir inw wifible will 8: intention of their heart be known t9 God; neither doth hee fiandin need of fuch ,declaratians that the minde 0f man {hould bee laid open before him: but by this geflure man doth more muze up himfelfe to 113W? and grown mere humbly and fervently : Andi know not how, Whereas thefe motions of the body cannot be done, unlelle the inWard motibns ofthe mind :36 cum pm mate. 1 “v.5. precede, the fame thing againe being made ex- ' ’ ternally vifible', that interiour invifib’le which taufed them is increafecland by this the-alfeétion of the heart, which preceded as theicaufe before the effeé’c, for {0 much as they ate dame, doth ens creafe. And indeed this outward addition er ad» junc‘t of ibisttmhe o PENI me and LI FTIN (3 up ()1: THE HANDS is a' naturall manifefbation of - fills: upgtgbmefi’t and itttegtritp ofthe heart, amt ' ‘C 4; of ‘1”?44 ' CHIROLOGIA:Or, oFthc fincerity of the afl‘eé’tions. For deceit be; + ‘5 . ' fatally hath no wil, though hypocrifie fometimes may affefi to dilate and extend the Hand. And the {ymp’athy is {o firong betweene the Heart and the Hand, that a holy thought can no fooner Enlarge the erefled Heart, but it w‘erkes upon , the Htmfr whiCh are R A r s 1-: D to this expreflion, flit- andnxmunw our'ro THEUTTERMOST or ‘ THEIR CAPACITIES. Uponthisnaturallmo- , 1; j ‘ tion or 'eXpofition of the minde, Saint Chg/o- , gm? SChryf. flame fets a morall 101%. This menu G up or: Moral. OUR HANDS fhou d put us in mind to take heed f ‘3' ' of (in, lefi we defile out Hand: therewith. Since it is very abfurd, that thofe who areto bee the i Trouchmen and Interpreteqrs of prayer and div yine adminiflrations, fhould aifo be the influx- ytnents ofwi'ckedneffe : for'if we fay it is not ho- , merit for a man to pray with dirty and unwafhen 1+2;ng Hands; how. much more naughtinefie will that ' ' mi; expreflion be tainted with, to L I r: 1 up HANHS j i y; not dirty, but defiled with the pollutions offin. iii And in this fenle wafhing of Hand: was ufed by E inofi Nations before prayer. This Mammll @’ 1 ‘ Prayer asa helpe at Hand, the Chrif’ciams in all are? 4 g. :44 4é¢~nfli~ e5 ; ages have divetfly ufed for the furthering their :1 Devotion, as may be colleéted out of the Eccle— pi: T?§§F‘1-d€ fiafticall records of Time. Tertullian renders: 3"" Itafon thereof thus a Chrifiians may with gl strum» our HANDS, becaufe our Hermit, are hermetic; bare-headed, becaufe we are not a- flamed; and without a monitor,becaufe we pray from the breath. For the mof’c part they LI m B 1? TH!” ur. Which Term/Xian would have mo- deflly done, not as mad-menwho pray Handle: :9?” 3:51:42 Fjor- this grate, tame reporting an?! ‘ h . , Pm}? The natural] Language oftbe Hand. .25 praifing the modefiy and humility of the Primi-‘i tiv'e Chtifliang hath‘leit this caution for a rulein prayer: Adoring With mebefifé andbumiljtie.“ t we doe more commend our mavens to God, not f0 much as. our Hand: more lo‘ftily-held up; but 'tempetately and honeifly erefied. Sometimes €hr’iftians did not indeed lift up their Ham-d: on highbut did EXTEND THEM our HERE AND ThERB into the figure of Chriits fufict‘mg.” Hence in a Mednll of 90749903 the godlygthere is Pierius in .anImage L'i FTING up THE ' SPREAD on“: Hicrog‘YP- HAN D s 'r o H EVAV E N’, with this infcription‘ _ ‘ fitted to the device, Piflda‘ Mugufla. And Ext/e: gufchde \- 6im'hath left a memoriall, that Canflantixe Was: HOWE“ Lthtto be figut’d in Coi‘nes and painted Tables ‘ “QM" ~With hiSHAND s HOLDEN ABROAD, and'his 'eyes lift up to Heavem which he calls This '{méit \ andco‘mpofitiowf Tray”. Do&or ‘Dgzem in te-‘ A‘f‘etence to the Symbolicall {ignification of the ‘G’e’fiure calls it Ganflantimfi Cate‘chiffiCaII ‘Co‘yne. ' " y ' ‘ “ V The fame Author in a Sermon upon 10!: 16.17 BLDOI‘ma ., ' 3w. upon thefe words, Net for (813] injnflicc 3‘55““3- ‘ ' 5?? mvaimdx: alfa my ‘Pmyer 1}: 1mm: ; abbot-,- ding-to his elegant way of d'eicanting‘upont' the " emphaticall expreflions of holy Writ, hath many notions about noé’tutnail and diet? nallcleannefle and fouln’effe of Hands; and‘oB-é " ferving that the holy Ghéfi’hath'fo matfhalled and dii‘pofed the ‘qualificationsofiptayer in that place; asthat there is no pure pray-er without : cleane Hands, which denote tightiéoufneffeto: ‘ Wards man; cumming to fpe‘akelof‘ the ge- .fiul‘re, axed obfetving that Mac: prayer had no effeft longet then his BA NE) 5 WE R E' L t m a r: ‘ L1? W _," r _ ,“ ..~.,.. ) , 3" I.” m \ CHI RrOLOGIAIUl‘, up : All this (faith he) perchance thetefere efpé; cially, that this L; F TIN G up n F T HE Harm” brings them into our light, then we can lee them, and lee whether they be cleane,ot no ; and Con- fider, that if we fee impurity in ourAHam’r, God fees impurity in our prayer. Can we thinke tote. ceive eafe from God with that Hand that appref. {es another? mercy fwm Gad with that Hand that exerciles cruelty upon another P or bounty fremGod with that Hand that with—holds right from another? Alld to adde by a little enlarging his owne Words in another place. How can we expet‘t God {hould open with his’Hw-d: ofbene- diflion, who {but up out Hands, and that-which is due to another, in them? flow much more then, if we {trike with’fliofe Handi- by oppreffi- on, or (as Efiziab) we lift up the bloudy Hand: of firuelty. ; , . a - At this day the common habit of praying in the Church, is, as pertainingato the Hands; 0 IO'Y N In}: HANDS, MODERATELY LIFT THEM _ uh, er religioufly cut them by ten parts into the fame of the letter X, holding them in that man- ner before the breall : which manner of prayer Crefollim calls Mamie decufmm. In the Romifh Church which doth {uperabound in the externall agljuné’ts of Emotion, and Where the Rubriques direato varying formers of manuall expreflions at the word Oremm, there is alwayes annexed tome emphaticall behaviour of the Hand. Hence, 1n the Mafle when the Ptielt faith Qremm, 1166 B XTEflDETH,andthen1m#Ns HI 5 Hanan- By the extenfion ofhis Had: he gathereth as It; , 33;; wergthe hearts of the people : by the joy ning J of his Hang; together; he doth amafletheminta " g one i The natural! Langmge oft/93 Hand; ‘nne ; which" is [he glam: "of" Huelamm upon this Huelamus Romifh rite. The many? gefiiculations of they décerem» 'Hand: and finger: to ceremonio’ufly.croublefome'M‘Hx' "in'the Mafic,whofi: myfterious lénfcskfiellazmim', "Dummy: in ritz’bm Eccleficez, and Gavantm in his I(large: Comment upon :théir Rubrique‘s, hath f0 “gapionfly explained,- Was one thing that made 'the Mafia {'0 uncafie‘t'o bee {aid of 91d by the “Hand: of every Sir. John, as requiringtzéne vary iwell'trgined up inthsirI-Schoole of divine com- Iplements. ~ = _ ‘ . i “ . This is the Manuali’ warayer, and Traffic: of Wig-:7; commended by Nature untous; as a faith- ‘fifll aflifihnt to our private devotions; which cic- " 3 Epreiffe‘d in one of the moft'fignificant Dialefis of ahingenemll-language.of’the:Body, ig-more vo- . it “find efi‘eétuall, then the ,exphCations oft-ha Fatigue; and morewreiigioufly truer tube foulc ‘ “ “i ‘ ‘“ " tin‘cqfenf Extremity, “with is manifefi by their: lufe 'imthis Chrifiian exercife; when the . vai’ce Iannm’txptefle or performer her office. : Tor, the tHémiiimbled by Nature to {apply the claim of a Ivaifaltx‘hiterpretaur , hath continuéd the ’a& of fprfiy‘ei‘i, - and prefented many vifible petitiensto |§§€~EYC ofiCompaflion, which underftands the Iéroaning Gefiures and. dumb ejaculations 0f the ’ IHand. And this is often. obfervedl inuveligious ignen’, vin'cxtremity e! :fickn‘effe, Whnfe Hand: in, nt‘he time of health having beenc ufedfoacComé ipany and gxhibit theituréqueftsto heaven, aethe Mt fervig‘e they-can dbesthc foule and body, ofe fer themfelves in this gaming Sacrifice ofhfcIo [paffe by common initasnces, it is reported ofthat» learned and reverend D'oétor of our Church,that 3- AW 136 Was WW 57% Mflwrifirfizn alwzyes impioy’d in " ‘ ~ 1 this :28 '“CHILRO-LI‘OGIA:OI’,' ‘ this reafonable {ervic‘e God requires at our Hands; and ,.,toWard the time of his diflblution, his Handswere never empty ofpgager; and When he could may no longer wave, with his voice, yet munihu: c6.- omit}, by Lt FTING up T HE HAND: and eyes, heepzayen Hill: .and when weakneiic and neceffity of Nature had excluded thefe ex” ternail. accidents of devotion, the Hand: and Voyce failing in their iu‘néiion, with his heart he prayed (fill, as Was perceived in him by fome outWard tokens. _ . Herb: ,-~O wrung run HAND s is a natural! cxh‘ Gcfi. 1“- - ' prefiion: of momma grate , ufed by thofc Who .conhole, hemafle,‘ and lament. Of which ‘ ’ FrancL; Gcflurethatielegant Expofitour ofNatune hath “ J Verulafin afligh’d this reafon. Sorrow which diminifhcth ‘ “Na" H‘fl' the body it affeé'ts, provokes by wringing of the ‘ ’ minde,.teares, the fad expreflions of the eyes; which are produced and caufed by the contra: fiion of the fpirits of the Braine, which contra- éfion doth (trains: together the moifl‘ure of the Braine. Confiraining thereby teares, into the eyes; from which comgpreflion offthe Brainc proceeds the HARDQWRINGING OTB um: HANDS, which is a Gefture of exépreflion of moyfiure.:fl'his comp- E c1“ 1 N A"! mom or WE E— PIN o crtog-ss a of the Hand, ise‘iegantiy, defcri- Apuieius bed by c/Ipflleiw, in theft: words, Palmubk inter lihg. dramas .dz'gitomm *wicifimdim: fupgr game: can‘ M11“ 115313, 1% graham»: ceflimifirfidém uberrimfiebam. Where,ias Crefallim obferves, hee hath rightly , con j oyned this Geflure of the Hand: with math mg and teams. For’tis the declaration of: mind humming fin; gas-rage! aimqtt {panama was: " ' I)! ; The natural} Langttage aftbe Hand. 29 rleb mm; . fame hehement affiirtiom Which the Gre or; .brorheTr of Ba]?! the Great, elegantly .iettingofit Ny en :to our eyes, faith, (ampladéc manusfdigita': come gut-1431‘ Wig-a}, atque mi: cogimtioniém [angcffinj So alfo 153312111 ‘ “Die Clary/Mom»: among .the arguments and {any om; 'fignes ofmuuming and lamentation. puts down :6, L‘maimm complication“,bywil:mg;fefianem.lndced Lthe FOLDING and WRINRGING' of 1" H X! [TIA N D s in the natural] equipage of Ingram, hath [ever pafled for a mite of latnentat’ia'n. Hillary; the mil'tris oflife, an “right Hand. of experience, which is the mother” of Prudence;holding up the {Mirrour to Nature,wher_ein {he may fee her own lemons reprefented in their true and lively co- ‘lours, affords {ome confirming refleflion of this lGel‘rure. Wee reade that when Heliodarm that Ammim’.‘ I‘éhated tavcurite of the Emperour 12111:”: was dead Marcel“!!- i51nd his corps carried forth . to bee buried by the “b!”- lBeir-hearers , Valem commanded that many I'flmuld attend on foot bareoheaded, yea,and fome lialfo with HAND I N HAND, and PING ERS 1' CLUTCHED ONE WITHIN ANOTHE R,to go rbefore the curled coarfe of that bloudy villaine. l Who (had not the Emperours command ex’torg r't’ed this formality of fugmm‘ from their Handx) rhad milled of to folemne exequies and interment, ' LT'O THROWUP “‘r HE HANDS To HEAV e N Admlrorg I is an expreflion of abmira’tinn, amagemexzt, Gefi-Wo’ {and affentflrmcntufed alfo by thofe who flatter 'a‘nd mannetfully pgatfe ‘5 and have others in high tegzeth, or 3331011 anothers fpeech or a‘é’cion. The Vfirl’r time that this expreffion appeared in the Email of Man, Was certainly upon cecafiion of hfome new tméppefié‘w fitment, for which” they ' gees . .A “34.,ng h’ go CHIRO‘LOGIAtor, game fb‘éfljkcfi to def’who had {0 apparently manifefied the :16! of ”his benefic‘ence. And as it Franc; - is" a figoerof amamnmt, f’tis an appeals unto the 333m Deity rmrn whole rector caperat‘ion all more '* ' Wonders proceed which {o tranfcend our reafon, ‘ which while wee (tanner comprehend, wee RA! 5 Ejéu‘k HA ND ’5 TO'HE AV EN, thereby ac: knumlzfi‘ging the 15am! arm 5? finger of @unr And that this is a naturail, 3‘1“de {0 by confequence an univerfall expreflion bf the Hand, appeares by the general! ufe of this Geflure with all Nations. That paflége offaml/m is well knoWn. [Admi- ram] git haze" manufq; tollm: @ii bani .’ cé'cJ-fo Borachb. Which intention ofg’efi'u're Home: alludes, 11.83:.5. importunm aimtt [lauda‘ri] dome obs jam * c/Id cwlnm maniém {Wm ! dixerir —-—- . Cicero in To this appertaines that of Cicero. Hartenfim am- Acadcm' t? vehementcrtadmimquuod quidem parpemo Ln? Idcm lib. calla loquéntefecemtmt etiam * mam: fiep'e tolleret -’ 7-6pifi- ad And that of his in another place.*Suflnlimm W‘ Cflarem- 7m: ago at 341511;: .' m illud mfcio quidsmfiformim’” fiddivinum'videremrAnd to this is referred that Limlib. 24 ofLiw'e. via/gum” vocem cum clamor ifigmti “14‘ crimte fuélaztm effct ac mmc comp/6x5 in!” figm- mlmtc/quc mmc “ mam: ad cwlum to/lmtr: ! (W. Applaudo O CLAP rm: RAISED HANDS 0N2 A— GethV. G A r N ‘s '1‘ A NOT H E R, i? an eXpreflion pro— per to them who applaun, congratulate, minim errant, appzuhc, and are 113211 pleafeh, ufed by all Nations. For, applaufe as it is a Vulgar no“? of emuuragement‘, a figne ofrgjuyrin‘g, and a we lien and figne of gihtng mama; and allnmanftf.‘ Cicero ad doth wholly confifl; in the Hands. Whence 0' Amie; cm}. Popfilm .liommm: mmmfimr mm in dg’wdwe . 4; The natumfi Language oft/ye Hand. gt ”dd liétrmte, fedin plafidcndo can/kmit. Which he: ifp‘ake of theatrieall applaufe exhibited by the QHMaLoF old. melam e-xpreffeth this afi‘eé‘tto’n XCUOPBJ , ;;,0f the minde in a very cleare and eloquent kinde CY'F’PNi got” fpeech, in theft: words : Primipulm qui so: ' ‘ jproxime iii/cumbeéa’t, rem irimimr, mam: invicem‘ . implafityidqum intabamr. And Hg/idffm in the IdemCer ifa‘m‘e Author ripeafkes unto (7m: in thete words :1‘5‘8‘. 72mm: [alum ignore, quimzm mode nflerzfitrwfim m gaudere éam'o‘ tm}: : mm»: manna?” canmflione maze Rafter/7% cfl, m2 ridendxm, an alifldfizvimdum?rhis pub- lquue token hath beene of old, and is {o ufuall in 1 the afiembly of a multitude, when they cannot ' Contain their in? in filence, that there is nothing more Common with them then by c L AP P I N6 ,1 n a r R H A ND 5, to fignific their attaching joy :. and glnhttefie of heart, in {0 much as all Hii‘tories [both ptophune and iaCl‘Cd, abound with exam— ; pies of this exprefliOn : out of which infinite (lore'l (hall produce but one or two for confir— Etfnation of this point. When Idaaiadab the PriePc 2 Kings caufed lad/77th:? (none of dioxin to be crowned I H:- King, and had brought him out, and given him , the teflimuny, they made him King, and anoin- tedhim, and they CLAPPED THEIR HAND s, and iaid, God have the King. Which geilure re— , taines the fame {ignifieation in divers other pla- So Nab; :yces of Scripture. When 5 him Valeria: entred the 61'? :JCity of Rome ovant the nfimimatz {about of Pfal.47.u~ i_ the people that {hood in the fireets appeared by 98-3- C I. A,P p I N.G OF i‘iANDS, and great applaufBJ £52121? firming a We to exceed the tongues chaunted by P1 ' ‘S' the Souldiers. When the Senate had granted the infirfge peoples defire that a Cr;;mt:noner {hould be cho- of Ca- ftn Contnll with e Nehlemnn , and. the Difla- millus. tor .r— 33 CHIROLOGIA;OT, 131mm}, tor had publifhedthe Decree of the Senate,con-. inthe life firming their defire ; the common people Were 0f Cami!» f0 jepfull, that they brought Cami/[m home to , his houfe with great {hours of for), and CLAP- Idem 5" PI N6 0 1: HAND 3. When Mlciéiade: had one :11":ng d°f day in the market place given a largeffe to the ' people out of his owne purie, the people were {0' i glam at it, that they fell to fhouting and c LAP. . P ING 0F THEI R HAND s for thankfulnefin ‘ The fourth day after the battaile fought by Per-l 1 firm King of Macedon, even as the Playes and i Lielib.“ Games were exhibited in the fhew—place, there ‘ Was heard fuddenly at (hit a confufed humming noife, which fpread all over the companies of the fpeétators, theta field was fought in Mace- donie, and THE”: vanquiflied: afterwards a— rofe a more cleare and evident voice, whipéh grew at length to an open flieut and CLA e r 1 N6 H A it n s , as if certaine ne Wes had been brought of the fame vié’cory. The Magii’crates wondred thereat, and made fearch after the authour offo fudden a glannetfia, but none would be found; and then verily it palied away as the momenrany in? of (cm: vaine and uncertaine occurrence; howbeita joyful! prefage of [ome good luck {et- led in mcns hearts, and remained behindaWhich Was after confirmed by the true report ofFabz'm Lcnmlm and Meta/1m fent from the Confull. indianor, 0 SMITH squfiNL? ON ‘fné LEFT GelfiVI. HAND WITH THE meat, is a declara- » tion offome miaake, unlo‘ur, anger, or innigfla‘ , firm: for [0 our learned Humanicians underfian . this Gcfiure, ufurping it often in this {cute Jon:- M attributes thisi‘pafl‘ion of the Hand to angzrzfsg . V- . . t 1 i ‘ Tb: mmmflLangmgé oftbeHand. A ‘ ‘ in his defctipti'on of an‘ angry man he, hath, Pa: Seneca de rim} explamné‘ wcibm, ferfxo pmmptmj e} *cqm, ira,lib.x, plvfi f¢pim 7121mm: ,And in another piace‘fha- £3? “1' dowingzoutangerm her proper celours, he; (as ”mi 53; her out thus: ‘ZDmmf camprimanmr,, barren: ac ’ firréguntur capifi, fiirifm conga: acfiridem, *Vara rimlomm ip/o: torqmmmmfims. “And in amther Idem cap; place. " Vidjicc * articulvomm crepimm cum/rifle» «“55 Ira; . may»: fiangunt. Petraxim that great Beam Of: Daron. iniquity and pieaftlremonfpiring in the like {cafe 5M!“ : ofthe fame ex‘preflion, prefents us withlthis‘ge— I‘ flare thus habited. “ Mamba interfe flfqmj ndnrg jfiwlommflrcpz'tum tantritia'.And in another place he thus gives us the garb ofanger and griefea‘?’ In; flab} maaiém ingemm‘t. Neither are exampleg Wanting in Hit’cories to confirme the {enfes‘i 9E, -. thisnaturall expreflion... Tbila fudem‘of (aim: Philo In; , e Emperour boiling with angemnd griehouflg “”5 dc netting mitt) inntgnattomE8xmz4'efceéatjlegm, Em $11M»: pref: ferem [imwndiam] uéi were defiit, 1 ° ' .famplo/z': mariiém Bilge .’ ‘Petrom, inquit, nondi- mfli «attire imperatarem? Toconfirme the name: tall prafiice hereof by divine Authority and pres fidents taken out of the molt Sacred Hifioqu Thus B'alack in token Of anger {mote [his Heed: Num. 2.4; ~ together when he Was ingot!) with Walton that be. m" ”091921 not curfe the I fraclites as bee defired. To, f. hIChanfwers that of the Prophet EzekkLThou Ezekzl‘. berefore‘Sonne of Man prophefie and S'MITE ‘4» . AND if 0 HAND, ace. thatis, [trike thy Hand ‘Smenin grtefiz and anguifl) are wont to doe.-_ he fame fignification ofgefl-ure hath that ofthe Mm 63?- tame Prophet. Beheld therefore faith the Lord, “”6" ‘3’ have {mitten miner Hand: upon thy eovetouf— trfle that thou hat} ufed,and upon the blend that ,-‘ D ' i ' hath 34 CHIR0L0G1A101', . hath beene in the midn: of thee : that‘is;intokcn 0f my math and bengca‘nre. ‘ Explode. OCLAPTHE RIGHT EIST OFTEN on G:R.Vlr. T H E LEFT PA L'ME,‘ is a naturall exPref- {ion ufed by thofe who matkmhim, bzatniesand intuit,tepzuatb,rebukc, and Bwlflflfl: or ugibenat mitt) nuifemommonly us’d by the vulgar in their ‘hitkeriuge, as being the Scolds fainting diam, and the loud naturall Rhetorique o’fthofe who - Ovid met, de'Clame “at Billingfgate. Hence Ovid not un- lib. 5. skilfull'in this braml‘tng‘p’mp‘erty ofthe Handg'vcc ry ingenioufiy I'feignes the'Tieridc:‘-as“they Were abom-to imam, and to c L A P "r HEIR HA N’n‘s ‘ with Va‘ Difgrawfull unite, to ‘have‘rheen‘e tu‘tffcd int‘oji’i‘es, ’and made Sylvan Scould‘s.This(wh‘ich i’s'but‘th’e i'ep‘Etition of‘th‘a‘t flroake ufcd-ine‘ng‘et and indignation) is ufed in this {enfc by the-mit- Job 27.23 rout-6f patience, Every man {hall 'c LA P THEIR HA ND‘s at "him, and hiffe 'at him out of their plaCe. And the good man When his patience Was tryed beyond {uffc rance, fell into this hibit of tuntentton with his miferable comforters, ‘85 appeares by the aCcufatidn of Elilm. He ladd‘cth 10534.37rebellion unto his finne, hee C LAP‘I’ETH ”HIS H A N D s amongft us, and multiplieth his Weirdn- gainf’c God : That is, a: the gloffe an our Bibles hath it, he (tandem {tubboznlg in maintzuamz‘of hie mute. To this may bee referred that ofthe Prophet Jeremiah ; All that pafle by CL A p ‘1 am HANDS : they hifle and wag the head'at the daughter of ]erufalem. The farm fignificattefl fink; 25.6 hath that of the Prophet Ezekiel, Becaufe thou halt c L AP PE D T HIN E HAND, and Qampc with the feet. and rejoyced in heart Withallthtyz 13¢pr Menu; The natural? Lafigudge ofzbe Hand . 35 i‘mfpitz ”again&' the land of Ifrael; Behaldlthcree fore I will firetch out mine Hand upomhee. 4 ; .0 aippeare with t: A 1 N r 1 a G A ND m 1 i ; Defperoé‘ . “on: 1') HAan,-is a, pofiure offeare, abate: 331““ mantefminhmn abject and banqm’fhn‘h tourage, q ° and ofutter Defpaim. The Prophet [(4541: calls Efa.xig.7".' this habit ofnejctt'ion or tunitecnatiun; the fairit 35-3. flazd,‘ orthe 'HAN-ID vFALLENéDOWNEéThC Pro;- ‘phct Ezekiel and icremiab call this apparition QfEiek.7.!7; fears the feeéle Hand; And the Authou'r to the J'er-5J47 :Hebrewes mofi appolitely, THE HAND s T-1HAT Heb“ ‘2‘. HANG DOWN. The old Annals of Time, and the (Jon-malls ahd Diaries of c-ommOn life, which 'cantaine a narration end expofition of things done, give the bei’c patterncs of the Hades-i; prefiions‘, as being the moit naturalliREgiEterB . thereof; in {0 much asthere are nofinterprctours Improper or able to informs us ofthe Yalifity find uieof‘thislanguiihing carriage and behavih- _nurof the Hand. An expreflion by gefiirre wee 7) {hack tethav‘e appeared in the Hand: _of fry/Fm P'leb‘iu'sg King of Bithynfia, a man ofa-mofi-rfaititébearft and abjettfpim, who when he cametp’ I ta‘ly to fee the manfion place of thC Empire of ‘ the" .riworld,rwhe5n‘he entrcd into the Senategfiandihg fiat thega'te of the Court right over againf’c’ the“ :aFathetsg‘lei/fix" manibm [immfltltzmwinwhich’ 3*are the Words 051901712134; reheat-ling a thing ufib‘ iaWOtthy offioyall Maj-ditty. ' ‘ O I: OLD ma HANDS, iSagefiure ofjnle=f§3°‘“' ' _ - -» t a ‘ u 560, .: 1181133, an cxpreflian oft-en feene m the fiend: 0mm, (1"? gap; LuhbersamuS’d with floaty, who ‘kecpe' ' their Dal-l Hand: {0 knit ”gather, to maintain ‘81 D 2* 11301036 36 CHIRoLOGIA:Or, hgemfie league mill) fleepe ,-, for ‘ being loath te forgoe the pleafure of cafe, they by this geflurc doe as itwere allure and play the bawds to in: bulge and. procure their lulls delight more (weer. ‘ 1y to ccafe upon their lyther bodies. Hence the Pier. Hie-:Egyptian Priel’ts when they would exhibit an rOEJYPh- cxprclr’fe charafler of lazinelfe, or ofa fluggifli fellow good for nothing, one who would {carcc entertains a, bufie thought, left it fhould work: - ,\ fome dillurbance in his brealt , or towze his Hand: from the templateuty of their embofom‘d tell; they ufe to deciphera dull Sloe-worme of this lowzy Tribe, with his Hand: thus enterlac’d {asparallels in his bofome, as if they had there ta- ken up their habitation, or did lye skulking to t- ,void worke, which is a Lion in their way. This gelture of‘the Hand: as it is the {luggatds com- mon guifemho demands a little more F o L‘ D 1 N6 or THE HAND s, and out oflove to cafe often .negleé’cs what his mouth requires at his Hands /( contented «[0 he have from Hand to mouth, as if , s bee hated the more provident extenfion of a! thought) is 'fignificantly brought in Sacred Writ? .hy~a metaphor to upbraid and note out the den fpicable-Ptate of fooles and fluggards, time—{pen- ding loyterers of no el’teeme, fince the wifdomc pm, 9.14 of man doth much confilt in his Hench. Salome» " unfolding the nature of a floathfull perfon who FOLD em up H I s HANDS, (each HandhOId' ing as it were the other from worke) and hideth' his Hand in his bofome, in this lall polture,he 61' D}. hm. cellently lets out the nature, wickednefie, {151 “mph pumlhment offloath. The nature of it,in netmg med. upon the fweetnefl'e of it to a fluggard; in that bl? the 913cc. Hand is in his bofomt’, hugging as it were hi: own » .thcflrwgtb of the Hand, for that it is which dili- , gang, and their feet in one lhooe ; leading ra- TIJ: uhtumfl Language oft/25 HAM. 37 ‘ ’ownclazinefle. The wickednefl‘e of it, in that his Hand is hidden:floarhfulnefl'e being [0 flaame- full a thing, that it needeth to be concealed.The unilhment of it, in that the floathfull man fiar‘ veth'himfelfe. And'in another place he is {aid to Pré.z6. V hide his Hand in his befome, that none might HHS-1+. findeit, left by taking him thereby, hee might ' , raife him up: or elfe as if he feared, fome Cam ‘ (En/arm, who calling to fee the Hand: of men, refuledthofe that had felt Hands, 3'; unworthy to be Citizens of Rome. Emphatically in one ‘ a place of the Proverbs of Salomon, the [Lake Hand Pro. 10.4; p u; '3'. ‘ . ll of the fluggard is meit‘diret‘tly tranflated, tbe‘by Beda, , 3 ' 4 i ‘ ‘ Handofdcccit. Rightly doth the Original! call " E .. i ‘ ita Hand of deceit, becaufe, for the molt part, the ' 14%) Hand, being not able to {ufiaine itfelfe, be-t takes it felfe to coufenage and deceit. The ‘ori-‘ ginall word in the fore part at the verle,proper—‘ ly fignifies the bowing of the Hand .- be caufe deceit ls hollow, and ’tis with the hollow of the Hand that the Heights of deceit are praétifec’l, In the latter part of the verfe the word fignifi‘es the whole band, gence ufeth,and by that it maketh rich. The garb of {uch men who {it crowching in the world with their arms a-crofl'e, "their mouths thet a beltiall then a humane life, a famous LaW-Jscnhus ii’litis doth graphically defcribe out of Eccles. Lefiiuso Efifedet ignavm "‘ mmiém per mama ”5x55 Ptgritie dome meme: acaedat age/hat, ' Prefia: mim palmzk, inqair, pelma mm duaém T 077.1% mi regyiex gaming qui/ym :1an cam. .0 this perfonall charaéter Wefimem: and other ‘D 3 Com.- ‘9 ,, 58 CHIROLOGIA:Ot; Weflmgr. Commentators , referre that Anthropopeia inPt‘aL of the Royall Prophet, Draw thy right Hand , 744!- golutofthy bofome. ’ ' Trifiem Q HOLD THF FINGERS INSERTED nnirnit‘e' BETWEEN EACH OTHER A-CROSSE,lS ' cefiumm- (“to their; fiuggilh expreflion who 'are fallen intoa Gefijx, mtlantboly mute. To the ligmficatron of this ' Gel’ture accords the Gration of Sextu: Talk”; giggle, 7'. unto Sulpitix; ‘Diflatar : You our General} deem ‘ " us your Army to be Handlefi, heartlefle, and ar- mourlefl'e, ate. for what elfe may we thinke of it, that you an old experienced Captaine, a mol‘t yaliant Warriour, {hould {it as they fay. with one Hand in another, doing nothingJ—lencei‘maniéut EgahAdag eamprqfli: fidere, in the Adage, is all one with [M12171 fame, aria indulge”, «Iii; oéeflFcJForfihis gellure is thought to have a tacite force‘to damp the lively fpirit of mirth and friendly communie cation. Hence 'tis in vulgar prar‘tice to accufc {itch men whofe Hand: in company fall into this pollute , as Remora’s unto the happy birth and willuldgfor progrelle of conceit ; and for dull Sphifmatiqnes that deny‘ themfelves to theft with whOm they gonverfe; for, {uch whole thoughts (tray out offeafon, minding not what others doe or lay , by a mentall fequel’tration withdraw their'foules as ftwere from their he: dies, 'and while they overoprife their private thoughts, (exprefl oftentimes by this difrefpefl 9f the Hami) they feeme no other then to make a Soloecifme in fociety. Hence this ‘gelture bl lb? {uperfiitious Ancients Was held a note ofitfl‘ mnimem, and bath paffed time out of minde for shingle 9f. {tstst forcery- Wherwron the R"; r we V.” W“? 1mm: Senate gave out. a {olemne prohibitiom that in all con'fu-ltetionsiheld by any: Prince or Plinmr. 12036353235 or any Generall of an Army, or any. blurb. perfon that“ was preleno at any myfilcall folem- 28.0%”- ‘lnity; none {hould prefix-tn e to (it or (land crofl’e— {Itleggedg or in the. forefaid manner HAND '1»: ”HAND. Suppofing this gellure did hinder the Ulprogrefle and event of any 36’: in, Hand: or any lawful: which by advice was where: ripened for “an expedition. They thought it alfo witchcraft ll'but to {it by one that had a praflicall defigne up-I Hon health by the receit of any medicine, either .ai‘inwardly. or outwardly appli’d.Nay,they thought “his pofiure Was of force’(alone) to hinder {och n‘who were in labour, and did then need Lucimz’: ilHdfld‘, and that {uch could not bee delivered as ‘ [along as any one prefent held the Hands thus mu— ' ymallyinWrapped: which‘piece of-fo’rcery was" ,th’e worfer, in cafe the party did hold them about “gene or- both his knees. This was well {eene by Ithe Lady c/flcmena, when jealous 711720 fat one OvidMgro ; CROSSE-HAND E n and croflelegged to hinder lib-3‘ Ether delivery, as the llory goes. But the contrary .tygellure implyed quicke labour, or the felicity of ‘ 'being delivered. Thus in a Medallof fella the ““1131?" ,iGodly, the happy fruitfulnefle of childbirth is ")ng ,‘implyed, wherein Venn: holdeth a Javelin in her left hand, flnewing her right Hand llretched out rand {preach with this infeription, Venmgemtrz’x. film; this placing one Hand upon another was e- Bver held unluckie. When-ct: Hippocrates derides H'pmcr. 1{Icertam {uperllitious and knavilh Emperickes for d?- ”10er lsflUEECk-falvmg Cheats, who bid men againll the 13““ igpllfipfie, Ntc prdem pm’i‘é‘mc mamm mmuifizpcr- from 7;, , . ' Do To 49 CHIROLoGtAzOt, ' I_nnocen~ Ton/11mm THE 9051mm 0:: WASHING , “33119" .IHE’HAansy RUBBINGTHE BACKQE ‘ {agar ONE IN THE HOLLOW to F THE OTHER Wm: L :- -‘ , A KIND or DETERSIVE MOTION, is a ge- flute {emetimes ufed bythofe Who Would pm- We their t‘a‘tmtentp, and declare they hate no 39mm in that fouls Manama, not to much as by that: manna“ afifent; as it were alluring by that geflute, that they infill keeps their 19mm annex. files, and’lnoulu mafia their {Baum of it: no; base any thing to bee therein. A gellute very fignificant; for the Hand: naturally imply, as it were in Hieroglyphique, mens a&s and opera: tioms; and that cleanfing motion denotes the filament: oftbetr among. As this expreffion is . . heightned by the addition of'wa‘tcrfiti‘s made by tiller-Hm the [Egyptians the Hieroglyphiquc‘of innocenf -'l°glyph' cy. In token (alfo) of innocéncy this gellutc 13cm; 1.6 was commanded‘the Elders of the neighbour 3 ’ ‘ " Cities in cafe of murther’.‘ And it was ptaétiled by Ti/dte‘ when he would'have transferred from, himfelfe unto the Je‘westhe guilt pf ourSaviogrfi blood; who wh‘en’he {aw he could not prevatlfi. Mm 279 with the multitude fox-the delivery of Chrilt, .116 a; I “t called fer water and walked his Handgl am 1n- ‘~‘ nocent, faith hee; of the blond of this juft man; , ' looke you‘toit. ‘ Te this gellurethat ofthe PM? muse mill: referres, I will wafhmy Hand: in innocent Emil Adag Cy. And from this gel'lure came the Adlagc cos- ; ' cerning mutuall good'offices, Mam; mfiflflmad" giti interim digita: 14mm. ‘ ' ' ' ‘ ' ' ' Lucriap- ” ' ‘ h f~ Z2353; 0 Rue THE PALMES or IHE Hill.“13$ do, \ TGGETHER,WITHAKIND 01: APPLAusE! Seam}: MuCH Alarm THE MANNER AS some ARE - x ' 37-. \r z“. "y. . - __‘i ’- .w ' “’ONT J ” Wu Wk an“ WONT :10 150 Who TAKE pArNas To aan‘ frat-1R HANDS, is an itching note of grazing- 4,ba£fe, many times ufed by fuch who. applaub tome - pleating thought of Matt, that’they have in their! , heads.This (I Confel’fe) is {omewhat'afubtile no- "tiontyet noted in fame men by _ Phifiogn‘omers, Hill 11mg} _ and to be foundéby'an obfervation anti marking fiag. ' of nature, for every minute thing if wee waite , and watch the time of relation, will appeare an F'expreflion, fromwhofe remonllrance wee may . «take arguments,for they iffue out. into notes,and \ , “is their naturallexpreflion who palm. fubt-‘érgfigm’: ‘ . min and refigue up themfelbes‘mitb t‘upplitattéxe “‘ .>» h a breaking the barre of filence, by token (Peak: and informe the eye. 0 HOLD FORTH THE HANDS :rocsrmaa,»Libcrta-‘ . . _ . . , Q In. an mto the power of another; . ThlS thh the Ancients was 757724721072 dare.Hence Ovid, ' 7 OvidJ. x. 0mm}: 2: [moment] and t: ‘4' funémckia “ardent; .‘leg- 1‘ , To illuitrate this by examples taken out of the ancient Regiflers of time. Thus Vereingetorix Dion, 115, falling on 1118 knees before (Ia/4r, and HO I. no 40. -IN G FORTH H I 5 HAND 5, exhibited thegc-' ‘ flute ofa fupplifint. And thus QDiridate: King ofIdemlib. “ Armenia exhibited the fame obehieme of geflurc 35- th and fubmilft'on to Nero. Thus the Legates of weceéala: with I 0 Y N E D H A N DS after the man- Ideme , net of captit‘efi‘ prefented themlelves unto the jam. Senate; upon which, peace concluded, Trajan triumphed over the Dacians, and was firnamed‘ iDacimr. The Romanes that were in the Galle that were carrying the cup of gold to Delphos march made of’ the jeWels of the Roman Ladies, when in the life hard by the Illand of @olns they were let uponof Cami» by CHIROLOGIA:Or; bythe Gallies of the Lipparians, theyufeidfis texpreflion, for they H e to uni THIS I R. HA m: s and (airman; making no refifiance. But for the fignificationofthis geliure in fuhmtfiinn, Tl». much is. very emphaticall, who declaring the Plunin pride and power of T igmnerKing of Armenia, ’ ‘ theme of {eyes that heehad ever many Kingsin his Com-t Lucullus. that waited on him : but amongf’c others he had. foure Kings that waited continually on his pet, {onaas footmen : for when he rode abroad any whither, they ran by his fiirrop in their- thins. And when he was fet in his Chaire of State 0 give audience, they flood on their feet about his chair HOLDING THE IR HANDS TOGETHER, which countenance fhewed the molt manifett mutation anb token of homage that they could doe unto him. As: if they had fhewed thereby that they magma all theirliberty, arm offertu , their homes} unto their Lord and Mallet, more \ many to fairer, then any thing to doe. ProcegOp O E mama our THE R1 GHT HAND BY GER-XIV THE ARME FORERIGHT, is the naturall habit wherein we fometimes allure, tnhittfiptak 1:0,“? after, tall, or mama to tame, thing into, whim, give haunting, abmontfi), gotett, pacifit, rebuke, commann, jufftt'ie, about, enquire, hired, infirm, omen them a generous tnnfiuente, bars ninetfe, ant: autbugtty; gtbe free liberty of {need}. mguiftffa martingale to stunner. ann make an apology fog on: felines, and appeare to unbertahc a hufinefl‘e. All which acceptions of this gelture, though they more eafily fall in the compafle of obfetvation then they can be exemplified by au- thentiggll authority a yet Hiftories have taken _ _ ‘ _ 4 t _ Home Tb: naturafl Lahgddgé oftbe Hsz. gotiee ofmoPc 05316 e1prefliohs, q£ this gefiuazq 9f the Hand. That itgis,fignifi-Caflt;ifl the: fix firfi: (cafes, may bee collected 'out of-‘mehy. autism ‘Writers. Thus Memniu: Regalia the-,Confullgsiq the Senate and prefeztaeejof the Senatoumfiatlab Stjhml: unto him. For t thus @ian {ets «it :domnea Dion. {Inelamamj * manfl’wflehm, Sejflmgfiedtitbflfi] $58” And Gym: when any of his friends, wen ' ”up? {eene crowding towards , him, 3:5, Xmophon Xenephzj‘ - hath regarded it, 3‘ p'ratwfa mam: Eco: never/the; *‘ ff If? 1 a The flame, gefiure of invitation vj‘fi'Mfmmmfe 5153;, ;-27 to Eff/yer, when he fignified her comingwas ° aceegdihgto his will, Wifedome alfo, sloathcs:Provix. 274x hen-words in the language of this geflute. Be- caufe I have when, 6: ye refufedJ have e the '1‘» p 1-1.; B on"; MY HA N mand none Would regard.“ " The Pfalmift acknowledges himfelfe to have ufed this gefiureJ have tallen upon Thee. I have prLSggy‘i STRETCH ED 0111' my MAN» 5 umxo Ian 5;. {f This innicatibz geiture ofthc Hand 0m samba: ufedto Dirett and infirm! the jewes who wereMmm his brethren, when s (r R E T Q Hi m3 our E I s 49‘ HAND to his Difciples, he (aid, Behold my me- ther, and my brethren. q Hayim Flammmade- Piumch ufe of this warning gefture of the Hand in :f’tead 1“ I“? “f? of fpeech; for when Matti»: began to call the of T‘bg’ Tubes of the people to give their veices for the 223:: efiabkifhing offome new iawcs, propuunvdcd‘by ' Yibqrim grace/am, in favour of the peuple, and he could not proceed according to accuftemed ,order in the like cafe, fdr the great nofie‘t‘hehin- fiermoft'made, thrufiing forward, :andbeing driv, yen backe, and onesminglin'g withehe other; [in the meant: time qum'gt: Flaccm'onc éoffihe Senat- Fotma go: 9? into .a place where all the 1360916 " ‘ ’ “ ' {might 44. CHIROLOGI’MOr, mightfec him, and when he {aw his voice could not be heard of Tiberim, hee made a figne with his Hand that hee had fome matter of great im. portance to tell him. Tiém'm [who {cone an. dcrltood this geiture of his Ham] bade them " make a lane through the preafie. So with much ‘ ‘ .adoe Ravi”: came at length unto him, and be. ‘Ammiaq- wray‘d a confpiracy againfl: him. q Valentinian fi‘mum with good fuccetie ufed this gei’ture of pacifisa: ‘ "°‘ tinn and rebuke, when bee was pronounced be- fore-the whole Army Soveraigne Ruler of the ‘ Empire. For when hee addrefied himfelfe to make a premeditated fpeech, as he put F o R TH HIS A R M E that he migbtfiteake more readily, than: ' arofe a great mumbling that out of Hand there might a fecond Emperor be declared wth him:Va- lentim'an fearing to what the Souldiers confident boldncsmight prove, HOLDIN G u! :1 AP PILY ms in our HAN D, as a mof‘c bath); and reusab- teb Prince, daring to rebuke fome of them as {c- ditious and itubborne, delivered his minde with- ’out interruption of any. :The Emperour having ended his fpeech, which an unexpefted authu: my had made more confident, appeaieb them. and won them all to his minde 5 which was to choofe his companion: who took afterwards rm- to him to be Colleague in the Empire,his brother 71102:; {I That this geflure is fignificant to pgotect appetites by mail pafl‘ages of holy Writ, intima- tmg the powerfutl and gracious {notation of 69d. Where the exprefl‘ions by an anthropo- pm aretaken from this gei’cureJhus God having fixed. 33'. Ptltllffi: m the cleft of the rocke, enema him 213- Wt!!! 91? H‘EM‘YhiiS he pafl‘ed by. And his N0- variant The natural]. Language #14:: Hand. : firing: his bbfervation, that with the Hebrewes Novcrian ‘30an fignifies both the Hand, or the hollownefl'e if! 51:85 ” of the Hand, anda cloud. Hence Tagni‘nm turns, 3““, _’, frategam ta mam med, into aperiani lte m5: mu : a 33%;: m ! gtiod coherens, faith he, manusfi: M513 next“. ' l"In-this fenfe that of the Prophet rI/aikz/a is , to bee “MM.- firaken, Under the thatch) of his Hand hath he. hid F fme. , That is, he hath taken me intohis mutation and Defence» And the Metaphbrs‘of an out? L were“ c an 13 um; and m 6311 HAND are veg I}! frequent in Scripture, to fliadow,» out the pa; ‘infirfullapmtetttonfof God in the'two degrees of ' ' ligrhe tributary and e traotbinarg. For in this re- :prcfentation at point ‘, there iS'thd Hand,=and the :Arme, the mighty Bad, and out 5 'r n E t CH 1 n 4m M r, 5 two degrees hfpnmer, both great, i but - ., forte greater 2 that M the Hand is grear,but ordir wary; that of the‘Armeis greater; and commeth , - . forth but upon extraordinary .riocnafions , Every “thing-we put nottotthe'Armes end. And their . Hand: are properly {aid to be fiarmed, that have ' loft the {miner to fate and. meted ; a phrafe much ufedimholy Writ. by the Prorphet-s fpeakingjn ,_ . Q, His Name who made the Hand, the naturallHie- $1.54! 9523 treglyphique of power- fl This get’ture dothgnaé {3‘}; I x. :turallyimport tnmmann. ‘ HenceéKings are {aid 23. . 8 to have LON G HAN-D s , as the Romaine Poet, ,, Ovid. i fizfificfiz‘t * loam: Rtgiém ‘efl'e; 712mm P ’ ' U . The Hand found under the Table 738 Yeflmfian was Sutton; at dinner, fignified, as the Southfayers did then VCfPafe interpret, that tummauD-fltouidone day COW-’10 his Hand; and this was before he .WasEmperpr. And: Cringom: a. Greeke Poet Every leame-gily . p‘r'aifing (dB/47‘, fayes, his Right Hand was, mighty J to mmmanmwhie‘h by its majefi‘ique paint: an!) ‘ autbas 54-5 - -CH1R0LOGIA:Ot,. V ' o 1:: ibugéfpi, didguéllthe fierceneflb and prcfumptu: '1 5mm; ans ,_ audacity of barbarous! men. The {Emmi 2’" afa‘llcof 1321an the Idoll before. the Arke of £ a God, by asfl-azt acknowledgement confirms " 4 ” ohiswna’turaili-ffignificationr.‘in the Hdnd, ‘ For ‘. . I ‘ hisfhea’dfallihgiofl“ fromhisbody, and the "Hand: ‘ fiomihc satmés‘, fliewcd,gtzhat it had not pump :30! undcnfiéndhig inzthcprscfencc ofGod; fines the; head fcllzofi; which is tihofleat of Reafomnd «Imbwlcdfge; and. tho Hand: (by whichwee ex. «ute’flrengthj :?.'i'ére'J funefrcd from the arms. 1 Kingvls fifszin the =£cufe,: of :Bétcfition feroéaam ‘ ST unwr- «GHH’L b but H LS HA N D from} the Altar, faying, iwghgld- on him : , 1but his Hand hce putforth. a7- gainfi the Prophet; dried up; andth could not A&o14-1°~pullsitinage:iné unto'him. q lez'x the Gover- nour made thiszfigne, unto Ranl,to gtbz bimlea‘at ‘9" I 'A&. 36.x.ficu-fpm; I} And thus Whenvfgrzippafaid unto T421, Thou mmpemnitted to {peaks for thy felfe; Paul 75132165 F. 9 0111‘ TH 1—: HAND andlaua matching-himfielfz. . ‘ . 1 44 ;_ :44 hatrfiflm “if???" ; ; 5 Triumpho ,_=Q‘pu:r out :rHE RsA‘182Eiu;HANp, AND To ! ii Géfl.‘iXV. : SHAKE“1"13‘3A5’11T WERE INTO A snout. a: 1 “it is their naturallg‘exprcfli‘onwhoWalt,bm,hq&fi. V 3595;; :iv 3 - i’fiampb, and by! .erultant gefizure exprdfo the 333;, W / 9 raptupefg oftbett‘jup; they alfo who would do ‘ ' clare their-bigbifapplaufe', orwoui’d gungwatulafe; ‘ and theywho-hwe bgunhz;.;doe commonly ufe " the fame geflfiJn c-ongratulhtozy Btclamatiam! either in the behalfe of'our {elves or others welj wait is: ufua'll-and- naturall'. Examples whcrco;5 'at‘oyetfi'eflx in‘the-life of Memory. For we tea}! ‘*thatr’-when the Antiochians underflood that T“ We: Was cumming to their City, they could not 3.2; 3' x m COfl' The natural] Language oftbe Hand. E17 romaine rhe‘mfclves" witlifi'a tficit’Wallsrfop 11911; 146911-05 :butralilwcm outta meet tum, and act only men, the wars that Women22nd,chi’ldrenfixpcfiingrhis cumming ofthc ‘ I3:11. Rounds 01".; met when'hcapp‘ro’adhed mere lewd-7° 11116011111111, 11111311301111 me u? ‘flw :1: H11 N131: 111111111111111111111 with great jayzsand raulama": 1:113:13; -He’x:1;1 11111151111110 "have: gone out é! axon“; Lflgyptww 1 11.161111111111111): thatimwiith‘grefl ' , Jay-111111 1113111311211Mdihis-*121101-15111151 'Q-N wu’fi' ‘ ‘ ‘3’ ,' 1113;} L gr 1 o N m1 ‘TéHaE “Ham 9 *in‘fignifi‘cation ’ Lafmtrtb, fallitygpliaaiiumgandinaltgbtsii‘s {e grann- éed‘in'N‘aiure,1.wthatic isthe commancu‘fiomc of ‘ iilkNationXS,‘ whentfhe—‘yxare titklen int-fl) gap, that ~ 7canfiot be C‘ontained‘trom breaking out into gci- ; flare, but G'OE 3 THE HAND! So thc‘P‘r-incc‘ Home}. K @111 Father of Poets, ' ‘ . 2 ’ 1 _ ‘ ‘ .' ’ [‘Defi‘ciunt rifu] " ‘tsalt'imtquper mm- ?almm. fF-ar, the Hand anointed as it wars with ”the irfame éylc ofiglaflmifa WherEWith:{behaartzis repleé- nflhed, 'figfiififis its-’feztftbiltt-p of tbélmfargemem 111112 112111,. byithis amglificatism ofig‘éfiure, «ma 1 ~ flaturau perfipbzafisnf 111g. * W: ' * - 1 THE 1 BE t. an N eaWa‘T-‘H we R Al‘s: 131111112111 Szlcntium _ ff hattheenee-ver with alliNz-ations accounted pofiulo. raéfign‘c ‘o‘Ecramngiauaiemeyand 'mtreafing a" fa: G‘ci’tXVI {zombie {ileum 1 Arridi’imW 'cenfiderablc van 6&- ?rcfl—ibn- this gefiur’e iéféthe Hand was ever ac- counted int-his Ibufinefiey'may he ._colle&ed out dfrhe. offiCe of the common Cryer, whom wee x‘i'ph‘i'Lin 'ntiedmhe monumentgé’efit‘hc‘Anc-ients com- Hagan. manding file‘nccby‘the Hand alone, Without thé woice‘. wdflflm. This geflure of remit to._ an ingenious ‘ and honelk man hath been accounted a kinde of retained), as appeares by the witty laying of 7:4.- lian. the Emperour. For when by a certaine {o- 3 ‘lemn order or cui’come, there were certaine Mef— {angers or Purfivants brought into the confil’co— Ammian: ry, to receive gold; among others , one ofthe if“? company tooke it, not as the manner is , in the i '1 " lappet of his mantle fpread abroad, but with the hollow ball of both Hand: ; and With that theft: . Purfivants or Inteiligencers (quoth the Empe» tour) can skill to catch, and not tolatch money . Hence it was that the Hand of Rnfiwr gover— nour Of the Bali under Honorim the Emperour , Hicmné‘_ Was carried about through new Rome, after hié loam“: death, in mockery, fafliioned after this manner , which ("Ignition ham elegantly exprefled in his team ‘ *' ‘ ‘ ** ~ ‘ ' YEW. ‘ 71.51am. 60] CHIROLOGIMOr,’ Claud. in ‘ {Dextm quinetiam, [Jada canes-fa mightier; czdRuffig [g/fm puma] ”mfg; omirm' per/bleak awn? _ni. Terrtbili 1mm, * vim/g; Imitazta retentive, Cogitur addué'hk dig-irat- infieflcre net-21:2. Corippm very ingenioufly {hadows out the ta: corip. A- pacify of a company of Plebeians inferred from fut-dc this Gcflure of the Hand: : §?‘“d' JUR- ww‘fl’almefg; 641mm 112.4,, . . t ' , Tandem; qua women: late plmt name: wear. and a little before he {aid , ~ -—* Exerta [4d mama] tender: dextm.‘ This entertainment Marcus Antonina: , the Im- perial! Philofopher, received at the Hazards of the Amen. grew; multitude when he came to Rome. For Phil. When in an oration , he made to the people , a- - ' mong other things , he had {aid , that he had been abfent in his travells many years; the mul- titude cried out, eight; and with s 1- m: 'r c H n 1) our HANDS , fignified how they travel) that they might receive fo many Aurei , for a congi— ary : at whichthe Emperout finned, and {aid al- That-is, f0. eight; and afterwards gave them eight Aa- mo. m: a piece; {0. great a fumme, as they never re- 1:33:55 9 celved at any Emperours Hand: before. Pierim Pym-Ls If“ faithhe had feen the figne of Philemon in Rome, Hieroglyp hpldtng a booke {hut , and tyed very {height in lib”. htsleft Hand , and his right Handdifh’d in this manner: {0 that he feem’d to Demauh the mice. which unleffe they paid him downe in his Hand, they fhould not have his booke ; for th ey report him to have beene a writer of Comedies, who was wont to fell his labours at a very deare rate- ‘Arifioph, And Ari/1017194716: hath a jef’t in one of his CO‘ Dion lib. * inconc‘io- medies, where ‘Plgidolm brings in the gods for “a".m‘bus- an example “I? whgm when we tender hp- ' ‘ ‘ " ' Plieatton The natural? Language oftb; Hand; plication for form: good, they {land H— our Nd 'THE 1 R HAN D uPWARD s ‘; not as they Would 75th:, but as they Would meme romewmr. Barg- Barclay; Eda} who is everywhere very elegant in hisgl- 33‘)": ‘lufions to naturall geltures , reflecting upon the ilimilitudes between this gcfiure, and the pollute bf the fiandin giving , bringsin Euphormio def? fircribing the flame of a goddef‘fe, that held her left flaw! very open,but firetched out hEr right’HaM “T'With luch a womanifh feigning and colourable fpretence, thatyou could not tellewh‘ether {he had rather give or take; This is the beggars era: hing pofiure. Yet tohetnul’neffe hath bowed the Hand: even ofEmperours to the fignificanr pra-' ‘flicc thereof. For Smtonim reportsthat 05h:- §"“9“ I"; :‘w'm Auguflm Caz/4r , by oc‘cafion of a vifi0n byggtgfgf“. night, beggen yearly upona certaine day moneycfl‘ ' g" ,bfthe peoplefind t1 ELI) our HI sHAND HoL- ”'1. ow tothofe whobrOught him brazen dodkins,” pr mites , called Ajps. And "the fame Author hath obferved as much in Vefimfim , who was {9 IdcmVeL famous for raifing profit out ofhis Sub 1' e615 urine Pam”. and his dulczk odor 114cm" ex re qualifier. For when Certain:- Ambafladours brought him word. that. there was decreed for him at the common char—_ ges of the Rate ‘a Gianblike image that bee" Would colt no meane fumme oflmoney,he com— ' manded to raife the fame immediately , s a raw: mo therewith H 15 HAND H c: L ~Low. Hereis‘ the bafis, quoth he,,an‘d pedei‘tall for it'ready.’ r: <. ‘I r ‘ fi.,, .4: , .0-Pu1‘ FORTH ' THE RIGHT HAND Muncro; _ s P n5 AD, is the habit of battery; .ltberalitrygifiefius yandafw’e heart; thus we remeruand frienbtg XXV! helium our guifm Hence r o o p m- r 2-: 5 HA N‘DA ‘ 1n 627 €HIR0L0’GIAtOt, iii the Hebrew phrafe implyes to be ftée=heatftfl , ‘ft‘iittntfit‘ent, and liberally» for, the HCbIEWQS , ,7 When the" maid exprefle a muffle munifittmg, ’ Lcfinda— they fay‘ «gamer, that f9, _Mamzm ‘apertamg‘ ms Hlfl' fiém Whehce ,pereh’ance' the Tgrkes borrowin. Muffel. . ,. .y l , , ,, “b4, the concert,_a_re .wontto let {brthibthemltfp by Ecclefiafl. an o PEN HA N. D. The fonne of Same]: knowing 49.14. that the eatercife of Bounty and Prodigality re.- quircsin a manner the like gefihre and expreflim of-the Hand; {peaking of the unjuft {fiend-thrift warring ofhisgoodsJaith,"That While he ort- NE‘ T H H IS HAND he {hall I rejoyce. Andthe pun. Nat. Greekesin Old time (faith Tliny) called the flu”,- Hm. ' (yr/lime: oftlzc Handfiom the thumb to the little fin- .. ~‘= * gar: end,1)aran, whiehi‘s the reafon that gifte be ' 11] their language called fDm,‘ becaufe they bee " preterm with the Hand. __ Hence Phifiogno- mifts fay Inch who, cuf’cornarily ufe to hold the Hand extended out are of a liberall complexion of minde; arguing from this liberall property of the H4zd.~- , And there is a tradition our Midi wiyes have coneerning children borne o p 1m HANDE D, that fuch will proVe of a hflutttifull Difpofitien,‘ "arid frankwhartneb. I nfams indeed for the molt part come into the world with their Buxm’Ph. [rammed-g thereby notifying, as a Rabbi ob= ferves, that God hath given them the riches ef ‘ this worldgand as it were {hut them tip in their Had: : whereas on the Contrary, dying men are wonrto E XTEND AND STRET (:21 our THEIR HA ND 5 AN .1) 1: I N on Rs‘,th'ereby. willing to fig- nifie that they relinquifh the world, and have no longer to dot with the things thereofl Which IS the only go‘od‘aflion the claflr- banded Mifet doth, Who when death opens and unlockes his HEW: or ' Tm nmur43~Lflflgfldge qfitbe'rHand. fi 55 V idem by this nércféifa‘ry pofiur¢ of bugging, give a; “may andhzthaflf, afiélas it wcrc‘manumét What ‘fie'cquld no longer‘wiéhmold km the neitpo‘; W‘effewdlamiw’ r¢lat<és a' fiOrY/Qf‘ ' 5"er Ki“! Bellamk‘ lbf’HuhgaryMbofe‘ernd Wasfou‘fid Who“: afifl ‘” ”'5' Bfihcorrn9t after his‘ ‘dfath- And“ ‘Cafiing in his Stethi’. Ffiiinde‘ What migmbethe reafor'r Why“ God was lPl'éé'fed' ‘miraculotfily *to prefef'v‘é: “$131.35: Hand toné‘iy,'w3th the skinhe, bonesaan’d n‘cr’Vesa. when {he whet members Were refol‘ved; into “their firIE raw-guts, deliverS‘his opinion;‘thuS’: Truly If Irhihke that in this miracle God 1\Kra‘swvi‘liing to: {thew the depth of his divine councell, that cbaé dif'itp‘éicals all othfif‘véffides. Defervedly thereé' pr'readid the Right: Hand Of this holy Kingr’emairf qflficbfr'iipn whiCh'Was alwdyes fieuriflming with: bfhébioflomes of mersp, "and which'in relieving ma D’ifir’ibutmg mg to the pobre, W33nevefi remfifcy‘o‘r indifpofed.‘:€v3odr(indced) ‘Who‘ 0‘1" E N 5" {firth H I s HnND", and filleth‘ every liVing iiifiing with his bléflihgs, out 63f his infinite bum? 4301621165 out libcféfly his divine Almes to his threafufes with bag-hfiigflmm. Whencc Divineé id‘iflihgui'fh the gift? of God into thofe of his :Rigkt Hand, andi'thdféfif‘his chft, to; Witfifimfiia rim-44’ and temporal/i «‘13:;tm ‘Deiqfl uyde gram" :Prawmizmt. Mac? the Mrdfiite; by a Right H4214 irufideiffi‘afid thfi Ringgisnggigmtp of God. Mafia-4' Maldonati 'fifl't-Cémincnting up‘aht‘he word’sgiifour SaVidul‘s comment Let not f6] lqfie Ham! kmw m: “thy rig/2t Ham! i“ Mat'é’v. 40th ‘, gives a reafimflwgfiy m thispliavce,’ contrary tmhc'cuficme of‘S'mpmxe, "they LcjftHzmd is na-‘ med befmne the Rig-5i, and‘aéfion ‘ét‘tribfitedm fhfe Ki 3,12; Hazard, and£§h0w16dgeffithre Left. For blaxsthfirrfom den: 1,. faith has} became wee are wont :64 3 1n— CHIROLOGIAEOr; giwofit to reach out our almefi (which our Saviour there fpeakes of) with our Right Hand, hence called Mam: elecmo/imrz‘a,a_nd not with our Left, and a1 other Works that are done with the Hand, I . the} ngbt‘Hand does them, the Left as a helper €reioi. Athl. Sacr, 60th aflii’c; fo that hit had eyes it could not bee ignorant ”what the Right Hand did]: wherefore Chrii’c wouidheveus fovtol'exercife this Hand with workes ofythatitg ,. that our Left Hand (Which is wontvto he not onely confcious, but acceffory , to all the achions of the Right Hm) fhould not \formuch as know or take notice there-5 o‘f. Cre’follz‘mjudicioufly . ieanning thefe words of our Saviom‘, Let ”0;." tbyilq'tHand [gum what ti); right Hand doth, tells. us thaxtiitflis a {ymboiicalli‘ exp‘reflion veryiike to the Hifleroglyphiques of the Egyptians, and therefore the force a’ndfenfe hi this admonition, is to he fought out of the na- ture and ‘nfuall fignificatioiiof both the Hewitt As for the Right Handjt ishitpg‘ether o P E Mimi: “and manifeftly put in afiiOn; Wherefore for its , par’t‘it denotes an ingenhous candor and virtue, whofe glory is mofl: perfpicnoufly fet’ out by a- Etion ; but more eflpecially, the Right Hand fignie fieth liberality, landfor that cauie chofen to bee the ‘hieroglyphique ofa moi‘t benefitent and pith: tifull latgefl‘e _: iWhereaS the Left Hand.‘ hath a , contraryGenius; and is ebferVed to be of a clofe and retired naturenhis Niggard out of a skulking difpofition affeé’ting fecrefie, and the {ubtile lei: fure of a thrifty vacation.- So that this Symboll of our Saviour infinuates‘thus much :_ If thou art difpofed to communicate thy goods to relieve the wants ofthy brother, and to thew forth the léhemlity of thy minde, take not counfell 0121?; . w ‘ ~ 3 Tb: mtéti'afi Laflguage oftbe Hand L’f‘ Hand ‘ minde . ,. . - not . ' . 9fg9°d33 and the thitfiwggzzfif Covet?“ defim Irving Hand; let the Ri ix H 3’; “gm.“ Why. 3“??? _thcindex ofbcmficgzmcaaid plredvall: with $33“: the accnfgr of conémurfiaég-efémi“? ”"4” Wormethc L‘ft Handearthitf 10f ' that; ‘99? and. keepe filence by an uncha ' e be 1” ava- Eaggylggadmh not 10V? to {catterfblfi 33:5; [flow in gfiefioiy, but a long tmie to 13;: ' ' limb any ”we!“ 5 01' Left-handed Do fling no ' ter ofDoumy doe Ollf timts afford ‘ Wgalfffls m if u‘mzt hold 0f-Wh0fi’ {Faring Hm; CI“ 1-” th-c- : éfie at? d WM} Cold? And' how m Ianty 13: (“Id 1c“ gm? Morvahfis B 13‘ “,5” 7515 Cite dat any Who; ‘3'{ ourners gloffe, that the 10m, 1’ .w “h #116 F4 patghednhe foonert‘he W.“ if mats are: 345’” fimfier delay hold they - l mume againe their courtefies ha m 1.“ fufpences whim iBird-lim ' éng to then- fincers end” 1“ Heathefizu and W111 net come awgy ? Th sf}? anWouldc‘ " ' v, “it c £13464 fave/aim. Thefealglrzzzfcflm émefic‘flWe left». firm“ by {Ome ftémpm‘arn, 1:15 ‘lfthey ng re- :,i,epatu1‘allmunifice[lce (Z 4w? mafia againfi: 631 matters Of beneficenc': the Right Hand, refe; myretlon ofthe Left H 4‘” d tfgjthe Pemlricjus'xdif; {gmefl who as if they h 61a .0 2157, are there not 4.. Other QFIhrifi’, to elude h¥anr§l.nCe to bat: the l: ,cl, have madethleit Haggslaifiefcmt of the'Gog. “#6 Cr?) and agree new: to knglkea 1€ague toga: [glue Y the Other ?‘ W any f“46h thing it if . OEXT E . _. h V ‘ V NDAND OFFER 6m: THE R1679? Sene'céfg“ A 3? if :7 {£21523 N H ~ » . ‘ AND uNT " ' > ”and ofan intentiooni'NYfls an'exprefiion Omit” » F» \ ' 0 511135023 cemfagt' and raviefi? 5:43 hEtrifczcl : ~ alfo as v fl atokcn of am ‘ ‘ ». .. , b Imam, 99am, fem-{@1522 ' fiw A , ‘s. ‘.f.\ ;/ j“; 65 CHIROLOGIA.‘OI3 and pgomifcb fafetp,and fal’vafionhn expreflion much delired by thofe who are in diftrefle, and are not able to {hift for themfelves , who ufeto call for the guift or auxiliary loan of this Head; for thus ”Palinm'm calls to vfmw , Vifgil To dextmm mifera 6" temm me talk per undm. Ene‘d Hence *‘Dars manym alimi w] *mannm admowr: Era{.Ada. . . 7. , Syml 3. fig!" [opem 6v auxtlmm flrreJ Symmechm calls Epil’t.67t this [admtncem] manum the helping Hdfid. Caf- Cal‘.2.4. fiadom: * ‘Dextmm E/alumrem] the comfortable El”g1 26~ Hand; and with Ifidor , it isthe witnefle offal: Picr.Hier. batten. Picrigu makes this geflure the hiemgly- 11-5,; 9 phi‘cke of fhgtttuhe and aih , m Wthh fenle his very frequently tifed by the learned Romansfl‘he fame manner of expreflion hath prevailed allo with the Greeks, and with the Hebrews like- wife; for (0 faith the Scripture , The wicked lend one another the Hand , but in vaine 5 for though Hump toys}; IN HAND , the wicked mat-33.7! {hall not lcapeunpunifhed. Thelike expreifiou 20,644.; of geflure is frequent in {acred Writ. The Pro- ! 39w. phet Ifm’ah in reference to the fignificarion of “3"6'7' comm}: , faith , they {hall not ST RETC H out T H E HA N D s for them in the morning to match them for the dead : And Salomon {peaking ofthc vertuous woman , faith , She fpreadeth out her Hand: to the poore, and putteth forth her Hand, Matt. :4. to the needy. To this intent, jeius immediately 31.; STRETCHEDFORTHHISHAND, and caught up (inking Tater crying out unto himto tam him. And {0 fignificant and demonftrativetlo fastener and {uppnzt is this gefiure,that ‘Uzm for z 3.2m.6.6 putting forth his Hand to Ray the Arke of God, i was {mitten with death for that {peaking errour ofhis Hand. This gettute of tumour and relief? _ hat1 Proverb, I 1.2. I. Proverb. 3 1.20 The 6:4li Lafiguage of the: Hand. 67 hath been obl‘crved in z’incientcoine‘s,‘ “amped Pisérms N with the image of the goddeffe 0p: , by that p70- {*nglyg flu‘re,pgomifing a minimizes it) home all that in? I '3 " yoke hername; q This gefiure is (élfo) a m:- turall to’keo'oF afiuraiazmand pgemifeo fafcty. Iilezheet Thus the King of Pr’e'rfi‘a raven Wanton life gig“? by “Ammo mm mg" RKGHT HAND. “ ” 'ufmmianm Warcefiz'nm faith the fame‘of one Neéridim’, who waSthe only man that refufed to _ , confpiré With others againfi: Conflantim, and Ammx’a‘g‘ig théte‘bre to ram himfelfe‘ fro-m the fury of thfe fifi‘euiqo 'Sou’ldiers Who had draWne their fwofds u’pon JP; 2"" him , flying With all {peed he could make to fuss ' 1m, belought’ him, that for arfuranw he Would ”Vouchialeto GIVE HIM HIS RIGHT HAND; Whereu’nto 7:412)»; made aniwer, W’hat 'lhallI keep efpecially for my friends; in‘ Cafe thou” touch my Hand ? but goothy Waycs from hence ' Whither thou wilt,in lately and {gtutifys ‘ 7 ~ 0 LE T Down T as Ham mm; intent is Co'mnii; N; ream fame Ianguéfiiing creature from off the [freon ‘ grill-131D , is a greater exur’ycflion ofpity and mn‘l« Egg}?! mtferatian, then so afibrcl a s T R. E’ T c m: o ouf ‘ °> ; HAND to one Who rifethof his owne accord 3' , ,or between thele eXpr’efiims the Learned have 7 magic a dil‘tinzfl‘ion : To this ekpreflioyn ,1 limit" that of the Pfaimiii referred , Send doWnl’c’ thy . rflfidfrom abo‘Ve. PM. 144', 7. TQSTRI KB A TAB LE OR 302le SL‘lCH Li Ks frafcoé; 6 THING WlTH TH 5 HAND, is the gcl’turc of Gcflus. :3; a??? 0; grietwu trimming, and mm} fmpafi; Xicvm.‘ ‘- I" ,0 WhICh gofiureiha‘t of the Prophet 133:. 823166;” ' 18 raferred; Thus faiththe Lord- God, 5 M1 m E 2 i w; T H 6’8 CHIRO'LOGIAiOr,‘ WITH THINE HAND, &c. By this figneinci. ting the Prophet to fignifie the great imatb and Destruction to come.The natural reafon Ofwhich geiture is, the minde frattan that it cannot meet My Lord with a revenge, doth out of Hand endeavour to B2c0m_ . quench her fervent heat {ome other Way, to wit, Nat-H‘fl- by 57110 x 55 or noife, or form other remedy, which fomewhat eaie the minde. To deicend downeinto our owne Hiftorie for an example of this patheticall motion of the Hand, a Royall . Copie whereof we have in a Prince, whofe paf- Godwyns fions were, ashimfelfe, great, to wit, Henry the Anmis 0f eight, who demanding of one of his Phyficians Hm‘s' whoie patient Cardinall Wool/e] was, what di- {temper Wealfej had, who then was ficke, the Dot‘tor replyed, what difeaie {oever he hath, bee will not, live to the end of three dayes more. The King STRIKING THE TABLE WITH n13, HAND, cryed out, I had rather lofe twothou— {and pounds then hee fhould dye, make hai’tc therefore‘you and as many Phyficians as are a- bout the Court,and by all meanes endeavour his 5;, Rith. recovery. Another example of this expreflion Baker I finde in our Chronicles,before the times of this Chem-0? Prince, and that is in the Duke of Glo’fter, Pro- g" i“); tec‘tourto young King Edward the fifth. For a- ng Jfl . ' n mong other paflionate gefiures which accom panied his changed countenance, when he accu' {ed the (meme Mother. and her complices 0 plotting his death, and my Lord Hafling: had ad- ventur’d to returne {ome anfvver to his fiercem- terrogatory, {ubmiflively faying, If the @cch have COUfpiredr-n The word was no foonfr out of the Lord Hafling: mouth, when the Pro' teétour czappmc, H15 HAND upoN THE BOARD: The nature” Language oft/.76 fiend; Bowmand frowningly looking upon hitnfajd, Tellel‘t thou me of If and And, I tell thee, they, r, and none but they have done it, and thou thy {elf art partaker ofthe Villany,&c. TO HOLD up THE HAND HO LLOW ABOVE COllorto. THE SHOULDER POINTS, AND TO SHAK E Gi’ms IT IN ORBE BY THE TuR'NE AND RETURNE XXIX- os THE WM 51‘ , is their naturall expreflion who encourage, emhnluen,and erbozt one to be of " ‘QODD chute. Mntom'm in {lead of fpeech figni- Plutareh fleantly ufed this geflure. For it is written of 1“ “heme him, thatwhile he was fetting his men in order 3;”, ”0‘ ofbattaile at Aé’tium, being refolved {Or a naVallv' " fight,to end the controverfie betweene 06km»: ‘ Caz/4r and him for the Monarchie of the world ; there was a Captaine and a valiant man that had ‘ ‘ferved «Antonia: in many battailes and confliéts, and had all his body hacked and cut : who as Antoni»: paired by him, eryed out unto him, and jfetid: 0 noble Emperour, how commeth it to japaile that you trait in thefe vile brittle (hips? \What, doe you miftrultthefe wounds of mine, land this (word? Let the Egyptians and the ‘Phoenicians fight by Sea, and let us on the main :land, where We ufe to conquer, and to bee flaine :onour‘feet. Mmonim paiTed by him and {aid :never a word , but only BECKOND To H IM WITH HI 5 HAN D and Head, as though he mil: 18D him to he nfgmh homage, although indeed he ad no great Courage himfelfe. OEXALT OR LIFTUP THE sruercu’o P1536319 OUT HAND, 18 the habit ofone attempting $551“st m not aubtahe fume famoue exploit in 19mm: xxx. . F 5 and. 9; , ., . I , .77 1* 7o CHEROLOGIA:OY, andis a naturall pollute of an 1313211sz aim hint, trifling pomztfience he is {aid to have his R x G. a 1? HAN D E xntm D who is made pohmrfull and 375511,”. gl’ozioufi. Hence the Prophet (MC/m : Thy ‘ HAND s H AL L n E LI FTuI’ upon thine adverfa- ties: that is, Thou [halt overcome and be hiring man. And to this gelture the Pfalmii‘c alludes, 139139,“ Thou halt SET up THE 31 our HAN D. oihisad4 Deutg a. verfaties. Wee reade in Deuteronomy, that the 3:7- Lotd would have fcattered his people, but bee feared their enemies {hould wax proud, and fay . our H I G H HA N p and not the Lord hathdone job 28-1 5 all this.And that mirront o£ patience : The H IGH i’fa._i 0.1 ’2. A R M E of the vsncked‘lhallf be broken. The Pfale $131.39.! 3 mitt ufing the exprellion and fignification of'this ‘ ' gel’ture in great attempts : Atife O Lord, L I tr up THINE HAND. And ragaine, Thou hali a mighty Arme, {irong is thy Hand, and H 1 on IS mast. 7m Y in GHT HAND. And the §criptures gt- ;jD‘éuMM netally under the metaphor of this geiture {ha- 5.19.9". i9 dew out the winner of God manifefied in the de- 33:32.“, livery of the children of Ifrael out of Egypt, 55 “‘3' 8' who under this phra‘fe is {ignificantly {aid to have 412' brought them out from thence openly, and by meme fem. Q? T hat it is fignificant in their Hand: who goe about to [at m Hand 21 bufincfie; to omit other confirmation, appeares in Pharaoh: {peech to $59,129, were he {aid unto him, I am 'Pkmzob, ”gm-4’ and without thee {hall no man L IPT up ms ‘54" HAND in Egypt. Examples of this attemptiflg geltute are not wanting in prophane mitotic?- For the day on which the battaile of Pharfalia mum” in Was firueken, Caz/at feeing Cmflinm in the mor- the m; of ning as he came not of his Tent,asked him What {Es-stat. he thought ofthe fucetffe of the battaile E’flCM‘ t _‘ , imfl , /.kW¢-¢M_. 7 . 'v The mturall Language ofrbe Hand. ~ 7; Wm srmrcame our m's’RIGHT HAND unto him [which was a mute omen hee {’hould have the Better Hand of his enemies that day eryed out aloud,0 Cerf-tr, thine is the btaogte 5 and this day {halt thou commend mee alive or dead: and accordingly brake afterwards out of the rankes, and running amongl’c themidfi of his enemies, with many that followed him, made a great flaughter: at 13?: one ran him into the mouth, that the {words point came out at his neck, and {o flew him. To pans: NT THE HAND, is their exprefl1 Prefer-o. on who pgafer or Delthzrathhtg aethtir act 5‘3”"5 film D2520. And the Verbs profera which hath the XX“ {ignification to wafer and prefent a thing,feemes to imply the very geliure. This was the firfl ex- preflionthat ere appeared in the Hand, and was ufed by 87/: in the fatell prefer ofthe ferbidden ‘frnit unto the Full man. Arid it was required in G333“ the old Law at the Hand of the afferer, who was Mil'z‘ ‘3‘ to prefent his offering with his owne Ham! : for in religious duties there was never a proxie al- lowed, q As it is figrzificant in delivery ofwri— itings as our aé’c and deed, it is mofi: apparently ifeenein its lignificatian at the delivery of Deeds, ([0 called from this gellrure for this is Chit which gives force to all leg-all conveyanceg, and with- .Qut this expreffion Liverie and Seilin is 091mm cffefl. qr Afemblance ofthe fame geiime Wee gfe when wee would take or flimlfi what is pro- ftf'ed and delivered into our Handy, And that {is militude of politzre feemes to imply” a Correfpen- den'cy and a {heritable inclination to entertains: their clients ifthey there withtll prefered thanks l3 4 - {at : I _ .79. CHIROLOGIA.‘OF: Eccluid g. for the fame. To the naturall purpofe and mean. . E25? fling of this geflure, the Some of Simcé: He hath fer fire 85 water before thee, s 1' RE T c H r o RTH 3m? HAN p unto whether thou wilt: that is, take or atczpt of which thou Wilt : for by a me. tonymy of the adjuné’c the figne is put forthe game. thing fignified. This was the fecond gellurefi " ' ’ any lignificarion that is recorded to have appea. red in the Hand, and the firlt that {betel/ed it felfg in the Hand of the firfi man Adam, when he: ac, vanish of that forbidden fruit,with which'hcc tooke a curfe that filled his Hand with labour, andforced it often to advance to wipe his {wean ting browes. From this unhappy gefiure the Hand may be well called Mama: 4‘ manando, be: caufe all eyill proceeded from this afiion. Two tiles the Hand was chiefly ordained for, to take, 931” 4‘: 311d “’00, as git/m well obferves: but Man took a“)! Pm- {0 ill with it at firlt, that he undid himielfe, The 39'?" mifguided Hand would be reaching at the Tree ‘ of‘knowledge, but prohibited by an exprefl'e ca- 513m, 3.22. year, was prevented from putting forth it felfe i i to the tree of life. ‘ , iflglfim“ -'0 WAG THE BAND IN A SWINGING GE- ?6 WED» ‘ stu RE ,is their naturallexpreflion who would :XX xi L estaefietonr tahal‘teit anoafftt‘t themfelhen tn mot , . meme tnottott, and Withall denotesa kmde of {Ml-d? mantennet‘l’a and effemtnazy. Arifiotle {ayes,that we?” than could not Walke unlefle he were milled by ° the morion ofhis (boulders, and thatthe SW1 N- QIN g: or: H Is Artistes doth much help the b0‘ dies tranlportation in leaping; which men by in tinelt knowing, doe many times fall into this SEE??? open inch oecafion; Hence £51150ng The natural? Language oftbe Hand. 73' with]! Phila/eplyer: who know that every man ‘ hath his peculiar genius, caufing thatnative dif. _ ference ofhabiliries in men; obferving the ope. ration of thefe fpirits as they are matched and con joyned to outward gefiures, which by a kind of tacit charaéter give out the manner of their complexion; doe eafily difcerne the differences offpirits by arguing fylloglfiically from the nae " tura-ll habit to the genuine or contrat‘ted, which cui’tome makes more perfonall ;_ foras mens prefent pafiions and inclinations are brought by nature into aft ; [0 men followingthe vogue of ‘ nature, are wrought to a reiteration of that aar- . on, untill the Hand hath contraéted, a: habit. The ‘vrefult of thefe Phifiognomers falls thus into a ‘31: ‘grand axiome of their‘art, that Whofoever is (as ' by a perfonall propriety and aetuall condition) cuflomarily few to nfe the, gefture of any natu~ rallafl'eétion ; he is by habituall complexion veo ry incident to that affecfiion , exhibited by that gePrure. Hence Seneca, not unskilfnll in this art Sen-9P“?- ofChiromanticall Phifiognomie, makes the cu— “man‘s: STOMARY WAGGING or THE HAND To AN D FRO, a perfonall charaéter of nfi'zminarie and impunenre. Impndicum (57' inceflkr offendit,’ c6~ * mam: mom , c? ”lam: ad mp”: digitm, 6' firm: ewlamm : The gate , the turning of the eye, the finger on the head, and the WA 6- GING o 1: THE HAND , thew a {hamelefle . Wanton. And Marcy: fate was Wont to fay, PIutJn he would not have him for a fouldier, that theiifeOF WAGD HIS HAND AS HE on E TH, removes his .Cm M37 feetas he fighteth , i and routeth and fnorteth’or‘ louder in his fleep , then when he crieth out to Sharee 1519011 his enemy: ‘ ’ i L " 179 74, CHIROLOGIARO“, Demaflro T O SHAKE our THE HAND, is their natural! non habc- expreflion who would {how that they hang §x§fi§s not, n02. native to have a tbtttg. This the Latines lfai ah all“ warm: excmere. The Prophet I/aiab in re- 33 . - - . 1 5. ferense to the figmficauon of this gefiure, faith, The righteous SH AKETH HIS HAND s from holding of bribes. And the fonne of Sirach al- ludes to the fignification of this gefture , Where Ecclefafl. he faith , The {lothfull man is compared to the am. filth of a dunghill;every man that takes it up,wi11 SHAKE m 5 HAND. Cfi' — '0 SHAKE on HOLD THE sfas'rcuto a go. -~ . . Gsfius . AND RAISED HAND 0sz ANY, 1s thelr xxx 1v, expreflion who offer to tbal’fifz and that!) amt: lingnea to {trike a; take revengeflence the pro- hibition of the Angel to Aha/mm about to {acri- ficc his {on,after he had 5 T mar c a E D n ur HIS HA ND, to that intent, lay not thine Hana! upon Had“ a. the childe. The Prophet [fatal/3 refpcétive to this fignification ofgefiure , faith, That the King of Afiyria {houid s H AK E H I. 5 HA ND againfi the mount of the daughter of Sion. And becaufe men are wont to ufe this expreflion by gef’ture to thofe they hold megtbtg of rebuke and pantfit WM, that being terrifieh thereby they might ta: flatten them from vice. Hence by an Anthropo- pefa in many places of Scripture this geitureim- plies the tbafitgtng Haad of God. To this figm— amass. fication belongs that of the Prophet I/aiab, In that day {hall Egypt be likeunto women ; and 1: {ball be afraid and feare, becaufe of the 3 HA‘ 1; 11:: G or THE HAND of the Lord of Hofis, which he Ihaketh over it! It) this alfo belogg: t a The naturafltmgudge ofthe Hand. 754 t that of the fame Prophet, With his mighty wind Idem cap {hall he 5 HA K5 HI 5 HAN D over the rivet. And u.vet.zg. the Prophet Zechariah to the fame fignification , thém- 0 51‘1th ONE WITH TH E Ft sr,i3 their Pugno, Gel’ture who would. be amnggu of thqfc GER”; that have ofi‘tnded them, and would right them; XXXV. "ram by this Wilde vindiétive jul’cice of theix . de‘t. The Hand thus clofely flout and the fin— gers all turned in, is called in Latine,P;tgnm-,qmr ”W mew 7% ant: erdt paid (9'- mcme (’ and: ”26:5". ,y 41m) mmméla chug/1': digitir, cfftft'a cf} my“; 54% gauge, den/at The nether Part of this Hand in’this pa, Ade Subtil. ‘- fiute Chimmancers call the pom/2‘ 0t percuflion 'f Of the Hand, the Greeks Hypo/mar ft» ferim: mm, and 9m; im‘ tr} Mmu, parcnters. Galen .Qbffl’Xé-CS that the outfide of the Hand Was depris' (331m 45' yed offlelh, that the F 1 s r might be more con~ ungatt. firmed to fupply the place ofa weapon. And in- deed they naturally and eafily finde this thicke weapon who would Bu 9 1: e r or fight at film: matte with others. This was the gefiare of the fiend that firfl: begun the fray or skirmifh in the World , before time had brought in the ufe of o- ther weapons. Hence the Latines fay , Tugnm Eran70- iemaw ejfl: , and pugm. hath its denomination “’3’ from this pollute of the Hand. Lmrm’m alludes to this primitive expreflion of anger , vfrma antique mam: ”Pig”?! denttféfucmm.’ And when We fee men together by the em. we, know what they intend thereby. The PrOphet. Ifaiah condemning the injurions uie ofthie finif 18.384, “fig expreflion of the Bendix: fiftifrs and Dehate , l ‘ 1 calls Goratus. _ Behom’ I Win SHAKE MINEHA‘ND “PonZach.z.9.W CHIROLOGIAtog Calls it the Fiji of wirkedmfle. 75‘ i Reprchen- TO BOXORSMITE ONE WITH THE PALM ‘ ‘ do. Gcflus o r- m B HAND , is their exprefiion who Would rebuke or tnzrect another for fome faucie {peech or aétion. Hence the Hand with the fin. gets ltretched out, which [fider calls the palm, hath itsname in Hippocrates from a word that fignifieth to (trike. Age/liar ufeth the word dc. palmare for this {miting expreflion of the palm: The Greeks to the fame fignificatio‘n of gefture ufe the word xMooz'Q’m: This contemptuous A, John: expreflion offinger the officer of the high Priefl: yak I4. ufed to our blefl‘ed Saviour; for the Text flies, He 7 Ma'm“? {trooke him with the paline of his Hand, taking Upon him to Wbuke Chrifl: for anfwering the high Prieftirreverently as he curledly fuppofed. To the naturall fignification of this attentive ge-v “MAS. flare, may that of the Prophet I/aiala be referred, Therefore is the anger of the Lord kindled a- gainfi: his people , and He bath 5 T R i: T c H E D 1:0an HIS HAND againlt them, and hath {mitten them, are. for all this , his anger is not turnedaway , but his HAND 1 s srnercnan our (till. APPW- OLAY HAND uPoN ONE is their exptefl- 2563i: 0" Whotwith autbetity apptebenn and lay erivn hold of one as a delinquent to {state their per: fan. This is one of the propereft expreflions of thfi Hand ; apvtebenfiun being the proper aflion of the Hand, for Hamiand’Hald are conjugates, Dr. Crook as they terme them in the Schoolesgfrom which in his Mi. gelture the Hand is Called Organonantileptiwn, eocofm» {with the firtt 118: 9f Sh? Hetétg m K E H on» With The hitfiidll Linguiigé bft a Hand} 77 With the Ancientsthis gelture is manucapt‘io and 'munm injicere. This is a dangerous Haém Cor. EtafiAdag‘ ' pm in officers Who are the Hand: of the Law , ' 3: without words obtains the force of an arrefiz, and hath a {pice of their autbogitp more Ptto'ng then their cmblemattcall Mace. Thefe aftions Mark ,4; are frequently entered in the Cauntcr of Time. 46. ‘ Thus the officers of the highPtiefi L A 11) H); m) s an Chtilt, and make him. _- ' Omar Go ones HOLD AND TAKE ossManumtt; ml _ m HAND FROM ANY ONE , iSthcirge— to. ' fl flute who would {ignifie a inillingnefl'e to re: Gcfi‘us ‘ leafs one that was befoze in their poflettton am: xxxum " gainer , as having iome reafott ta grant them ‘ .3 . their liberty. This with the Ancients is mama » mitten, and from the fignification of this natur’a‘ll : gellure, the Ancients tooke their formes of ma: , l transition, ufed when they did enfranthtte their “- .bondxmenn' ”of which the Civill Law takes much See Juain; ’ notice, and the obfervation of Critiques are very Inflitut- 'H large in that matter. Thetejis in this naturall ex— \ pteflion of the Hand 21 certaine forms of'the "in thing fignified. Hence the Egyptian Priells 1 who alwayes had their eyes fixt upon the Hand . of nature, in their Hieroglyphique exprefl’ed‘ li= Pierhic- herifpbyaHAND EXTENDED our AT LARGE ,roglyph. { y; in which lively "{ymbole ofgefture , the fingers hb.3 5' ’ll‘ l ‘ {eem to be made frée of the Hand. The medall l .ofTiéerius C laudim C‘s/hr, in which alittle gra— Idem ibid". i i venimagehaththe LEFT HANDOPENe-n To |' ‘I'Tsutrenmosr EXTENT {withrhisinfctip- ‘5 . ' tion, Liberm Augufld, implies as much ,7 time ‘5 l 1 '; l the left Hand the melt retentive appears freely ta manumitgfor as‘theHand in this pofiure implies 78 _ CHIROLOGIA:Ot,‘ , ghppaturall liberty of its oWne proper andiudi. viduall body; .19 it moft properly exprefl'es the F giftyof the fame priviledge to others by the fauna reedome ofgefiure. Incite. O CLAP ON: ON THE BACK on sHouL; Gcfius up saw: T a In, 15 HA No, is their expreflion xxmx' who Would hearteu and encourage, others; [a ge- fture obvious in the Hand that takes part With thefe that are in fight, and defires to {er men or ' beafis together by {the ears. Significantly refpe— 5331M” " Etive unto this, is that gefiure amOUg'othersmftd figav‘u‘* in inflalling the Knights of St. film of Jerufa- ‘4’ let-n ',.. whereby he that gives him Knight—heed, LAYING Ht 5 HAND (mi-n rs SH OULDER doth erhuzt him to he vigilautin the Faith , and to afpire unto true honour by muragieue and laudable afiions. " 7 , PM“ VVE use To 51110 In: THEM GE Nirtr’ Gefl‘ XI" ; WI T B one HAND , Whom we make much out , thefiih. humour , or affzutuuutely inhzg» an expreflion very obvious among the a-‘ flions of commonjlife , being a kinde of inDuI= gent declaration of the minde ,- ufed to p‘act’fie fl and pleafe Others, performed by drawing out ’* Hand with a {weetning motion over the head or face of the party to whom we intend this infi- nuation. This the Ancients call mat/cert: mph: alterim ; an gefiure often ufed by men in figne o ‘ fitment and encouragement to ingenious and tea Watdly youths. ‘ Admoneo “F OTMCI now 62mm or ANO'THERS Genxu HA N n, is a gefture ufed by theft: who 31331155; ~ m: The mmmll Language oftbe Hand, nifb and petfiflabe, which bet: that (ball fet hint- , J [die to obicrvc’tlae aaions of men, may upon . fuch occafions finde ufed to the famc'intents and _ - . “ ‘Purpofes. :Mitbrojmufle; “fed this gmmiflafle- J ,muntmtng 1136mm”? the Lacedcmonim; Who Plutarch b‘ingin'the‘l‘aur‘ of Perfia, the Kingfivi‘l‘lin in theme ‘ him iOJa’Ske What gift he would- H66: befou ht otThcmi: .ihe'King to grant him thi‘sfavour, to licence him flocles. e6 goeup and down: the City Of, Sardis with his royal! Hat on his lieadfis the Kings of Pet-fig J J .‘ J J 1 30.13% git/arapaufle: the Kings cozen T A K I N a _ J J J J J RIM 131' THE HAND,fald unto him,iDemaragu:, J 1-. I J J :the‘l‘x’ings Hat thou deman’defl, and if it‘werc on‘ , l ‘ J J . . z thy head, it would cover but time wit. Nay‘ -' J z I 3 Jéhou ,h‘fflpitier (houlcl give thee his Lightning in J J 1 [thy 54nd, yet that Would not make thee in, item. .J l 3 find we finde Timon, furnamed .Mifimtkrapa; (as Idem in J J T @110 would fay Leap-germ, or the man-hatefr)rzhelifc of J ‘nfing thisvcxpreflioni who meeting fllcié’iade: Alcibiades Jiie, JWith a great wine as he came one day from the " Councell and Afiembly of the City, not 13311ng l ngy him, nor giving him way (as hee did to all of a J Jther men ) but went {height to him, and T o 0, K E H J' JJ . Jam 28 Y T HE HAN D, and fluid, 0, thou doefl: J , . I J J‘well my fonne, ,1 con thee thanke,that thou go- J ‘ 3?: on and climbe'lt up {till : for if ever thou be in JJJ; " @uthotity; Woe be unto thofe that follow thee, J J . . hforthey are utterly undon’é‘fiu‘ch an intention of ' J' J J ~ I gellure, but with more vehemen cy of expteflion l J .. i 3‘:- ’. . the Angels uf‘d to Lot, while he lingred in So- 66049“? J A J ( Jl acme, Ls: YJI-NG HOLD uPON t; I s, HANDand ‘5' J J WON TH E iiiAND of his Wife, and uPQN THE J J ‘| JEAND‘OE his two daughters, to angfifimm and A J} lJ'J , J pfliifififlfithemto a {widen departure igom that _. ‘J J JJJJ , J «enemy» - .9 a: , g J ; w 33‘ CHIROLBGIAEOK} ‘ Confido.‘ . OMEN UPONANOTHER$HAND3lSthle 31:53:11: i gefiure who make a confiding mi: of the {take of their age or afieéh'on, an exprel'fion im. orting that they much rely upon their faith and fricndfhip : and often feene in the hand ofgreag Princes,when for greater flare and eafe they got {apported in this wife.The lignilication ofwhich' countenance of Ma jel’cy doth in efl‘ec": fhew that the Nobleman on whofe Handthe'King leaned, was next and {ubordinate in authority to himfelt, andthat the waight of all the principall affaires‘ of State did lye on his Hands. Thus in the Booké 3 Kim. 3Lof the Kings of Judah We made: of a Prince (the, fame that mockr at the Words of Eli/72a when he foretold of the releefe of Samaria) on whole Hand Iehomm King of Ifrael lean’d: that is,as the Glofl‘e upon our Bibles hath it, a Prince to whom the King gave the charge & overfight of things, as doth more plainly appeare by the 27. verfc of the fame Chapter. And the fpeech of Name ‘2 King. g, to Eli/Z»: alter hee had cured him of his Leprolie, makes it more apparant : Onely herein let the Lord be mercifull to thy fe‘rvant, that when my ‘ Mailer goeth into the houfe of Rimmon to wor- ,_ fhip,and leane upon my Hand, 8cc. Where N”, ‘ man craveth to bee pardoned of zeale without Wilton: knowledge, as M 7min: faith, it being no fuel} Chi-ill. thing as fhould trouble his confeience to bow Dlfia himfelfe in an oflicious fort and civ‘ill duty {9 bend his body that his Lord might lea‘ne upon 1115 ' ~ Hand when he went into the Temple ofthe _Id01 Rimmon' to adore. Thus Liéa ‘Dmfm fulfamfid by the Hand of his brother, entred into the SC‘ Tacitus. hate houfe to anfwer to that enormity hee “gs ' alCCll‘ Tb: Mama Laflguage oft/2e Hand. 8 g“ accufed of : who when hee {aw ‘Tit'tleriw a great. Way off, he held. hp his Hafm'f, ,‘implqt‘ing mercy? (9 with great humlhty. Which Harelmélle, of g3- “(lure Was much ufed 1n Afia by great petfo‘hsg,‘ I? and is at this day by your Italian Ladies, '1 TO HO”) FAST ANOTHE R '5 HAND in} théghlmpeklioi l fignification of hinbgamg anal 178m: afn t, is a: GEflus‘L; I gel‘ture to obvious 1n the ’cholerieke perturbatie‘XLUIa :ons 'of humane life, that it needs'r‘no iuuflmfiiofii n by example, fince We may every day mgét With 5 fatisfaélioa in the pu’bliq‘u‘e; {beets : for in quark, l rells where there is any moderation 'or ofer Ina—:- l fitting power on one fid e, this fei’ftainf of the IHamiis ufed both with fignification end adyaql ltage: To this gefture may be referred thét 6f the lProphet Z cclaariab, A great tt’jmplt‘fibm the Lord Zach. i452" Niall be among them,and they {hall lay hold eve-‘ls-Ho‘ try one on the Hami of his neighbour, and. his thzdfhall rife up, againl’c the HM”! of his neigh~ l houndnd fudgb alfo {hall fight at jetufqlethficc': - ETC 10 G 0 NE 0N TH E E L 3 ow, is the ttfuaIl Recoséklé? fl- 5 intimation ofthefe who put ufljerfi' in mint»: 5 GeRU§‘_ vahcl take upon them the pat: of a R'cmembran-'_XL1V{ ,ch‘et: a gefiure very frequent in the common pail lfage of humane affaires :’ much pfat‘lifed by the - A u£114er of the ancient Romane Nomenclat’orsm‘i‘ ’keppeares by the teflimony of Horace .- . r . , , ' Mercemurferzmm, gm? dials; ”amine/mm ,, Home; to all _ 72215 fodiat lam: -- Elflfisé- 'LT‘ 0 TAX 3 CM B Y. THE‘HA'ND iifi CourtefieyRécnmJ if _ ’tG tetnmmenb them‘ unto another by.W'ciV":1,~'fld<’J. lbf ’ptefentation ,3 is an ufu'all exprefliqn in me f" , _ Md! @i then, a gel’cute ‘fifighificant and remark; ‘L ' l " “ G able; Amman Marceilim ELEM]. 24“ CHI ROLOGIAJOB able, having beene tooke notice of by ancient Chronologeré: for,the Hand according to the primitive intention of Nature , having by a, he. ceiTary confeht of Nations beene ever chofen Chronologer‘ of a1 remarkable aflionghath con.‘ fequently proved its own Biographer. If there. fore we butcafi an intuitive eye upon thofe me- morials the Right Hdfid of Time hath left fairly noted in the Left Palme of Antiquity, even by the old autography of the Hand, wee may {pen on: the {enfe of this naturall expreflion. For when Valmtinian had a full purpole to adorn: his fonm‘ Gratin”, a pretty young (tripling, and well growne,with the Imperiail Enfignes,whe‘n' he had Wrought the Souldiers to accept thereof, ,hee afcerirded upthe Tribunall, and taking the your-”u by i.‘.tv_-.Right Hand, hee brought him up '~ beéfira melts, and'in a publiqhe OratiOfi mum: " mei’thec him .( :5. urdamed E‘mperourfio the Ar- Herocii an ham; Edenihl. Tacitus Annal.l.g snie. Anorher Copie of this naturall gefiure we fgztde in the: Hand of Pertz’mzx, refufing in modelly the Empire; pretending his age and meant: dc- ‘fceht: who taking gz’ozbrio by the Hand,and pul- ling him forth , placed him in the Imperiall Throne,retemmeuhing him as more fit, fortht Empire. And (bmmadm in a fpeech he made bin-- to the S ouldiers oi'his Army, puts them in mindc how his father Alarm: when hee was an infant, carried him in his armes, and delivered him into their Hands , retummenniug him (as it were) to their tutelage and fidelity. Thus alfo Tiberius (though with difli‘mulation) tooke "TQM an ‘ ‘1)rujirs,germanicm children,by theHand:,and 179‘ “seventeenth them to the care of the Senate 1.“ diflembling Oration he made. Thus Cyrm taking The mturaflLanguag-e oftbeHand. 83'. Hyflnfia by the Right Hand, gai/e her unto hi§ XenopE; friend Sabrina, who having firetchcd out his 36 Cyr. Ham! before, received her at his Hand:. And thig'infi-“b-go‘ expreflion lingual nfed when he gave his daughs’ _ (er Semi: to wife to young Tobie}, an exprefliofi Toby". fig? which delivered from Hand to Hand is one ofthe e folemne rites of Matrimony to be ufed by the fa: . I ther Offihe Bride. ’ To run one BY rm: HAND, is their CXVWOfiiicici‘ié'i . f prefii‘on who take rare at the rheumatic aub‘ duco.’ ‘ inability brothers in mhfieto of pzugrttfihz ma: Geflus" F, flan, ufed mott commonly to young children VI; ‘ whom wee mouth teach arm with to go: with; ‘ more this and fafety ; of which manuduaion'_ i Holy Writ affords many eXamples'. ' Thus e/Igdr Gcmri; 3 by commandement of the Angel held her ’childe 13- ' Iby the Hand, which allegoriCally fignir’ies' the * Workes of the Law: that is,‘ the Law comm'am Pdeth workes. Thus the Tribune tooke the Nea’ n‘phew of Saint ‘Paml by the Hand. And to this Anew; May be referred that oft'he Prophet Ezekiel, Thus EZek.4§.\r ifaiththe Lord unto ()rm, whofe Right Hand I t-have holder]; And to the fignification of this geée i'fiu‘re'appertains that of the Prophet Ifhidk, cona Ifa. g 3.18:“ i-Cerning the mifery ofjerufalem, There is none, I30 guibt her among all the fonnes whom {he hath; brought forth; neither is there any that e AK 5‘ 'r 11? him 8 Y THE HAN D, ofall the fonnes that: thee thath brought up. This {enfe of gei’cure hath) _ . A 331m alfo oft-he Author to the Hebrewesi‘ In the 3&3; rfiaywhen I'ro‘ok THEM BYTHB HA'N'I“), to“ than them out of the land of Egypt. The like 11‘; 41.1; r'p’hrafe ofgef‘cure ocwrres in divers other places 4236‘- ), inf Scripture. But when this eXprefli’onis tried to ”3'39 “I l i G 2; a” re- 34 CHIROLOG‘IAtOf, a female, and one ofriper yeares, 'tis fignificitm to prefent an officious and tender relpe& or fer. viceable afi'et‘tion. The afpiring afi'eétation of women raifed by Choppines to an artificiall ele. vation of fiature, hath made this courtly garb of geliure more neceffary and commodions to great Ladies, and hath preferr'd it to he: one of the eight parts of fpeech ofa Gentleman-nihcrs Ac- Ovidmcr. cidcnce. Hence Ovid, a man well verfed in fuch lilm- obfequious expreflions, makes fupiter at his atri- vall into Crete, LEAD EUR 0 P A B Y THE HAND - into the Cave offDiEie.This expreflion is 101m:- times ufed to the blinde ; for the Hand asiffpeaks by fignes unto the dumb, {o in a more necellary gatbe of fpeech it ofiiciates the place of an eye, and {peaking in the condufiing dialcfi of a friendly afiii’cance ,fupplyes the defeét of an ocu- ‘ gnaw. lat direfiion. Samflm when the Philifiines had 26. 'boared out his eyes, was beholden to the Lad that HELD HI M B Y T HE HAND, forthe laitat- chievement of his fatall flrength. And in this (enfe the blind man and his leader are a. kind of relatives. ‘ Igipatiw- T0 AP r I. Y THE HAND :- AS skONA'ritt 2:15:95"- uN r o T HE H E AD, is a figne ofanguiih: [0?" XLV'II. tom, gttefe, tntpattenttz, and lamentatiun, ufcd alfo by thofe who aunts or juft‘ifie‘ themfelvcs. The t'eeourfe and oiler of? nature in this relieving ‘ expreflion of the Hand, makes good the Adagci Em": Adig ‘Uln' dalor, ibi digitm. The Prophet imminh prO' 3““37' phefying againlt Judah, rforetels that the lhould be brought to nfe this note or figne of lameflfa‘ 2‘ Sam-1 3- than. 1f And Tamar defloured by her brother ‘9' Ammm,_LAm malt HAND uPON HER HEM” ' as The datum!) Language aftbe Hand. 85 as it were accnfing or iuffifging her felFe, as La- Lorinus rinm‘. And ’tis provable that the S‘hunamites in his childe when he cryed, My head, my head, made comm“ uie of this halogens expreflion of the Hendflmle: ‘13}: Elbe”. by a pretty Pageant put Salon into inch 3 paflion plumch ' bytmaking him beleeve his tonne Was dead at in thelrfe Athens, that like a mad man he {traight beganne ofsolon, to beat his head, like one impatient in affliction. and overcome with Ingram. The Head is the na- turall hieroglyphique of health, and the Hand of ‘reliefe and proteétion, as being the Champion ,of the Head. Hence in the {traits of imminent perils, or dolorous calamity,they ufually meet in [a Committee of fafet‘y. Hence Tiberim Grac— Edm engaged in extreame danger, as it were in: 1‘ flinging himfelfe, and recommending his life and E-‘fafety,which depended on his Head, to the peo- Flows. tpleofRome, LAYIN 6 HI 5 HAND upon: ms 3 HF. an , went forward to the Capitoll : which by ithc finiiier interpretation of his enemies turned ito his prejudice, they inferring that by this figne Ihe craved the Diadem. Some {uch paflage you Rial-l finde in e/Iriflopbanu, where ‘Dicepolz'a to Arifioph. this 65661 : Etfi mm mm profatm fmro 1‘ mama Acharnan; i 11pm up”: impofim, gang; miner/h: approéct pa: fit/m. i O RUB on s CRATC it THE HEAD WITH “Hid“ I‘- .THE HAND, is their naturall gei‘rure who 33':th rare in anguifh or trouble of minim: for common- XLVIII.’ Ely when we are in Doubt, and untertaine what to {thawe muting s c RAT c n OUR HE AD. Hence [by a proverbiall tranflation from this geiiure,C’a- purfiimre, fen digitofcalpere. is ufcd pro cogitarei EraEAdag ' But why we ihould in earneit mutation to ma.- " G 5 finally 36 CHIROLOGIA301‘, - turally exprefl'e our unbeahout‘ by this recourfe of the Hand to the head, to fcratch Where it. doth not itch ; is, may be, to rowze up our dihrafied intelleét; or cite the Hand, which is the Engi- neerc of invention, and wits true Pafladium, 11a. ying a naturall procacity to bee acquainted with - their phanfie, ofiicioufly offers it felfe to facili- tate the difpatch of any afl’aires that perplcx a faculty [0 neer’ally‘d unto it,the Hand in the coi— laterall line ofNature,bcing couzcn germane to the Pancie. ' ‘ Rudeo; HE Moonnsa or THE HAND TO ,THE $16413? FACE in theme, isa naturall cxpreflion, as A” Alexander Aplgradifiem proves. For, mama bEing fibhl'lh. a pgflion that 18 loath to fee or be feene,the bloud from 5. is {em up from the breafi by nature, as 'a mask or ‘ ’ veile to hide the labouring face, and the apply- ing of the Ham’s upon the face is done in imita- tion ofthe modeft act of Nature. Hence Licen- gim a Noble yotmg man writing to Art/fin a lear- ned and {weer Poem, very cunningly alludes to this naturall expreflion. :gficen‘giug. .Et med ('ozlz’iape qmzmw't te coming: almm ' ' Han-eat, (’fi“ ’3‘ vultm aéfcondatm- , ~ ' This declaration ofmame by the Hand, we find: (/74er Anton] to have ufed after the battaile of Fluturcvn. Aflimn fought betweene him and Oflavima“ infhe We [maFor be flying with a doting {peed after Clea- #723} Am” 124ml, who was fled before, having overtake? her, and being pluckt up into her Gally; at 1115 firfi comming {aw her not, but being 85%sz and raft Uniting with his adverfe fortune, We}It and {ate d0wne alone in the prowe of the Ship: grid {aid never a Word, c LA PPING 111$ H52” . J A . t 3' The ndtumfl Language aftbe Hand: 35 TWEEN ".BOTH’ HI 3 HAND s. -q And this [expreflion 15 not onely ufed'in reipet‘t of our (elves, but of others alfo, as daily experience and the afiions of men doe declare. For when there were divers Oratours of Greece very fluent and elegant" fpeakers, lent A’mbaifadours unto Philip, andflemafl/ame: had not {polcen fufficiently for , the honour ofthe Commonwealth, If “there bee .any credit to bee given to «AS/chine: his enemy, putting it downein one of his Orations : Alfie- eit ill: etiam maxime ridmdd, quamm collegm‘ in! [pndeéat] ut *faciem-o‘éregermt; The fame «AE- labia“ in another Oration, where he dcicribes the impudent audacity ofa moll notorious wic- ked man, Who Would fp'eake openly in a pub- lique aflembly of the Citizens naked; Such, faith heeywas the beafilinei’fe of that petulant and ‘ drunken man, that Wile men put their Hand: be; fore their eyes, blufhing in the behalfe of the Commonwealth which ufed inch Counfellours, . 0 K1 SSE THE Eli/1ND, is their, ohfequiuuo . Expreflion who would uhage 8r. gi‘oe remit bythecouttlyiolemnity' of: attenuation or one: button. The gracefull carriage of the Handle: vthis officious obedience to the will , While it ‘movestothe chiefefi- orifice of? the minde. Yer-r ltullian and others have acknowledged to have «the handfome fenfe of a eivill Complement. To Lucian. in; ;whom Lucian confents. f1”; adorn)“ {faithSS Demollh. Harrow) folmt mam/[m * deejay/mi. And in the 9““ :"Phrafe of ‘Plzmtm this is Adenine (Mother; fffhere is no expreflion of the Home more irequent {n the formalities of civill Converfation‘, an‘d'jhel m; novme in the Court'ofNatute,who doth not G 4: under-,5 87 fEfchines pro Ti-l: march. Adorn; GicllL. ' lC‘i‘Um. ad R3155. ’ 7‘ "— ' ' «v M 38 CHIROLOGIA:OI, \ underfland a bafiér 4: la maimznd he a clom in Humanity, who doth not fpeake to his batters in this migcttfnll language of the H434. gimme T6) 331 N9 THE Hgmn To 01m momma“ hmicum HAv‘NG KISSEDIT,TO THROW 11' FROM ‘33:} n5, is their expreflion who would pgefeuttbm F ' ' ferbite, lube. anh refpett to any that are niaant ‘ from them. A geflpre I haye often obfetvedtq have beene nfed by many at publique flgewcs,‘to" their friends, when their (landings have beenc _ ”racinhia. remote from them. Tad-w: calls this *5 iagerqgf. lihq. Mia. ‘Dianf‘ Ofculqz per digita; mitten. 0171M who 33‘0”“ omitted no {ervile crowding for 5%“ Empire. Dthon. - ' * - - _ after thlS manner threw hrs klfles abroad; and herein flmewfd himfelfe his crafts matter, for hce ‘ had not often call out this bait of ceurtefie, but the people bit at it, and fwallowed this popular libation of the Hand. And when the Tide was lance turn’d, the Senatdr§ contending and {boul- dering who fhould get firlt, defaced Gal/mal- inage, extolled the Sonldiers judgement, killing “021203 Hmd, and the lefl‘e they meant it in heart, dbing‘ {0 much the more in outward appearance; Qancim“ ‘ O 1.5.? THE HAND o P E N T0 on}! HEART: m 37$“ , Ming 5 kihde of bowing” geffure, is a garb mo. 2- ... ,1 ~ . , mam. Wl‘erfl“ WC affirm 3 thinglmzar or W“ 45°” ‘9 a” . " . 4 mttnefie a truth, and {0 we {eem as if we would openly exhibit unto fenfe , the feltimuuy at out ‘ifienttignte; 61‘ take étacite oath , putting in [6' entity; that no; m‘enita‘u refethatiorg uqtb betel? hibnzce out 21103135 gut; meaning , but that all it new that: me: twin. 926m and: The enem- enbth been mee- games! in the ancient Grcr 25143. new =1tt‘; $335”?ij :12! m» 1; A: cams, A ‘7“ _, The natural! Langyage 01¢th Hand." 7 thus, as Cbrjfippu: faith, Who from this naturall cxpteflion of the Hand, concludes the lodging ofthe {oule to be about the heart. ”The Turkes at this day are obferved molt frequently to ufe- ., i this naturall forme ofprotel’cmg,with whom the t Hanflpread upon the breall, is accounted equi. valent to the mail: folemne oath , infomuch as ywhatfoever they {peake or promife‘ ufing this . geilure, may be beleeyed as ingenioufly fpoken‘, and the accomplifliment of that promife to be prefumed of. If we Would fee this forme of (in: me attebevattun in praflife, out’owne Hittorics . afford us many examples. For the form‘e that * hath been and is ufed at this day in judiciary tri- , 2115 8.: arraignments of Noble men who are tri— ed by their Peers,is, that when the Lord SteWard or Clarke of the Crowne,asketh the Peers when the: the Noble man there arraigned be guilty or not,evety one of them ceremonioufly by hisHmsd to his breal’c, affirms upon his honor and confci- ence he is.or is not guilty,according as they find hith. The particularizing of the examples I pur— ‘ pofely omit, as unwilling to offend any Noble Perfonages who love not to heart: of the tainted . blond of their Ancellouts. ’ ' ' ’ “ ' TO BEAT AND KNOCK THE HAND upa Pcenitcrl- on T3 is BREAsmsa naturallexpreflion of“; one“: the Hand, ufed in retrain, tontrifiomrepmtunte, do. mama, and in repzebennhtg our tubes, or when Gefl-Lm any thing is irkfome unto us , becaufe the breafl; is the cabin of the heart;and this naturall proca-‘l city of the Hand to this geftur‘e , doth manifefl; the heart to be the feat Ofaffeé‘tions. This natu- fall gerettiony is exemghfigd in lasted Writ 5 int pr: 4.2; at; r .~-,-~ ‘ . ».x»ya‘<. ..,~ H EiS w r .. , ' ' ‘~ "' * '/ .. 1', PM 90‘ CHIROLOGIMOe, this was the penitentiall expreflion that the 1'ch 18' Publican ufed who went up to the Temple to pray. Thus alfo the people who were witnefles of our Saviouts fufferings , and the wonders that followed thereupon , behold ing the things that Luke ,3, were done, SM’ er THE I R :3 an ASTS andre- 48. turned. This habit of the Hand is much pram. fed by the zelots in the Roman fuperfiition, as"; penitentiary expreflion molt patheticall , Who are wont alfo myltetioully to mince this natu- rall expreffion , and ceremonioully {ometimes with two or three fingers only , lightly to ltrikc upon thcit brealt and mouth, a thing ufuall With the ancient Ethniqucs of old. And in ancient times in tetfifging griefe 8: mourning, and at fu- Plurar. ad ncralls,as a {olemne kinde ofbehaviour,they uled Apol. this expteflion Whom Tlatarcb Calls stgvmw'ha Hé‘ém was. So in Camelin: Tacitus , Imam/:54: [m ’ ' fletum, “ peril»: My; 0: manibm wer’emns. And the acute Epigrammatilt defcribing the corpog rall ad junas of [carom and mourning: widfim/zte Selium nuéilaz 725d“, Rafe, ,Q‘uod ambulatorportimm writ/Em: ; , Lugubre qniddam quad tacit piger waltz: , Quad pane termm tangit indecent lid/i“ ; E t " dextm peé‘r’m pulfat, c3- comam tot/lit; _~ Nan ill: amicifata [Inga] Nyfi’enin Gregor; Njfllm when he would paint out as it {mm were m apt colours of expreffion an uuufuall Puhhériz. tut-ate of mtnD , and as it were a certaine heatof anger, he ufeth the phrafe of this habit. * 1’6" Hm maniém wréerare. Touching the naturall- intentions .of'the lift in this expreflion {o cults- mary and fignificant in {'0th and repentance , the Fathers gory elegantly and declarztilyelyr’ - ' " C We . Biattial. i. z.Epi°. The natural] Language oftbe Hand. 9 t deliver their opinions thus: We (trikeout breafl: with the Hand, as it were mutating againft the Cyp. dc fine futlaDeD in that mention, as Cyprian .- Or as or,at-Dom it me month thhe there emu tugttattune from ESE}; our heart, as Hie-ram , Or to route up nut heart, ° 1 a" as T/J‘t'opkyldl‘? : Or to appeafe the gangs we take , revenge uptm our fethee, as Cbry/oflame : Otto chrytott. ‘ ' i“ ' tbattife am: 11211) mhereinitb meme offtnuenaflom- 4:. ‘ won, as Auflin. t _{ :Aug. in ~ . . PM. I46. OHOLD TH EHAND 5 up on THE Lo-thginolorem \ sin e s o B. HI 9 , is their expteflion~who=inoto. ‘ ‘ feel fume paint in there regions of the bony, oféLGcfi-LW i ten {ten in thofe which feel the pains of travel]; ‘ and in thofe who are troubled with Hipoconx-‘r‘ i driacall melancholy ,3 and the Sciatica, or Hip-v ‘ gout. This dem‘eanour of the Hand is very dew , elarative in the firfi {enfe,as appeates in the 9mm ~ I ‘ Phefie of the Prophet 7:72me , Demand, HOW-(Jet, 39. 6.‘ t E and behold, if man travell with childe ; where— ' ' for-e doc I behold every man with HI 3 HA Nos s‘:' i ‘ UPON HIS LQINES , asawoman with traveil, and all faces turned into paleneffe ;. upon which ii ) ‘ 11‘ ' - "" ‘ place , they who are curious may confult with , Glyijlrrim. ' «=3: v-_¢v-— ~ ' HE SMITIN G or THE HAND nPONTHE' Indigna- , '1' HI 6 H, in the praétife and converfation. of ”006 ti- j ' common life,Was ever frequennand is f0 deeply 3:3 . . . . . LV. unprinted tn the maners of men,that you than in . _ vaine perfwade a man angst} and tntagzh with " griefe, to contain his Hand fromthis paflion. Se- neca the Phiiofopher attributes this expreflion of Sen.l.t.«tc ’ the Ham! to anger, ' where he faith, Paid apmfi?» 1” €39.31! , WW”??? 3 In gttefe it is alto fignificant, as thley ” W 19. .:1—2~—17—_~w~ —v~.—:a v A ., _ . “AA-A ,. £335.. 31 W CHIROLOGIA:Ot-,' who are verfed in Homer doe well know When‘ they meet with thofe places wherein he de. fcribes his Harm provoked to anger and Dulour, 'Whom he calls Mgw‘ «Anéauhxc. In the facred oracles of-the Prophets we have this expreflion noted étdefcribedgfor that holy Prophet {peaking ‘ ‘ 3:123th Dignaflon. In the fame fenfe it. appeares in the mfiomn'l‘he regifiers of common life,Hi&ories .‘ are fullof examples of this habit of the Hand, { : Xenoph. bearing the charafier of this (cafe. Thus ['7- g-dc infie rm in Xenophon hearing of the death of 46ml;- yr. And Place”: Prefident offlgypt and Syria,ban- PhilO-Jud nilhed by [aim the Emperour, when he arrived his calamity, smorn H rs HANDS AND nu GH 13 s. Fahim rDicflator,when his Generall of the Cavalier: Mirmtz’m had almol’t calf away , , Eighth: himfelfe and his Army , at the fight thereof is of Fabius. {aid to have uttered his anger and Dolour fins 1 “ way. And when Pompey had received let- ters firom Rome advertifing him what great mat- ters the people had pulled in his behalf'e , fome Idea: in {a that at the receit of them ( in the prefence $611?“ 05 ‘0,ng familiar freinds and they that were about garnpey, ‘ ‘ r ~~ , w ‘ _ mm 5,!“ oprbraim lamenting , Surely after I was Con- u ’ vertedJ repentebfind after that I Was infirut‘ted, .. I SMOTE upon MY In I an, etc. which ge-» {lure in that Prophet hath the fignification of re: , ‘ pentauce, with others ofartgcr, velour . and in; ' ‘ Ezekz r.‘ Prophetic 0f the Prophet Embicl ’ Cry and 31}: n. howle, ion ofman; terrours by reafon of the .- 35‘ {Word {hall be upon my people; 5 M 11‘ t 1' HE R 1-. ‘ ‘3; (3m. song upon THY THIGH. Tull} indeed all? 3 I Hi: Tureg. tribes it to mounting; Feminm Cfi‘ “P5“? 1"" Mt. SMOTE ms HAND upon HIS THIGH; in Flat atthe Ifland Andros molt mifetably bomltngt'a ‘ The naturafl Language of the Hamil 9 3 l , _ him grejoyced with him for congratulation) he ‘ knit his browshmd CLAPP ED ON H1 srra I on, as though it grieheb him to have {uch great offi- ces and charge laid upon him, one in the neck of 3 another; by this diflimulation cloaking his ambi- ltion- 1; This gefture of the Hand is fignificant the in fear, apmtrattun and amasement. Hence 1 [lam-ch relating the injuries that the Pirates Plutarch ‘ Awhom Pompey vanquifhed did the Romans,laies, in the» life lthe greateit fpitc and; mockery they ufed to the! of Pom: li-Romans was this; That when they had taken 9°)” l any of them . and that he cried he was a Citiv, lzen of Rome , and named his name ,' ‘ then they made as though they had been amageb and attain ' [of that they had done; for they . CLAP'PE r) Hum HANDS ON THE I R m I GHS, and fell, I’downc on their knees "before them, praying him it‘o forgive them. l , 0 051111 1: t: ANor‘Hn RS PALM, is the habit Dita Ede i and expreflion of thofe who plight their premium i. truth, gthe a plenge of faith arm finality, pzomtfe, Gcfi.LVI I ofl’ertrute, tnnfirme a league , hup, tell, grant. , covenant, bargahte , give a; take hanefell , en: .- gagethemt‘elhee tn furetifhtp, refer their run: g‘troherfiea to an arbiter , put to rempztnttfe e; {Lthufe an umpier, engage themfelhea to be true 3 ant: truttmnarrant and an‘ure. That this geiture : hath the fenfe and fignification of faith and aio~ E lemne pgnmife, is apparent by the frequent inti- 5 matlons of the Roman Poets , who by this ge- .’ iiure doe often imply faith. Thus the Prince of Virgil Latine Poefie in this of ‘Dida , 111mm. ~ E21 deem [fiat/g; ,; TA? Ideme' And in that at Anfbifi" » ‘ 'CHIROLOG1A30r; “Dd: daxtrdmfitg; Mimi? préfenti pégnorefiflmt.‘ Ovid Mc- Ovid rm wayl‘ignorant of any“ matter of 'ménuall‘ tamorph, ggpreflionfitings in ‘Pamfian taking his leave of' (crew; and his daughter Philomal demanding: this plebga anti pahm of faith. ‘ Z)! [fideipignm] * dextrm army; papofli . . ' Inter/(71¢; darmjznxit.:—- , Senéc. iannd that lbfty. Tragedi-an brings in Liam {uing Herc, {gur- férmarriage With chara, faying, . ' 7,; [Sariemm] animo: , [fidei boo Pigmu] * capo > :6qnting¢.dcxtram.-w ’. - ‘ ‘ Martial Martial according to the lacutc way of fEpi- EPigr- g’ramatifis; taking a hintfrom the peculgiar‘pro-j perry of the right Hand .in; making 920mm, bgings‘in Caz/4r inthe whiskc of one (pf-his Epi- 1 gfams, anfwcring two petitioners at .0096 , by) 1 promifing with both his Haiti}: 5 , . ‘Dum peteret ppm hm: m7rinum par: illa triumpbii ' [Tami/it] Writer Caflzrmmé mam. _ “my ‘ ‘Ifidar faith, this gefi'urejis ‘the witneffc of faith Nat. Hi“. and muff. I a faith, faith Tliny, we putforth our Right H4245 or when we make a faithful! p30: Diogenes. mire. The Cyniquein his {ymbole advifing {men to adde benignity to their chourtfhip, covertly alludes to the" propriety of this free expreflion; . Give no: unto thy {mend a clinched Hand. And the fymb’olc of Tythdgordo’ , ‘ Doe not IQ every man cxmna‘ [113' Hand; ‘ . ' wills us not promifcuoufly to profiitute thls‘ friendly token ofexpreflion. To which that o. Ljpfim may be referred , V135 dextmm [fidei] mt‘ ‘ [teflemf ] balm bit: imprrfl‘um, :t/i comm *ip/M Lypf. Eph‘dare d" jungere mikiflm eff cum mldm w NW M31: $1.0 videéa Wh h H ' 7 f C m Army wad. . an: e yrcamans 0 yr expoi’culated with him in regard he («2:233:15 1 r \ The natural] Language yffiae Hand. '95; difiru'fi: them. C37”: in Xenephon is {aid to have Kemp!” aanetcd hi m thus,’ C agito MM: omfiiém [fidcm] Cyr 11b4,; / gfle in Mimi: noflré, mg; in [noflrzév mani6mJThis exprcffion of the HandthefiGreekS'Vgery elegant-s 1y note‘jn the word J‘Egigaw. The" Stoicks fay faith isdietivedfif thei'word fame to. doe , bc-n, cafife all things that are faithfully pgumffeb, (fight to be performed; mofl‘ aptly therefere im4 . pried by. the Hanqt‘the [ymbolc of afl’ion, And: fdétbfis Rr‘engthnbdl by‘this exprcflion of R a A,- 'Cijrfi’G our THEZI‘U GHT HAND. How did” .- Cicéfo‘v comdole the Yiplation ofpmmife mad c by._ FL ”'~ . tfiis‘fgzaking'paaiun‘ of the Hand .?* ‘Dcxrmflfid‘u 11:11:11“: [fia’éi tt'flt’l] :fl [0161mm ,, perfia’iafunt (fi- feelerg P. . ’ violate. V Virgil for an cxpreflion of breach of ‘, magnify: ’fymboiically ufeth the prevarication of . this gefiure, ———-F4lere dextmm. And in this fenfe ' {me take "that ofthc Prophet [faint/7,13 there not, "Ua lid in my right Hand ? ”And to this, that of the Ifa.44,zo. ‘Pi’almifl: may be referred, whofc Right Hand is a ; 13.8513? Hand Offélfho’oid, thatis , as the gloffe on Pfal I [‘ éu’rBi‘ibl‘es hath ir,Though they 3 TRI KE HA ND 5 1 I. ' 44' eye: they keep not. gsmmife. Cain: Ligarim f fifed this expreffioq of: pgumifx’ug his aid, affi— ifiancjeiand concureficé in any {ecret Confederacy Planar." in' {‘With .Bmms, who When Bram: came to fee him the Me of ‘ bctngficke in hisbttd, and {aid [into him , 0 Li— Brutus. ‘ gariminkwhat Va'timegayrtthcu'ficke? Ligatrim 3 rjfin-g gp'in his bed,la_4nd’taking him by the Right l. Hqflziffaid unto him ; j 13mm , ‘if’thpu halt any; ; great c‘merprife in Haw; Worthy of thy {elm am I“, Whole. Gain-winiXémpbm praifcth the Right Xenoph; -- Ham (affirm fotwhat it gainifw it perf‘ormedtCyn ’ :And the Danes , Swedes , and Norwegeans‘ m Wham. tbs: hem-fl: imprefiions of nature flow from 96 , CHIROLOGIA:Or,‘ from their Hand: pure and unmixt without 55;; film: of diflimulation or afl‘eétation ofart ; doe molt faithfully retaine the naturallfincerity of this expreflion of faith , for ofthofe Northerne' lat-clay Nations our learned Barclay gives this commen- lcon. :mi- elation. They breake no pmmil’efi when their “mum- HA NDS nu Give N. _ Such Religious obfer. “P's' vers of their manuall faith were the ancient Plethon Modes and Perfians. ’ Hence Plat/son gem'fim‘ Gemfi- * mam: parreflia maxim; inter Te rfmt cexfetur fie 1&2?! z a’a. Wherefore eru: in Xenophon in an Crati-6 ' ' ' on he made unto the Medes, faith, Hyrmnir qui- 5md~Dnfiurdndumjd~ *dex‘tfdsdedi [fidemjfcr- 'yaéa, @- mnqmm lm‘ deprehmdafpradidifle. And Xenophon relating an agreement between'thc’ Perfian and the Grecian Armies for a pcaceable departure and (aft: conduflt, having recited the‘ Articles, faith, ch wring; [jurejumndo] [min flair, * dextrae dam vicifim. A 'royall example ofthis declaration of the Hand we have in @4- rim, who after he Was wounded by Bejfu: and the other confpirators , to'the fouldier of Alex'- ander who found him [are wounded in his litter,- but as yet alive, recommending in a {peeeh he )ufiin.hb. made of his mailer, touching his love and ac- ”"13““ knowledgement of courtefie , and that he dye git?” his debter; in token whereof as a Kingly 1312ng ' ofhie faith , he gave the {ouldier ms chn't HA N D to carry unto Alexander,and thefe Words , being uttered, having sTREr CR?“ 1') our H19 Flows HAND, hee gave up the ghofi.» Flam: fofephu': gig”: I. proves this expreflit‘mn of the Hand to haVe been ‘ 'c‘ in very greatforce and virtue among the A961‘ ents.Armbanw’ (faith he) King of the Parthtanfi srmnrcntNG our ms RIGHT Henrietta; "‘ » #Mm.‘ mm; the Few"; that his Emmer- mm might] haw" {afe‘acc‘c’fieuflto him,- Whitfi Wiifl' thé Baffia'r’iah's abouiwjaffcmfiib, is a mdfli’ cei‘; aim a’rgfifimént affinity Fox-j after the ’n I $3" a f Hflnawfik, witfif that it is'néfihet l'a'quIl ‘ mmavecréif’rfhf’éfiimpitMiami"diffidcncc‘ teafifig‘i‘ Wfiére‘fbre' Whmmi-‘Was Ig’é'Vcd by the?“ mfli’é‘r ‘of Hisflofld that tit-mi iitkilf 46222:, hé deny-6:1112 t’p .‘pér'mift‘ that again xfiiafif Wfib'fifl , Winifred! fimfelfe to mam} fanfi‘micfi i ii. mm d T121 5 m c H T HEN fi‘gWifi;hni6§th.T6 ibis'eiprtflibh that péfligi’ehlfddf ffiéfififiimé' The MW? Language oftlfi! Hmd. 97 Emory djay‘ 'fie‘refcrrét'ti, whére‘ Fldfb‘iaz: ~«Sines? Livie‘ Mg t6 the" Rétriahé- 'Gerici'zll" Grficbfii, Enfiifihi .. , hiifi that free MCF’btgfima‘ 'gn‘ éhgéfp‘fflé 10" i great céfifeqxacnce, {WW “attaingim‘ii'fi‘g mid ‘fim'ipe’rfefiipg- w-fierebff__hee needs" ‘the kiljg‘ih,‘ E HwfiofGrét’cla’fiy-himfélfc :’ namely, that” he haé fieifwaded 311 the Prefers and G'OVEmouf‘SgWhO' ifitfiac fifiificrfifl} trouble" cf Italy had tévdlfeiité 'I WW,- tmemme into the" league anagram-tr: f {hip oftheROmmes ;' B‘Yfffiany arguments I havié fated ‘0 them-i T151113 and "thus Were my words uti-‘r Wham“ indeed but'my words:Mary :th ’haci WW1? have 6mm fiimfelfcfpmke, indicate: W {3316‘ ‘ffo‘m hls oWhe mouth : they Would Wm gl'adfyétalke with him in pedomah'd u x :- HO‘LD 0‘ F rs" “T6!” 341‘“): Which as th¢ ‘ftfwramof his faithful! mamife he Cartycth Wm with him wnercroevc: he g.o¢tfi.,,ana “W difim ITO more; “ This“ may bee furthcrillu- emamy‘anotherpmage of y PM” mug of Numidia“ having contrafied a new {Laula'nce with the Africans, by marrying Sofia”; W the danghter of A/d7'fl5fl/,~allurcd by the fairc H ' Word's Livit, where 5;.- h P @5139» Dorlcat I upon Ta— cit. Camer. htfimc‘d. Xeueyh. £3540 we - nor rely upon any-confidence: of‘him,pt buildup. .. judgeé’ofall covenants .and agreements made, PenGraea the law’es of Hofpitality, and was a gucft at that CHI :01;on AL'Or; Words of his new Spoufe, {cut into Sicily to Sci-j ’50 to advife him not to pafle over into Africkc, on his former momifcg. Scipio in his Letter: 'which'he ‘difpatchcd by the fame .Ambaifadours, requel‘tcd him earneflly to be advifed,and bethink‘ himfel‘fe’that ,he breake not the rights either ofi friendihip or hofpitable league with him : or the . league andfTO'ciety entred with the people of Rome”: not violate Jufl‘ice and faithfullpzomll’t : made 3x: “’61va men: HANDS : noryct hegmle aud‘ abufe the gods, the Witnefiesand- SI 1/740" faith, the [army ,‘of 15mm is given with the Hand; 1 And indeedall leagues, traces, and ‘ compacts are cohfirmed , by this gcfiure' of the Ha‘ud. .' Thus the ' league Trium-virat betwccnc‘ Antonius Lepidm and Ce/ar was efiablifhcd at Confluents,betweene Peruh'a and Bonouia,thcyj 102" N72 ”HAN I) s '. ind their armies. embrace; Which league they fymbolically expteflcd hy three Right Hand: embracing each other . W1“! , this Motta,""s.112tgmm human? : a Rrange Imfa preffe to gull the World with and m cloakc their: ambitiousvcénf'ederacy.The'King of Perfia com' ‘ mended‘his Ambafladours to make this exprch hon in. his name. And in the fame manner the., ancient Emperours and Kings of Germany WC!e Wont to {end their great men to conclunc 3 92am. and determine affaires,when they could not gqc» thcmfelves._ Mpofltrphane; Cjzicmm, who had in former times beene bound to Phnrnaéazm bl: time with wgefilam, promifed him to bung” Q’bumlmgm to a parly for conficmafion of 5 13mm TE: natu‘rafl Lafiguage oft/2: Hdnd. ' 9;? ‘ can; Which“><€?flmhcari¢g 0% trimmed? :3 £116 having 'rCCCiY¢d.3faitbftili {isomtre‘ofigte - c'ondufi, and “1' HF RI G 3 TH £1? D: 35'! NC? G f- ,m, “ought ’3DP4rfléb4‘i“?.iflbi’ffifi ap‘pbijriigéa pl‘ééc’,w'here ha‘vingéfa’luitjedw 9119 another, tpbmfl A sibiczuffirfi of 1311" Pu; ‘7 F‘égrii H 1:91;; 5H? mum W‘hichflzrfilafir alfb" town H mm; this‘l%%gu3ge Qffifiuréficercxprefiéd by th’q 51’ iii): Him ,5”ther called :Deécfyé’fabirimtg};mé Bo‘éké‘s dfrfie‘mécbabees iré'f‘ieiipre'gdént: 'Tfih’s when the 3.‘t}h‘0é1fand Sofil’diqfi that 3m; :s tha'ia had {cut to ‘ng'mirim 'to ’AshtiOCbia" at his :3 Macctigj ‘ rc’q'u‘e’fifwhen the :Ciiize'ps ‘ fa§v that the JCWC‘3‘? :- . hjdg’étten the tippér‘ Hand, and‘t‘h‘eyfiwe‘re difap‘; " {pointed‘ibf their purpéife‘Offlaifin‘g their King) ' ‘7 made "théir {upplication unto" the ’Kingrzgv , fay; , Uifigfiw E us TH E R1 6 H T HAN i) [of gtantfls’ watt] Thus they of Gaza mad? {appliéi'ticm ’v ‘untojonat'ba‘nfind he G A v E T H 3-?M5'fa E R1 c; ii '1“) 55' Maria’s; A HAND [or maucpeaw with them] W hen Xi: ~¥ “53’" Wis had bcfieged- Beth—Tum, and fdu'ght dgaihfi :- M‘C‘fhé iaa=long feafon; and {but it up ;‘ at Mt they déi‘? 3'4” 'firéd RI CH T‘HA’NfiS ' 'f o ;B E GiV'EN TI—fff'higf {té‘Whom SWINE TH E RIGHT HERD {18663; ., , Emit-is, they defir'ed p‘eate‘; whith be? warm] For {H thé A When Sims: had befi'egcd Gaia, the :p‘edplc otfiloflc Oi? :fhat City cried with a loud voice, beicechin'g 51:?" 315163 mm} o C I v a m ‘EE‘MF R i’G’ H ‘1‘ HAN‘D s ,‘EéhztiiASg‘Eijfguig‘ ”grant them {Ram} So they [in gun-came at a“; P I Willem befo‘ught 3mm that hé would to i N 3 m1" Macch; H ‘SGH T HA N m,‘ Which be gavethem [or‘m'ak‘z 13-50. 9.3352 With them: ‘VhiCh 11% did- ‘ Thus Andra- iMSCCh; mm cdmming to 011342: who had (ad to‘ the Sin-"4‘34“; ' .uary at .Daphne, hard‘ by Antio‘C-hia.‘ cou‘nfcllcd ma NY.» mmc. m M HIS R1 Gm— HAND’ ' ‘ H 2 mm ‘ w ”any 100; ~ C H tn 9 L 9 C- It: Or, withah-oath,» by; {that fairej; lhew of peace per; {waded him 119 céjne. out : whom incontinently; Wit ogggygrflefgtglef righteouglcfie,he flewf at; a Maccab. €911 jgg jt9 _‘ 9min»: infiigatmn. So the N65 I 1.: x. melee-jot Arabia being. overcome, befoughtfit daijzjgijcjji‘ 1;!ng TO BE, GIVEN ,THEQ‘V: whth fed“ gi‘vjng‘themghereupon they swig“ HA, gmsfancl f9§éP§§Wd to their Tents.And,thfi§; 2 Maccab. Azjfiqqlggg Eupater cbmmugedfwith the mettfij 13-22" Bjetfiefurefin4 QAV E A N D 1:19.95 3,, 1: 141,3 ”is-16:3? Hemlfllerimoliee me with; them-J l The camp. feeeeh 0i. Méem. his father imlv about; am: 37; . ”gigggeliyeting into his Hyde, hath referencetp thigjjgnjljemiongf fruit, And that {peechofwjuf‘ dab‘uneovhiS.F1th€r;ab0utth¢ fambufinwwill cm; .9 betjftttetyh {or hilt/153' 9ft my Hand {halt thoujrequjtg hjtrj, gm the Cenfe of fibglfity all the Prigccgag x Chm. men 0“. power, ahdallthefohs of “David Gk“! 29.24, 7 3:14;; HAND ugto angSaloamn. And theP‘tggt phet gegkgal emphatic ally declaring the pegjuty. mud.- infidclity, 6f tthing ofJemfalctho hair Broken the oaéthj madetwiththe King of Babel; Whictiflhc hadlfWfiIWD-BIY: 6. WI N6 31:8 Harm dehopnceth, thcje punilhments._ :» That he fltoulcl dyein theijdjt of Babel, in, the place ofithp King that had 11321th him King. whofe. oathghév: : haddefpifcd; and whofe covenant made with ‘ .« himihe brake : Neithctflmuldv-‘Tkamob Kingtcfs ' fligypt in when) hettrufied deliver him. Eothcez ’ hath defpifed the Oath,and broken the 6‘ 021mm». Y3, T; L‘ o a, HEB HAD G IVE N, H ts HAW! And, verily all Nations have ever had at mph“- tall tcfpeé't unto the myltery- of Faith, ‘ winch hath he: fitmeexificncc in tthomd, and ha.“ {0 efieemedgthe Right: Hand, they" thought t1”? tout Ezek.‘17.' x8. “ The mmmfl Lafig mg: ofibe Hand. V touch *cnerecffgque Imoa“1iv§19 -; 'fiérz’ifiqé’hfi whence all‘mmfi‘afiégl’éagyfigEnnis, ggmygga; g‘fififis, trams, : magifo’s, bargaings, :nbpnantég ~5Mznfermurfmkvhitfoever, “are held to be ine “7&1;ny ratifizmd :0 Ram! in 59.11 powerfom; Em virtue by the rape n, 0fthefit‘tfuring Hm. A‘Ffii'vé'hen we 61 v 1; can {:1 AN 15, We. do: {63139: “Fifi-1E4 Were an Obligation or reallcon'trafijfif E’Gffifith prefems Wie‘vdgeply ingag‘c out {elves‘t‘o “it"fifiEtUall accotfipiiflmrnent of tfiat whiéh Gift {gig‘m had pzoteften t0; the, VHizr‘Id being b Gun dfa‘s [3 ‘fufe‘fy that our “dec‘ds'maubee forth-coming, : €133 f'xprcflh ydfik? or Pzédg? offai‘tbfulnzn‘e: ‘ {3M forfeitkth‘c R'Ecogni‘zinCé ’oFfiis Haw, , , ;lie'bfeaks thé mof’c {am-ed and firohgefl ba‘n‘d bf, fiifidb‘efoun‘d aancrgiblc to our Words:er who:- mm‘th ; and ,byfaxfifying his. manuanfa‘nh I, “aim kinda ‘ofRén‘egado w hiififelfe." mag: 5- .ngnm thifikc‘s’there is fofn‘e PYthagotic‘éll “(fiery in this‘authgntdckc gum: of the“: HM?! In q‘qantigingfaitbmu mating, and that the gen: fit: flowes fromgi (acre: and religious 'r‘ciTV‘cj- Eng: tb that cbmprchenfive number Teh‘,_j" fdr | bile "Each Hamddath extend five fingers which (we to the comb’réfienfi‘on offiaéh other, gthé‘y ’yrfiéf’mit a refemblén‘éé of the find“, myfiéfiy, cgmeeting in their formal! cloie they fectfi to “a: at one anather in that number“ ‘C’alljmitéb’i: miwn‘e from the natural! authbrity and com— flh and that confifis in the Virtue 0!: the Right Is 3'24 And verifv jFaéflj confifl-s wholly in. the L\%?fiF Mid. and the‘left hatfino obligatory 0.4; 6:0; mum in it. . For to give" theleft hand, £61. tb take'anoth'ers given Right Hand with the "‘ H 3 left, C 21.12110. var._lc€§t. Vam endeavour to rendéi'another fefifbn, (33“?an Varro. 713393;; CHL‘IROLOQ‘IAfiOI’; ,1e£:,,is ppthiqding in point of naturall Faith; Aft-iii theréfore When fofippmgoriq the Jew, dc; Dorieans {iféd 'a' Rioma'n‘Souldiet to gun: him his Rial); Won Ta- HanJin 'figne of :flattb, he gave him his left, 55nd 193% @deing his {Word with his Rig/at HAMQCW him ;'and yet he cannotproperiy be {aid to hm falfified his pramifefipce he gave him but his left hand, whofctouch hath no aflurance ,‘ but Was ciei hgld deceitful}. and “ominous. ‘ Thgrcforé Lathe bath of Faith in all adjuraitions was 13km and required» by 7 the Rig/2t HagdHence Plum, 1513mm fflgc‘pér dextmw mam , dextm g: retirzkntc mam; capziv gfifggro , infideliar' 2395/15 :11er fl: qua”: ego [mn rib: ” To‘Which may/”be rgeferred‘ that adjuratiqn bf Cicero (Evergper dgxtrum ipfltm ‘qgam (20/17:: ha/jgiti ,parg “pro Deie-rexifii. Or,thc Ancients “were wont by this “mi?"- géPcui'e pf faiflam put their ~laff will and 6,9131: M pandlement hug the obliged Hm Of their hits. ’ ‘pf‘éxe/c’utors. Io which intent Mafinifa {em-t9~ mien 21145111511: Procdnfull of Afiica,regucfiing him to Maxlxg. ”fem/11' unto him; gth'cn a; the point ofdcath; 54M ' “VI-Jmiliaxa; th then fcrired under his cqmmand 3 as; Souldicr , fuppbfing his‘death to prove mm? ,hipp‘y,‘ if he dyéd embracing his Right HM?» and :‘g‘dj‘urcd him thereby, to perform: his lafi wxland iv. De .' ‘tcfifimfinf- Tflrqt‘iniwfrifw fem for S ”1”"? ‘° “3311* jgbis pgrpofe.” Thus the friend§ of Gamay"? hackingwwhivgihfi £112?" HM. {Wore to. Emil?” MA . '"dfe’é’th'; “find".{th’cipfk King of Numidia afterlhi‘ ' 3' ‘ had adopted Zugyrthwpon his death-Md 9‘59 thefe’wbrds unto him , I adjure theeby (his Saiufhée Bighth thiéh beheld] and bythcallcg” hélldju; L-ia‘nce thou ,owefi {‘0 thy Countryfihgtthwg 3L?“ flange hbi'thy love kind 'feryice from £136th , ginfmch'whom by favéur énd adoption 131:“ , a . ”'“crca , The naturafl Language ofthe Hand. T103 ‘ 'c‘reated thy brethren. To this, Virgil alluding to Virgfi. l the generall cuflome : y , neidaa 2* Fan: per time juro dextramg; potentrm. . Tin/In: élludes to this geiture , A 7 . ; . 2 7'; ”new! moriem deficient: mafia. F V Tib.Elcg. ”The wil c Irifh doeordinarily ufe to fwcare by this feat of faith and minifter of virtue, the Rig/at Hand, who at every third word are wont to lath $611M” oath , and among the reit, thefe, By my Cambden “God fathers Hand, bymy goflips Handpr by thyiin Britan‘, Hand, and for the performance of'promifc,,.and, . 'i't‘hat a man may belceve them, thefeare ofgrca. I; t‘e'itweight to binde them a If one {weare byuthe '5’de ofan Earle, or of his owne Lord, or fome mighty perfo’n , for if he be forfworne and cone fvit’r ofpcrju?’ , the {aid mighty man will wring fromflhim per orce zygredt {umme of money, and 35 number of coWes, as if by that‘periury the reateit abqu and injury that might be,.wereof- ‘ F5? cred to his name. And the Hebridian Scots wagon Exand Mountainicrs in their contraéta {Weare by 1th ex ié'thc Hand of their Captaine, an ordinance obfer'u 9’10 2m“- ’ved among them ever fince Events: the .firii: $3133? E; King that exafied the oath of Faith at their vii ' f Handy. unt the indifi‘oluble {oder and inviolable ' E‘hond of (eddy, which old fincerit'y inflrufled . by reafon in the tacit force thereof thought the . i great oath and the {trongeit hold the Republick ; hub to keep the hOnourof her fibre is Faith , Sthen which there was never any thing held to F be of greater credit or antiquity. ' Hence X ma— Tyhon hath Bda'mév; myrm‘ thhw, id efl,pF:4[7/icdm. imfidem. And Name by his dedication ofthe Hand 5 to Faith, and commanding the Flamins to exe— L‘ainb. :4 cute their funétions with their Hand: covered , P 1'93““ ' H a and 3W3 5‘ tog. ear first; 91? in andcxtakiaeby way 95 prom“; ~ ‘_ if 7" ~ :71”. CHIROLoeu: Or, and wrapped elofe to their fingers ends, , gave a notable ‘tefiimony that he held Faith for holy and facred after touching of the Right Hm, that it ought be kept and preferwd, and that he: {eate was {acted and confecrated even upon the Right Hand: , and therefore that it ought by no meanes to be violated : wherefore inparticu, lar pontrafis among the Romans there was not any oath more religious and holy then the oath of Faith, a point ofnaturall doflrine’ that (Yam did but enforce with his-rituan additions. But the authority, reputation,confequenceand dig, nity'of'the Publicke Faith. was had in Inch fin. gulat ei’tima'tion, that men held their money no met; .. i . » gifl. W4 where {o {safe as in the Hands: of the Pnblicke State, Hence it is thatwe’may lee many ancient coines with two Hand: JOy‘nCd together; With Eier. hicre this infctiptiVOn of Faith‘kept; Fido: Remdxaflm fometim‘es Fidel legiamm. C And‘ hence, alfoit Was thatthe Romans were wont to contrive «the Ptatuesqf ,thofe Princes that had deferved well of the Commonawealth , that bya light Haydextendcd out they fignificd their Faith unto the flame, Tad] had reference to this State}! oath, when he'f aid, I gave Publicke Faith upon the promife of the Senators, that is to fay, he of- fered forth his Right Hand, as a pledge thereof 5- and it is'fit this natural! Ceremony of an 01th. {honld be reverenced in the Hand I, the Chicfcfi. {eat at Fidelity, tinge it is the bench foundation, ofallright and equity, (f Nothing fo ordinal! in the Common affair-es of life as arnglNG HA b! P s a whether it be for confirmation ofoul‘ hatgtines2 grants or Covenants in the behalf? of a, The natural? Language aftbc Hand. mdigretiflaip fer other: whetein the, -. Had it“ {urety is {fill engaged. And Indeed the who}? \ mac ofzhe uniyerfe is driven by this ‘ driving make of the Hand : he that fhall(as I have {em fitnesdone ) watke upon the (Royall Ext ” ’ ‘ mg Merchants, :meerly to obfer‘ve their - em: , terceutfes ofbuyivng and felling ,, :fhellifboaerhe {gisfied'ie the naturan force ofthis exeretfiem m be that would fee the fight“ inf; ehisgcfiurcé in» Wrfimtxmliémt: mufl: repairs to the Hedi ‘ Cirqec , er Sheep- Pens in Smith-field , .-. whegg . thofe crafty Olympique Merchants who» need the Hand of no Broker to {peed the Gentle of their afiaires, will teke you fat-"no Chapman, mi; lefle you (trike them good lucke. the! finite them" earneft in the palme. And I have fometimesiti confer: with my friend had good lpott to let him to .obietve the pure and naturall 'efi'ortswafi theft: men in the heat of their deahngs, and have {ufiéted my felfe to bee a little {mum with thti Hm of deceit, to gaine the curiofity of an ex?“ ‘ petiment, a‘kinde offoiace, pleating to Philofop . phicall eomplexions, and fuck: who hunt after " the {abdcties of Nature ': wherein though I (can; not brag of my bargai-n,yet I can aflbrd'mykea: der :1 good penniworth. Their cunning manne— ging of the Hand in time and tone, "'I‘ have {0.1115, times call’d the Horfe-Rhetorique of. Smithfietd’, which by cakulation I have found to differ {refit the EiflrDialeé‘t of Billingfgate, in, the mane-g; chord of motion, and peeceabienefle of accents And he that (ball undertake to out—write Mattie 53m, and like How: Pace: :0 difcover’ the {ubtle-g ties of his own prefeflionmil not fittfmth theatt" pf Serf-wetting wen 3:1th omit the rule 'of buys. we, w - , ~- .~,,- - .5 FM 595 A . . cause-53mm; ' inf'a»r'rcl-7ft.-lliti= bi thisinfu’rance a d 1' ' mgHmr Wg‘y“ ' . n PM” '3 if, But as concerning that perillous {hiking of the HundfOr others, Salami: who was well ver- id in the fubtle notions of manuail utterance, acknoWledging the fignification thereof in {ure- tifhip‘, dif’commends the inCOnvenient and obli- Itov.6.r. gatory force of this expreflion:My fonnefif thou belfurety for thy friend, if thou hafl: firicken thy Handwith a (hanger, thou art fnared, &vc. ‘ And Prov.zz.6 inanother plaCezBe not their of thofe that Mike i ' Headgear of them that are fureties for debts. And the Wifeman {hiking again with the fame Hand ofreprehenfion : A man void of underflzanding firiketh Hand: and becommeth furety in‘the pre- thC of his friend. Wherein he checkes the in- difcreet forwardneffe offome men in thefe kind: of undertakingsmho offer themfelves before the favour isreqmred at their Hands, and at the very DrJerm. {i ht ofa'nd prefence of his firiend, without con- mi‘“ 9-" flirtation or looking into the bufineffe, thrnfts IraPhr-ob- his Hand: into the bond of furetifl‘lip. And {uch ervat.on . . , 7 . fl“ PM. aman 18 here deferrb d to bee-a man wanting a ‘ heart, and lurely it were well iffuch a one were Without a Hand alfo : for fince hee hath not un- derflanding in his heart to keep him from hurt. itwere good he had ho power in his Hand to doe ‘ himfelfe hurt : efpecially if he be {och a 'foole, as having firu‘cken’ mothers Hand, and made him- felfe a furety, he [triketh his owne Hand: as ap- plauding hinrfclfe, for it, which may be the fenfc of thisoplace- Surely. fuch a foole may quickly Wring his HAM: together inform W, who before did clap-his Hard: in joy, and may (trike: him-v felfe in anger with the fame Hand wherewithhin ‘ " t e Tbs naturall Language 01%: Hand. ‘ W the foolil'h‘kindnefi": of furetifhif; he firucke the Hamid? another. For he that hath fifucken his . Handto be {urety for his Friend,hacl beenebett'et- ' that his friend had {trucke him with a) harder: blow,when by [hiking his H4144 he hath brought , .l thimfinderthe Handof another, andfiehindg In»! _ in the world. Salazar commenting upon thefc— places of the Pnoverbs,renders thisexpreflion of 51121; the Hand, according to’. Expofitor's. ',Varioufly,“°mm°mé in PKOV. c , 0' . i. 'h {ometimes us Manumdtfigere, volmptrmtcrefln 51L fidei juémtiém pro debitzégmamm,pepigerginfiéi jufioniéwflipnlam mamafide jubere'. And he calls’ ‘it {omecimes 3mm femritati: val aflémmtioné; , fail. gum/0mm 7mm in flipnlatiomk, .cé- fideijufio‘g; ”‘31., [ey’affemratianig paé'ia mam: manm' can/aria,g§'l ' iflifi! edere folet. 206 alfo,eloquentvi‘n afflxfilong’fib ‘79}; >1 1 in his appealc from men to God,acknoWled§eth the obligatory fenfe. of, this expreflion o - the " ~ ~ Hand, Lay downe now,. put me in a {ntety with thee; who is hee that will srmxa HANDS with" me ? By 7 My this folemne bondior obli- gation of the Hand is called Z‘me: .Attici, t: Tul.ad :jflfcriéi: mancipia, cf next; : meum amem ”[14 c6" Attica“! ,fiuflu. And in another place : Non enim in: div'll's’fl' . . a , em ”I gum ea: eff: (crow, m fimt mannpm, qme funt ‘Do- minomm faiZa new: amt 412'un jam: civilz'. Hence in the Lawes of the twelve Tables we finde thcie words, ‘2'}: game m mancipiieflbm, qfliffi venderrt, nexumfacerer. To which may bee annexed that which Valeria: ‘Maximm reports of Tim: ng. VAlCfi rim, who as his words are, Propter dame/imam. Max 1 6., minam cfirgnwe a; aliemm C. Plat!!! Zqum [5 dare admadum adqlq’cénmlm 694631.45 rfl‘et. ' This ex— preliion by gefture, by reafon of the fignificati- go it bath in Nature', Vl,’a$-§10£’:0§1€ly:uled in Te» ‘ ' ’ ’ fiamentsg paradoxa _.____.—— 4 _.._‘:_l_'-——.--——-‘ A _’ _ 4 _ _# ‘ I , ,A .1 ..-‘._4_~u_..-—- «h. A - 1,08 »*CHIR0L’0‘GIA:O‘I'; ‘ flamen‘ts; in whichthe Heyte whsrdken’ by-the HMthathé‘e might patte- into the family of the Teflator, and in the buying of fervants, but alfo 1 in all obligatory bargaines and pledges, as Hot- 1 LV 3 flotsam; rowan informes us : and indeed in buying and {f in leg. :2. felling'this Noam was commonly ufed; as when ‘ “ ;, grab. hethat {old a commodity did undertake fortho ‘ ' ‘ thing fold, and did oblige himfelfe to make good ’ ’whatfoevet there-lacked of the weight or tath ; ,1 hfof'thetcommwity bought, as the fame Hartman " ' @fiim‘es,whichis as much as to undertake to be {amp for the thing it‘fiflf; for futetilhip' is a {pe-7 eiesof bargainingfind accordin to Varro a free man whet; he had enthralled him elf'e to fetvitude t; for moneytborrowed , until} hee had paid it hee' 1} 11;? Clean; twasealled Nexm, xi mil/or, wl nexum qmfi nth ‘ 3w WC?»- fmm. Clement Alexandrina! calls this Law‘ex6 1 {3 s“°m'l"' pre-flion Carpi/mmfiecaufe that he who did ob- i ‘ lige himfelt‘e unto another, or offered his faith. i gave his well, to. wit, the joynt whereby the l Hand is j oyned to the wreft, to be apprehended and Wtung, to [ignifie that he was held oblig‘d ; cullome having a little chang’d the mall natural! fo‘rme, Without impeachment of fig‘nification. q That this gellure is fignificant to theme, mar- rant,and affuteds notdiffi’cult to ptoVe. For thus ‘5“ W051” in Artaxerxe:_King of Perfia by giving; his Right 1 5; 9mm Hand to Mztbm'am the brother of Arrobnramm, ‘ t promifing to kill ‘Dammm,’g7ave him licence, 311$1 an open mattantmith pardon of puniflament to doe what he would in that bufinefl'e. And Saint Pa»! when he would warrant and were the Ga- latians, Corinthians, Coloflia‘ns, and Thefialom" scum on ans, to whom he writ, that thofe Epittles were me Gal. his, his [alutations in the clofe intimate that the: t t _ _ wet _ Thwart!” Mam; oftba Em: ,1 wercywittgfl With his OWUQ Hand. 15 '1‘}:ng ~ narcisaigfigwfiémfly ufcd whehwqcmum UmPiWBAHO aIbI‘Ea‘lQQ and qompgifmifpu To; Which thafi: 05 5‘05 my be “fared Nam-i: b - thcrcany sdguygzs-man; betWQixt us thfizmighdzajhylo 9-33- his. WWI)?“ us both- , TQ-Whicheaspgmmofi I geflpre, thig- alfg OftjhcApofile 5313612134!!! {cams Galath. g: .téaPP‘Ffam Tb? 1"»? wwasagimgbwhngclgin?!» . “EMMA“ M¢dlat9rfisifithat Lawsgfgthgquj ‘ Rik-amt}; ahourkqepinghwhezcgfi:thhpmpm» (If,,Ifraiclslqngdi scammed) With God; ,3 “had: (,3 Wham: d: x giving thefiand) 90mg to phat: Pcflfilfi byméibcmcm than of: MW» wddidspréigmeWham :‘foba: ‘ dam by ‘31:; Angel 0,6:th IERamcm OtiM‘Cdiiu2 tewf wetter licftémgm; to wiisfthafiiabcttefizfl b 3 .6, LEW eflhblifl’lcd bfltwqmgod aaglads Man, ' the: e ' ’ M¢dia¥9fi 95 the new. Cwemnt mediating hm ' / tween hogh; the parties, andfirccc-ahing.sou:him arm“: in: hifi fiffgrirgg, hid BA! 1?, B Is: s:H:A mas; “RON WW To 950.»: Emma; 9:. mm helm; lcaghe; angfwcovenaw.‘ , V , . . ' . ’ , 7; ’1? Q SKA K1153 TH E 6:1 WW HAND :is‘ adexptefi-Reconci- t fion qfu’all in Erienfllbip , peaceful! 10b3,: bet—2‘“- 119310121102 ,; ‘falutatt’fim autertatnmt, » and: fig? binning-mlpnme;_rawnailiatinmcungramlatinm ' giving ibaziihsv, hakebfifiim and mehmtfin’ngg This ldvingdeclaradqnpfztheHand; magmas: CXPTCKGLipzthfl WQl‘d vfl'fiiww. An expnefliomufi fuallv batman; thnfe whognsfx’m td inmpmm;,; comm-33;, 02mm): ifituznnzz,.:an11makg a {SW NW. libfimofl happypoianteof» amity,a.na}t.uraugz {Urine Vhi‘yrich in fignificatio‘n, fimeatheysw-ho? thusilmfcfiz mmmunimefgmw while anemia, WM? E:M:B:R AGE'B A care 11th R 5r HAN-:1} fignié‘é fie 1L:- - ’Cnmonoeu 3 0t; fie thaté‘theg are both ftetttt‘ntthat their toothy: “In“. bo‘tommon ; by this‘gefiute f peakin g plain- ly;.as ifthey'ineefi‘efl flidhld’fay , What'hamag‘e , :bappett‘jenittethée, El mall efie’zmeaemy stung latte; enemy attainment an!) meat 31 than en; {Etteinb‘ as;- mine none ,3 an}: than fitnlt‘ fines ma *‘ annotation!) a confinement, milling minus, but!) toyéle to'the'e a’i‘fiate’ofmy tenements tel. tipzetaltg‘tofbeatea tattooing talamttyt ‘For ‘,~ 3‘11 this’isé-f‘thé-‘inotc fignificantly implied by- this ‘ 1 ;gefiute,inl‘b"f' ' munncrhad {ant giftfito the Legions ri lat Bambi» intokgnof mutuall-loveand h‘éfpitalxty. :Tzhé" Centurion Sifmndf’ carried mthc name ofthc Sy-r ,- rianArmy .to thelsduldietsbf‘uhé guard‘right: ,; H4124! in token ofconcord. - ‘And Ambafl‘adean‘a , came. from Armbmmliin of thq..P-arthians',cal=2 ling reminds their friend ip and allyanée Wifh’i theROmans, and ‘defi'ring‘ to mate “Right Haida; To bring ”this ; important gefil‘ltgiof; the: Hand: ‘- \ in frienllfhip’alittle;nearer: t’owthesauthentickm A V * h light 170$ lured Hifiory. 50? film to fonhduéu mags? , when he asked him whether ,hih’beatt wctei‘aw-Isy‘ , ~ right, give me thineHand.’ So fumenand CephtaéfialéfiJ v ‘ and fo/m gavcit'o Baimzém Tthc flight Hand i‘o'f' fellumi’hip, that is;-thcy gavezhimith‘cit Handsin:.. token of agmnmnt in matters, bf dofirine.‘? . fifThatr-this gefiurc is'fignificantinifalutation.“ binning meisunzz and eutertatnmcnt,is apparénc; ’ by many tefiimdniésgof the~Ancients. -‘ firgifin .. the firft place witneffeth the‘fameg complaining Vlfch' V tohis mothemhus, . _ - , ' .- “ad-8“ mm» (ardextmjnger: 5!?me Nay: / may a C H! mono an :Or; :Nmiumw, _ , - Idem; Madam amber pram Ema!” {peaking co Wu concerning his atfeéiian to Anrbifl'rfi ‘, , Willa/u WWW]! MMuman, , cE-Campelamgqfrm @e‘fduéam nobjungm dextr'i. HoracJJ. WC!” $11.0 coacét‘nmg: Mklffi, , ‘ (Satyw. . :3;-ama'cmwitrggifimgmrmmfimmihe rmtmig ‘ 1‘3’ roglyph. ‘wrcpfi mgggnid agit d’tflaz‘flime remit: .7 . ifTasthis: rfigncsaf falhtatiommd .enccrrainmm . _ appertai‘nes; chatrmedhl‘l, wfinflc inferipribnm "‘"mc’ Zanjm: Miriam, :Whercinyoufisaynfce the. , Té’KEnifiemur hirmfekfc ioyning" hi§ Rig/attHémi win; * the Handof Wm fitting y mfitérfls inkripcron place‘d under‘nhcébafc, ASDKENTUE «AUG; Sir‘Richo Wé‘read offlmlmré the fccbfiii mohavwfcd-thifi 13;” . WmmdMekomem hisNobtcis whammy m {32' 3; Mama at: Wenminfier. » imafirhgm animal: mam. thisigefiure as: cartainc- fecre'tto his dificirplfei'g that when they met; one: when; they (horrid; mum by joyning-Hand: , by! which fignc»: they declared that they were befitfizren outuwafifi Epiphan; 113113,; as‘Epiplaanidrreportcths ‘ And there isyna 1.3. Tom. expxicfiion oE- lam more fiequénrin; the Entern: 1-C°n- , churfessofcamriionlife then this.‘ Thus AW ‘12:; . :dgwminxl'mbph'on comes to Cyrm, and-taking Cynfir'; fimabpcheflighfifinud, makes ufe ofthis‘gvate’ fix“ cxprefliom and both Xmaphan, and allnother Anthors arcfull: of fuch toting occurrences ‘09 tbczfland, and mutuall declarations ofbufiaitabhj,t lobe. Thus Talc in Wrgil entertaining warm“. and- binningigt’m welcome : % Virgil N aNoflrtkfirm-dé‘pwdtibm:hofim i’FW'fi‘g“ 'i *Accep'rgg; 71mm dexmzé amplexx: infra/Ir. ~ '1 , am. ‘1" Thus Tiridam King of Armenia cemmmg m Corfuhfiighted- firfi‘ from-bishorfe, and 0075;?” 126.3}; The natural? Language (gt/the Hand . I it did the: like immediately, and both of them on foot joyned Right Haydn And; when Cicemhad * fled out at Rome for feare ofdntonim,‘ who af. ? 1mm? ,, ter the. death of fulim Carafe? began to'looke $22.61;? 105:, and became fearfull to all men,as though he ' ' ° meant to . make himlclfe King : But afterwards condemning his dallard-‘ly feare , , returned to l Rome, there came fuch a number of people out I to meethim, that he. could doe nothing but take ltheir! by the Hand: and embrace them : who to {honour himcame to meet him at the gate" of the [City , as alfo by the way to bring him to his“ I‘houfe. This fymbolicall exprefiion of theHam’ Ihad apraéticall fignification among the Aneié isms, when the Hand given did aunts the trivia: Mable abfetbatinn of all the laws of bntpttalttyg tiwhich may receive fome illuitration from the lnoblepraflice of Tam-vim falaw’m, who when Liv.l.2:g.;~ the had invited Anm'éal to flipper, and ‘Perafln his lonely fonne after {upper had told his father that [he had now an opportunity to reconcile himfelfe lento the Romanes, to let him feale it with the thlood ofAnniéal; His father dehorting‘ and con-'- hjuring him from the violation of the lawes of lbofpitality 8: breach of covenant: There are not" many heures pelt ;fince that we {ware by all the gods and holy hollowes in heaven, and by I o it’- MI Ne HA ND I N HAND made fatthfull pgomife" My! nbligeb our {elves sto communicate. together with him,.& [0 to eat at the holy Table of tiered ,alhands,&c.And when King Sjpkax was brought pnto the ‘Pmtarium or: Generals pavilion, and Luke Fliers? prséfented unto Scipia,Scipio was much mo- ' grazed 1n minde to Confider the Rate and fortune of PM man. com pared now to‘ his prefent con; I dition‘ ”“4 ‘ CHIROLOGIA30t, ‘ dition [which more Wrought upon him] When he remembred withall' and called to minde, the Inimitable entertainment, the GI v 1 it 6 1 N TER- CHANGEABLY or THE RIGHT HAND, and the covenant betweene them, made both in pub. lique and private. Our Anceitors alto had this expreflion of {gafpitable lobe in a reallrefpeét, when they knew no greater tetme of reproach, then to call a man unhofpitable. This expreflion of the Hand continues in force and eit‘i'mation, and beares {uch {Way among all NatiOns (efpe- cially thofe that are Northward) that he fee'me: to be difirmed of all humanity, and to want the atl'abi‘lity‘ of expreflion, who doth (when there is. occafion for it) omit this benevolent infinurt tier! of the Hand. But concerning this familiar and naturall intimation of the Hand in point of faltztation, the ancient Sages and men of found- efi judgement, have made a queere whetherthe familiar Contafl' bee {o comely and laudable in the Hand of a prudent and religious man: A- mong the wife Mailers, thofe who were given Crefollius to pleaiure, as Socrates, Tiara, and others, W11- Myfiag- lingly admit ofthis embracing of the Handgun V0“- . allutement to uncleane "defire. But thofe that afl’efled gravity, difallowed the promifcuousuft thereof. Verily the Pythagoreans did give the Right Hand to none but men of their owne Seth ., no not {0 much as to any ofthe fame family, UH} ‘ Iamblicus lelle to theiraParents,as Imblicm notes. And It appears by the molt ancient obfervarions ofeld?r { times , that holy men for the melt part ufcdm? their [Mutations only to put forth theHandJW“ ' f0 , the angular benevolence of a friennly mind“ may be exgrefled without any impeachmtnf-g’r ; m‘ {[776 natura‘fl Language dftb’e Hand, their "virtue and '_ gravity. Malaise: at Antioch, a mm chdued "with an incredible eafiueue auD ' tmetnemz o‘f manners, and molt dare to all 'good men , is {aid only to have put forth his aff- fable and gracious‘Rig/pt Hand infalutatiaus, td thew the force of his tune and affection towards ' others, Wheteih he obfet'ved the lawcs of com- mon‘ humanitymnd a courteous Difpefitiungwithi out any detriment to religinus modefiy. And t 7' at this day religious men in forreigne parts . ‘moft commonly abflaine from embracing the '_H¢nd: ofothets, without incurring the "cenfute ofincivility, and want of grace in behat'iieur, as taking the {halting of Handxin this fenfe, to be too blunt an expreflion for a Hand accuitomed to matters of decorum , and the Iacred tokens of divine reverenee. {I In {igne of;mugtatulatte nn'the Huntfinen at the fall of the Boore {lainé «by flit/eager with cheerfull moms unfolding their joyes {bake his viftorious Hand: , as Ovid ‘ elegantly feignes. according to the naturall pro- fperty of the Hand on fuch occafions. WNOthing ‘ more ordinary then linking of Handxin mien? mien and taking 183132 of our friends,and binning {them fa’retuells ofwhich Poets and Hiltorians reverenot filent. Ovid brings in Cadm: at his transformationgf peaking to his wife Hermione to Me this loving geflu‘re of" halebittinn,‘ and ”to “lake Hand: With him while he yet had a Hand to (bake. Thus Calmm: the Indian Philofophet figout to {acrifice himlelfe alive at the tombe of firm, before he went up upon the funerall pile, '* cbad all the Macedonians that were there fare» "mall, and; SHOOKE THEM 15? THE HANDS." {find Tdutm when Hiemx Admirall of the La— .1 2i CedemO-‘I Cindi Metam. 4“. Plutarch :n the life 0 Andi. (he Gtma 116' *' CHIROLoot—Atcr; 'cedemonians came in the interim that he Waé refcuing the Eginetes befieged by the Atheni. ans,and tooke his {hips from him ; yet he went xenop. home very happy , for when about to Depart he rerum ' tooke fltip, there Was not a iouldier but 5 no or: ("“14" H r M BY THE HAND, and with other kiubz ex. pteflions withing all bappinzue unto him, Q That this gcfiure is fignificant in reconciliation is 1110?: manifefi by our common prafiife and uh: ‘ thereof in the fenie of that intention. Thus Mi. mm“, nutim and Fabian Maximm Dictator gavetheitt Hand: one to another at the time of their man: tiliatitm. And when 01min: Aureliur,a Knight of Rome had told the people what a vifion he had [em in his dream , that fupirer had appea- red to himthat night,and willed him to tell them ‘ openly , that they {hould not put Pompey and Crafm out of their office , before they were re: cumileb together; he had no fooner fpokenthc words, but the people commanded them to bee Etienne. Pompey {at (till, and [aid never a word piumch unto it. But Cray”: rofe, and 1 00 x POMPEY in the life B Y TH E HAND, and turning him to the people; “Kr-1m” told them aloud, My Lords of Rome , I doe no- thing unworthy of my felfe .to fézk Pompey: frienbfhlp and favour firl’c , fince you your {elves have called him the Great before he had any haire upon his face, and that you gave him the a honour of triumph, before he was a Senator. Injurias O PRESSE HARD AND warns ANO‘ gmqrto.1 mans HAND , isa naturallinfittuation 0‘ 1: US “3‘39: 1MP, reverence, fupplitatiort. pears, and o foggi‘nemztte of alliniurien. Hence Phyfiuans the {ubtile and diligent obfervcts of may“; t in LVIII. Tb: natured Language of the Hand. 1 i 7 ’ thinke that there isf-int‘he Hand a certaine react and hidden vertue', and a convenient force or philtre to procure affection. ‘ Whereforelemi- flit” , he vyho coupled eloquence with the gra- vity of Phrlofophypwhere he difputes efrete‘ncie Them iii. flatten and Batting together of beam in the Orang. ‘ common bond of friertb‘flitim he Would have the Hand: of others to be laid hold on, and wrung Withtthe fingers; for that, faith he, the Hand: put faith a fling or goad, and aremany times a con- Venient {put to future Ratify; Hereupon beau- ties pale vaflalls led by the forcible inf’cin& of their paflion , in preferring their antenna that treatises, doe much ufe this {pea-kingtouch of the Hand, a pieceot wharf wurt‘ifiip whereby they feem to firiveto imprint upon their mi- firiffes'Hand a tacit hint oftheir afietfion, {rigge- Vfied in this prefling flattery of the Hand; for lo- W, I know not by what amorous infiinétmext‘ tie the face, diret‘t their pafi‘iartete tzefpeae to the flmdofthofe they love; tothis part they m‘oii Mually accommodate their fignificant expreffié has; this they de‘voutly wring ’and embrace, ”ind by the dilcourfing comprefl‘ions thereof, in- ‘timate and fuggeft the zegereette 0'5 meet-e, and their irretplitabl‘z apptehenft‘etteef jag; e? grim; Hence the great Maiterin the Art otlove, uni Herflanding the naturall force of this tacit rottfeé {renteand bumble fupplitet‘ten,‘ brings in fir/on, exhibiting his requeft to Wedea-foftly wringing 'her fair Hand : ’ " ‘0: were cepirg; loqzi dextmmg; prehetm'it‘ , H 01%},6" anytime: [uémifla woe ”game. But this Chirothripfia , or gripi‘ng mothers .H’m“ : Wesneverheld e. fafe or warrantable ex- ’ I 3 preiiien, 0vid.Me-¥ tamorJ. 7.; NE , e - ‘M E18 _.CHIROLOGIAgOr; prefiion in the Hand of any man, taken forthc mofipart for a mantel: that) or fit? 1mm of a traflable difpofition , and a [afsihiutts pzulngua and intimation nfluff. I willingly heare (faith Ctefolo in Crefpfiigsg Greggr; Njflm, whole voyce and ads nv,:i’ca.g.;..~ monitionsl prefer before all the learned School.- @ngfipyt . men if” the W’Ol‘ld- Solent "26171”! zpfo contafln '04-: Eggs; [5“? “’72in Why? efwminare, a proofe and experi-e .- ‘ merit of“ whhfe ohtervation may be underflood out ofa certainefhort narration of Philoflmm. Philofira- There were in, the fiately Seraglio of the King t m in vita of Perfia'many of the Kings concubines pf ex- é’ég’fillpmh cellent beauty , who for their rate perfection of parts,and outward endowments of nature might wellhave flood in competition for the golden ball of Paris, upon one of which when a certain 1 Ennueh had more curioufly gait his eyes, he be- gan to be tickled with defitfi, and (o netled with i the itch of concupifcence , that he placed all his felicity in enjoying other ; wherefore he mad; frequent vifits, carried himfelfe very ohtequiouf: it? unto her,{prinkled his difcourfe with 8111036113 ' and alluring words ( and which he thought ‘ wenld molt of all walk: to let forward his dc: figne, and to fiir up and qutthen the flame of at: thatch) he wRuN, G H n 8. HA, N D: which when the ovenfeer of the Ennuchs perceived, be com- manded him, efpecially,in nqwiie to touch the 1 neck or H4361 of the Woman § good conxitell; ‘ which when he refufed to follow; he felllfl.to I that foule afiion, which proved fatall unto him; . W This gefiure asit is a token of huh; and WW i Watch rentiaillqhe, [agioldzzm ufedtowards hismo‘h" “1532;: I" 0/15””??? , when overcome by her earnel’t pff' huge” {Wetittnsto Withdtaw his: Army from Rome: {:3 ‘ x " ‘ ' Cl . The ”diam” Language qftbe Hand. tried out,‘ Oh mother 1 what have you done to- me? for H0 LDING HER HARD BY THE R! an r HAN D, Oh mother l laid he, yeu have wonne a happy Viétory for your Countrey, but mortalland unhappy For your fonne; for I fee my felfe vanquilhed by you alone. qt This WRINGING or ANorHr RS HAND , doth} {emetimes naturally imply peruse, anda luhittg fotgt’nenetfi: ofalltnjuriea. And how iaithfull an interpretor of the minde the Hand hath con- tinued, even when the tongue hath failed , and men have been deprived of all Wayes of delive~ ring their mindes but by {ignes and tokens ;. and how intelligible this expreflion by geflure which we have now in Hand, hath been'appre- bended to be in the‘extremfty of filence, may, {ufiiciently appeare by preferring the examples of two great Princes lying both fpeecnleffe on flaine at the battellOf Nancie; Charles having abfented himfelfe from his father for {ome faults, and his father falling very ficke in the Cityof Bruges , {0 that his {peech failed him ; Charla. hearing of it came from Gant in poft to Bruges .. and falling on his knees before his father , did ‘ with warme teares beg humble pardon for all the griefes he had put him to,and befought him with lowly reverence ,, that he would vouchfafe him \ his fatherly blelfing; his Confeflour ha ving told him in his ear,that ifhe could not {peak he flaould atleal't-wife give his {onne fome token and tel’tiv mqny of his gran mill towards him : The good Prince opened his eyes,and T x r N G in s 5.0 N BY THE R: C H x HAND , clafped it Within his I 4 owne James ' their death-beds. The firlt example {hall be in Meyer 1,3, Wilt} Duke of Burgundy, the father of Charla: ism-"the '1]? it Annales- ofFrance. no C—HIROLoGIA: Or; bwnefo hard as he could, a figne of lflbe'andfup gi’oenszo match this with another of our OWQ - Hiitory, to wit, of Hair} the eight, who falling Goth“ fick,commanded the Archbifhop( then at Cray, 1‘” h" Afl' den) fhould be fent for in all hafte,who ufing all Hans. \ . ‘, » ' poflible {peed came not untill the King was fpeechleife : as foone as he came , the Kin TOO x E HIM a 1: 1n 3 HAND , the ArchbiCho exhorting him to 'place all his hopes in God; mercies through Chrifi,§c bcfeeching him that if he could not in words , he would by {ome fignc ,or other teftifie this his hope, who then WRI'N‘. $3131) THE An CHBISHOPS HAND As tun-n A‘; H E C out!) , afigne of faith , and Impact mercy arm foggibznefl'z, and fhorrly after dc: parted. finfplcifi- . ”" .0 DRAW BACK! 'rH 3 uquLum mm 8:. o. , HAND INSTEAD or REACHING IT our flag?“ TO IN! BRACE THE H415”; o r ANOTHER , is ”"1" IX a fign of enmity likely to prove inveterate , ufed ' ‘ by thofe who flatly refute to agréz, 8c rejett that proffered amity which they have in fulpifien, $52.14;. The eXample of [aim Topilim may feem very 5:: :Fl- 6 gptly to belong unto this geiture, who when he C3134 ' had tnet Antioch“ foure miles dii’tant from Alex- “ .1 ~ gust/r14, after greeting and falutation, at the firll comming, Antiaclaw pur r on: H HIS RI GHT HAND to Popfliw; but hedelivered anto hima {crole written, and wifiaed him befOre he did a- ny thing to read that fcript; after he had read tll't writingthrough , he anfwered he would devife , with his friends , and confidcr what was belt to be done. But Pepi/in; according to his ordinae ry blunt manner of {Peesh whith he had by “3* i ' ‘ tuft; in“ - ' a Tb? mm” 'idflgwgé affix Hand. mi ,7 care» made «circle about the King with the rod he had in his Hand . and Withallsmakeme‘an en'- ' {wcr (quoth he) I advife you, fuch as I may rc- wt to theSenare , before youpafleifihe com- ' pafieof‘ this circle; The King vafionie‘d at this {crude and violent a ‘commandcment , afterhe md‘fi‘ayed and pau‘fed a while; I will became-tit (quofihiihc ) ‘tozdoc whatfqevermhe Senate {he'll affine; thene‘nd mot before; .Papilifls z; avas- Lrage "KING ms flame) as :a Mm snail 7am). Theuuutnen’e efSyllz ,_ andéh’ie ‘rzfalafinme Pb: rmmfie’nupnu 2m: fumes: meme; when $5:an Emmi! diifcevereai‘t felfe Fbywhe lame *h’B‘g‘lBitQTull earth “; sfhfil'fi age.- (if }his HmdfitdWards ‘Wtbfiifiain , WM 9' ' ’3 “a when he tame to" him, aha” cheek Bin , , WE m; 5 mm 3 ’Y Tern HAND ; - 39%» u§ked1hhfi firh‘iéfhe did accept o‘flh‘e peace ,' with the cons d‘itéiohs Arrival”: ih‘ed agréeiiilifitb .; not uhfifl ' Mfiaridate: hadfme‘de him anfwer thatihc die,- W‘efldéhe accept-(3F {his proffered and qupme'fl mityg ‘forithen, and not before , aherefa'lu‘tea'; enibre'ce‘d and'kiflcd him. This Frederick: part-r net and comfort in the Kingdome with "2114qu! the fecond King of Bohemia , R E nus i D TO GIVE HI s RI GH‘T H AND ‘to Soéivjlm: w’hom his fiather received into favour aifter- he had alt-,- t‘empted to wife garboyles in Moravia , pretens dinghe-had the-goutia his Hand. And {0 that 10ft)! and {t‘atelv ‘Prelate ‘Dunflan R guru s n D r 0' GIVE K1 N G EDGAR HI 5 RIGHT HAND, be- have he was eXcommunicated , becaufe he had defl'ourcd a Virgin, but rating him , DarePc thou teach my Right Hand that hafl ravifhed one Bea yoted to God, $111M not be a frienn to him that .15 en'easmy ‘0 Godfi; in 1 oyned himfeven years ' " " penance 1'24"“; 87,“ *Vinccmius ‘ an. o'caxeat'ae—ixaor; penance, after which he was abfolved, ihd the childe chriflned. ,_ Chat: di- V ,i E PUT FORTH torn out HAan: la o. .-g ' TOEMBRACEthole welohz, asifwe Gefi- on Would bring themvhome into our heart and bo-r~ min. in fome,as fome heartland pzetioua thing,as Ari/lat]: Probl. gives the reafon of the gefture.To which expref-v Pfal. 1 19. {ion I find that ofthe Pfalmifl: referred,MyHandn 48- Will-I lift up unto thy commandemcnts whichI have loved : A proverbiall 1p,eech taken from; ‘ Simon dc this intention ofthe Hand, asSiman dc Wm} ob. Muis , ferves. Corxclt'm.;a . Lapide "notes the naturall ‘ , * . comment. difpofition offithe I‘Ltmdfln embraCing,Wh0 com-‘7. grim“ menting upon the fecond of Canticles 6. , His. , 0”th a left;Hand is under rny ,head,-and his Right Hand Lapiddn doth embrace the s for lovers and parents ufetoi Cam- 2.6. put their left hand-under thofe they tenhetly aft; (ed. and. then with their Rig/at Hand to 1i..M-,, n RA‘C E the whole body ,' and fo bring them to; their bofome , comprehending them in thecom— patio of their armCS, as in the molt naturall circle ofafl’zftinm : Honoro; OAPPREHEND AND KISSET‘HE BA‘CKE Gefillfl or ANOTHERS HAND, is their naturall cxpreflion who would give a token of their fer: ‘ bistable lobe, faith, loyalty, honourable refpztt . thankfullhumtlttp, revetmenfupplicatiuu, and fubiectiuu. From this naturall gefiure the Spa- niards tooke their ufuall formes offalutation and. Valedié’cion , whole complement ufually is, Bdfot It: wflre: mam, I kiffe your Hand. The forms Ecclefiafi, of Simc acknowledgeth the fignification of this @921. {ubmifii‘ne gefiute in that faying z It'll hehath ‘ ‘ " ‘ ' rev The natural] received , he will kifien- a mans Hand. ‘ If we" fliould‘lonite' backe up on the aflions of afieffiflfi flats lovers, whole inflamed hearts have moved them to {edifice Rifles on this low altar offriende / thin, and/to afi'er their férbite; by this modeit in- {imitation ofgef’tut'e , "we might find-e ”many pai- {agesofjbil‘toticall antiquity to con-firme ahdih initiate the fenfe of thisfexpreflion. , EEH'o'w paf— fienate Was .Cyrm when he came to the: place . .. to wherehisfrieudtflbradatmrlay flainc ., feeing his xenofl" wife fitting upon the ground by thezdead body of her Lotgd? Ur but~1iingforth in-toithispatheti— call ejaculation, 0 thou good and faithfull foulc; art thou giant: and left us , , and therewithail :t‘oox'E H s M: B Y. THE:RIG H’T HANED‘, and the Hand ofh'isdead friend followed (far itlwas-Cul; off with the cymeterfiofi an» Egyptian ) which Cyndi beholding it,much aggravated ‘hisforrow. But Aémdgtm wife Y’ant/mz {hriked out, and ta»;- king the Hand from-erm, K I s s E D IT ,5an fitted it againe to its place as well as {he could. . To match this prefident with another moit iilus- ' firious- poiifcript of futviving affediun . that bright mirrour of mafculine conflancie. T. Volumnim when hehad long wept over the bo- dy of his friend M. Luca/1m. whom Mark: An- thony had put to death , becaufe he tooke part :With Bram: and C aflim , defired Ant/90:27 he Valet. might be difpatched upon the body of his friend, Mum. Whofe loiTe he ought not to futvive; and having obtained his defire, being brought where he Wouidbe ,. having QRB ED t LY KISSIE D THE RFGHT HAND: of Luca/1m , he tooke up his head that iay there cut off, and applied it to his .. Wait a and. aftetwatd {unmitted his neck to the - ’ ' {word Cyi.lib.7..1 f Ungukgé oftbe Hand. 1 g; i’ deinfiit," ,‘i 1' ' ‘ Plutarch U :_ s iuthe life a _; ofCato- N M “titan. l 1‘ Turquct, 31E; Gemflifi. ( ‘ Valet; Max.l.z. ‘ T. Livius I i Igbl330 CHIROLoGIA:Or; {Word of the Conquerour. Valeria: maxim; in the relation of this Story runs high in fettin out this hyperbole ofjfriouhfhipdnd unmatchable paterne of Roman fidelity» {f Alla/{m the Cel- tibcrian ufed this expreffion of thankfullbumh lityto Scipio when he had received that unex- pefled favour at his Hand to have his captive be- trothed wife .preferved by him , and freely deli- vered unto him ; feeing it could not be compre- hended nor equalled by any recompence or thanks, he was held feifed with joysnd theme, and taking Scipio by the Right Hand, prayed all .. the gods to requite the great favour he had do no him , (eeing he found himfelfe infufficient to make any fatisfaflion as he defired; {I As this gelture is a fight: of honour and obfo‘qu‘iooo rote: some. Can om» had' his HAND x1 sr by his Army in ofpotiall honour of him at his depar- ture, Scipio the conquerour of Africa received . the. like refpstt and rehero’uto fromecrtaine P1- '- rates. who when they had intreated him they might prefume to approach into hisprefence I and to have a view of his perfon, he letthem in s and immediately they went, and Worfliipped the galls and pillars of his gates , as ifhishOufe had een the harbour of fome facred deitie s and ha- vmg laid their gifts and prefents at his threlhold‘. ranhaftil‘y tohiSHAND 3 AND K ISSED TH EM“; which done, overjoyed as it were with {0 great ahapinefle, they returned home. {Delapfi‘ Calf” fidrmbominiémfi/efi efl‘erent [wacmtioniflamph- a: myrrcipientfaith Valerim. This wk“) 05 1.0?“ and honor may be further amplified out of Lt?“- For when T. Quinn's: had vanquilhed ng ski/o, and proclaimed liberty by themed” ‘; . 4 . ._ ,. . t mm“ The natural! Laguag: oftbe Hand; 'manY of the parts ofGriece, as the Corinthians; phocenfions and others ,1 there was {rich joy as men were, not able to comprehend, at left when their joy was once confirmed by making the Beadle t0 Cf)’ ,1t 0‘16? againe . they for up {uch a [hour,and followed it {o with clapping of Hurrah, redoubling theiame {o nften, as evidently it ap- Pwed ,! how there is no earthly good in the, world more; pleafing to a multitude then liberty is; and afterWards running apace unto the Ro- man Generall in inch fort, that his perfon was in four: danger of the multitude crouding fo hard upon him alone to TOuCH HI 5 RI GHT HAND.“ Thus Clmricle: a Phyfitian departing from Tibe- Tacit; rim as it had been about fome bufinefle of his “MIL? owne, under colour of Duty, TA 1: 1 N G n I M er 1n 5 HAND, felt the pulfe of his veines. Thus . alfo we finde Gadam and goéridd in Xmapban c???" mogntpping the Right Hand ofC’er‘. But the 6,3,5. mofi unfeafonable and {ervile ufe of this exprei- {ion the Senatours made towards Nero; when even in the height of their griefe, the City filled Tacit: , with funeralls, the Capitoll with {acrifices , one Anna-let having his brother , another his fonne put to 1" death, or friend, or neare kindred , gave thanks to the gods, deckt their houfe with bayes , fell downe at the Emperours knees, and w i ARIED HIS RIGHT HAND Wind it! s 95:. It WaSa firange mifchance that happened to the learned ‘ Oparimrrof the Univerfiry of Bafil, going about Caan of to ufe this courtly expreflion, to whom it being Pzfiiom givenin charge to receive the famous Emfmm ’ by offering him prefents of wine in the name of t“City; - he was prepared for it with a brave and a. long Oration , but being trained up to the Sehooles 31.6 "'CHtR’orootnOr‘; Schoolcs(which hath little curiofiry and quaint"; n’efl'ein‘ complements) going about to kille Es. rafmhi his Hand", full of the gout , he did’it fo‘ . xoughly that he hurt him ,' and inside him to ér' out with’paine’ he had put him to by his kifle, which made the good Profeffour l'ofe hifnielte, nor could he ever hit upon the beginning of his ‘ difcourfemntill they plentifully had pewred out tom: of the prefented Wine for himtddrink , {o to aWaken his memory. q In Infiltration this gel {ture is asfo fignificant ; for it hath beene acué , {tome-- With all Nations in {application to ap- ' peale unto the Hand of thofe from whom they . expeéted aidrprefling upon it as that part whole touch was an omen offu'cceffe , tendering their requel’ts thereto, becaufe the power of doing ‘ doth molt manifefily rei’c therein : whereas to“ touch the left hand Was ever accounted an ill . prefaging ofl'e. To this appertaines that of 11- \ ApnlJ. 2. puleuxjuwmm qmmpiam (5-6. in medium producit, , Afini au- cujm din * manm dco/mlatm c036. mi/ererc, nit/a- fillemm :erdox. And the fame Author in another booke Afiologia. prefents us with this examplar confirmation 2 Paatianm ad pm?“ nojlro: advalm‘m , [venmm 6‘ ablivianem preterit’omm amniampoflulatjflml, 0"" *manm noflrm ofmlaéundm. Of which kinde’ of {applicatiutt exhibited with rehetzme and outward mnzmipfieclaring the inward affe‘ttmm the Roman Annales are full of examples. Thus Snpbwijba the wife of Syplmx taken prifoner by _ Wafflnig‘a, defiringthar it might be lawfullfor (T. Livius her to open her mouth, and make an humble 1'30» {peach unto him her Lord, in whofe only Ham!“ lyeth her life and death; If I may be {0 bold (faith {he} as to' touch your knees ,» and that w— fictions 4 ”wt. “ma-m .,»-.... . ,4-.. - ‘ip Tbs-natural! Language oft!» Hand. ' 127 " actions Right} Hand of yOuts, ate. to whOm whenas now the new HIM ”may frat H AND , and rogue/fed his prOteé'tion‘, he Gav! H 15 R x GHT H AN D for affmfai‘ltc‘ to perform: , her requeit. And When Mir/95444:“ eait ‘hiin- [elfe at the knees of Banana; ‘Etmom: moviéd Tacit.l.x£ with the nobility ofthe man , and the change of his fortunes, at his prayer w’hi‘cli‘argued no bafe minde, lifted up the fuppliant, and Commended ' him that he had Chofen the Adorfian nation,and t his Rt 6 HT HA ND f0; obtaining persona/{robe- lewh 4, , 1w when he befiiught S7114 with te'ares in his in ths hfe eyes , to be contented with what-”the Ambaffa- of Sylla- dours of Mitbridozte: his mafier’had excepted a- gainll his demands , TAKING HIM BY THE HAND ', by intreafpat the end obtained of $7114 to fend him unto Mithriddtu, promifing that he would either bring him to agree to all the ar- ticles and conditions of peace that he demanded , or if’he could not he would kill himfelfe with his 'owne Hands. Thus alfo Nit-i4; comming to Plutarcli Marc‘s/la: with tears in his eyes , and embracing in the life” his knees,and K; s s r N G H 1 5 HAND -;,befuugl)t ofMarcel- him to take pit? of his poore Citizens. The Tacit. ‘Souldiers ofgermanim: , who upon pretence of AnnalJ. it this exprelfion in their complaintsfiamentations and {upplications unto him , tooke him by the Hand as it were to kifle it , thrult his fingers into“ their mouths , that he might feele they were toothleffe. Heath: comming as a {appliant to Euripides 'Ulifle: to tntreat for I phigenia , as {he addrelli herlelfe to TOUCH H1 5 incur Him!) he HI n 1T_ a thereby cutting off allbope of names; To Plutnrc'x this appertames the fpeech of Lucia: [ts/er the m the nfc’ kinfmanoi fulim (Lzfizr the Conqueror , where ii .Ca‘o t ,\ ht: titan, Martin his Hun- flory. garian Hi- CH‘ifiBiEGIAECr; he praieth. Cato. to helpe him tomake his oration which he {hould ifay unto [afar in behalfe of the three hundred Merchants in UtiCa. And as for thee ,(Cataflaithhe, I will it I m HIS HAN us, and-..Ml' dlowne; on my knees before him to in; treat him for thee, q For the exemplifying this expreflion in the (epic offaifl). , loyalty and fab: ”atom Martin Flume: affords us an Hil’toticall Hum“ in and pregnant proofe in Kingy'j’okfl of Hungaric when With a great company of the Hungarian Nobility which he brought with him, he came to In so SOLYMANS HAN D , and to athnulns tango himfeife to him no big (object, and tribute: the; who found him fitting under a canopie where he made no great countenance to move him-{elite at the reverences he made, but fhewing ‘ ‘ a great majeliy , he GAVE. HIM H1 3 RIGHT HAND in figne of amity which be 1:15 sn'u. There is a pleafant Story agreeable to this pur- pofe of Amalafuinm @een of the Longobards, , Luirp'ran; how when the after the death of the King her husband, being childleffe , had with great pru- dence and gravity governed the Kingdomemnd Was much magnified of her {objects , at the lali her Nobles offered her a free power of chuling them aKing out of the Nobility , whom {he might make her husband , who having {cut for ' one of her Nobles whom {he preferred in her choice to the reft, and he fuppofing he had been {em for about {om a‘ffaires of State, as foon as he law the Queen ,who was come out to meet him. he leapt from his horfe and bowed himfelfe to It I s 52 H ER HAN D; to whom {he fmiling, mt my Hand, but my face,meaning that he was now ~ “0 longer ‘0 be a [11331803 , but her husband and I King- ’3: Thémtt‘Wfl L‘Mguageoftbe H499. I22 Kingudurcl’iem {ent‘by Ct’odawm to. flotildamf whofe vertue he was enamoured, to finds means mecca}: unto her,:refolved to beg almes ofh‘cér, .for£which caufe‘ hefiood at the gate :ofa Chukh‘ V «mug?! great‘rable of beggars ‘ expefliog7‘téhe can“ flincefletocome forth 5 (he failed not to 1563- Lady; i5 'forme afis of charity'to all the poem according. . to bet cul’tomeap and perceiving this man who (gamed of agencmus tafpeétdn thefe mifetable rags,., :felt her heart failed: with-extraordinary £91.. ty,beholding one of f0 goodlca‘rr‘iage reduced to i , » {uch mifery , and Withogtanyt‘further enquiry 9" ‘ “ ‘ flue gavehima 'pieceof gold.» .Aurelizézm fee— ' ing thieroyall Haggai {o charita‘bly‘flretched but to” {accent 'a counterfeit/ed, want," whethelff‘hc were tranfpo'rted‘with joy ,‘ oe- whether he Was .defirous to tmakIe-Iihimfelfe obf’ervecf ‘by {cine 3.61; ihe lifted: up the heave of..- the Princeffe ,‘ which ;,ac‘eor‘ding to=tlieffiafli1ioo of Robes then Woroe; ucovered alleven umiohet Hands,” and having VlbarTed‘hEr Right Hand 7K} s s E 30 ”it with much r2: mama; She'bluflamgyet pafling on and {how- ing no refentmentg afterwards {ending for him 9 ‘ whichwas the {cope ‘of his defire,wh‘o‘ Comming .ttotheplac’e afiigjned him , ‘Clorilda' beholdmg himg’found'ly chid him for his bolduefle, in lifting " up theifleeve ot her garment,and ti 1’ s s I NC H E K HAN-D : He who Was a ”moft quaint courtier found» out this CVaQon ,7 and faid , The cufiome ~of~his Countrey «pésmitted to kiffe'the lips of Ladyes at Mutation; but the unhappineffe of his condition aba‘jfed him {019W bee ”gulcfi ‘n-ot a‘fpire to the face;- -behold t}: “9.41931: Why hee contented himielfc With the Mad, it: bee» mg 3‘ mifig Very reafonable to kifib 91-19999 K W A’e‘vhich 9 Refetvati- one (alato Gefius LXII. Plinie ' Nat Hill. lib. r 3. Martial lib.a.Bp. 2;. .Ammian. Marcellinm who defcribing the corruptflatcof Mandel-3 Rome in the dayes of Valmtinian and Valera, Dion (231111. 59. Caligula; cm ae‘iaei‘iiaoe which is the lourfe of {0 many charities. O on“ THE BACKE or THE Rrou'w‘ HAND To a n it: s at: D by others, which Plinie calls a religious ceremony ufedrby all Na- » tions , is an expreflion of fiate ufed by 93mm; and fcoznfull perfons , who affect the garbc 05;. great ones , and are willing to afford a fleigbtv: tefpntt to one they think: unworthy of a higher} touch. .Marzinll very acutely jeers at the com -; dition of fuch over-weening magnifico’5; Bali»: aim elixir, 411?: do: poflbmm dextmm, ‘Dicz'amtrazm mum}: digs, male manual. . , s . Many fuch apes of fovereignty our times afford .3" who arrogate to themfelves more honour then" either their birth or fortunes can chalcnge, fuchg? may fee a copy of their improper expreflion in ‘5‘ r (A «ky— ‘ Li.) .‘R‘ __ 'fliews how the Nobility {ome of them, when: they began to be faluted, or greeted brealt. to: brealtnurned their heads awry when they fhou'ld have been kiffed , and bridling it like unto curl? and fierce bulls , offered unto their flattering fat vourites their knees or Handrto kilie, fuppofingf that fahour fuflicient for them to live happily;- and be made for ever. Indeed the favourites of‘ fortune , and great Commanders of the world with a little more reafon have thought the ’ much to wrong their maieliy who in killing. prefumed above their Handr. Examples 0 which imperious exprefiion we have in Calig If: who as ‘Dion reporteth of him was very {pr- ring of his Hand, except it were to Senatonrs‘g, and to whom he offered. this favour a they €ch 1m ' mammaryguzgzaflte Hm: him pubiicklc thanks in the Senate for it, Where" as all men {aw him daily alloWing‘fthis‘ favour to dancers and tumblers. ' And ‘Dmitkuzro c4335; sum}, his fathers concubin‘e‘ newlypretumed out ofDomn. :mria, and offering to kiffe his lippes , hee rm- “P-I 1» i‘f‘onrn H IS HAND. And the younger Maxi- a» a, ignored to bare ufed the {aid rarely expref- $313915. . " on'in'his' demeanour towards them that came Hangers; f '6 falu’te him , and not to have admitted any a- " ‘ ibo’ve his Hand. A piete of Hate that hath been, {is improperly ufurped by the proud Prelates of fthe Church,who have expeaed the fame IymboI :6f fubjet‘tion from thehum’ble mouths oftheit: "f’dorers. “A refervcd carriage which begat envy 1; the people to the greateft Emperours. Where— Plinius In 9‘5 1’ 157'] comcnding Trajan theEmpcror in for- Panxexro caring this exprefiion of (fatefic condemning it 21:: n"Trajan ' thofe that ufed it, faith, fa»: qua afl'enfufinam: [ 'uogaudia except»: ex, mm candimti: m qucmg; no- immmt ? 01’6qu occurre: .3 dewxm inplmmm , to qmfiunm ex gmmlantiém , re miror may}, an 1.probem illar, qui efiioemnt m Mud mag-mm vide- fmr, mm ml”: afiixi (mm/1'63: ffléi many»: tam» la; um, a» have mnflanter (fr pigré, (9' [imputantiu ”fl-t] fimiler promermt ? Yet in Princes where u 'empers did enrich them with their peoples lave, whis demonfi'ration of the Hand was held to be a legion of Royall plaufibtltty. Of this kinde of be- ;lgne and courteous Princes was ‘Mar cm Ara- ,"i#!, as Herodiair’z noteth, who was offo {Wec’t b temper , and Debonair? behaviour towards all . . » . - 7 . , Heroéxan r 90, that he Would G IVE HIS HA ND [Jr-gus- 1mm. Miflte every man that carrietp him, commanb Hiti.lrb.t. ‘ mgr“? guard to keepe baeli'e none that came , . pinto him: The fame Author {peaking ofthe “ML? K 2 r Em- "M 132 "“‘CuHYIRoLooemzm',’ "- Empsrpui sever»: his entnafice ianome was" his Army 5,,pfindjnotingfhis plaufibtlttg 'thie'ncxt A "da. when became to the Senate,whei‘r6héflifiéidif 3' ‘ali’noo‘tph and'plaufible fpeiech; and theh'aajf 4 he} , he G A372 H1 5 HA ND t0 allthe CQmphny (Q l ' ’whcreheiufeth the fame Gxeelie word a1sb7ejqf ‘ 2. Sanm 5. “Milan ul‘ed‘this popular aflion of histhZf i 5- a bait to licorice and l‘tea’le away the heéfitsdf‘tfi people from his father (Dab-id :. {On the fox: l’aié . itDWas {0 {£th when any man came nigfi‘hiifitjo‘; doe him obeyfauce , heput forth his 573223915 1311‘? 2 ,p make him , "and killed him; Gibb 'wajs‘fibi; of”, Cornell fame courtly, compleXiOn , and ( as fiéfiigéigl T95“ “5: obicrveth ) . was well skilled in "the "facif for" fl Hifi‘llb"‘of this popular infinnatm, very téa‘dYQ’lfg s’rnfi'r CH FORTH ms HAND, andp‘tb 56 '4 himfelfe toevery meane perfon , neither didhgl i rejeé’c an‘Yathough comming fingle. "The‘huma m nit? of Alexander the (”Steaming of Mafc‘édoii; . QF‘T‘“ Prince‘of aninvincible fpirit, and noblcfimpg 4 (“ms ismofl‘: renowned in Hifiories ; 'who man '44 stun I‘b'm' he Was weakned with the violence of a difca-( ( a thing mol’c incredible to be fpoken orheaid railing himfelfe upon his couch , Pur $0 “I: “ H IS DYING HAND to all his fouldiers thaw Would, to touch it, and holding it in that pollu’rp‘ untill all his Army had killed, not untill then fa” king in his wearied arme: Upon which uni .. _ table aft OFAlexdnder, Valeria: Maximw brea“; M x: forth into amofi patheticallinterrogatory, : 11.0.5. autism mamzm ofmlari mm current , qua: jtmflffli opprefld maxim exercitm complexuii/mmqnimwl qmm flirim fvividiorefuffircit .3 Nor was~ the 3'34, «(lag-c. bility 0f firm King 0% Perfia muCh lelTe remark! Cyzlbi 8. file a who declaring upon his deathbed . hf?” t x Xenoph, i1 Tbé 414111473417 L44gu4ge ~ 44 11$th {houid difpoie of his body after his a ,‘ 1 . W11 to bury it prefanti in the earth, and not L“ f’inciofe' it in any goid r fiiver urne, -' Where- 1‘ gm ( {a1th he) 1f there be any of you,that would 2 7 ther touch my Right H444 or beheld my eye if; hil'e I am yet alive, let th£3m come neare, but ”he“ mine eyes are once clofed, I crave ofyou 31.‘ fonnes. , that my body may be feene of no 1 in, not oFyou your feives; and having {pokm ,_ it; and other thmgs,When he had given them his Hand, he clofed his eyes, and fo dyed. 1.reat Princes at this day expofe not their Right 15144410 be kifled, butto‘ fuch whom they would 1 i‘lco'me With fome efpeci'all grace. For when eat Pgiknfates intend to admit a friend 111m ,gntetttm, or in their Royall good-nefie are plea- ,, dto reaadmit {0111C ‘exfle fromtheirlove, and 1 ‘ buld d1fpenfe with greater majefiy a. paonn 1oyallfor1011-16: pafl‘eci offence , they ufe openly ofier and PRE SENT THE BAC 1:15 on '1: 112m chHr HANn , permittmg them by .ghatfavoutto reverence thCit poWet and sign ‘ommand or the fignification of that tonCh and onourabie faVOur 13 as much as a firme figne 05:" 14114114444114 :1 ngiene 312415111: obtained at inherit Hard. 0 P111 1011111 T if: tn‘ HAND AS 11‘ 13.11.3413- i” WERE 13y 5TEAL r111 , is their fignificant mm ”W indeavour who have 411111113111 1111an2 in 34111:: Egg} 0111211113 1114? 131) amapiemtimg “Gm WhiC" 9 'cllonioas fiiOn the Adaae 18 derived @zimr E1 1G“! imam/C 4-4 which {1211‘ flateddfl ti“: proverbia 1 Ads?” nfe 15 make up again‘i Cheates and nzifering it: allows, who by 9. 111413114 1121 .4 8? 13411: K 3' and 5c: the htaruts Pier. in Hicrogi. lit» 3 5. ffclVC‘ a and by aftion infenfibly {pread into the: CHI a 0L OGIA: Or,“ and (lie way of robbery , can bereave one of; thing unperceived; for {uch @zttutialifts wk}, addrefle themfelves to ufilch,and lurching clofely afl'ay unnetdgann to lteale a thing iganmfmmu, away, doe in the curfed iganbittaft of theft, out of a kind: of cunning choice imploy the M; hand, which is the hand that lyes moreout of fight , and is farre leffe obferved then the Right Hand is. A Hand which if it once grow dextc. rious by habituall theeving, will not be left; for if it once affefl to keep it ielfe in are, it turnesm an incurable felon. And it may be worthour inquiry why the Law doth {o eryreffely order theft to be punithed in this Han , for that the brawn ofthe left thumbs is branded in malefa- flora, a kinde ofpenall pardon for the firfi tranf-; greflion.And if it may be lawful to divine ofthej legality of this law-checke, I {hould thinkethatf there lyes {ome concealed fymboll in the devict,‘j and that the efiates aflembled had regard to thin fellonions procacity and craft of this guilcfullé Hand, which is prone by a (lie infinuation with} more {ubtile {ecrecie to prefent it {elfe to any (in; nifter intention, 8t doth no fooner move to fuel!; actions , but eyery finger proves a limetwigji which the ancient Egyptians implied in their; way of Hieroglyphique when they figured fun-i city or theft by a light fingured left hand put}: forth as it were by health, To open and unfqldj the fubtile and occult conceptions of antiqultjj about the nature and difpofition of the left ban :1 and to collefi what hath been noted touching the finificrindinations of this hand , Whertb i its naturall properties have propagated thew? man: The naturafl Language oftbe Hand. manners and cuilome-s of men. Firfl , it isthe 410th property of the left hand to be cove-rd,and to keep as it were a reclufeln the bofome , or to be carried wrapped up 1." a cloakedn‘rking .c’lofe- :1 and lying as it were in ambquado to entrap , and by a' crafty fetch imperceptibely to make a" ,prize of all that comes to Hand. Whence the Greeks from whom the facetiouinefle of man- ners and elegancie of learning (as fomethin‘ke) Were firft derived , fign‘ifie as much , who will therefore have the left hand named am» Meet admins 'uwm mew», becaufe for the molt part twang egg ”Jxmeg, tegi cfir accultari/blmt, WhereupL- on this hand being more idle . for idlenefle is a mine caufe of theft , it is coniequently more proneto this manuall tranfgrefiion. This light- ~fingered hand being called by Ifidor, Lew: 7mg iaptiarflt adlewmdam, to wit, to beguile, elude , d llidor. *lell’en and diminifh anothers goods. And Thea— Theatri- yeti-m: following herein the opinion of antiquity, 1‘ having noted the particular quality and behavi- é’our of this hand , and the private. vice to which ',itis propenfe, concludes from the pitchy temper 7thereof, that the left hand fignifies the captivity ofunlawfull defire and rapacity ; fo that it hath. for this caufe been confecrated to Lemma the goddelfe of theeves, as being by reaio'n of its ' _<-wily genius more fit and convenient for coufen— " age and clandel’cine theevery ; for being com- ' .monly hid and involved in the boiome ofa gown ‘ or deake and waiting in obfcurity , it comes to pail'e for the molt part (men {ufpec’cing no fuch thing) that doing nothing and devoted to tell 1 i get being at liberty and ready to handle, it will e doing , and lomewhat of other mens {utters K 4. for 336 , CHIROLOGIA:Ors for it, While this purloining hand thinkes it felfe the proprietary of anothers goods. Hence that elegant recorder of the ancient fiflions , witha Poeticall touch of his penafets a glof’fe upon this bufineflc thus , @vidlflg " ”Natty; adfmmfim'fim. Ménmcr. And that quaint Comoedian long before him l’laatus. pointing out as it were with his fingerthe ge- nuine deceitfulnelfe of this band, called it, Far. ”rifimm [warm , the cleft: and cunning pilferer ; E“ h And Eupbarmz'a alluding to the fame properties , p or. . . . . Satyr. g, of thls hand, faith, Turgmte: 0.6051110; furtzua ma. gm exfiico. And (indeed) loam orfinifim ac- ‘ cording to the ancient manner of {peaking ufed Hadrian with the Ancients , notes one to be a thiefe. {Card-dc That fubtill knave Afinim who Was experienced Fm" 3:13“ in the crahy handling of things , and drawing" “of them to his owne private adVantage , ufed this ' hand asleaf’c fufpet‘tedmhen he had Watched an opportunity at a feaPc to fteale away fame of the gCatullus linnen; againl’c whom Cam/[m in his flinging gapigr. 1;. line {lings thefe words out of his criiped pen: Mdmccin: Afini menu finiflm , Non éelle maria/ed in iota my; vino Toll») [intent negligentiamm. ' Plautus Hence alio when Sap/aicladifm the band in 731414- LiPerfa Afi. rm, upon lufpition of felony demanded to fee the .3° 3‘3 3! Hand ofPaegimm , and the lad like a Crafty wag had put forth his Right Hand; {he replied to him, 54% £114 alterafurtifiml‘ewz , where is that other clofe and cunning pilferer the left hand? AW” 11’qu was expert in the llie feats of this hand, ' Martial ofwhom Martin! , ' Epigr. Slim amt Azztoiici Mmpicmm mama. . gmmusa And we read in Chmé‘m oil’arqiugand Swag”; ”M Mgaaawgagm dfl‘gfiniflm Pifqni: the two left hand; ofPifo, that;. is infirument§ of histby; whofe prwateconveyst ance he rcc€iv€d_:b§ib¢Sa-zf9r although in regatta; of‘their imployme “$390919? him,’ “WY might. bfi {aid to behiagkigkt Haaziwet it? thismffinfCK-sgfbriz. bery, and «310%: conveyanée they wage pr99r‘r129 ealledhielcfi hands. Ihe: EgyptiEDSslipHiCI'O-{Pier‘Hieo h; ; glyphique painted juflice by an °P€991§§9h3nd ,_;rogiyvph. as the solder“, weaker and flower hand, ,ansdllbqi- therefore lefle prone not; able to apfly it ielfeto offer or doe any in jurya & But it. is better ferrite; Common-wealth that] Judges {bouldgbe‘withoutglf Hand; , a? the Theban Statues of Judges were,;«Idem.‘ thenin this {Enieto have aJeft hand” , 7 a _ ,, ’1‘ Ha I M P as I :1 o N o? T HE H )3; fixiggmfiigengdiw.' turallgeflurc fignifieantly afar; in .Vgonggm, Selina nation,ahfolutton, patina ant: fozgtgenaa'gt baa-Fm?» ~ :5 , ‘ marten, anupttundnttiation, confirmatiumenz taxation, .‘uzhtnattan, fanatiun, and t’ngmtiug um: maalae. That this gefiure is ofimp‘ortance‘ in mnbemnatt’en is apparent by the commands of the old Law in cafe of temptation toEthnicifme Emmy: and praé‘ticall Idolatry. So when the fame of-9-‘7'7' Shelomith the daughter of ‘Diéri of the tribe 7 of ‘Dan which {he had by an Egyptian) had blafphemed , the Lord by the hand of Ma/e: Levit. 2.th commanded him to be brought forth without ‘4' the campe, and all that heard him were to I. AK HI 5 HAN n 0N H I so HE A'D. And the laying OFLMM 4_ the Home! on the facrifices head that was remnants 3 _ 2.2.. nah in the ofFerers Read, {0 often commanded in 2. Chm. the LeviticailLaw,poi11ts to the fignifiea‘tion of 29-23» this gefinre, y In ahiahztten, harbor: and fog: gihtngfle : entwithfl’tanding the identhy of ge- ~ ‘ £19m: r;.~—-~—«-m « -. G‘MM {onne fazed who {upptlanted 15f“ of his hlefiigg CHIROLOGIA:Or, fiure, there is a proper contrariety of exprefiion; and this (cents to he a natural! and paraphrafii. call geflure, very futable to that petition in the Lords prayer, jfogmhe us our trefpafl‘es‘, A S WQ famine them their trefpafies againfl: us. For, AS Nature teacheth us to raife ourHaud: to beg par- don and forgivenefl'e at the Hand of God; {0 the ‘ likewife moves us to the fame exprefiion of ge- fiure. as moft proper and fignificant to fault out ~ pathonn to others; implying, that who feigning {hall be forgiven ; and neither Nature nor Grace doth move us to aske pardon on any other terms. I he phrafe of this gefture is tignificantly took: into the formes of the Civill Law; and hath been praflifcd in Eccietiatticall ahfolutton. Parifienfi: for this reainn would have it a facrament,beeaufe it hatha farming and fanfiifyingfigne , to Wine fign having a naturall refemblance with inWard {anfiification it {elflwhich is the Hand. To this c geiture as it is cunningly made an Appenage to the Papall po‘licie of auricular confeflion, I have nothing to iay,only I finde that the ancient form ofabfeluttou was to hold both the Hand: con- joyned over the parties head which was to be abfolved; which may be alfo exhibited by one Hand laid in fequence of the other; or both cont joyned and heid above the head, {0 appearing in the aire without any tefidence at all upon the head. The manner of performance at this day (it feems) is, to lay on both the extended Hand: upon the head , 10 that they touch the crowne, and reft and fettle downe thereon. 1' As this gei’ture is fignificant in benebittinn , it was ufed by Ifaac upon his death-bed when he blzh'cn his Y The natural? Language oftbe Hand. 1 39‘ by counterfeiting the rough Hand: of his elder brother : And thus facob about to'dye bleach hié twelve fonnes ,, every one of them with a {eve-.gGeMo: tall Mailing. Our Blelled Saviour who with the 23- facred geflures of his Hand, hath fa‘hflified the expreffions ofours , and made them a holy lan- guage , was often feen to 'ufe' this expreflion of the Hand : whence the Church commenting up- on his at‘tion, faith , He by his outWard gefiurc Matth.to,.;§ ' ‘ ii '2 ,I ‘ and deed declared his good will to little chil- 13. dren , in that He embraced them‘in His Armies; “um HI 5 HANDS‘HPOM THEM and blell'c-‘d them. And the very lal‘l expreflion that flo’Wed from His {acted Hand was bleffing': for at the time of His afcention He er'rn D up Hts ’ Hans and ble‘fl‘ed His Apomes, and While Mr ”’55 \ . , they beheld Him in this polizure blefling them , '0’ Hedcpartcd bodily from them afcending up in- to Heaven. Hence in alltacit pofies of His ai— cention, this figure of the facred property of His Hand is molt emphatically lignificant. 1' flat in conferring the bleflings of'primogeniture and aboptiun, this gefiurc of the Right Handismorc peculiarly fignifiCant,is excellently illul’cratcd by the adoption of Ephraim unto the birthright of {M I Waaafitk by 74:01: When he blelied f‘q/epb {onsz Gen.48.8. y 1301370 epb bringing his fonnes to be blelled of ‘ui ‘ his father, tooke Ephraim in his Right Hand to- Wards Ifrael: le ft hand ; and (Mama?! in his left hand, towards Ifrael: Right Hand, {0 he brought them unto him:ButI/mcl s ’r R 5 'r c H E D our HI s R1 .GH 1 HA N D , and laid it on Ephraim: head which was the younger, and his left hand upon . Manage: head (direéting his Hand; on purpofe) fer/HWLR': Was the elder.But when j’ofepb aw . at w : 5C31;R'QLOGIA,EOt; thathis fatherlaidi his Right Haydon the head of ‘EP‘WRW: it aifplt‘afeé him a ‘and he flaidhié fa- ._ \t'het‘SHand to‘r‘er'nove it from“; Ephraim head to ‘ ;-‘_.'deflfer ‘head, Q And fat/91% faid’unto, his fa- ,, the’r', notlo’xiiy father, for this is‘the eldeit, put thy ,Right Hand upon his head : But his father te- fufed and {aid 7, I know well my fonne , I know We‘ll ;’ he {hall be alfo a people , and flaallhe Zgrjeat likewife :‘ But his younger brother {hall , the greater then he , and his feed than be full of ’ Netions ,: So he blefied them that day, and {aid , ¥Q§'thee 1/1745! {hall blefle and fay ', God make tthas Ephraimenii Mdmzflétb ':' And he fer E- phraim before Manafieth, For ’the Hii’tloricall , fenfe’QFthiSexfireffibntftée’fii'aqml and DnField. ' :‘Pfé’xerim, Rufiertfltj and Ifidom: affirme, that-in a. ' . myi’ticail {enfe this Cancelling or cromng of the . ' ~iialtrriarch's Handr'i‘n exhibiting his blefling and transferring the right of primogenitute to the ypun ‘ er, was reprefentatively done to prefigutc it my cry of the calling of the Gentiles , and the a preferring of them before the jewes : and that this was, the firfl: type or prefiguration of the manner offthe promifed Meffiahs pa than in the decreed Way of redemption. qr The fame ge- fiure We the in grating nut: meats, an expreffion very proper and fignificartt : For, the Handy re- Verently crefied , Without any other forme of fpecch annexed . teem naturally to pronounce this Grace. ‘ ‘ ..-.M ' , ED. mm mpz‘eame 3501mm the ether hf all Saw {binge inbu aperitif with the Ha nd,tmn fil= 18E Eben} living tbtngjnith thy bletttttgmnutb‘ {$32,931.03M;Cped‘icendo,benedieere,tu lg}??? 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Levit.4.6. 17.24.39. 34.16.14. 99- any legitiatot to be hallowed by a dedication,- hut the Handwas calledto,‘ and in j oyned to atw tend; as a proper addition to confirm and {anfiifie all other ritesgnot that there is'any inherent holi- nefi'e in the Head, or {glernne forme of exprefli-i ombut an adherent onlthe very heathens have .ackowledged‘ afignificant vertue in this expref- {log of _ the Hand 5 for we read; that Numa was tonfertateh upon mount Tarpeian by‘the chiefc’ ~ of the fouthfayers _, called Aflgflrfl, laying bid flight 19am} upon his bean; a pieceflof {uperilitie ous apiflmeffe they learned from the grand {piti- tuall ImpoflonMa/e: a man skilfull in all the lear- ning of the Egyptians. . among which tome fee crets of our Chirofophie. were judicioufly vey- led; by infpiration commanded the Right H454 of the highP‘riel‘g to wit , the thumbe thereof. or vice-hand to be hallowed ‘with the 0er in his left palme, from thence called the Holy Finger. (a forme alfo obietved in the Inauguration of Kings.) And the finger was ufed in all clippings and {prinklings of the Leviticall Law. The ground and foundation of this typicall exprefli— on {eems to be laid in nature; for, the Hand is conceived to be as it were a ihadow or image of the Trinity: for the arme that proceeds from the body,doth reprefent the {econd Perfon who proceeds from the Eternall Father, who is as it were the body and fpring of the Trinity, and the fingers which flow both from the body 32d t e hut—“m M‘, 4w “L m ' i" am “mm :51; , ~ ' ~ ,- , ’ The natural! Language oftbe Hand. the arm; doe reprefent the Holy Gholt ,» who proceeds both from the Father and the Same. Hence-Hierom uponrtheapafl‘age of I/hiab, To whom is the Arme of the Lord revealed , {aiesv that the Arme of the-Lord is myltically the Son may" roceeding' from the Father : To which tome Ifaiah. refer that of the Pfalmil’c ,. He made flrong his 3-!- Anne.» :And the arme fliadowes out the fecond ' w Perfon in the Trinity in thefe refpefis; in coef- 3mm?“ fentiality with the body coevallity . Ability , Foggy Utility,Agility and Flexibility. The fingers give mgr}, ’ an umbrage of the Holy Spirit in regard of their proceflion proceeding from the Arm and Hand, operation, the body Working by the Hand and fingers , conjunétion, taétion, oftention, afper- mm Pm tion,diltin&ion ofjoyntsthuall numerationfitc. Cum Hence the Finger of God in Scripture fignifies the Holy Spirit , If in the Finger of God I call: out ’divells ; but then the word Finger mutt be Goufrhtl- ,in the fingular number ,, for in the plurall it hath “b'3'sel‘?" other fienfes. 1} It is alfo their gefiure who act. crxp. Would folemnly confer fume fpirituall oz. tempos tall honour upon fame perfen. This in the {acted language ofScripture is Cbiratbefifl, and is a ma: ttttulating gefiure , and the formallprepofition proper to thofe who are to be openly infialled or inauguratein form new place of duty orjof command ; all creations relying on the bottom: tie touch of the giving Hand, as the canning en- hgne that by evidence enfures the priviledges of invefliture. And this manuall exprcflion is {o naturally important, that it provesin halthzatie tmtiatinnsm fitter veftment to cloaththe intenti- 0“ IIla-then the airy texture of words; for it hath ever hada facred efficacy to move the unfilte- an» 143 "$44 C 1311 R0 Eé:o?ffi 30:; ‘ ' fiending"b§i the fenfe‘; 'melio facilitéte the over; tuteof {acted afia’ires ,W‘ifiS‘bGifigfi‘Ofi {med no“: at“! :fiqnqufienceeondugmg-QM inviting-tom: kakdge‘of‘hings flbflmce a there being no H : :1 other pagtioftmgn that‘eeh :{o Mel}! afidxemph’au - ,1 : =: finally préfem Bngefiute? the folemmeéiirwsof 1 ".4 this intetitiom stfi-hce ,. by the motiotiof‘xhe Hm _ iheee tis: :fweemght inrthéé mindeof the: behoider ._ fomething that 'V‘ is, m tagged, ._ fignificwnt untde thOIgHt . ethatiwhic’h fug‘ "fismore.~rumo the ; minde ,“3't‘henWhatzis expire . ed untoitthe'outet fwfie; fort; 'hathtnore tel-light}? a nd Weight then (appease-in; . the. bare achieve-relation : :And an 3gefl‘uresefthe Hand ‘beingihnowh rtoibe- Ofxthe’ir :- very neturefigns of imim‘ioogtheimyfiiqttc.xproi- vperty 8: clofeiintention of? this gefture is not :a’lobe tto-reprefe'fif iat‘ felf ,‘ "but to Condufi and" infinuatc fombthingi’elfi into the gthétlght , which being ’ (as it‘m'uafivefbe) an intelligible notion, asit " its aifigae or token it fallafimrt and abates of» the ' p‘efiefiionzoflthe thing that isl‘implied by itsouta Wa‘rd’fi’g nifio’ation : wherefore 3,-Hand is but im— ’propetlytfeidto-bethe fh‘a' ow of its counterfeit) "which is wrought by a mill in imitation of ' fthe life,‘ although upon ht thereof We know and conclude ‘it to have the femblance of 1! Handfic tolbe-a draught or copy of the edging”: {0 this gefl‘u’te'iis but a manuall vifion of the ‘mmd , f‘mofi conformable to cxpre‘flej divine notions, "which elfe would lofe much of their luftte , afi'd ‘remaine invifible to the conceit of man; This "tonne of exptefiion in owinafiun as it is agree- able to the canon of N attire , {o it hath recetved, confirmation by the Hand of God time it firfi appeared in the Hand of the Patriarehs , the gr? The naturnfl Langudgé of”); Hand. 1 4§ airpenfers of perfonall beneoittiottl, who ufed it. _ to betokcn the 1 reftrainzo intention of that: tastes unto them on tnbom tbsytonferren their blell'ittgfi : For we finde Wafe: by command Numb. 19lele 1516 H I’S HAND UP ON fo/buathe {onne 17.18. of 2Q» to appoint him gunmen: ,5: who is {aid tobc'full of the Spirit ,? ‘ for (Mo/e: had LA I D Dan: 3 4. 9; HI 5 HAND s u PON him. And when Mofe; and ‘ ' 70/51”; had prayed, and I. A In T HEIR HA ND _s , on the {eventy Elders,the Holy, Spirit came up»; on them. In (hosting of Deacons this g‘eliure 3&5 g. g. was ufed by the Apol‘tles. And in the traumatic 0110f Barnabas and Sam! to be the Apoflle—s» of . the Gentiles , this gel‘ture is againe ufed. . And __ Timatky is put in minde by St. ‘I’aulof the gift A?! 3- 357 he received by this 1MPO 511‘! on oF HANDS : :' T1122: ' for not only the ntftte but the ability Were to-, ,4, ‘ " gather conferred upon many by this gefiure, of which acquilt we mull not conCeive the folemna gefinre to be a naturall,but a morall caule,as be: ing the true manner 8‘: form of tmpetfatiunfid alienting, and by {ucceiie crowning the prayers of religious Hand: ; and {bowed that what they .did was by prayer and blefling in his name , . they being,indeed,Gods Hand: by which he rea- cheth Counfell and Religion, which as through ', their Hand: are conVeyed unto men , Chtifi: hae ,' ting promifed to open and (hut them, to l’cretch ‘ them out and draw them in, as the Hand of man : l__s guided by the fpitit that is in man. This Chis ”theft:- ml C hirotonia (for both occurin the new . Tefiamentfis ufed as an Ecclefial’ticall gel’cure at this day in token of elevation or lamination , tales . .. 7 “In",and feparation. And xaynvéo eff qua]? Xfiggt- Beflflm? 95v. M 2/1 1‘. mm tmdo , fit? pitta/la in figmt fagg- L ~ W 146 Cit i no toe Ill": Or; ”fragifl'l‘o which appertains that cautionary fymboll Of St. Tau] , Lay the V'Homd [114an a, no man ; which Interpreters expound of the care that is to be ufed that none {hould be admitted into roomes of divine calling , but {uch who are called and are fit, Tam daEt'rina qmm moribm; For no man can lay the Hand upon himfelfe and ’ be as Bil/fl tearmes it, au’wnxecy'ni: am, his own or- : King. 13 deiner; for that is parallel unto the crime of feroboam who filled his owne Hand; that is, ordained himielfe. (f To the fignificarion and externall effefls of IMPO s 2* no»: or: Him in toufirmation,’1’erml1£an elegantlylkro *mtmm ‘ 13 impafitiane adu‘mbmmr , at e?- am'nm [firim illumin ‘ mm. q; 1n fanatinu or conferring a tozpozall ht: mfitonany , impos 1.1101»: 01: HAND s isve- ry natural], hgnific‘ant and agreeable to the my- fterious intention; fonthe Hand is the generall {alve that is applied , and applies all remedies; a for naturally ”bi dolor, iéi digims, and nece atily in point Of‘topicall application, whofe very ap- proach doth molt {enfibly import reliefs and gate. Our Bleiled Saviour the great Phyfitian offoule and body, who did theft of his miracles for rellauration of bodily health , though he were the truth and fubfiance , who gave an end to all legall {hadowes , Yet he molt commonly ufedthe {hadow of this naturall gelture to the more vifible and figmficant a plicationof his miraCulous cures. He gave figl‘lt to the blinde; yet not without touching the eye : Hearingto the deafe ,not Without thruf’cing his Finger into the earegand fpeech to the duthbeyet not With? ‘ out wetting the tongue , moi’t with this geflurc l.la.8.15' UfIMPOSITtoN. Thusby Toueemo 551730”! Wifes ,, ' )4: Tb: naturafl Language ofthe Heed. £47? f “ ‘ wifes methets Hand He cured her of her feairero ‘ , ‘ ' Thus by PUTTING FORTH Hi 3 HAND , A1436 5-. not} ING the leper, He healed him of his { ‘ leprofie. Thus by I. an N G HA N D s on the Wo- Mark ‘6 manthat Was troubled with a fpirit of infirmity, 41° he loofed her from her «life le, and made fireigtit Luke :33 her bowed body. And it is faidof Him that he 13. i could doe no great workes“fiu' his owne Conn-f- trey by reafon oftheir unbele'efe , faVe that HP. LAID HISHANDS upon! a few ficke folkes,‘ L (a and beaten them. And (indeed) their {utes that MMk 543 came unto him for helpe, were commonly ten-é dared and exprelled in fact: tonnes of fpeech as fhewed that he much ufed this fignificant ex— , preflion ofgel’ture. For,although as Fan/Em truly portage ohletves,the flefh‘ of our Saviour , for that it Was the Helh of God , gave life and health to all that ‘ touched itfor a certain vertue went out from all. parts of Him, and cured all men, ( as the Woman , that had theiliu‘e of bloud experimentally found) yet He was pleafed ({o to honor the Handfio ufe ‘ his Hand in the conveyance and applicariouof that curativevvertuefis that which in nature is the molt importantse fignifieant member ot'thebddy: he could haVe laid the word only and it had been done , but he would lpeak reliefe with his Hand.- Thus fairer befought him to come and LAY Lilac M?! n: E HAND s 1 P ON his ficke daughter that {he ’ might be healed and livezAnd they who brought the deafe and ltammeriug man unto Him, b’ewpvggrzge 7; fought Him ’to Pur H 15 HAND upon him, ;®.V'~’r-3§ ‘Whofe requel’ts were gracioufly a‘nfwered in 1““: 8o ' this defired and his aceul’comed formeof e35,— 3:; Hrék preflion with his meeting Hand. And EXE-poli» ‘m E;;;{ tors agree that they required no expreflion 0’: pm. ‘ L 3 W3 14s CHrRoLoGIA:Ots pity from our Saviour-s Hand: then what they had obferved him to ufe, thereby attributing un- to him the honour and right of the chiefe Pro- phet : For it was an expreflion ufed by the anci- ent Prophets as a holy charme againf‘c bodily in- firmities; And of the practice of this gei’cure at- tended with a vifible {ucceffe , the Heathens . were not ignorant, apparent by the fpeech of ' 3 ngs f- Nddmfln who was 'halfe wrath with Eli/2m for 1‘ ' omitting this expreflion or pledge of health . for he thought with himfelfe that the Prophet Would have come out and flood , and called upon the name of the Lord his God , and put ms HAND up ON the place and heale the lepto- Mark 16. fie. After the afcentibn of our Saviour,his pro- , .1 7- mtfe was fiilfilled, that they fliould L A Y '1‘ H 131 R HANDS ON the ficke, and they (hould be cured. , nag, 17.111113 Tau! received hisfight by the LAYIN G , ON 0 r Ammiaa Hands. And thus rPM! health A61: 28. the father of Publim Governour of the Iflle of Melita, now Malta. Thus ‘J’mr TA 1: IN G the My”. Cripple that (at at the gate of the Temple called a, Beautifiill B Y T HE R1 G HT HAN D, rctuhquD, him of his lamencfle. But of all the curetozic m1- racles wrought by the vertue of this expreflion of the Apoflles , the caf’cing out of Divells , and freeing the pollefl‘edmoit altonifhed the people, ' has 19,: efpeeially after thofe {one of one S’cwa(a]ewlfl1 a :3. CXOI‘CiflZ ) had took in Hand to counterfeit that .. powerfull gift by an unwarrantable imitation a , and were foundly beaten for-their apifh and vain , . attempt : After the Apofiles times,the exorcrfis 3‘5]: 1“ (an order in the Primitive Churchjufed this cum! Church malt: ad junét in commending thofe to God Wllo 1,5,, were difquieted with Divells. QI The curative ad Juné’c ,v V I :,L.-_r—, ‘Wgwa‘ntgagam; " , ,l ,, adjunfl with a Mag/it teRex {and re ‘Dem is uléd in the conveyance of that Charifmc or miraculous .5“ Dr- ift of healing, which derived From the infancie Ch???“ of the Church thefii‘naugured Monarchs of this {guaisffiig Lind fo happily 'eni‘oy’ = In which ex rcflioh of“ l'anationis their fanative vertue they not only urpaffc the fabulous cures of 7’7rrlw: or Witt/fan, ofwhich ’Tlim'e and others‘make mention , but the pre» Piinic tended vertues of other Chrifiian Monarchs. Nat. Hint Arid indeed it is a maxim: Ecclefiaiticke , ’I that namiracle is wrought out of the Church. And this miraculous impofi'tion of the Hand in curing the difcale called the A‘tm’ma, which from the conitant efl‘efi of that Sovereigne Salve, is cal- led thefKings Evilli‘éI-‘lisfacred Majc‘fty that no W. is hath praétifed with as good fucceffc as any of 1%szth Prastfiisaw ‘ " ‘ '3 " m t a v‘: n i”; it" I it ‘4 - “‘ ..,,:. A uifiggE-vgfi: n a; A, ;. < wflflvw ”rd-1,1 A “M ”fisfi fiwwwfififlfi mmwmwmmmmwmmm An Index of reference to the following Table, or Alphabet of naturallcxprcflions. ° , .‘ Wh1ch Gcfiurcs, bcfidcsthcir typicallfigm- -1 fications, are fo Ordered to. lcrvc f‘orprivy * cyphcrs 101 any fecrct 1qtimation. * B ' c" D Figure: cut 3:: I Gefiumll Gcfi. III G’efl IV Glfln’ ‘ ' * B G v 9112 v1 @111; 1111:1111. V1119!” I , K M Q 11: 9‘4?» x 64?: 1:1 9:11. 21H 6:1.) .j N o p’ , CL ; $31111 1111. XIV Gaff, xv 6:}, 1111164,. _ R s '1' ° ' v _i XVII 9:11. XVIII Gaff. XIXGefi. xx 1:11;. " The neceffary defea: of thcfe Chirograms m] XXIGe/l. 111111641. 11111111111I xxw 611%: point of motion and percuffion, which cannot cxprcflh, mufl be {applied with m' nation , and a topical! referencg 59 $136 9, _ and 11111111111 of 111611 Gcfium. M : y.- (5" fl/f 1mm .KZ’ g x M! w; ‘3"“33‘ I.“ I . Silt- xiii «II-I‘M (WI-Juli”... 13? J - q ”:1 1' An Index to the follewing A]. phabct of magma“ Gefiutes ofi _ the H A N n. ‘ Which Gcfiuresg bcfides their typical] figni. fications, are 10 ordered to ferye for privy cypherg for any fecret xnumanon. A 3 figure: an: thy;- XXV Gefiure; XXVI chlg‘ ; C D E xxvm aefi. XXXIII Gq/E. xxxw gel};- F , G H ' XXXV Gcfi. XLII Gcfi. XLIII Gejf,‘ I K L M XLVGefi. xwtaejzxnvn Gefi.XLVIII Gaff; ; N o ' . p Q _ xux Gefi. L m, LII 9w. 1.111621, R - s '1' V . W 6:13. ml 63p, Lyn gcjf. LIX 64*» W x Y Z ‘ IX 9% LXI 95/53 LXI; 9:15. LXIII Gaff. DACTP P; _ Grfizentc‘r jgrmo . C gt 2%" 1‘ /. ,«I’ T jECO/HCZ'IEO . 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V :~ 7." fag . ‘n z 3"; ‘ Q?Wfi§§gg%§f ‘A DACTYLOGIA: OR THE DIALEGTS_ OFTHE , FINGERSJ= , , He Hand the great Artificer and afiivc Contrivet of moftfcorpo- . ’ rall conceits ,1 receiving good / ‘ ' ’ ”/,///’/:j intelligence of the patheticall ’ 21/; motions of the minde. proves a a "/9 Summari: or Index, wherein the {peaking habits thereof {ignificantly appear, rc- ‘ prefenting in their appearance the prefent poflzure ' of the phanfie.And as we can tranflate a thought . into difcourfing fignes 5 [0 the conceptions of _ ~our minde are {een to abound in {overall ‘Dialeflr i "while the articulated F ingm {apply the oflicé‘of ' . avoyce. -‘M"MMM'P‘ Cfimonoeri'é O r; A C O R O L L A R I E OF THE Difcoutfing gcfiure ef the Fingersé WITH AN ‘ I ’ Hifloricall Manifeflo,excmpli‘ fying their naturall figmfications. _ : Imago; ., ‘ ., M Ha F1 NGE R IN THE moum nelaboro. / ‘ \ GNAWN AAD suc KT 3 isager Gefius 1- _, var , g ' ' flare offerms an!) Dézp menita: ' , firm, repentance. 22mg, aager , ’ and tbzeatnen rebzngefi The ‘ , ‘ . ,, fignification of inventifie mam: fatten, Posts the moPc accurate obfervers of Na— ”ture, have elegantly acknowledged. Tixus PW- pertin; in the emendation ofa verfe: , rropcrt. I. E: [aape * immerito: carmmpa dentiém ungtm. gig.“ Thus Perfim of an ill vcrfc: ‘ ' Aha Plutmm 0241': 7266‘ * dt’moi’f“ flip” ””3”!“ Home! I. And Horace of the {wearing and {O-Ui‘11t0u5 Poetv . Sacymo. scepe mpmfl'abent, * “viva! @ 7’04”” ”"15”“ : who in armrhxzir Mace dricribmg the (“'Ifitlm‘T’it PO" Idem , flute of Canidia, brings her in gnawing harlong 1319““ miles: " ‘ Hi6 The mtumfl Language 01%: Han Hi: iurcfeflumfwn dent: livido Canidia rodent policem. Imfeflm aim: t, wilds jeé'lum, nut mm mam; Torrenti. idgnim vanifim mag” souvenir, longer curmfg; ge. us in Hot. are ungm: qua: incantatioms fun: [meditanda] e ”Teddi”, quad [{ummam Mimi atrcntiomm] d:- mnfimt : As Torrmtim upon the place. And to \ this fignification belongs that of the fame Poet : {De * mun [meditemr] ungni. ' ,And therefore in the Areopagetique School and Syndon.‘ \ Councel-houfe , they painted among others, APOLL’; [lmmhex for the figuificatx‘on of his camel! ftuby cFifi-9- ' in Arithmetickc and Geometrie,with H 1 s FIN- cm s GNAWN about , as deonim‘ Apollinm's , reports. Garopim very witily fetcheth the rea- {on of this gclture from the Etimologic of the , word Finger thus r‘Digitimamu fignifimntt’uw— Jiendi deflderiym , mm in prima lingua diam- tur Vinger , qua. wx denotat [inwnirekiefidero] 4 mm mi; invenimdifamlrm munitions abfiil'aitur, 5 (5-4;! mimcmndi artcm digiti maximefimtu ”mpg- mi, numera: cm'm 0mm: digiriaindimmm ; qua fit ‘ ut merita name» limbs”: 46 invenimdi defideria. ‘ 1 To the fignification of repentance, Tropertiu: ' alludes: ' ‘ * (Inga: mmm marfofrepe quererefidem. Propett. l. , To the intention of cm)? , that of Martial is 3:123. ‘ referred : , Manfal- 1'“ Ecce itemm "‘ nigro: carredit [lit/Mm] angst”. 4' cPlg'" Idrfl proEiwiolicz auxin: * carradit angina: nig‘rox: As Ramirez upon the place. fif‘l‘his gei’ture is al— fo a Wilde expreflion of fiertz finger and mmll reheatgc, as Artfiotle advertifeth us , who when . he had reckoned up thofe actions which are “‘9?" 2‘ done by reafon at fame hirsute or will mutant: , E‘h‘c‘c’ " re 159. l O a Gorooius in Hierog, x6e" CHIROLOGIAE'OI‘,’ he puts downe this arrofioh‘ofthe na‘iles; Which As zuh; the Interpreters of that place declare to be the get inEtha'property oftnen integeh with thhtemnd filently m‘fl' thzmfiuing rehcnge. And the Italians,a revenge-s. . full Nation «, doe moi‘t ufually declare byzthis geek flute their green? tuhtttng to he at 19am mime revenge; and therefore that awfhii Satyrifii of t the angry Potet : PC: (cu: . -—- Cranium charcflmm: unguem . 53W?- 55 ‘ ' Aéradem' flit Imam ‘ ‘ So they report of Orcfle: raging and tranfported . .with the furioutt appetite of rehengz to have Psufanzas 311nm HIS FINGER in Arcadia, wherca monument reprefenting that expreflion of anger Was built , as I’m/mama hath left it recorded to Pierius in pofietity. \And the waiters of the Hieroglyw’ 5;“3‘08‘)? phiques pourtray out this gei’ture to the fame L37" fignifications : And if we fee one BITE HIS T H 111le a at us we ioone infer he meanes ué no good. Fla». OfiuTFI‘NGER IN THEEYE, istheirex‘ . Ge“. 11. preffion who ate, and would by that en— t deavour of nature cafe theattfel‘oefi and give vent to their touteiheb htahtntt’fe. The reaion oi PUTTING FINGER 1N TH E EYE IN WEE- ? I N 0: i8, becaufe teares falling from the I Y B i with their faltneffe procureth a kinde of itching, about the carnell of' teams, which requireth aid of the Finger to be exprefied at their firit fall: afterward the parts affected with that quality ,. and one teare drawing on anather, {uch expref- from is not fo, necei‘fary. Befides this caufe of rubbing the WE 2 PIN G F. n , a {trange matter therein requireth wiping, which alio movettlh t e W W”"‘”’”’"* 7/ — be natural! Language oftbe Hand. 153‘ the Finger to indie to the eye watered with teares; but this is after a while, the Other almoPc before any teare fall, as though they were ex- prciied with rubbing. Thus Modgete; the Ty:- ~ rant of Cibyra, when he was greatly aH‘Eighted ‘ at the minatory Words of the l‘? omanCoefuLCn. Manlimjmpofing the lam of five hundred talents in ready money to be laid down upon the naile , counterfeiting and pretending his needinefre, after much bafe huckling,and rifing by little and little, one While haf‘tin g and wrankling,another while praying and intreating ( and that with whining and ‘PfiTT I NG F INGE R IN TH E g Y E) he Was fetcht over at length, and‘came of}? to pay a good I oo. talents offilver , and deliver ten medimnes of come befideso‘ To H 0 LD up T H E THuM BE , is the geflure Approbog of one gibinghifi mitt? 6,92, l 1.!fl’mge , of one GelHIL that helpeth with h in 1:35:33 at the time of elation, and of one {hewing his afiefi‘st or apmbbatmn as ‘ Flaoim Vapi/cm writeth. The utting forthof‘ Flaviys 1 the Finger alfo fignifies an allefiname of mailman, VOPW” anbice ant: g‘uhgeme‘a‘at ef aware finitely utfereh in ear guarantee 0 HOLD up BOTH TH E THUMBS, is an exe Exzoiio;_ preflion importing a tranfzeebempaf made. Gait. 1v; Hence Home: * Utrag; [in/lice, dixit, pro Dummy fizz/am]- 7 ' Famor * ”frog; I'udmflafidééitjpolfice lmfflm: Hoff?“ 0f WhiCh proverbiall fpt‘ifiCh, Porp/gyrim COHCBit mm runs a’hus : Utrnépo/Zice, id {fie , ”nag: mam, [y- mcba'ache a} pang (id tamm. An qm [Jcbcmmtim , lflfidatymmmsjangem,*jngit pa/Zicem mm praxi-a Elam; M was“ Adages Livia 1.33 162; ‘ CHIROLOGIA:O£‘; mo 9 WW}: another way ‘E Utrog; pol/ice, fymck. docbe, many ”may; ffiélfltflg; pariter,ac/¢p2‘m mom, hie enimgcflm Wilde Madam-z}: efl _: Sane mrag'yficm ex is? concijci liver, prowrbij origofuit , inqnit‘E. m/mm. Collate— O pom-r WITH THE auRNED our ”1”“ 7 ,. THuM BE is a note ofdemonllration ; for as monfim. Gefius V. by divers geltures of the Thumlve wee fignifie the varxous monons of our minde, fo by the fame we are Wont to point out, and {haw thofe wee love , and inch who deferve out Commendations by PUTTING FORT H THIS FINGER , making it many times to ufurpc . the office ofthe Index , as may be collefied out , Claud. dc of Claudidn : 6.8011. ”Gflfldfl' meme”: 6“}20/[1'66 Eflfémfirat.] Confulat. Indies. HE FORE-FlNGER PuT FORTH, THE Gel}. VI. RESTCONTRecrEDTOA FIST, isan cxpreffe of tumtttattn and Direttmm a, gefiure of Beckman the Hand molt Dementttatm, This Fifiger being d8 OFig- called Index aé irzdz'mndaflhiflico: by the Greeks, , latng. id efl Demon/hater. Himfindigz'mre] weréflm pro. refatz'a' idanmm, 1200 efl dtgita oflmdcrc, w! digimm~ _ intmdere : And hence fome of the Heathen Ram: gods were called “Di; indz'giti, becaufe it was un- ‘ lawful] to name them , or point them outas it, ' were with this Finger. The force of this Finger in pointing out men anote and quality, Poets and Hif’corians the accarate obfervers of the na‘ turall expreflions of the Finger: , doe every ' where acknowledge in their writings, alluding Mmial thereunto. Thus the finewie Epigrammatifi : V fiyigmmi Rampimr fez/Wig quad twee/mgr 52,5 omni [Wan- W73 natural} magma oftbe Hand; [Womflrdmur] * digitam.’ Thus Home 3 _ wad [may Var] * digito pmteriuntmme :15}; ThUSthC Schoole-Amorifi : (jvgg 5; Steps aliqm‘; * digits? mum [dgfigmt] ”mm” morlgé t AW; nit, hic law eff qmmfem: mi: amore 4 Thus that obfcure Satytil’t : RIMS At pat/6.61%”: efl * digitaEmanfirarijdicier [bio efl: Where the Satyri[t(as Lubemim comments upon the place) taking an at gument from the adjunét , ' items to have refpefl unto the Hiltoty of De: Wflhetm which Cicera toucheth at , who was C €6ch much affefied with the mute encomium of this 5*“!an Finger , diret‘ted towards him by certaine. wo-_.-~ men that were drawng water, and laying rim is Dcmoflhcm 5 wt this IS the fame man Diogenes the Cinique poittted out in way of detifion, not; . , with the Index , but the middle Finger. To pa- Launh 55 rallel this with another example drawne out of Hiltoricall antiquity. The fitll: time that Tla'e- plumrch , mi/iaclct came to the Olympique games, after the m the ME vic‘tory obtained overXcrxe: navie at. Sea,he was at :{i‘m‘ no {cotter come into the Chew-place 2’ but the ”‘3‘”er people looked no more at them that fought, but all call their eyes on him, mtmittg him unto the [hangers that knew him not, with their fingers, and by Clapping oftheir Handxtdid Witttefle how“ much they el’tmmed him; who being a man ama- hitious by mature, anal covetoug oi‘honour’ was 10 much tickled with this publick hemottfimtittu ntt‘htttiottttt , thathe COfiiCfit‘d to his familiar: friends , he then did begin to reap the fruit and benefit of his {unclry and painful) {entices he hacl taken for the pttféfit‘mtism ofGreece. The name tall validity of‘tt ttthigttatthtt ofgsetions , anti M 2- pro: Satyrih EpiflJg. Suetonius Augufio. Caitlin Soldier. \ CHIROLOGIA:0r; prohominall vertue of this F 512ch , when item; tively put forth,ap.peared in the malipert demon. a Cicero ad firation of Dip/film the Iragedian , when he a- . AtticJ. 2. {fed in the Playes dediCated to the praife of A. Pallo,who when he came to that verfe in his part, .Miferia nafim A/I’dgtmr fififiirefiing his Hand and ‘ pointing to Pompey lirnamed the Great, he gave it a remarkable pronunciation ; and being con- {trained by the people :who with their Hands load applaufe mamraged him)to repeat the fame divers time55continuing in that Demottfiratzhe gelture, he drove out him that Was guilty of too great and intollerable a power. But Pylade: for inch 3 (peeking pranke ofhis Finger , came not of f0 well; for,0flaoim Aagu/fm (la/4r baniflied him but of the City of Rome and italy , becaufe he had POINTED wmr HI 5 F1 NGEIt at a {pe- fla'tour who hifl'ed him of the Stage,and {0 made him to be known. The valiant Bamimut inltead of fpeech ufed fuch a e or N r o r n ECLARA- ‘ 'r .1 0 N with his Fingerfind as it is likely fhewing {ome other of his Finger: afterwards to fignific that he wasa lain to him he pointed at , as the Finger: ofihis Hand which are brethren. For in that furious laattell that Bazjazet the Turkilh Em- perour waged againl’t the King of Hungarie, where there were many French-men, and the Count ofIVewrs, the Count of Ewe and March, and the valiant Marfhall Boucicmt , who the next day being brought before Bajazct fitting under a pavilion fpread for him in the field ; Bd- jazct having heard by his lnterpretour that the Count Net/er: , Em and Marc/2 , were neare kinfinen to the King of France , caufed them to be relerved, commanding they {hould fit on the ’ ’ “‘ ’ ground Tbe mtumfl Language oft!” Hami. ground at his feet , where'they wereinforced to behold the lamentable butcherie of their Nobili- ty- The valiant Marfhall Bomz‘mut in his tome was produced ;he who was wifeiaud particularly infpired by God in this extremitymade a figne with his Fifigfl" before Eajazet, Who underl’tood not his languagegas if‘he would declare himfelfe the kinfman oi'the Count of Net/arms; ho behelcl him with an eye {0 pitifull, that it was of power to rent rocky hearts : Bv’ijrflz.‘t being perfwaried byrhis {igne that he Was 02 the bloud Royall, cauled him to he fer apart, to remaine a prifoner , where he afterwards by his great prudence en- deavmired the liberty oi? thoie noble Gentlemen and his oWne. q Sometimes this Fifig’t’f! [i521 {lands for an fibrsshz GE 1:351:22). And it Was the Cuflome of the Romans in the meetings of di- vers Wales to ereé’c a flame of Mercurie with the Fore-finger pointing out the maioe road, in imi- tation whereoi, in. this Kingdome we have in {uch places notes ofdireetion ; l'ueh is the Hand of St. swam. And the Btmani’imti’fie force of this Eager is inch, that we ufe to {Orewarne anti. rebuke children for pointing at. the Panacea ol- Princes asa kinée of petty treafon. The Roman p: march Hifiories afford us a notable example ofthe pra- in the M6 film? of this moving fiafsee‘ije efpiate m A4376”: ofcamii— Wanlim Capitolinm; for when he Was accuied lust for moving {edition , and his matter Came to Plfiading , the light ofthe C apitoll troubled his accufers much , for the very place it {elf e where Maxim: had repulfed the Gaules by night, and defended the Capitoll , was easily feet: from the Market—place Where the matter was a hearing; and he himfelfe P Q 1N T 1 no en T a H 1 s H N n N M g {brew earl :55 intrude. CHIROLQGIAzflt, themed the place unto the gods , and Weeping tenderly , he laid before them the remembrance (of the hazard of hislii’e in fighting For their fate. ty : This did move the Judges hearte to pity, {o as they knew not wha: to doe, neither could they ufe the {Werity of the Law upon him , be- caule the place of his notable good iervice was ever [till before. their eyes ; wherefore Cami/[m finding the caufe of delay ofjnltice I, (lid make the place ofjudgement to beremoved without; the City into a place called the Wood ‘Petelian, from Whence he could not {hew them the Ca; pttoll , and having deprived him of this advan- tage,he was condemned. fir Asit is a geltute ' of temmanb and Dircttmn , imnerions matters with a ftately kinde 0t arrogancie often uleit to their mania/l fervants Who {land ready expe- fling but the. fignall of their tommanns , when they callthemmot without a taunt, to. execute the tacit plealure ottheirlordly will; an exptef- fion {lowing into their Hand from the hautinelle 50f Initit, and an inlolem humourof oa‘éttmé‘a: ting: And the figne oftazihtt is the greater when men affifi to have their mindes thus dilcried, ' and} u others to gue‘le at their meaning by what 'heir talking (linger: exhibit,a.s if their high railed {pints difdained to difcend fo low as to explaine their minds in words, but thought it . non rhen enough to figne out their intent with their Fingers“, ‘ Tmmm “g HE HOLDING up on THE FORE-Fm- GE R , is a geftute of thgeamhtg and uphzai: GALVIE. Blilgddence this Finger is calledtminax] or [7715‘ totem] by the Latines, qmd 6’0 [:mima iujerimut] T176 gamma Language oftbe Hand. @472 [exprobmndfl mimflr- The force of“ this Finger in Deeauumlesg flyzeatnmgs when It is bmndifhed in Way dogma: , Seneca acknowa Seneca do ledgcm, where he faith the: of old in children , Conflamb Salem! ciere lac/yrjmm * digttomm motm. Hence alfo learcb borrowed his of MM a; ”gammy mam, dc ca qm' [alteri terrorem d6fiflfl€idLJ To tfiis may be referred the relation of a worthy and right elegant Country-man of ours in hiSSinHm, voyage into the Lemme, who beingin the. me, Blomin Rhodes , and one morning prying up and down, his voyage a Turke met him , and illzeatmng him for an m the Le’ - Englifh man aod a {pie , with a kinde of mam... m" ons pofiurefiuymg hls Foeringer under his eyes he feemed to have the looke ofa defigne, * if 57 THE FOR E-F 1:5: (3 E R K1 5 s; E D in the natué Venegatg‘ rall greetings of. the “and, hath been ever one. [limo tooke for a :a‘eolenmfell falufafiemand is uled Gefius by thofe who ataazcfimzfino, give mom, banks, V111- ora {aim refoee Hence Called, 'Dig‘itm W49?“ tank] ml [falammfim] becaufe thig finger as defigoed by ngeul'e to that office of l'ézfmaie, hath beenthought mall convenientro performe the ceremony oFa {aluiméom Alld [cl/[clam] {faith Seid’en learned Semen) hath its derivation from this ge- T ”1-0? .fiure , quad dd om five a: a’égimm [/alutaremfl Emmi?“ And the Hebrewes ufe the phrafe 0% this gefiure for mi'szratigyg. As concerning; the fignification oftbankes implied by this gefiure , Sir meéf pm. via Bacon covertly acknowledgeth where he feignes mhm m a mall; proper and fignificmt exprefiioo of the hfs “6“! people of Benlalemfiho lift tl‘ze‘irlfiigb‘t Handco— Adam‘s“ wards heaven, and draw it l'bfily m their mouth; whichisthe gefiure they me when they Woke God. M 2;. To a -uI—JEE '9' "£53 UHIRdLOGLHOi‘Q" Silentium‘ HE LAY INC; 01“ THE FORWFINGER up.‘ 52,1de 0N TH; mum, is their habit whe would fiefi-IX- exprefle their iterate , minimum , mama; igm: ranttsttwreme, {emits {tars} gateway, a renal: him; manitatinu , eatttératéun and. amagzment. After which manner alft) we tram: and pmméfé {scream To thefignificmonéof {Edema apper- taines the proverbiali phrafc taken from this ' gefiure, "3 {Digitum ori- impomre Pro [filem J . Whence the Poet , ' ”Digita compefce [Alba/lam. Hence the five {pies of Dam unto the Priefl of 9’ Weba, 1931:: my peace , LAY TH :NE HAND paring up 0 N TH Y M on r H . Hence alfo the coyners of Hicrogiy. the Hieroglyphiques introduce this gefiure to 1'37- note ’Eflffifiturifltfl. '- we the fignification of tun‘otmun m a mahzfi ignngame, belongs that flaws” of the [cane of Syrac‘b, If thou haPt underPcan- flucus 5.! 2 (£ng anfwer thy neighbour, if not, LA Y TH I N E HA N 1) o N :T HY M our H. fl. To the figmifica- tiomaf aami‘raé‘iaz‘t ans! attrawzmnt appertaines 3'0!) gt! so that of. 7cé , Marke me, and be: fi§%i}n§§h2D, and ' LAY yosm HANDuPoN YOlARMrHJT’l. And Apul. Mfi to £115 more at aimifiuion that 0f xii/2251mm may magi,“ be reg-c: red , .d'r i/Ze * digital” 52 pn/[ice proximum ' ' ori ma aquwm, (jv [influporem attomitm] Tam, 77m inqm‘t. q; This geiture of the Index 13 like- wxieimpertam in cram-t9: 371mm. For after this for: was the effigies of Harpocmter, framed 3.- .” mung the Egyptians , as a maximum of 5118ng And the Ancients were wont to weave in their ’ Mimic in rlln‘gs the {eale of Hatrpacmmfor this caufe (faith Ms Nat. lez'e) that they might restate flame and {was Hut; {393 of the bufinefic in H4335?" Him mid: Harper mama judges 18 i : Wmnuggeo the Han. ‘ r159 cratemidefl [tam] Hence Alder took his Em- Alciat: ‘ blame. Embl. 1!. Gym tacit imm’quicngm difiért fizpiemiém amem, flyltitia: efl index lingmg; 71mg; flue. Ergo at Premet laéiw, digitoqm [/flmtia fimdetfl (jffifi T/mrium wm‘t iia Harp-aeratem. In this pofiure the image of Tim: Livia: of Pa- Pierim dua Was placed over the. doore of'the Pretoria?” HW’SL of that City, for that he had comprifed fo much '36“ in his writings that he ieemed to have meow (ED flame to all other Writers. Hence Martia- ‘nfl: Cape/[a , Vemm quidem redemitm puer ad “ a: Martian. ‘ emprqfo digitafalmagri‘ [filmtium commoneéat. ] CaPCHJ- ‘ And in aliufion to {$5 gefiureflvid : ' 0 'd a ‘, ~ ., *.. , .1 _ VIM»;- , (3&1ng pram: wcemg.~ dégaragf'o, Efilentmfimdetj tam.l.9. The ngyp tian Priefls , mu Brachmms , the Perfian Magi and the Frehafi Druides , and all the old Philofophers and Wife men , very poli— tickly caufed to mouldwgd pourtrait theirgods withtheir Fiaagerx upon-ibeirlipsgo teach men (their adorers ) mottobe too curious enquirers after their naturemr rafhly fable forth what ever they imagine of themdefl: that being difcovered, they {hould haVe been found in the end to have been but men , either worthy in their time for wane or peace , and after t‘i‘aeir death deifiedg Hemifcmié: reported to have come out of his moe Snida; thers wombe with this Fingemhe mug; of {flame ” V ” fixed upon his iipsjn the fame manner as the IE» gyptians feigne 0m: to have been borne , and. before him 5'01 ; whereupon becaufe this Finger clave to his mouth , it was (aim: to be removed by ineifion, and the fear remained alwayes in his lip , a eonipicuous {igne of Eds c1093 and myfii— @311 nemieyo Q} #5 eozgeeming the nice of 232%.. kg; gs? ‘ 57a CHIROLOGIA: gefiure to intimate me Imam fomeiubat, mm, newttbeletfe inc mill net utter: or this Way of pznmtfing fecmie when we are required , they are expreflions that many times occur in the a. fiions of common life. Redarguo HE 13on NC; DOWNE OF THE FORE-FIN-- Gefius X» cu: R F o n A checks of filgi‘ttfifind to renargue, is an action often found in the Hand: of men. This geflure if ob jeéted with a more frequent motitatienpbtaines the force of an ironicallex- preflion ; and. withthe Ancients it was called Ciconia or the Storkefivm the fame of a Storks perm“ bill pecking, which it feemes to imitate. That Satyr.x. darke Satyrift the ohfcure richnefle of whofe Ftile doth much depend upon fuch ad junéls of expreflion,alluding to this geflure : 0 fame, é terga qm’m nulla * Cicom'pz pie/it. Hieromt And St. Hieram whofe Workes are very (:urioui1 m Pref- ly garnifhed with fuch criticall obfervations, ve- ad Sopho- . mam. ry elegantly alludes to the fame expreflion, 72m fifcirmt Haldam 'w'rz}: tdcmtiém prophemfl? , mm- qmtm pofl tergum mama *‘ manum {name/dram in Ciconiam. The Greeks in this matter call it the Caufabon Crow, as Can/215m gathers out of Hqfiodfihus in- ”Pon par. terpretcd, Caz/e inqnit domum ‘11}:un Mperfifldm ‘ .I. . . . buyr m calm: tzéztmdatgdrmla Comm. COmPCuO HE LIPTINGUP AND ROWING OF THE Gel}, XI. INDEX TOWARDS THE FACE , isa nfuall gefiure of tnbitatiun as.,naturally fignificant to that intent, as the inWard waving of the whole Hand; and is a naturall Synechdoche efgelture, ; whereby we ufe a part for the Whole Hand: he that {ball {et himfelfe to obfetjve the manner:l ' an * magnum—412mW, *' (7:, and difcourfing gellures of men {hall foone finale this obfervation to be true and valid. THE RAISIN G u? AND BOWING THE Veto; FORE-FIN GER FROM us,isa gelturenatu- Gefi-Xlla {all to thole who heathen a retreat or Enable, and is a Synechdoche of gel’ture whereby We {igniti- cantly ule the Index for the Whole Hand Though ‘I‘annex no example of this gellure, yet the vali- dity thereof is not much the lefle; and when all ill done , fotnewhat mull be left to obfervation ; and if it bematter of overfi‘ght in the curfory réading over of fome l'liltories , then my Rea» der hath an opportunity to oblige me by a more happy invention and application; yet prudent omiflions have their places , and an univerfall forefialment ofa Readers fancie or memory, is one of the foure and twenty properties of a moyling Pedante ,, ’0 FEE. L WITH THE FINGERS END 5 , is Difiidem : their fcepricall expreflion who enactment ”MEMm to fattefiz themfelhee he infogmatlon of the Effie East, "in the qualitiee of a thing. A gelture that ' " proceeds from theinllzint‘t of nature , whereby We know our Hand to be the judge and difcer- ner ofthetouch, for although this touching verv- ‘etue or taflive quality be dittufed through the whole body within and without , as being the foundation of‘ the animal being , which may be called Animalim, yet the firll: and fecond quali— ties which {trike the fenfe, we doe more curionf— DEE?” 'ly and exquifitely feele in the Hand , then in the 21%;]; other parts, and more exaé’tly Where the Epr- it?” er immediate orgenof the outer mush is thin: i972 CHIROLOGIA:Or; thinnefi, but moi’t fubtily in the grape of the I”; dex, which being the only part of the body that hath temperamentam adpandm , is by good right chiefe Touch-warden to the King of the Eye {enfes. The fatisfafiion the Hand givgs the Alcifir mind? by this getture 3 made M/L‘iat (taking his , Embl. :6. hint from Plantar, who {gems to me to have cal- l , ex Pl mm led this exprcffion mmmm occulatamfio reprefent gum?" in Embleme the certainty of things by an eye in Brafm. a Hand. Hence mam: emulate the Adage; and Adage. verily we may well beleeve this occular tell or feeling eye of the Hand. Thomas ‘Dydz‘mm as ' ditfident as he was,received a palpable unseat, on by this way of filentinformation. Mollicié 1'0 5 camera THE HEAD WITH ONE FIN; Prodo- GL n , is a kinde of nice and ofl’emhtate ge- ' giflv‘“ flute, bewraying a data intlinatiuu to hire; 0b! ' ietved in many by cunning Motii’cs who have . found the way to p’rie into the manners of men. A geflure {o remarkable that it grew into an Ad- age,* iDigita mm ”1”” fcalpcrefiy a metonymie of the ad 1' unt‘t fignifying impatience 85 affaminaty. ”mull? taken by Critiques out of ?WZ/em7zl, who hath gi- $313,);ij were a Iatyricalllafli at this gel’cure. Pompey was i???- publtckly upbraided to his face with this note of afiemtnacy by (Indium the Tribune, asking aloud thefequefiions ; who is the licen'cioufeft Cap- taine in all the City .3 what man is he that {eeks ' fora man? what is he that scxarcn ETH HI: HEAD WITH ONE :FINGER? fomethat has had brought into the market-place for that put- pofe , like a company of dancers or fingers. , when he fpake and clapped his Hand: on his gowm, antwered him [trait aloud to ever y {gue' ' ' 10112 The autumn Language oft/as Hand. 17; Riot], that it was Tampa]. As concerning the phrafe of feehipg for a man, that Prince of the Senate of Crttrques, [ayes that he hath read in JOE“! ' an old manufcript of an Interpreter of Luca» ne- Seal? ‘ vet publifhed, thls diltich : Wag”: qmm mama»: homirzet,*dz:gito 64pm um [ca/Pit, quidcredm buncfiéi 22:11: .9 wimm. Waller mimfolmt vim»: qmcrere. Cicero alfo ob- {cured in [afar the fame genuine fafhion of his Plum h Hand, as appeares by the opinion he once had imhe LR, of (afar : when (faith he) I confider how fairly of szar. he combeth his fine bulk of haire , and how {moothit lyeth , and that Ifee him 5 c R. AT c H H15 HEAD WITH ONE FINGER ONLY , my minde gives me that fuch a kinde ofman, flmuld nothave lo wicked a thoughtin his Head , as to overthrow the Rate of the Common-wealth. By the way , Ircarmot but note, that two of the greatef’t Commanders Rome could ever boalt of, concurrents in time , and competitors for the Empire of the World, {hould be both branded with one and the feltedame note ofeifizmihatie. THE PuTTIN G FORTH o F TH E MIDDLE-Comici_ FINGER; THE RE ST DRAWN INTO A um facion Frs'r on each tide , whichis then called 1(1qu Gail-XV. by the Greeks , vulgarly Higa, in the ancient Pf“??? m“ Tonguepldgmr 5? 72123213318 a inaturall expreffion ofe “ flame and tentantet. This gefiure is called ‘ (“Wave bythe Athenians, idefl, Cimedm gt» ems, [cortuawfiuid prom“ adaaé/cwnittztcm (fie quadtirzfn- wiflmcmmtflc’tj C?” [conviciumfaceret] which is Well noted by that elegant Epigrammarift: Kiddo mar/mm qm' to S extile finch/um It: mial {Dag-writ; fl” * digitam Farr/{giro madman. “(Ralf-1W It!” . iii"; flue-.5, .- r‘ a.) - . 1-...“ , As Rami- I‘CZ “PO“. the place. Plan r. in Pfcudol. Martial Epigram. Pcrteus Satyr.1. Eup‘mr. Saryn x. Idem lib. wdem, Cxlius. vjuvena! Satyr. CHIROLOanOr; Id (If, [i to Sextile Cyma’um womwret , it: made”; contumcliam ez' abjicefié" raw/16f ffiélato media digi- to, rpm mm Cymdi 21?, mm [Elam enim ad [fin/[0. mm] fed ctiam ad [infamiam (j' maliicicm alicujm denomndum valenl: To which that oflem: ma be refei‘red : - In 1mm: *intcnde digimm hi0 [ma q/h . Hence alfo Martial calls this Finger , ‘Dig‘imm; [impudiwm] ' ‘ * Oflcndit dig‘imm [ea’Cimpudimm] Deride: quaéfltr 6v [impudiwml * ()flendI/"s digitnm mi/ai mimmi .? ‘J’erfem Calls it [infamztmj . Infami digftgw With Acrozz and Torpbyrim it is [fémofim] Em: phormio Calls it [imprabum] E: bio quidem‘k in.- tendcbat imprabflm reclufie dignam dextm; defcri— ‘ bing the pofiure of Btnznbga‘imn in fome images.- In another place the Epethire isflagitiofiu, Ca1- lion [fiagitio/b] digito fupcrz'orcm explimm 54r- l'am. With Tlazzztu: it is [rmmm pad/aria] 1:2 pal? pandéx tentafldifg; palliaszfc. ( as Tumeém thinks.) [Pemlam] and [Zafciwm] by others. Hence ' With the Athsnians,_mua ,. (at; zdefl" Mimaliflhfl :fi pmtenmre digito fiéi qucmquam [float fawn] qflma’unt;mm etfi proprie gm“): fit cum digita perr- twtmm: ecquidgal/inam 07m canceperit, ta‘mm wr- 50 eodem utommr cum protcnfum [contumeliofé]*o- ' flendurzt medium digimm , concerning whicn ex- preffion fummtl .- --» Camfarmm fpfl mimci’ Mdndaret laquemn "‘ medinmg offender“ ungum , mm * media digito aliquicfmzanflmre prr [ignmmi— gm] fieéat, ab aim [infamiam] as Lubinm upon Kb: ghee. This pointing out with the Finger m ,aer/ The Mum” Language aftbe Hand. in way ofmathert’e, Tcrmlliw calls aligito ale/Ham— Tertul. cle fl, That the nattmg motion of this Finger Paulo M- moves an apprehenfion of what we intend,may plainly be gathered out of the Prophefie of the , Prophet Mam/1 ,. where he faith, If thou take a— Ifaiah 58.‘ ‘ way from the midlt of thee the yoke , the P or- 9- , TING FORT 1:3 o F THE FIN GEmand evillfpea- king; which by the molt of Expofitors is con: 'ceived to be meant ot‘this very gefiureglthough 5.“ Ea“ Divines have varioufly delcanted upon the fifiifigfila‘ place. In this fenfe alfo that of the Wife man Salomon may be underflood , The wicked man fpeaketh Prov.6tlg with his Finger, that is , his Finger by gefiures and figns {peaks (toffee. As Doflor fermin in his paraphrafiicall comment upon the place. Lam- Lampti- pridim {peaking of the notorious en’eminatte 1 “f. ‘“ andluxutious intpubegitie of that {ottiflt Empe- 5:1 goga‘ roar Heliogaénlm among other expreflions of his ' Corrupted minde reports him to have ufed this , . Ne: mim magma?» who papercit infamiém, mm C5“ *digz'tis [impndicitiazm] oflcnmret, am ulfm in can- 'vmm, (9* omdimre papa/0 eget‘pudar. Thus [Elli- ' gala was wont to float and Emma Caflm C berm inciting“ Tribune of the Praetorian cohort in molt 'npp28= 3‘ 1"“ 3” intone tearmes as a manta?! and ei‘feminate per- fon. And one while when he came unto him ,’ for a Watch-word to give him Trial)”: or Venus; another while if upon any oceafion be rendered. thankes,to reach out unto him his Handmot only faflaionedbut wagging alfo after an oblcene and filthy manner. Qfaflz’m a right valiant man , and one that diftaited the corrupted manners of t‘hofe times, toohe this renteath of efietninntte {o nlat Cell'igTfl/fi’j Hand , that he bore him a parti- Eniar gz‘unigefor this very canfe, and WeSthe man 176 CHIROLOGIAJOr; man that confpiring with Cornelia: Saéinm his fellow Tribune,deprived him of life and Empire. Thus Widgenw‘ when certain {hangers in a great aflembly were very inquifitive to know which Laert. in was Demo/Homes, Diogenes in verifier: PUT TIN G ‘ Diogen. FORTE—1TH} 3 PIN GER infiead of the Index, pointed him out and {hewed him unto them, co- vertly thereby noting the impatient nature and a cffeminatée of the man. And it may be the em Gm 37° vie and defpite of fa epb: hrethren tOWards him “ 9‘ fhewed it felfe in the contumelious gefiute of . this Finger, which pointed out unto him their tournament of him when he was aim of, and ma- king towards them, when they {aid one unto a- nother, Behold this dreamer commeth 1 (a. Cirmm- ' ‘0 CQMPRES SE THE MIDD Lfi-FINGEK gig” WITH THE TnuMBE BY THEIR COM-, XVI. PLOSION PRODUCING A SOUND AND sot CA ST IN G our ouR HAND, is a g flute we ufe to fignifie our mntempt at uttmufifahie thingefic ' to thew by gefiure how we fieighhtnntetnnefim fulf, and unberhalne any thing. T his K N A c x- I N G with the Finger: was cailed by the ancient Romans * Crepitm,or Perm/fin digitamm. Hence that illufirious Poet expounding the fenfe of this expreffion makes mention ofthe Thumb, which he therefore calls argumm , id eff , re/ommm, whole. verfes very clean: for this bufinefle tun thus : ‘ [um pa new: [cram mediajam no fie match”: _ "' Mrgmo madidzz: paw/[276: ‘Pa- «rams. A’rguw pct/[ice , that is, as he him i: in another , *trgemn place * envisim digitamm. And fProfertim to thfl' ' new yttrpnfe', ‘ Martial Epigram, ”D“ be natural? Laflguzzge 01%: Hazard? r L A: #715, 7 55' 99011502525: fiagilcs incrcpuere 92mm , ~ The pofiure of the fame expreflion prepared to? {create a found ; Thefiamo of Rome at Tharfi's which Plume]: {peaks of ’to. have been made for Plumfi yardanafalé: after 1118 death ,! and fer, over his "1 morals: . grave,dxd fignificamly retain‘35which flame Was formed dancing gfter the Barbarian falhi‘onand in A 0 K1 N G 3 It We“: with his Finger: over], his 2| min 1'5 a; . head like an Antickc : the inlcription Wag/19m. d}: éxped: (napalm the {on OfAMcyhdémxa built flncbid: Meg, ' Ia: and Tarfw in one day, but thouxmy’ ricndé ' ‘ Eat, drinks the wanton Leacher Blay,’ For nothing elfcis ougth fay: _ ., ‘ ‘ fignifying the unflgrhaluing found predated by ‘ inch 3 K NA C KIN Cw 6f the Finger:, ede,éiéc (5'60 Mm “mm 0mm}: [ant 1771'”: fonitm gyms £97726ch may: folet, as Mtkgmm hath it. , T0 in: Np TH E, moon-FIN GE R WHItB irOSESnfi, nsn I“: L? R E 31' E TH’UPO‘N Tr; BTHuMfi,-g:1é%:‘ 1ND so IN IE STING—WISE _TO LET IT 0 25 F. XML is a trivial! eXpreflion whereby we with a. F t I; - (in p‘ inflié’c a trifling punimmwt , of a [with This 1‘: ILL : 1’ with the‘ Finger. or naileg fome thinke is f0 called éifona fifiitio, qui cuMTalitmml aliaui impingimr, damr 5 and Talitmm italicize , . {If :m'm ludi ’ em intefpmror gm} par pnri rcfi'rmrs “0° ‘Wl rewr'vifigiti impreflfo , ukdeforte mafia? dem- mimztia Latina was 9% tale , roam/win digitomm: gum emulamr, “MANN: Grmfi.» That this ge— flure Was Called Talitrum by the 'antient_Latine§ appears by Smtani'm, who {peaking of Tiéeriuf, : {andrhe native vigour'of his left Hand, Ammo Suemm éfafirggkffiitg m up” 1mm ml aria!!! adak/bmz? Txb.cré«3~ ' " ' . 22a“ Mix-7e; CarnooooiAEOn ? Czlius. Talitro winemret. 'Sometimesthey were {aid —...:.H. «fi'--‘—Ll fiimalifl'arc who in mockery ufed this gel’ture. A kinde ofptmtfhment we ufually inflié’t upon unc _; f Petron happy wags. Hence that of ‘Petronim , .Egodu. Arbé Satyr mute “lime iramndia,mn continui manumfed caput mfemntisflriaa matey; articulo Permjfl. Term/’- fit «at novJL'Aw‘Pt’teri Gimme “put. This {lighting exprefiion o the Finger: gives fuch a flu): of hit: grateif ufed to men , that it hath been thought {Mb 3. Uifparagement as Wounded a tender repu- Sir Franz tation. Sir Francis Bacon in his chargein the cis Bacon Star-Chamber touching Duells, being then His 3'14““ Majelties Atturney Generall , informes again& ”’32:- the hot fpirited Gallants of thofe times, who ' Ins. pretended a defet‘t in our Law that it hath pro- + _.., 47.: . -. « ‘ v' . A 3““ r 4 a. ‘vided no remedy for 1: I L LI P s. A Grange thing * that every touch or light blow of the perfon ,~ ‘ ( though they are not in themfelve sconfiderable {ave that they have got upon them the ltampe of a Difgt‘ateg {hould make thefe light things palfe . for {uch great matters. The Law of England, ' ‘ and all Laws hold thefe degrees of injury to the , perfon, flanher, battery, maimmnd heath ; but for the apprehenfion of Migrate, that a r I LLI I" to the perfon {hould be a mortall wound to the reputation,he faith it were good that men would hearken to the faying of ganfal’w the great and famous Commander , that was wont to lay , 3 Gentlemans honor fliould be de told craflim of a good firong warpe or web that every little thing - ihould not catch intit,when as now it feems they ‘ arebut of copweb-lawne , or fuch light fluffc a “mid! certainly is weaknefl'e and not true great- nefTe of minde, but like a {icke mans body , that is [0 gender that it feels every thing. TO m u TO na 1:: KEN WITH T HE E 21125me (,5 this COflE‘itfié their ufuall conciie expreffio’n; who are ad? WK"c vanced byeonfidence to relie upon the fittingth 30:13:03. of their abtllty ’3 and would by ‘a prqvoking fig— XVIIE} ‘ nall Date. theta-age, Defig , and bin ans New? to; an entnunter, implying a fitting paefumptian of the hittozy, as if they efieemed him as nething 4 . in their Hand. To this expreflion Horace alludes, Henge" 4 (rijfinu': * mim'mo m: [Provocatg accipefl mg; 1:1.3etm.a§ Accipejam tabular—7 ' O mun m 1; LE FT HAND THE mun ex: Awri‘ié‘fi . fi_ ptodo. CLUT c H ED 1N W1 TH A EL, 18 the hold-talk Gcfius geflure oftenattoue aharttc , hand fignificant to XIX; difcover the mifcrable and penutihueeo‘nclition - of a clofe-fifted niggard , a parcell of the Chara-e ficrof an old pinch-penny. This catching and remained geflure, is an eitprefiiorhotten teen in the Handsbfpennynfithers, and men ofa terene ‘ ‘complexionsand is‘parallel t‘othe Thumbe under . the girdle. The Egyptian Mythologifis who 1’13““; were very quaint in their eccult devices ,‘1 “:03 ‘ Lifedtfo paint out Sharia by this pollute of the ‘3 ' left hand : And they thallegorically interpret Am“??? dreames make this hand the {vmboll (if lucreg 9”“ dc,» . . ‘ ~ , fiomit. new ‘ ptofit, game and mcreafe, as the hand more fit- my“ ' ting to rctaine : for though it want the diligence and infinuating labour peculiar t0 the Right Hand, and hath ndt the faculty to {erape and get byfuchdexter‘ious endeavours,~ notwithlta nding being more dull andfluggiflmhe retentive appe-z me thereof is thereby increafed , and it is the Wars maxime , and as it were the fignet on his Wretehed hand a ' ' w \ N 3 i L Nu? . The nettlmfl Languagé M5? 471 d ' ', ‘ «flang. , ...... > _ fl \ ' 4 . ~'\ «A '380 CHIROLoe‘IA':Ot,‘ Nan minor of]!- 725nm qmm quererc pat-m uteri. Solm'JS This hand 'by the grave tefiimony of Solinm, 353;”. which Camemrim alIo afiirmes,to doe any thing ms m is lefl‘e agile; but to beare burdens, and to com- HOLSQC. prehend any thing firongly is more fit ; for Judges 5- 74:! tooke the hammer in her Right Hand, but temples of-Sijérmand the three hundred Souldiers Judges 7. ofGedeon held their lamps in their left handsgand Marius in the-trumpets in their Right Hand, which M475“ B151, hath drawne into an allegorie of other {ignifis cations. (Mafia 0 GIVE om: ARAP \VITH THE FIN- 33:23? GERSHALF BENT,ORKNUCKLES,lStlJCir Gm, XX expref-lion who would vent their height anger or Diflihe upon others; or would foftly and mu: sztlp knocke at tome doore. This poliure of the Hand was called by the Ancients Condylm, SciIiCct digiti articular, an: nodm in curvimm qua . . Hand thus compoied, hath from antiquity retai- C‘Ehus ned the name of Candyl; this the Greeks call left ' ’xotJ‘miém. We read of aboy who attended at the banquet of vfnm flaine by Hercule: with a firoake of' his fondfl, called c/{rciaiaa as Hedwi- cm writes, other Eunomim , the {onne of Archi- the mile in her left,which {he {more through the , digitiifieflimr. The firoakeinflifted with the ‘ tales, but in‘Pkoranin’a; 2. he is named Charity, t who dyed of that blow in Calydon , although Hercule: intended not his death,but ch aftifemenh The Greeks alfo write that The’rfite: was {laine by the fond)!“ of Achiller,'becauie he had [truc- hen out the eye of Tenthifilm flame by him With his fpeare. This gef’ture is fometimes ufed by thofe who would fignifis the? “fire“lmifi ' The mmmfl Language nfiffle” i let in at a sze, and in this (cafe it was mommy ‘ ufed by Bagoa the Eunuch at the tent doore of Holoferm: his mafia-r, whom he {uppofed to have flcpt with fun/My. ‘Dorlmm upon Tacit»: faith, he did flaw/1W f4“?! Win55”! to awaken his ma- fier, but it is moft likely he ufcd the found of this cfiute as a manned}; matthmugn to intimate his ' attennante without , and a native to come in mm [peakeinitb him ; an expreflion that hath been ever ufcd by fuch ’who came to failure or fpeake 185? D0“ ‘ With great perfons in a rimming,- to intimate :SEEE; their mount and obtequtouz attennance , which ’ they feemed by thatlow knock to native their patrens to take notice of. Judith Lg: ' TO Pur THE FINGERS INTO A GRi’PE on mm {me CLAW-LIKE AS PE CT, and to s CRATCH or ”mm” 1 . . , _ ' pro to. cuw another therethh , IS the mtpntent Geiius cxpreflion ofa tutfli heart that eager-112 Defiree to XXI. feta matke of its Difpleat‘ure upon there that babepzoboken it tea fplenitiqut are of its paint: ms; But this is no manly eaneflion of the Hahd,‘as more properly appertaining to children and Vixens, who are prone upon any provocati- ‘on to ‘Wreak their Definite? upon others with the talons oftheit innignatiom Fury that hath fumi- {h'ed all men with weaponsJeft the. tongue &the nail to the impotent part of humanity,tv00 vene~ mons‘weapons; and apt to 'wra‘nckle where they faflen. And it We fee this naiie-rubricke in the face Of any , We are apt to infer that it is. the “lathe 30f fOme fuchimpotent creature. g - Stnititix ’O PRE SENT THE Inns x AND FARE- 23mm ”'3‘“ " EING,ERWAGGING , WITH 1; HR THnMIt (item, N: 3:. A: with igletfieus $atyr.4. Erafm‘. fid’sg. uninonoc‘utOt’i am: I) unto THE TEMP LE s,istheirexpre{§i.; on who‘would {cornlully teprovc any for failing in any eXercife of Wit,or for (game abfurd {tumble ' pf a tripping and inconfideratelip , or for fame errour in manners and behaviour; : Eonthis molt ridiculous affront implies inch men to be £395. The realon is, for that man only by natures pro; vident donation hath received cares fixt and ime ‘ gnoveable, whereas that which appears molt tnoveable and flirting in that dull lanimall is his cares; and the WAGGING OF r at Fina» on RS goesfor the WAG Q1 NC on rm; anus , Which cannot be done otherWife by teafon of this naturall prohibition. Perfem alludes to this ironicall fignification oftlie F ingerx, ' ' i ' Ma 71mm mrimlm {minim eff maéilk a111,“. Hence Manama addcre the Adage, a metaphor ta- . ken from this gefiure. The fame geltuteif yon take awtay the mation , is uled in Out nimble- fingered times to call one Cuckold,& to prefent ‘ the badge of 'Cuckoldry,that mentall and imagi- nary horn5feeming to cry,O man of happy note, ‘ whom fortune meaning highly to promotefiath flucke on thy Foreehead the earnel’c-penny "of ' futcce‘edingt good hicks; all which upbra'idingn tearmes many undetfiand by thié efiutcaoflly L of the finger: ; for in thisfenfe the gommOll >‘ Rife hath madeit the known fignall of difgaragev inent , f0 naturally apt ate the Finger; toilpeake ice'ffcs : For], lacivfiiou‘s difdaine inagked byfcot'n ‘ under the difguife'of alfaeetious wit; outcfm " itching dyifpofition hath been ever 'vety prone to tieyife and happen upon Waits to vent be: con- ‘Efimd bitternfiifi‘, it being the guifelofoycmec- ping wit to defpife and undervalue othm ‘ ' ‘ , " ' " ' Hence ,4, /w The nature” Language ofthe Hand. Hence comes your fcorntull frumpe and drie {cog}, keen j eers that wit hath turned up trump, wherein the dealer rubbeth with a gibe, making ‘ another his laughing llocke; which cunning am? is received into Rhetoricke , and called an Ironie,a Trope , which gives a man leave clofely to carpe‘ at the manners ofmen,wherein what which iseexprelied by Words, the contrary is|fhewn_‘by the gefiuremay we may make a wiry board Without the helpe and concurrence of an unhappy word,and your broad verball felt is no:- thing neare {o 'piQuant as their: foule habits of reproach by gefiure,which broch men as it were with a {pit , and having once entred into the quicke like {hairs with barbed heads a longtime gaule with a flicking mifchiefe : and to this feat of mockery the Finger: have been proclive to ialhion out contempt , provoked forward by a 'naturall’dicacity. ‘ O LOCKE rm; Tnume BETW'ENF TH E Improbi- NEX r rwo F1 N G F. R s , is an imttitall vulga‘ farcm ob- tifme of the Hand ufed by Plcbeians when they 1’qu- are contumelioufly promked thereunto, and fee $333; thatthey cannot prevaile by vieing words, their ’ fpleene appealing to their Finger: for aid, who thus armed for a dumbe retmt, by this taunting gefiure feem to lay abattt. This pofition of the Finger: with the Ancients was called Him, and the modetne Spaniards by objet‘ting the H‘g’idrtamirtz formed to this repgoathfttll expreflion , imply as “pan Mart tnuch as if they fliould fay pedimvi t: , with us it IS ufeally their garbe who. maize little children. 5 Ne ' Te) Gefl. gin-tare}: fiEOthW. Numero @132 {has : HZ J21. Cam on can: Or; 0 GIVE VV’IT‘H “rwo FINCE R 3', i9}; e partimonious expreflion: of the “Hand 05; ten feen in clutch-19]}: niggardx, and pinch-penniei; from Whofé gefiute the Adag‘e came; .‘Dzreton: ‘qtrafifa mama, id efi E para (in fi-igide aliqm‘d 4m. ] Home the spa‘niards in the: prOpriety of theiz‘ ' frongue, expreffe comtuufnzuie by aflam Hand, ind bounty ‘ by a long and large H4764. ) T'hefe‘ phrafes do often occur in Guzman, which I take for a. {obtile‘contexture of'th'e proverbiall riches End gravity of the Spanifh Tongue. : Salomon ‘- diflikesrhis gefiure, where’he faith, Let with} Band be open to take, and ole/fed when thouféaulde/f ~ gi'végAnd Armxer‘xe: the (on oerrgmgwho was firhzmed Long Hand, becaufe he’had one Ham! ’ filonger then another, was Wont to fly, that as'ei ' Thins: ;( who was Gods image upon earth) h: fihad a Handto gibo , tovwit, a rig/a; Hand very glyng; th‘é other to with-hold and'take aWay , to gwu, "a left Hmm', contraéted and very fhort; ad~ V _ ding 'thét it Was a more Princély and Royal @topertygtdgibes theoto take awaya > ~' TO BE GINWITH THE FIRST FINGER 01; THE LEFT HAND , AND To T'E LL 0N TO THE LAST EINGER 02: THE RIGHT , is the fiatdrall ahd {imple way of nambgtzzg & campus; iafiflmforall‘tiian ufe to count forwards till they {come to that mimbEr of their Fingers, and being Come to that‘nfimber ," prompted as it'Were by nature to‘ retumo at this bound or But of {111me ficfill‘imm’enfity,‘ (about which all' numbers are yefiefl’ed‘ahd driven‘round;) they repeat againe flier fame numbers returning unto unity from W; . ‘ » WWW L, i 4”,, ,W , The natumfl Language eftbe Hand; whence their account began; which we mufl: hot account as an accident,but a thing propaga; fed from the fountaine ofnature , time it is ever done and that by all Nations. For the Fig; m by an ordinance of nature,and the unrepcai- able [iatute of the great Arithmetician,werc ap-i aimed to ferve for cafiing counters, as quiéke and native digits, aiWaies ready at Hayden :3me us in our computations. ‘ Hence fome have cald led man a naturall Arithmetician ', and the only) creature that could reckon and underftand the“ ‘ mifiique laws of numbers, becaufc he alone hath teafon, Which is the {pring of arithmetical! ace Count ; nay that divine Philofoph‘er doth draw the line ot’mans nnderi’canding from this com u- Plato; ting faculty of his foule, atfirming that there are he excells all creatures in wifdome,’ becaufe he can account:and indeed not the leai’t of the more {ubtill part of reafon doth depend upon this Ac rithmeticall infufed quality. Hence‘we account fuch for idiots and halte-Iouid menwho cannot tell tothe native number of their Huger». And if we count the dole of'natnte , and’thofenunih bersrhat were borne with us and anti up in out Hand from our mothers Wombe, by- Himth made all things in number,weight & meafure,we fliail'findc that there are five Finger: ranged up— on either Hand, which quinary confiruétion of the Finger: , as” being ofa myi’cicailperfefii‘on is , mnch canvafed by the Pythagoran Philofophers‘, Piutarcit and calledtmarriagefiecaufe it is aucotnpound'of M9rals the firf’t numetaii male and female; it is alfo fitly tearmed nature ,' becaufe being multiplied it den termins and rebounds upon it feifefior five times . tfi‘fe makes twemy five,and multipiied,3 by an old “ _ ’ " v ‘ V number 186. CHIROLoousor, number it {till reprefenteth it {elfe,for if you take five unto five by doubling the Cinque you make the Decade ; and there is in it a naturall venue or. faculty to:divide,as appeares in the Finger: of eachrHamd , {0 that nature feems to have ‘tooke more delight to order and compofe things ac- cordingto the number of five , then to Fall upon any other forme thatmight have proved {pheri- . Plume“ Call. Hence Tlnmrcb obferves that the Anci- in moral. ent-s were .wontto ufe the verbe pampafefibai when they would fignifie to number or to reckon. And the Wamphian Priefis in their Hierogly- phiques,by-a H4214, the Finger: fetupright, ufed to figure out Arithm eticke; Great is the perfe- flion of the totall {umme of "our Fingerxfor Ten isrthe fount and. head of all numbers , for this is compounded of I . 2. g; and 4. which united , fumme up Ten; the molt compleat of numbers , as poflefi of the formesiofnallthe ot-hers,for both the eaven and odde, the‘fqua're, cubique, plainc, the linear, the monade, and compound,with all ”the rcft , are comprifed in the Decade; which therefore Pythagoras the Sarnian , who was thought to be the firfi: Author of the name Phi- lofophie, as Harare!) affirmes,concludes the De- narie to be the molt abfolute perfection of num-_ bers, becaufe as the Poet faith we have , Ovid}. i.‘ ;- v—Tot digits: per qua: [unmarried/01mm. Fallorum- Hadrian: funim by an elegant and neat difcrip- tion,feems to allude to the intention of nature in de‘yifing the Hand {0 fit for all accounts , that it may ferv‘e for a counting table ; Hadrian . Parrigar in memo: quince, (é'qxiliéet [90mm Jun.‘ in Didimr in triplice: ”odor, uifi qm'nm: (gent JEWSWE , gym, 335/613: rcfiondcf rage)“; flffigflif I ..- W159}. ‘——..... WT’EETMffirau I ”gang: Uj‘raf‘tm:-~ “ ‘vndz'é, coliguliaf [37110, in vnflxmg; reflde M]? A6405 drfitfiforfiflgo maniafrcflh' .a/Ilmcm being a counnng-gagle . fuch as Aritfifi meticians ufeg " < ‘ ‘ 1.,~ $913 ggégégé aggg gfifi gagwaw An Index tothc following Al 3 Phabet of natural! Gcfi‘turcs of ' the F I N G E R 3. Which Gcfiurcs, bcfidcs their typicall figui— ' fiCations, are {0 ordered to ferve for privy pyphers for any lecret mtimatiom gifié , A , B , c D - Figum mg: 31:: I GeflareJI Gq/MII GefiJV 64%. 5; 9:13. iv: Gefl. v11 Gefi. 1x 9%, I K L M X gefi- XI 64?. XII gejz. XIII“ 64;, N . 0 . P A Q ’ .2 $31311 Gefio XV 61% 'XVI 06%. XVII age. R , S- . - T V XVIII 9:12. XIX 64?. xx 64;, xxx 631%.; i W x ' Y ' z , xxx; 03/}, XXIII 04?. XXIV WAXXY Gefi: \ *_ ‘ . ‘.\\ I 7 : it; " t1!" 3 / g “ M \ §\\\ ./.L."\ " .rtro. (Lflmfzralzir‘r mfm n . P Canirmnq . § s? "//”/,,.m’ 35:: g ,, , , W0" TOflE’g/l‘imada . Vlmmt'mpa‘fcnte‘” ‘ ' M: a do X [my razitatcm air/info - ifififigeefigaefifie' igggefiéwéewfiaea ECOUrteous Reader,in fomc coa Pies thou [halt find thefe mifiakcs, ' hereafter mentioned, which I pray thee charitably to amend, or not to cenfurc. Age 3. line 18. for an read in, p.22.l.6’. mll good things, p.43.1.2o.the paragraph mum's ' (he belongs to the lafl: paragraph of that ge— ifimc in p.44. p.6 2.1. 26 r.R’abbin , p.76. 1.17. r. {sawmpq 3.1.r.manners,p.76.g4. leave out of, p. 33.1. 7. mix: , pi 90. in the margin r. Tit/charm “with a Capitall, p. 94.1.6 . r. turn/é, ibid.l. 30. r. "affeflion , ibid. 1.32. r. imprejfam, p.96 .1. 30. r. STRETC HED ,p.I12.1.33.r.dextramg:,,p.17.l.34~ rfhirathlipfia,p.14z.l.1s.r.inflituted,p.14;.l.l0. : r.coevality,p.1 49.1. I .rJamt, p.1 61.1. I 6.r.1 coo. ‘ p.167.1.19. ntbankfi, ibid .p.l.14.malicious,p.17. and 64;. a marginall quotation {uperfiuousg .u, . As. . ¥ . y w .w.., «,JniWYHiJNuWH , .// /,/Z N H" WHHIHIIR MW \ 1 l ‘ W \ // I, .f I .////////////////;V izke »::\\” ., CHIRONOMIAQ' The Art of ¥ Manuall .. Rhccogique: ’ WITH THE ACanons, Lawes, Rites, Ofdia nanccs, and Infiimtes of R H E T o- A 7 R I c 1 A N 5, both Ancient and 4 Modcmc, Touching the artificiall managigg of the H A NJ.) in Speaking. thrcby the Natural! G n s r HR 11 s of the ‘ ‘1 H AN ‘D, are made the Regulated Ac: ceffories or faireefpoken Adjunfis of Ramon: CALL Utterance. V‘T"<. .41” A With TTP 33', or 6 H111 0:0 RAMS .« 111 new iliuflmtian‘ of that Argitmmt. : By f B. Philochirofophixs. Ratio 6’]? Want“ 'Intclz’eflm ; Ratiofiij OMIia ; ‘ 0mm»: M47131. 8 Cal. I. O N D O N: Prmted by Tim. Harper , anc! are to be fold by Richard Wi’fiimker, at his {hop 1n Pauls ghurchayardi 1 6 A @- '1‘. -—2‘.p'=i‘+ mm» _ ”figs?“ , ’ , T (5 Hrs HONOVRED FRIEND WILLIAM DICONSON ESQplIRE. S FR 5 “if 7 ’ FterIx 1136 (mm we‘ll ‘ relifhed‘ the {Weew ngfié of your tons eration ; having calcfilatecf your temper and difpofition“ according to the meridian of Friendflnp, 3 {Gone propofac} you to my {6ch as an Idea and patterns 9f all Humanicy.Thf§ 3&5: W - /. at, ; '$—~ m::_\\»;‘1§tri ‘ « a _ >\\__.3_ - 7 ’0‘ r H _ .‘ due “(Ago-Q apprehenfion I have of your virtuesgis f0 deeply fetled in my underflanding, that I finde it“ difficult to tref’traine afieétion from dilating upon this Argu‘ ment, even toa Panegyrique i 'Yet Iconfeffe I doe not more, truly honour and revere you ' under any one notion, as Idoe in that relation you fiand into my worthy Friend'yourSon, , a relation which you have ‘ made more reverend and ami ‘ ' able,by the Felicity of your com. portment.‘ There, Nature and Education a! e in their Zeniths. Th-isis the [ta/am of worldly Beatitudes, when by a recipro— * tall invention3Without the 09114 1 t, fufion fufion efdif’tance and proximia ty, reverence and affiétion‘; there refults by converfe, Idem Alter,(y* Alter Idem: were not: thisatruth that hath oft beene vifible to difcerning eyes, I might be thought a little to play the Poet, and this aflcrtion taken for an Allegory. Sir, the ., ‘congruity of this Arngth your Nature, in gaining upon the aficétions of men , hath made me pitch upon you as a compe’ tent Iudge and Patron: To you therefore I confecrate this Fruit of my Hand , as to one well read in the prudentiall Laws ofCiVill Converfation,and by confequence knowi mg, to "m an~ " A e . age , «w w» 77/ gwfirifi vgmw 717:7 ' 7:», \ \w age the Hand of Your Fntellcét and Reafon C your reafon and beech) to the bell advantage. 2a1d utterance of d1fcretion and honefly Be pleafed 111 returne ci- thefe exprefles of your afiea‘ (522011 and re; peé’cl have receio. wed from 37011 to accept of this 6emosnftrat1on of refpeét from 211111;, ' whofi- 3 you; faithful! friend to command; IQ.BULVVER" ‘ "0» HIS _ CHIRONOMIA ‘ He Had-of Nature piac’d the Eye and Bare ' 'As Parallels within Min‘erm’s {phearez Th’afi fer the Underfi‘and‘ings Optique line Above the common fenfe of“ Difeipline, By Thy life»! peaking Types, engraven by A keen beame borrow’d from Thy Mules eye.‘ ‘. The fpruccr Arts of Speech will grow more neat , And rich in utterance, by Thy conceit. , Dcmaflbwe: might here his gar-be refine", And Cicero out-36% his Catalina : Nay, in Thy Glalfes typicall Exprefl‘e‘, , Commanding Rbemz‘qzae may mend her dreffe. Th’afl drawn all bookes dc 0ratare,dry : And Paljckranicam but few will buy, . While they may have Thy Handto draw and mend , All Aélion by, their Mindescan well intend. ‘ Alcide: Chaine is Thine by j'uft furprizie, Plac’d in Thy Hand) fix’d to the peoples eyes; Who may’ll with greater {way by thiermd: tongue The Wife c0mmand,then he his long-ear’d throng. ' S ingalarzk amicitiaa cage 9 Tue. Drcon sON,Mea’.Tam;l. Ar 4,?- 11 1'1 1 1 1 1‘ l 1 1. I ’1 D ‘E o 15 1 I119, 1 l . MW » IQ‘V‘Kkra 11% 1111111111 1111111211111, T 0 his loving friend the Jutbor, an HIS ~ C H 1 R O N a M I A. , _, ._ . (high! - V Hat dream la‘Pc mghtIhad' how {weetlhovg ~ And when I wak’d, how I defir d to die. ' If death fuch fleep had been: Mimrm .1 Phane ' Me thought wide open flew to entertaine . ‘ Thy faire UC/zironmie, which there ioflall’ 13 Was by Wit: Hand the new 11114211»; call’ 11. T he Graces Hand 111 Hand appear ’11 in figne :01 honour, acting With the Trxple Trine, u 1‘ I , The new perfwafiVe geflures of thy A11: 9 But when I faw T by aétive Mafé: p211 ' So well n: 1form d, I 1091 my rav1ih’ d fenfc, , Orecome by her [.14de filcn Eloquence. ~, ' . May this good Omen 111111: Thee luck, and force ' The Worlds dull eye to like Thy Hand: difcourfe, 9, ' : 111111111111: Honours on Thy Front that flick, , 9 f1 We count W1th theR1gh1 Hands Amhmetxque. 1.13:9 2", :7 ,7 7 WiLTVfirl’i '$%%%%%%%% ' Ad fummum GE‘STUUM Artificcm, e3: Cbiromyflm , in A eH-j RONO M 1AM: ‘ CV!» Vcncrémfitflfl “finddmmimrefikumm . . Omniq concinqko Membm (fear: nitent.‘ I . Omniaflntfima/a’, tamenfupemmur ab Vna; ' N 953 babuit Mimi 3941 gypbereg Mung»): Ad “ma-em: g , 0c flfltmémm‘ , fininr quad prodidit 01m ' - “Scaligctgbdfid poteritpulcbrior efle litter; ' [as *‘Pulcher qup-d mAJxap, ex fcnr‘e‘nfiaJulii ScaliggriJ ‘ _ . f" Ad-cund‘em, f A'Ltera. jam fgriturBellirCivz'lz‘lms 5594:; M g ; ‘ Lflxuria’tque nova. finguine trillz's humus :' if Tu We» in mto as, me terrimt boflz‘cm mflss 5 'quenditManuum Te humerafa MANUSI; a ‘ _' j Ad eundem- , , Itlfl'ng’s commended, {o is Martintoo, A * - For Hands Of any fort: but their Pcnsdoc ‘3 Fall flgqrt of thy (M115 worth; th’aré at a (land, '. 594(11ng Ypu that write a better Hapd. . - ‘ ‘ Jo.HARM.ARU$a ‘ meimfi: wfiwsogc . I ~ - x i , ‘ I I I ‘ 1 .. r " ’ 23/: . -__ , « 4)., 2' | ‘ ‘ \ . 21’” I . . I . . | fifififififigfififiwm gwwgm magma Jasewwmmmm Amico [no ingeniofiflime in C HZR ONO M 1AM HIRONOMON,g¢fluS Namm legibm afiem Cammmflmkmfflfietorz‘cofq, facts. firticulisfiégz’tit, Abacum rm‘qm’: 440mm, Calcula at in Who: mitten vim daces. swlpmm [ecreta typis manifefla "rem'dmt, ' Admemu [unis filmdidiem now ‘ > ‘ I E I. Imfugimda numb/Gd mwxprzmm Ag‘”ti" » (him/claims}:prcevaricantisfiabcs. _ 6219mm invadis gra‘pzdo comprenjza muffle, Omiagmnfla ,gm'vz [Em-vi: ubzqm Mmu: , . Dulee 4mm Cbarz'mm I Manualz’flimpemborq Ferlmlag cammmfa gefi’a dawn: finant. R, G. Newcmlatar Chm-WM __._A_\V_ w_ _. V-...fv-—._V—fi.—. "'T'li“‘.‘5— 'T'" “ ‘3 {I .. do \\ I 0f the necefs‘itie and dignirz'e oftbz': Art! 0fMANUALL Rnnronxex. I’RIELUDIUM. ' / x.- Ow prevalent Geftures accomJ modated to perfwa’de, have ever been in the Hand; both the Ancient Worthies,as al.— {0 Hit: and daily Experience make good, it being a thing of greater moment then the Vulgar thinke, or; are able to judge of : which is not onely confined to Schooles,Theaters,and the Man~ fions of the Mufes; but doe'appettaine to Churches, Courts of Common pleas,and the Connecll-Tabie; where we daily fee many admirable things done by thofe , who in the conrfe of. Humanitie and profitable findies, have been well infirué’ced and inform’d in this facultie ofthedeAnd the wifetiom of theAncients is in good part placed in this cart: and diligence, That they who were nourifheti to the hopes of great dignities, ihould have corn:- ’ " “'3‘“ ‘ ' “if nmffi BTU M. ‘ compofed and comely motions,which might fignifie an ingenious Mrnde, and adorne their very Eloquence. Some may perchance i-’ magine ,. that this Maxed Rhetorique is a ‘ vaine and unneceITary Art 5 becaufe they fee little writ by the Greekes , who were the Do- ctors of Eloquencqand but few things there: of by the Latinos : when yet thefe men of excellent wits of borh Nations , have with , great artifice beautifiecl all the fublime kindcs of ‘EloquenCe‘, to heighten the Grandieureof a majeftiquc Utterance. Crefivflm: alleadgeth“ many Caufes why thisone part of molt noble Sciencefeemes (though not as negleétedyet) :— nailed by and'omitted by thofe great lights of Antiquitie, For, the Greekes borne in a rcgi-.~ on,which by reafon of the thinnefl‘e and puri- tie of the aire, Was more fertile of good wits then any Other produflions 5 had naturally; both motions of the Mind: end Body to ex.- plaine and unfold their cogitations and re- condite fenfes with an incredible facilitie: by reafon whereof they lam—.- needed the precepts of this Art. For fince they had two Palac- fira’s. wherein a double clzz‘rmamia was pra— étifedi one of Armes, anorher of Peace , and proper to the pacifique temper of Humanitic: a domefiicall Theater,- Doétors and RhCCO-v rique Profeflbrs , and publique Declamati-T ‘ @353 hailing in common among them, fut? _ ' 1 a ~'=~:a.~x"‘«" '2’ A13" ; " M. 'flluftrious aides of Pronunciation; no marvel! that {o few Rhetoricians have left any Manu- fcripts of the Conformation of gefiure; this artifice oftheHzmd being a thing {0 common; and as it were naturall unto them. Which vo« clubility of a prompt 8: eafie nature, wonder— fully accommodating. it felfe to all thin g5, Juvenal. made the Satyrifl fay, that the whole Nation 5mm- “of the Greekes were Comoedians: for in the Scene and Theater 1, and in graphicall affimi— lating and imitating the affeétions, there were few of any Nation could match them , and none that could out-aét them. 7_ And as they ‘were very fiudious in all kinds ofliterature; ' when they apply’d their minds to eloquence, it cannot be laid how thev excel’d in geflure, by the force and guide of Nature; which per- chance was the caufe why the Stagerite laid, 'ni tmgmm‘v to be as odaears‘,Th3t Rhetorique was Arifi. L ;; naturall, and that any one,wrthou‘t the inf’cru- Rhe‘a {lions of a Teacher , feems to be of himfelf 6: by a Naturall ingeniefit to raife motions in . himfclfe and others . But the Romans cornea ing out to fpeake a not from under the Cano- pic of Minerva,but the Pavilion of Mars, be- ing not of {0 ready 8c polifhed a w it, thought it convenient and neceiTary to have books of Inflitutions for the Conformation of thefe Rhetoricall expreflions : of which , Florin: and Nzgzdm, two great Doctors in thefe E-“ less ‘ _,;- fwga‘..- t ,m’;;~\'\zv~rl3<¢-¥= 3;)“; 5:49.. P R E L U DI U. M. legancies, (to‘omit others) publifhed their beauteoua Commentaries. They that follow Ari/lot]: in his millaken opinion ofAilz‘m, efleeming thefe CbironomicallNotions as things of no great matter, are much deceived? t ‘n Ariflot. for that great Doélor of the * LyommlasCrea School: pm: well obferves)fpal .Worc‘Scrmo‘n thenfome Teddi”: ufe tofa] I S 14019 WM :5] Mriage, and thy gefiure [M9151 K 015 coulddcw‘de the heart ,2 apicanfiiehcéjyyfh { ,_ Tb] motion didcmfnte, anonine'inigbtfie‘: \ _ An error vanqmijb’d é] deliverie. " l , , . , flier") ' Such (as Scom'm note-38) Was the aaidn”9££bc ., Prophets and“ Ecclefial‘ticall _ Oratouré :59. gfihc, , Primitive timeSaPIainly Heroiqfi¢:,as may "béegl' lefied out of Sacred Writ , (and fome Cofnmfvn. t atOI‘S thereon ,‘l‘ifi whom the EloquenEéthic, Prophets is graphically defcribed‘ A ' Nature exhorts all men to‘A‘étion confentailc' ous to the flile of‘thfiif Elocution: which inbred and commodious propenfitie , unlel’fe illuflrated ‘DyrArfs and confirmed by exerCiration, is,aS. 7’74. E‘szzmz‘im notes: but as a field untill’dawhich “1.3!; W1 n -0... Twi-ld with difgardet’d produflion's. Art being the Imitatot' whichispetfefis Nature,makes her aé‘tiés, more diidcidfillulttiws and fweet,by her pofitive accommodatio’nsi For whatfoever Nature doth iriflitut‘eiinth’e individuals worthy obfervatiOm ftduced into one exaé’c idea, built upon generall , precepta? by a petp‘et-uall order, Art doth expofe ' under one afp‘eéi: of the Underl’tanding: And Nature againe placed'by Art, beholdsfthe excel- lent apaions of eminent men, and expiefl‘es them by a“ happy exercitation. 'Where‘fOre the ancient Rhetorieians, who caft their eyes upon Nature, ‘ and infilted in bet Reps , Whore Art was princi— pally bent to imitate [the feverall actions of the Mind with a decent and comely grace; admit- ted no gefiute to‘vth'e band, but what theydid find byan accurate 'Collation to have fome fimilitude with thetruth ofNatureIhat WhiCh‘TPkilo/lmmx ) 'l ' funior requires ofa'P'ainter, Who would be emi- if; ‘3‘: I-‘ nentby his Hand; is more necefl‘ary to an ()ra- conib. ‘ tout. He Would have him that Would feemeto manage that Art skilfully, to be a man endued Witha good fancy and a lound judgement , a- flively apt to everything, and indullrious in the obfcrving of mens natures,and affimilating their manners, andicountetfeiting of all things which in the gellure and compofition of the body ,_ are the lignes and notes of the tacite mind and alfcéiions. And indeed , then {hall the hand of an eloquent man move aptly , and as to the purpofe applyed to exptelle what he takes in .1 1,; hand, when he hath co-nverl‘t with Nature , and : ‘ ’ ‘ infinuated himfelfe into all the veines ofthealv ‘ ‘ ‘ fefiions of the Hand,& by diligent i‘mdy bath at» w p ‘ tamed to an exeuifite experience in the proget» U Hg 1 , 3 {NS xi 1‘ ‘l‘ H "We: . f ' “it ’thelife 222 CHIRONOt/lutflki" ties of the finget5,and what the naturall motidné: éfthe Hand are wontto befience Philofophe‘rs; Who candtfcern of the naturall acau'fes ofthingg have a notable advantage: for he (hall molt €163 gaudy & j udicioufly manage his Hand, 5; mode? irate the gefiutes thereof,w’ho by the difciplineof Philofophie (hall apply 'and conforme himfelfev hee‘telt to the nature at varietie of the afl'eétions. Hence Temoflbegtct, being demanded the qua; on, ‘ Which was the (Mt point of Eloquence 2% (cmcmofla he anfwered, Aéhon: Which the {econdt He i” , a‘nfwer'ed, Aftion : and which was the third, he faid; Atfhon, l‘till. ' Wherefore in the Olympian Games , at that famous affembly of great: , thg; Theater of Honour , where the Arts, wifdo'me, ,3. Q and the illuPtrious Vettues were recompenced 357$); in With pub-lique‘hono‘urs; therein the fight of the ' - o people'of Greece , after the (Gund of: Trumpet, wherewith the mindes of the 'flanders by were toerd up to attend the {olemne commendatit on of the publique Cryer; the Hand; were firfl; Chryfefl. crewne‘d,heforethe Heads as S. Chm/(flowed— fingdC {vertifeth us. For when the Brawn}; , which 0““ ej" Were molt skilfull Judges , would declare, that , an the'glor'y of the Viflors did proceed from $1“: Hand or Ac‘tion ; ‘ and that in the Full place, In: dufiry, labour, and skill Were crowned by thetns' net the {boulders of the triumphant Olympia}? ‘niceans, but theitHantl: were decked and PW? MW“;- [ed with the glorious Palm.Skilfully therefore S. _ €33 cha. Hfizérbfe : T417724 mam: viélrici: army: :flAfl (5:3?“3' ' Vié’torie is called,®m palmari: : and wiflot‘iofi") ‘ With Ifldor , is palmojm'. But“ why the Palm ‘ w as given to them that overcame , and why the ljoztghejs thereof have been propofid 33.5%“:{5 Silent-ch [H I Taéarzbfmiiiiénm to {UCh as were viflorious in Arte; 0r Armes, ”g, according to that of the Poet : Horace _——-—. K Termmm domino: .ewbit ad de-fo. - There are who alleadge this realontFOt that the fruit of the Palme doth retemble the Hand .. and fingers , and are thereof by the Greekes na— med daflili, that is, digiti, fingers : for.the great see same» ends of the branches appeare llke hands firetoh» Imam. , ‘Palimg; nobility llb.!.0l. ed forth, and the dates as fingers. It feemed 5““. therefore tight,the Palm {hould be given to them ' whole Hands were skilfull in Arts, and Fingers cunningxin battailfiince the chief weight 8: ilé».1-,_ {trious honour of all triumphs depend'upon the handoraflion , or as if the fruit of the Palm were peace. And Tufiiawhen he had unfolded all the w- r. .(r'. ornamentsof‘ a coltly and copious eloquence,he ()rst. calls up all in the {ummary of thefe grave words: Scribe: maid per‘inde [met at agfimrnmply ing,that without a pleafing and opportune Afiiongall the other aydes of Speech would become vaine and unprofitable. Tale»: is in the right , where he T a faith , that many Infants by the dignity of Afti— Rhet. on, have often rcap’d the fruit of Eloquence; while many eloquent men through the deformity of gellure. have been accounted very babies in Expreflion. ‘F‘or whereas Nature aflignes to ea'ch motion of the Minde'its proper ge/fure , countenance, and tone, whereby it is (igniti- Cantly exprelt ; this grace ofGelturejs concei- Ved to be the molt elegant and expreflive virtue of the three ; inflall’d by Tim: among the Civill Virtues, as the {peech and native eloquence of the Body; for that thofe Elegant conceptions that inrigh the pregnant Mind. incite the minde _ _ o. y C A? ., by we, alaeus in: mw l -‘ -.\:.’ r A , _ fix ._‘.__._. .g---tl av-' 4 * ‘ mwfff‘éézz‘ifl.“ my ___v ‘* ‘ $56}; 3 Enthirid. ‘ .L fit. H ‘ CHI ‘Rféfi o It} At Or; by“ fome firgtagem ofwit ; , to .. find e out apt atfi‘ fit expreflions 2 and while {he labours to ba' , free in powring‘out her hidden treafures, the im— prints upon the body the aftive hints ofhet molt generous conceits, darting her rayes into the body , as light hath its emanation from the Sim : Which eloquent impreflions, a kinde offpeech gnol’t confon‘ant to the minde, are in the moving {of the Hand {0 neatly wrought and emphatically produced , that the Hand, many times feetfiettd: have conceived’th‘e thought. He therefore that Would putchafe the repute of ‘an e'ccohipl‘ifli’d/ Rhetorician , muff purfue the knowledge of title Art; which confifts in undetltanding the lawfull garbe and ordered motionsof the Hundgthe moth fuilfant Agent of the foule , - and which bath by, ome been called Men: corparTiI, or the Mindeo‘f ' the Bodygthe .voyce of Philofophie admonifli‘ing in Epifletm; no leer to be minded by a Rhetoi tieian then a Phil-ofopher : ‘ i 3 " Ne digimm quidem tamer} extendere. , ‘ . Some notions Of this Manuall Rhetorique are derived from the Heroique ages of the world; and were approved and allowed of by 501mm: Yet in the ‘d ayes oft/(rifled: were not delivered by anyws dig‘efied into any fotme o‘fArt, Whi‘Ch had been a Subject worthy" of his pen : but, ifs. Claim/ayes? dogmi‘vit wrijiotelcn The Art was firlt formed by'Rhetoticia’ns; aificrwztdsatpplt- fiEd by Poets and cunning, Mbtifts, ‘skilfull’i‘n' the thtlrtraiflure bf mute poefie -: but mofi firangely llllarged by Aétors, the ingenious “counterfeitets of mens manners. The fitft R‘omane {Crawl}? ‘ that colleé‘ted thefe Rhetorical! motions Off th¢ WM into an Art ,’ teenllating {omuehrfrdm’thc mi , The Arena] fMdnualI Rhewriok‘e: Theater t‘othe Forum,,as Rood withjthe gravity: ofanOmtout,WaS furcly fitment”, untg whoqunjntilJn curiouS‘obferv a‘tion , in the 3 H and, Intense that}: 3.33;“? gm. who out cf cutiofitie-defire to be; morepunthnfi ' any informed in thefeimoft {ubtle andzjabltruce: notions of tht Handy which theytneyelfovfinjdgg recited'inj Voibiwg his Rhetoriqne i: a” myl’cet-ieiq; great requeFt with»;t,hebant:‘iie~;nttSophiflzers and; Rhetoricians ,,and properly, handled»! them; 3: flthonghiome not welliadvifedgfiwefi dhflflw them COHfidCICd in? theJEthiques 3!); them; 5,3,3E dihinc‘tim. to he made bfltweengt-hatwt’tiichMofi ‘ raliltsT ‘cail 246?: mam mum»: at cfipilmgagndorgg writing; which the Greekes call Hypégrifin , 13M 25133111, [‘ fairs.» miantgwhic h are aecégnedated t9 move- the affefi 2 M18. D? the Auditors. And indeecl; thegeituzes of thetericall uttetatnec. doe ptewj {applies the [Ethique precepts and tltielawes, of civill‘ ennui-lance»: .The'hnciema ,— eipe’cially the Greciansm 11.. were men. Ever; veryinventivc offu'ChfiIbtleties , had a Paige/ire , or place of exercife for this putpeie. Tat/w; prefertes theft: Canonicall. gefiutes before theéartifice 0f the Voy'c-e; although his Conunentatet will allow Cl , , 3 , . " . - , 1' ' . audms the prehemmence of this Art onlyramong {Nana Mme: m ons ofldive‘rs tongues, and not Where theafl‘em- T3181,“ 3 51y is of one lip. Keckerman gives the voyce the dignity of precedence for our times: but he is no better thana precifion in Rhetorique , of whore. conceit let the learned judge, fince he Confeiieth the jefuites (known to be the greatel‘t‘ proficients in Rhetorique of our times} initrufl: their difciples after this manner. And how wone- derfully they have improvedi and peliihed this kind ofencient Learning ; appeares initiciently by \ 25' The In of Manual! Rhetorickel ' ' By the "Labours of three eminent in this facultie Ev Crefirflim d: gefiu Omani: , Von/l»: dc am di- x LAlfleciius chili , and Cay/5m: d: Elaquentia. (Ag/7841'!“ 5!! NC" could wifh we had fome booke of the Pronunci- ation of the Ancients, that we might take out of it fuch geftures as did {quare with our times: 1mm, {uch a Booke as Lacrtim praifes. And Saboxerur' in vita ' wifhes for Types and Chirograms, whereby this TREE?!" ‘Art might ’be better illui’trated then by words. Which defect in this Art I have here attempted to {apply ‘ ( and as I hope ) with reafonabie fuc-r 'ceife. If I'have mifcarried in any, it is the more gatdonabie, fince‘ in all my fearch after thefe {ub- tleties of the Hand, I never met with any Rheto-. rician or other, that had pifiurd out one oftheie Rhetorical! exprefiions of the Hands and fin- gers; or met with any Philolqger that could estafily fatisfie me in the ancient Rhetorical] po- "fihres of filinfilian. Fraud/em 'f’unim in his late .Tranflation of his Piflum warm», having given ‘ ‘ the beIt proofe of his skill in fact: Antiquities. bya verbal! explanation thereof. That which inabled me to advance {0 farre in this Art, is the mfight I have purchaied in the ground-work on," fonndation of all Rhetoricall pronunciation, t6 ‘ , W“; the Natural“ Expreflions of the Hand, CANONS. Awmwewm mwwwwmwwéwmww THE CANONS RHETORICIANS ‘ TOUCHING ' V The Artificial! managing of - e; the H A N D in Speaking. With an Hifioricall Mamfcfio ex- cmplifying the Rhetorical! Aé’tions thereof. He Hand lightly 0: 5"?" 7;. ‘ pened, timoroufly ‘ v difplayed before the: - breafi, and let fall by fi;Q1fuumcsu1;derthe 11¢?» ving ’gAAAAmAAAAAg“ Cfii §5§6fi3330r3 biting {boulders , is an buméla, and neat aétion , becommigg thofe who Jaunted and di/maid, " begin to {peak as if their magic were Qgfiégid to mépunter With the publiékc care; eind Fuck who fhunning a pmf‘ufe excclrc' of . Wards, W011” fiaringly ex‘ prcffi: their Mindcs, or aflwage and mitigate. the ’gcnforious ax; peétaden 9F their Auditourssby' . an ingenious infinuation of" a aminutilze A étion. 3 fiagll‘fhef flfihfiilidn thinks that Demafibcnu-in that 10!”. Mix. 'lY and fearful! Qration‘ for Ctejipban, began wnb ‘ ; u ‘1 hisszud compéafed after thi§ manner : And that { ; ‘ 58": A Cigro'; Hand was fOrmed 'tdthis compofitio’n of ' ‘ ‘ a J ghfiure "in 3‘35"; beginning of his Oration; f0” whim the Poet, when he {aid , Si gnia’efi in an: thenii *(judz'm) gaudjehtia gym/z: #55810.”- ‘ Canon 3 , ‘ He flrchhing forth Of. the Hdhdis thefbrme OFPlea“ " ~.‘..4 } I The-Art ome-ansqwmzi P020910” anyflle; [peed] “H116 Ailéltoursg, ~ K» f’ ‘ ‘1’ t”?! "Ixnztahé memorials bffipfiquitygifi the micixfé's of the old Annvallcs, the lincamentg of Pifiurcs, ‘ifiHth‘iem Statues; iwe fhgll firfiéifiis imam of preparation in the Hand: of .famousiQratqurs. ding, aqd hath a; fecret beige: , V , , ‘7 > W ‘ , p ' ' ‘ ' ' ” \‘ w ‘1. (T I malprepammeto ready f9“; ~ ““5743“ 69mmend§than A... Artfltdc: reports , that Prince“ 61" {Dra’th’ufsmlil- Adm“; tiadw to have been fo painted in Grace to the e- ,tcrjgall‘ mgnumem of his memory», figggching out bisfiighiHand onlg,a,s;hc was wont milk. 5119mm ylogugntman ,5 was-awom :0 fliflsv thatrhqdid var.le&. {o rifqugzto t {makings ghee- -knewgfnot.his,tfir& Cinema; : wordxyegshc faid hagufed to fpeakfi; exceflcmly 0m. =:.W€U4Wh€a he hadm-ncfiwa rmed hismme. . hind :Méléfiéléiezw ,bbferzyiag‘ ihcdcmeaneumfi Fab!!- tifi“ abSuttomake azpubliczkcfpccemwhenheL ‘97 ‘ ‘ J had utfartb his Hand (faith he) that he might {pea e'more readily. That divine Oratour and 5W :3 .ehkemfthc :APQqumfed this Afiion as «:_;:._,§ 3%} rhifie’to his ‘ehfdifig 'Zpolagie .- fogzwhm ~ : 743%“ bad : mniitsedawcmlto fpeake for: him- felfé, 753251: (etchedbfit ‘thé Hand, and MfW‘ W fqr himfélfe. “ '»Tfiis~forme bfi puddinggisito 41’" {cane inthe ansisgsags§tatgc§ 9!‘ 39mm Ad: ‘ Vecafég - 33. 01111101101111 01; (m THE 1nduloent putting forth Of thé Handtowards the Auchtours fgmfymg a kinda of Pumdmty .. and good will, 15 a benevolentaéfion, 111101 111016 whopmi/e or magma/414, ] an is of great efficacic (a. 11107:. th affééhons._ ‘ 4H1 This Aflion‘ had a 111,111: grace ahd Coneh- I 11cm: 1n Mcletim,1hatreverend Bifh’o’p 01111111- och, a 111a11'i11vironed with a guard of all thc‘ Vertues}Wi1h which Aétion of his 114,141,411 1 , . with the engine of good will, he [1261111111 16111 1 ‘ ‘ up the hearts ofhis hearers with him therefore Gag. Wregary Ny‘fli-‘n attributes to him, (ovum dam-din , NYE- dc Cfi' vclutilcnécinio arationé'perfu/am, gm nu ma 1 3‘ Mel“ 4r121f4m44lin digit“ commomre [0144: =1- '1- *' .. 1 '1 1‘1 \1 If N ' ‘5 ’ 3 ‘13., " I '96 gende ahd weI’ofdc’ fed Hand [browns forth bYa inaderate p16]: 61 on ,1 11161 Finger: 1111161111115 thcmfilvcs _.it1 Tb? 7r? é/Ménilézfl Rhetoricke.‘ “ inthe motion 5 and tho (haul; dch a little flackncd,a€ords a fa: ,miliar force to any Plain: can-3 timed film]: or uniform; 41f. camfeg and much graceth-any l matter that requires to be hand-4 l led with a more loflj/Zile,which we would faine fully prclentin a more gorgoous emit: of words. ~ ()1 ,L , The co'melinefl'e of this Aaion (which bcfl: luites with them who remove a: {hift their [tan- ding)appcats hereinfihat by this emanation of the Arm.and delivery of‘gefture, {pcech is [0 well pronounced and powreo forth , that it’ feems :to flow ”out of the Hand. - wards the Auditours, Withha kinda of impetuou: agita— u‘m Of the lime, maintaining {ts grazity “lid? 3 {Will teconrle, 15 BE Hand direacd to; (dim; '5 3:3 » C Hm 0N0 1v; manaé'tton WM «2f wibéihéfiiéiéa "3ifit’1téz 3:12. 'ffleante;:y6?mkmd, 3m, ere” ‘ “and by its 'extefifi 3351‘: :zjgjiie‘s pa, 3 mnafid' giyrmzém gé‘zssboriy. ‘ fl -» This 5&in is not Leafonablc unfil} mom“ " i“ begin '66 W32 hot and ’prévaién‘t,anaiflié diifi’com. . [fing .appgcitc? of the-Hanoi; be EOWdeJgp ’, and well lggat‘e’d by a Rhetorical! prdvoc'afitién ,-!‘a’€d 3 ' »4'is,{hfii§:ien5lyrafl'e&cd to-meve racciprdiggmtpc fl nimble "c‘éfitemion of tfieTongue: Arid th‘én ‘ 3- this gfittering dart of fpeech, hkcligfitpipg, r 1 '"" the {baking of Jpn/10’: beams,expatiatésif{é§e 1 into a glgriqusflatjtudg oflcltocution‘: Ihq Ora- l :xion Wit'h'thismilitarié géfium, 3}ther - ring out‘itfelfe. Thekft arme (if‘afijgtyinxs ‘ 10.". be xclone With it )1: 13 Right? railed; t‘h’zitjf‘ijn yfl make as it Werearightjapgileg’ 3 .~,: ' 1» fl He Hafidi~éffrained’afi3,l , :3{§;e-ptin,zis at}aygurrient65fM mode/1‘}, andfmgzzlll Pronunciati; kl on , 3/2111 andqmet :afiicm; In; 3 131316420 amilde and remifleé? E Cam p.753: glamation,‘ " : f; 2 - Ibis: k yk” .1, V . , , The Art of Manuafl Rhetorickd This Aaion with Tullpis Wafli éra‘cbio agere: Wibeabim,Mqfif articula: Gladiatorem 21917577223221}; Warm); «deer/am: mollis articulus excepit. A And in the Primitive timeS-of elocution , when elo- quence began to fipwre and bud, and infolencie was rarely entertained. 'Oratouts were Wont to kacp‘ their Hand: within their cloaks , for [0, as (fifcbine: will have it , thofe ancient Oratour‘s, i’rinces ofGreece,in mofi account,b’oth for their language and judgement (Pericle: and Them- flqcletjwere wont to declame; as an aetion mofi: {utable to conferve their modefly. And he feta. cheth his argument of {o laudable a cufkome from the flame ofSolan,which the. ancient 3mm; tries, skilfull in the Counterfeiting mens man‘ers made for Solon at Salamimzfin this poftureto note ‘ his moderation and modefty ,- with which fignii; fication there Was the like fiatue long after his time ereéted at Rome for Scipio. And verity offichine: who approved of this poi’ture of the Hand as an Index ofmoderation, he obferved it‘ himfelfe even in the heat ofreprehenfion and tea proofe; but this animadverfion of (XE/chime who fpitefuliy carped at the important gefturfies of the Hand , the Oratour ‘Dcmafl/yene: did after— Wards mofi elegantly deride and explode; for that {tame ofSa/on, faith he, the Salaminians {2131' Was not dedicated above fifty yearcs agoe: But from Salon to this prefent time are two hundred. and forty yeares, fothat the Work—man who exm ‘ preficd that gefiure, no not his grandfathemvere then alive,» But it cannot be denied that fuck! a. ‘ thing might be with the Ancients, which e/EF ”if“! knew rather by conjefture , then any CCt-m tame afihranee 2: For We read of one, Polcmon a D dc: ’33.. (3.55.): .5" «L ' . ‘AW 33 Ef‘chineh m Timai'i 34‘ CHIRQNOMIMOr} v51“; deboyfe young mamwho upon hearing of Xma; Max, crates,became modeft, and drew his Hand with. in his cloake. And the gravefi: Writer‘s reporrof Plutarch Clean that turbulent Oratour 0f Athensgto have in Nim- been the firlt that opened his cloake in {pea- king. This rationall conceitprevailed alfo with ' the Romans , for although in the ancient flames . of Lawyers in Rome, we finde the Right Hand " put torth,the forme of pleading: yet the firl’c-ycar they were called to the Bar , they were not to‘ put forth the Hand , not a young Advocate perv snitted to plead after the fame manner as an anci-. ent Praflitioner. Cicero hath left a’certificate Cicero of this cuitome, N065: alim annm amt um“ ad co- E’IOCWHO hiéendum brat/Jim; confiimtm, m exercitatioae la- dazmmpeflri Tunimti utcrwmr; which garbe of the refirained Head,“ it is an argument of frugal! ‘ Marius in pronunciation . the great Prelates of Rome ob- Hmogl, ferve at this day when they {peake before the ' Pope , as that great Mafler of the Hierogly- phiques tefiifies. But when wit which lay a- . fieepinthofe rude and fimple times, began to berowzed up and inflruéted with Arts , thofef {heights of bafhfulnefie were inlarged,the Hand, releafed and fer at liberty , and a more freer: courfe of pleading brought in, not that modefiy ihould be excluded mens manners, which isa great ornament of life; but that fpeech might have a greater force to worke upon the afi'eéh' ons of men. Now,to ufe this fearfull demeanour‘ 0‘ the Hand, were the part of one void of com- mon fenfe and humanity; againfi whom that 0f. fimntih‘an might be brought, who reprehended thoie who in pleading inhibited the Hand, aflf‘ the bafincfl‘s WSEE 9199a Huggifhlys an ‘ e Fabius Infithct. Tbé Xi: beahitkfl @lzetorickéi THC Ham} put forth and mi; $11,210:: fed aloft , Is'an aétéon fish -~ 3 congratulatory exclamation and amplification ofjoy. I This is driwa froth Nature into the 361100ng and difcipline othetoricians , who preferibfi Ctefoi; this free and liberall motion of the Hafizd, as a fit Amn- peripbrafi: of gcfture upon fuch occafions 5 and ut‘ moft confonant to the mtention of Nature. TH: Hand‘colleétedfihe Fin-é Wm L , gen loo1tihg<=doWncWards, Vim: ‘ then turnedand rofolved, isa fetform accommodated to their intention who would oponlyfi produce their red/am. The artificiall conceit of this Aétio'n is , that: itfeems as it were indeed to éringfortb with 11’5“ [me hidden matter to make 119: argument in Htwd More Rhetorical!) apparent. ’ ’ ' THChollow Hmd railed; a; hove thfl thUldfir :W’t‘fj’} 1215 D 2* 533mg; gg“ iCHiR—BNOMEASOr: fomekinde of grave metfon of the wreft, ' doth chee‘re , enchant, eméo/c/m and encourage. Canon THe palme C the Fingers all joyned together} turn’d Up, and by the return of the wrcfi, in one metion, {plead andturg neéahout with the Hand, is an ; action canvenient for admire non. Cm» He Hand (the F ingersall joyned at their taps) refer; red to the vocall paflage of the minde,d0th lag/2t!) admire; and fits their occafion who in the. £112 terim are moved with [midm indighationfind in the end {all (9 . deprecatefimaged witbfmr'. The ‘ Tb} Ar: ofMaW Rbewricle: THe turneé up Hamé (the; l Thumhe bent in,and the other Fingers remillefimnsfiz :er to the Northern fide of our ~ body , and-then prone to our South ficle, {0, lightly waved. t9 and Fro; deth very aptly dgyiin’ gut/h contrarier,‘ and may/bani the variety of 2mm 66;“: . ‘ THE band after one fer: is net flill (lilpoled to mfg: a gag/3i- ‘ on; Yet commonly when wee demandfitzwever it he compe» led, We ale t0 Cltmge or mine Our 547162], mifing it a.~ little upg Wards. } Tam banieretfled, and then“ {0 ‘ {ngvedfihat the infide 233 tun. D g med: 57" (Tanan XII. Cmpis ‘ XIII. C mm X l-Va ’ l t «7“ M31‘l???’K-’f‘a; L-xgs". 7L... » ‘2‘) ta... :.'-.-.;’:pb:.4 3-: “is. idt‘kilg "”‘ "E ~' ' ' 7‘ " (21151191631 ;o: M i A." :- Gt; _;,,-.,,_, ,zs‘ a flénfiblc Action that apparcfif‘l 3r picicms the leafl di— fiaritt} or dzflérenret .. " ’an Hand that 133! alternate ° . morions contracts anti tines {aids it Life , dOth aid them in their 33 onnnciatidn who areym B'Y inflmt to urge a thing, 1, , I TH E turning ofthc Handmay ferve t0 fignifie an eafle dang} 2mg fifty‘ormame. This is a magiflrail notion raifed upon this Winciplmhat thé Hand is {o borne to ARiQn,and f0 prompt to expedite all accounts of fignificatig Q0 , that nothing {cams more eafie then‘the mo- :ti‘on Ofthe Hanoi. Hence the Greeks very ingee nibufly call that which is 'proclivc ‘and cafie to be done évweé‘, as if it were no more difficult ihe“ ‘0 “if the Hdmi; for the ancient Greeks 3831] ”TC H4734! Man‘s. Hence Mam: no” Wittering, the Adage, [.5750 :0, guadgflmibil omnim 145m , a 1!: Apoio. forms offpeech ufed by Apuleinq. The Carthagfi giafi' Ambafladour ‘nfsd this adjunt‘iihof den’cign‘, .— 1 , a. ,, . 9.. / ‘ré‘t ~ =: an: ' " ‘1 flraFl‘gg The Art ofMdmmH Rhetorichei fh‘ation to Andromachm , at the City Tauromeni— on, ‘ for in his bold [peach wherein he threatned in the name of the Carthaginians,to make quick, difpatch to the overthrow ofTauromenion , he ' {hev'ved firlt the palme of his Handnhen the back' of his Hand, threatnin him that his City {hould be {0 turned over—ban , if he did not quickly fend done, bad him be going, and that with fpced,out of his City, if he Would not fee the keele of his ' Gally turned- upwards. This At‘tion as it is ex- p‘rcflive tothe cafimfl‘c cf performance , is Ca; nonicall enough , but as a demonltration of the Cities or Gallyes overthro mic is Apochryphall. TH E Handbrought to the (to; maCke , and fpreal gently ricall a/fetuemtion. But whether it be convenient to touch-the brealt with the Hand;the fonnes of Rhetoricians have made enquiry in their learned Difputati- ons: Some would have the Hand to be onelyi ' turned, and {o referred to the Breath Others fay, we may‘touch‘ the Breal’c with'our Fingers ends; \ both, in the opinion of Ere/01151;: may bee done without rcpre‘henfion , when we fpeake any thing concerning our felves, and that our fpeech glydes with a calme and gentle {treome- Buf'the ggggh doth molt availe ini'a lharpe and inflamed , “' “ W ‘ 1) 4 {tiieg , _ in the If: away the Corinthians»: Andromachm turnin‘gllof T111110- his Haml up and doWne as the Ambarfadour had lean, thereon, is a gefture otheto; ' Plutarch Canon XVII t I 1:5," ‘ I ‘ .51" ~. 2mm fly. ton. l I [12mm §§V?II: Epilng, gr: Auto Cicero if! {midwa- ,CHfKONOMEAEGfie Rile, when the motions of“ theminde are by AA Etion unfolded} . ‘As When an .Eatogr would 63:- }ilicfiem ineredihlc ardour of love lodgedE in his bofome ,1 and CleaVing to his very marrow ; or; griefe deeply fetled in his yearning bowells; it}, figqifying thefcand {och like affct‘iionsmohg caxg rehtike anQrgtour if he {haltouch his Breafi Withf \ his Finger! Lends‘mly. ' C refallim makes little” V ”doubt, but. ij trial this geflure, when hfifagidg; mil/6mm ”2?, fig; far in luch oc_cafions,the[plenq dour of' profiunciation is lacking , neither; have, wgrds {u {ficient force to make the mirxdte‘alto‘gee, th’ér intelligible , unlcflé the Hflfigé be brought tq THE Growing Forth ofthe , ‘ Hated, oribotckningwith , the fame, are R‘l'aeiorical yfiga riificant to flaw/{e to , calla/{tea invite; firing in, and Wiriéflto r V Triflz'efinthe Epilogue of his thion for Plan?» aim: , which .did aboqud) apdoverflqw With-lam memtation ,' very commodioufly explaig’d him-. {6156 by this Rhetorical:camps/[mica ,y, Where. with mofl: excellent artifice he qall’d Pldficififw’ and bids him come unto him,that he might touch .- and: imbrace him. (hero/flu: rather prefers the firfi. afiionto the Hagan! of an Qratour: and w§u1&,. .. J o , a‘sfe 1W Wghaan Rbétbrickéi have invitations. {ignified bytputting forth the HkfldoneIY.: Wltbom any Waving-madam £011, thagBecknmg wuh the Hand,in his judgement, is'the properue of an unskilfull multitlide,_~ and of men offmallaccounnwho wan: graivitieand moderation s, WhQ doe noponelyz inducerand ap- . ply their bent-in—Hand to tbisparfmfi-w behavi- oup,-,‘1biut doe alfo revoke and hoowback their WWI; :bpdy ,. and, wind-1 and wreltnabeut’their véry fidcs: Who though hedonnee forbids): repudiate this 64$;ng gglturelofthe Hmd alone, yet 1fthe body hedr§Wne in w,it_hia,llgyr_hgmuld have itreferr'd to thieHStage‘, and to. plaqgfigf ' common rcfort. _. . HanciWavcd tawards theaudia tersgarc advétaggous aétiensfor them Wh’O would imply .agenea raugcorzfitlence, and thrsir 49116190» rifle and Militia to ef e8 4 thing : itéferves 3112) to call for, and dc»- 1114M filantejzanafor ‘theaprolocgue team 3651 ofpdvcyfmti‘an. ' .{V‘This Canon is grounded upaa (the Axiome m Nature a It?“ then: (1065 appearé 3:11 the Hdmfi 332i . Hc'HalidraiS’d Scfirctched [anon » ' hut; With the armi’e3'. or‘théim“ CHIRONOMIngm'} i ii ’t‘xiiéi‘e a Natural! marks of the Majefiz'e ifid Authoritie of Man. Hence 0wid,in this Rhetori4 call fenfe, attributing a Mufifiicall Gut/it} to the Hand of Yxpiter , W I _ Ovi 6.1151. ”qui poflqmzm vac: mung"; _ Métam. ' Murmurs campreflt, tenum/ilentia cunfh‘, ' Sui/15:5: @- clamar, pref”: gravitate re mix; . And-Stain: {peaking of the aétion of infirm Hand in a Councell of the gods . advagc‘d to the fame purpofe : ‘ ‘ " ‘ m mniam dance pater ip/cfedmdi ‘ Tranquild iuéet eff: man ‘ ’iElian Hmcc ufi'lz’an of Yul. Mug. . spank", (Mann/imp” ea: placnre cnperet. V jam, But though the Hand onely put forth; and ad; Aug. _ vanced with” authoritie , is of force to aflmge s‘a‘Jlb-“tumulu, and pfacur: audience , (as ‘Damitian m 331° Swim) ’Dextm [mm pugnm] Yet if a certaine kinda of motion be therewithall exhibio‘ ted, it will be ofmore force and dignitie ; which Mmdtuv or pcdmtrimv , words which the Gre‘ekcs" ufe in this cafe, doe import. Heradidn: phrafe . is, 955m, 13?; A993; , the proper word in this Lil). dc 3‘ bufineifc is ammo-zyaifm : the} Greekes alfo fay, §§fa&‘€’g¢m¢§m fiVAeJVT; We : WithrGrcg. N717. ’txs m'rua'eiuv 739516} : others xwmaemv , fomc ‘alfo, Suwi'vauvho‘ 3759:, almoft in the fame fenfe, 31" though this la&,feems to fignifie {amething lefl'et enely the lifting up of the Hand. Verily, Co" ' m 7mm: upon Tar/Eu: grants as much : Wag“ fif‘g‘gz-ad (faith he) cf prqfatum homixiéu: lacumri [tame ‘5 “r ' 3F'4juéent] mot/ante: mamm. See the Natura‘ll g6". flurcsfiefi-XVI. for examples“o£0ra§ogrs pfing this Afiign. "“ “'7‘ * -- 1““, ‘3" ~,. * . Statius 1.x; Ibebaid. ,. gag 6.4 "‘9’ , , . ., baa amma mama: ' 7“ TH 13 Hand prepellent t5 04m? I, l ‘_ the leFtaward, the ME xx” {boulder brought fmward, the 4 " Head inclined to the South— fl ward ofthe Body, is an aétion ‘ , accommodated t0 arer/atioa , execratzZan, and negation. 7' O {bake the Hand, with cm? . bended browes, doth ab XXI: barre, den}, a’fltke, refit/e, and diflzllm. he band refilient or leaps; cm . ing back to the TNorthané‘fifié, : ward oftthody , whenccit§3§$§‘ ’ did dcfcen'd, makes an aé’tit‘m 3213121}. ‘ fit to abominate a and to accomié‘icrgfig. pany WOrds of rah/all ordiflzke,‘ c 9“ f and may {em alfq in point of , qdmiraziorg, W4 " ‘. WE. ,. 4;; CHffiéfiBfiiA'EOti ‘THe Hana" with a gentle Canon 5 , .. XXI;I,; ~ percufswp , now? grea. tier , ' now leflé; now flagncw , flnarpe, according to the, d’zvep Side of the affeéfionsfis fitted‘t'c‘) diflingm’jb tire Camma’s (94 Ma: tbing part: ofa/entence, ' ' Q *Y his Hand rcfiirr’d unw - 0 mm bim/élfe , when he vvfpcakes, any thing concerning hin1felfe. ' Emmi _. , XXLV. Ceeflfl‘ ufcd this patheticall demonfiration of Plutatch . V . inthe 'h’fe hlmfelfc , When one accufc‘d Bram: unto him, of Brutus. and bad him beware of him :‘ What, faid he a- gating-clapping his ‘Hmdqn his b32391; Think? ye that/3mm: will not tarry till this Bedy (1.165 7?, ThegHm baht into a HR; anti, ( XXV. ”(ha-Pulpit or Barrefiroeke? therewith, iswanaaim othee tgrxcall heats, and very amficte . ' ~~~ » U ~ _... . any. Th ’95” 0f M41151?!” Rbetérz’cke: 9 ally aefiampaniesflnggri’i anda more vehement contention; ' ' ' ’7 ¥ 7 ' V E‘\\ 1‘" ‘W l 1 .45 l T hei’dim amok fipon 350019 ' (held ufuallyin the left hand $23 of an Oratqr) doth {€er to ex... cite and range up the fluditows. ‘ This afiion is commonlyufed by our Modems Oratours , and hath fugcceded’ in the, place of limiting upon the thigh ,- ,Whic‘h~ Cannot Well be performed in our deep and little pulpits, , ‘ ‘9 TO clap the handfuddenly Canon . Upanthe breafl,is an aéli» 33m" ofiiicrepation , prope‘r in their ‘ hancis, wha would fire/2 their [Deer/é, and Hana/flit it by flame, and by a carefull fiop refiraine their tongue, and call back as it were their reprehendecl wards, 6: pm in a m hetericall Demm“, O? rgq ” cuitgxamxzor; 3f orofie bill againft their 9%,: Declaratton. a: To this Aaion, that of Homer appertaines‘i ‘ all?“ ‘ genera autmpermfi‘o, [ani‘mum intrepuit] ‘ ° ferment. cm THe Hand brought unto the XXVI“ fiemackfit in aretnifle garb - fpread thereon, dozh con/cienci’ erg/I) aflevfle, 6: becomes them who afiirme any thing of tbem’ , jehwr. ' Cation HE Bféafl firiCkcn With the xxm’ Hand, Is an aaion oijriefe, jbrrow, repentance, and indignaa ~ time. x This is a very patheticall motion in Nature, 8: Rhetorical in Amen aflion in ule with the and; / ent Qratours. and with a profitable fignifiCation ptgfitfed by the Jefuits 5 who are w :»nt,not only thhelight approach to touch the Brazil: , but {outcomes alto to beat upon it With the Heed; WhIChr they doe , for the molt part ‘, to scihfie ,9"ng 0f minde , repentance , and matters 0f " l ' Mem- ._—n. mri a/Mama mesa-cit: Mortification; which they edit: and perfo: nate with fuel: {ubitantiallabundance of {peecjr ” with {uch motion of the body . and fuch immi: nent gefl'ure, that while they beat their Breafts,‘ they rail'e oftentimes great motions in the minds of their Auditors . and religious teares are draWne from the eyes of many. Which Rheto. ricall afiion of the Hulk not alwaies ( to an inch) framed .by the precepts of Rhetoricians,‘ nor by line and levell fitted to the rule of Art, nor weighed , as 'twere, in the Goldfmiths bale lance 3 for they who affume this gefl ure , {trike their brealt with an audible {troake , when they judge it fit for their pur ofe ; although fome,‘ whoare more ftudious o eloquence, doe not heartily admit of this loud contaé‘t of the Hand ; who with a peaceable meekn’elfe bringing {the quiet Hand unto the breaft, by the forcible at- chievements of that pronunciation, procure a. dreadfull influence to fall upon their Auditory. But in a Senate of the Learned,and afolemne Alfembly of venerable perfonages , avehetnent percuflion of the brealt is not convenient,/ but is to be remitted to the Theater. left ( as my Ari. 0““- thor faith) fome Stripling in EloquenceJhould :tcitely throw at them that out of‘the Como:- leg . ‘ . . Plzutut in Ht: 12:62:41 dzgzm pultat , cor credo wam— mlllt. glo- mm: for“. “0(0- THE Forehead firicken with 1 the Hand, is an aflion of damn/heme; and admiration. [anon- xxxt '43 CHIRONOMI’AJOYI Fabius lib ‘* ng'ntilian grants this. to have been ufed'hy 2.. capaz. fome turbulent Oratou‘rs 1n t‘hieir'pleading‘s,._e¥iren ' in his time , and very aVailea‘b‘le with them,who bya popular oi’centation of Elquence,hunted after the app’léufe of the people. His wo‘fds are thefe: 74m cal/£406 mantis, term pedem invite”; fe-i mur,pcflur,frofitem adagmz‘ré ndEpn/Mtfi circulz’i] . fabiunt. Yet ‘Oratours of very good ei‘teeme, by: their prafiice ’tommende‘d the ufe and fignifica- tion of this gefiure ; but in €pilogue onely,”and a " certainefitry amplification; when for the moiring ' of paflion,the{e tragica/l expreflions of the Hand are held comely and cngenient.‘ A gefiur‘c with the Greekes and Latine’s of equall ufe and fignifimtion, as farre as our underflanding can : light us to the knowledge of thofe Rhetoricall, ' ornaments of Expreflion, in fafhion with the 7 Ancients. And it was Wont to attend upon three A “ caufes ; to 9010:”, Shame, andc/{dmimtiam In, greatgriefe, they thought it of old a very expref- D mm five demeanour of the Hand. Cicero commen-u - Hal.1{om; deth it in 377421“. DianyfimHalimrmflw/i: ac- j Antquq o knowledget‘h the ufe of this gefiure :, Parentimtu g E Cicttoiad fronm, c? aflze‘fi‘m trifle; [me fe ferentes. [30670; ‘. Am“ “- infinuates as much to his friendfl’uto te [ingemfl ‘ ‘i 11;” l 25 ifle] at fiontcmferim. Lit/i: calls this affefiion ‘ Q; Cum. of the Hand, (lipid! ofi‘énfiztionem : [Flarejomnu , us,1xb.7. (‘3‘ afinfare capita. With 2: Curtim , it is, 0‘ Apuleius lconz'eréc’mre : I: tum [flare] mph, (9" o: cont/(rhe- ifi’:m°r' rereimwflm] ”mob/mm wicem, cfrc, In AW" w He]. Aida. [am the gefiure (tands thus, Dextmfavimtefiafl' ,1 _ Him“), rem rcplaudm. The Greeks fay vu'7r7mauqm2tm‘nafld :Libanius mz'tew, xpéuew, fiawiCm, m'Ies'm-tw 7d uémm, and xow'z'flv an Bafiixco W‘moamhfi. Hence Heliodom: of his old man 9‘ Cumfirizfitfiomcm (fr collacmmafit. And Liéd- mm 3 "444;, be A'rt ofManuafl Meterickel him ante Pierfidn King,- 04pm iaémia'am per-mtg: myzleplqmi. :" And We t‘eadit to 'hai'e3been thé forms ”of lamentatibn u’fed by the Spartans {if théir funeralls. But of this dalofim ad j'unfl: of difciontentfind angry ’{yrn’ptome of'gfiezfed natute,’ Tul/igjn 3 kinds of medley ofnaturaii inVafion's , . and REetori’call impreffions‘ of the Ham! apon‘ ‘ 23% the affailed Body, makes this rehéa'rfa-ll: 17/235115? u C's“ i 96m ldcefatione: gammy; ‘Pefisrig,fiining,,‘,’ “Pi" ti: pqrmflz'm That this geflure was ufed in fight-4 fication of [537172, S.‘ Cbrjjofiome dediarés, Who? ‘ when he had upona time, 1 with an incredible . force of utteranCegtehea'tfed diVer's impiOué and” Chryfog": ridiculous {uperfiitions‘ obferved by fome ofthe‘r om: °' people; ‘ he madethe whole multitude ofhis alt-i Ants ditots a/med. Of Wh’ofe [Mme he puts ddwd three vifi‘ole arguments , in‘ wotd‘s [dunding to? this Efi’i‘ffi : Vidtum operviifiia, Frontcm‘ pertuflz‘flzé‘; 6" ad , term»; inclinafiét. Thisxp’é’véléfi yi’rwkror; in another place bee expteffeth‘i'nf his ownel 13mg 6 language thus : what-12’ weae‘abrév'y That it W333€ttfi$59 fignificant’ in wonder and admiration, appextes‘ by‘ Nam: 21 great Poet, who attributes thié g'efi‘u‘té ‘ Nqfinus? to admiration; in his paraphrafe of the facred Hi3 :Johmg fiotiefofs. film ; whefe; of Mt/Jflflm’l, Wondringi Fitz}??? ttthe dbé’crine of our Saviour : . , " ‘ 6.16M}? mgcc‘ m’nam 9%0Ucfié?.j,c€1’€t‘fid7itdg. 5 . ‘Prcmdmz'mtia’ne Framer/'2 divim mamifirimf; E Hanniéalttfed this ad junta ofex'preflion as a' (he; tagem; at the battaile of Cannes: Who Whert Gffi‘m game of: like Rate and nobtiiitie with lilmfteifié,~ told him’that the enemies feemed afatg r” . . x A o to be agree: number ;‘ Hanniéal-[mééing’ bi: ‘1’}“szf‘ji’fi forehead] anfwered him : Yea, {aid be, but there! “of ”by ”another thing more to’be wmdred at then You ' i E thinks “i595 5o. , CHIRONOMIA30rii minke of,Gifi:an. Gifl'on [freight asked, What? Mary, faithhe,this; That or all the great muti- her of Souldiers you fee yonder , there isnom man of them called Gifcanfis you are. This‘merr anfwer , delivered contrary to their expefiarion that were with him , looking for tome great . weighty matter [ futable to his gefiure] made them all laugha good. . This gefture , although it Was with thef‘e {en-i {es admitted, the hands of the Ancientsryyerit Crefol 1.x. appeares to Cre/"ollim in the poffibilitie,.df a ' doubt , thithel‘ 01‘ 1101.: can now with-awed:- vantage be done , it being little ufed byzA-dvo-ti , cates, and the more judicious fort of men ,lithaLt ;. fpeake in qublique; unleile rperth-anceiby fueh who are 052: more hot complexion , and are apt to boyle over with a {udden motion, whofe chad; let in the feethingmuhbles into action 3: foim‘e‘n- of this temper,foone moved,’as havinga natural} 7 inclination to anger, inthe vehementrfervencid of paflion , hafiily and» {wiftly with the-,Hand' touch the forehead or Cap : which afiionybfl « caufe there manifei’tly appearesinitthe virtuall ” cheek and commotion of Nature , it commonly efcapes the lafh ofreprehenfion. But faintlyand ‘ childifhly apply’d,and favoring more of Schools artifice then the intentionall operation of Nature, it is condemned as feigned and adulterat‘e‘; for which reafon, my Author concurres in opinion With ,fluintilz‘m , and adjudgeth it worthy 0 banifitment from the Handof an Oratour ,n and to bee Confined to the Theater , and the r14 diculous Hands of Mimicks. Unlefle it RFC?“ good to any to referve it as a relique of Dlvma. Couriflmp a, which they report the Paloximgto 0C1 Rhet. Infl. The M «3/ Mam!) Rbez'rb‘rickei 5‘5 ace; who in their Churches at their holy myflc; ‘ rim. are wont to beat their fore-heads with the 11927151. \ i l He Thigh {mitten ‘ with xxx 3 E- the Hand, was the geflure , 3 i ‘OFQflEP/mdiflg more ive/éemehflj, ofonegrigmd and fuming with 'md‘é‘fm‘i’b”: Of mating ”wire of .215 ’ other: arrow, or can/effing kimfi’lfé (leached. : Tw’liz‘e 1361de that afiion Of an Urat‘dt'fr Cicero“ in’ ? feighned , who in fome grieVoui's matter defer? Brute & ving the (hermit hate and heaviefi ifidégnfltioze, advert Mia did not ufe this exprefiionfor he éans Caz/[Maia Callid. told and dull Oratour , and argues his guilt from hence, that in his Gration, Neg; fi'vm permfl‘afo‘e rat mfcfemyr'. The firfi Oratorir‘rhat uied this g'é- mama 'flur'e, by the tefiimony of the old Annales; was 1:1 Gracd‘i; [lamb who when he pleaded in Athens, that fa- mous m’anfibn oFthe Mufes , tranfported with a certaine vehemencie, and provocation offpir‘itg and moved with indignation , {mote his thigh, which when he had vented With‘other fu’ch like fignes of a fierce, and turbulent difpofition, many, Wife men thought himto have thruPc all decorum: > and laudible moderation our of the Pulpit :’ This; {many afterwards did imitate, at the firft thought 05 for the noVehy,but in the ufe of common life E z ‘ very, ’ gazing.“ -= «1.4. mm = 53 CHIRONOMIA:O‘1‘, very frequent. 'i:his geliure prudently,and with good advice exhibited, hath a cunning force to amplifie and enlarge a thing, and to flank; and “fig. m‘jb the minds of the Auditoursflcopeliam: a man Philofira- of greatel’t amount for eloquence,as Thilaflram tuslibJ. , hath delivered, it to pofierity , that he might dc vita . rowze up himlelfe and his Auditours, now and 5”“th then ufed this patheticall demeanour of the Hand .- This,as it was oftentimes neceffary in the Forum , {0 very fecible in thofe large pewcs , where thofe that were retained in caufes did plead : but in our times, and the manner of plea- ding which we now ufe,it is neither {0 frequent, neither can it {o commodioufly be done : But a- nother thing hath fucceeded in the room there- of, which the writings of the Ancients are 6- km in ; for the Advocates eagerly beat the Bar with their Hand: , and iometimes {o madly and, importunately,that the {tanders by heartily wifh their Hand: qualified with fome Chiragracall' prohibition. This blemifh and infirmity of the y , Hand, hath crept allo into holy places,'and there are many Preachers found, who with an incon- fiderate rafhneiie {bake the innocent Pulpit, while they Wax warme , and conceive a vehe- ment action to excella This action asitis leafl nnfeemly when the wicked deceits and notorie- ous difhonei‘ties of men are called in quellion, {o .‘uied without judgement, it argues a turbulent and furious motion of a vaine minde , and dulls the Auditours. “ ~ Canon He left hand thrufi: forth .KXX”? with the Palme turned -‘ k i laacka Tb? Art OfManualI Rhetorické. 5'; backward , the left {boulder ratfcd, {0 that it may aptly con; {cut with the head hearmg to the Rig/it Hand, agrees wzth their intention who ref/Mk, 45¢ borfikte/ifir aéamz'mzte fdme ex? ‘ecrable thing, againfl which their mindes are hentas a dis [13116qu ohjeét, which they a would {cem to 654% may, and repel]. ‘ With this Aétion thcfe , and things of the like nature, are re be pronounced : ‘ Haud equidem tali me dignar 110mm, 5-731}. I‘d/cm terrzét awrtitc pcflem.’ \ \ ’ E THC left hand eXPIained into rig/$10; a Palme, ohtaines a forme of peiflicuity. Thefe two laft Canons are exceptions againfl: t the generall maxime of‘fiptimz'l.‘ Alammfimflm Vt - ‘ Wigwam fold gqflzm facit. 1 In; Bpgh * A 3, «J. rum “L; ’7' ,. 133.12.! 54‘ CHIRémoMrgngg-r ngIV Oththe turned out Palmes more pasfionate forme of date, flation, as being a. redoubled afiicm. .» 3:40;; BOth Ham/r objee'ted with ' the Palmes adverfe , is a! forewight adjunét of pronuncie ati‘on , fitto helpe the utterance ‘ ofwords cramming out in deleq fiation, déflnte and éxproémtion. . fig}; D 0 th Hands eXtended forth, . the Palmes driving out to both: fides, doubles the Aétion £0 a“ the fame intents and put”? @30ch 9f Weflnefle, Beth; 0th Ham/1" clafped and xiii??? II; wrun 3* toguther is an Adki— on convenient to manifcflgricfe and [arrow 0th [1143615 dE'jeded, [flake Comm . XXXVIIL flipp/zcatian mere Canonu y call. BOth Hand; 3 little or faire X04110»; dif joyn‘eJ, flaew the man-iv ' ‘ W and 45117161121269. The)” OfManuaH Rbetomke _ I 0111 Hike]: extended out Canon '3 forward tOgfither, 15 an Aa XL étion commodious for them Whofitémit, inW/ge, doubt, flea to ,accufgor call [1} mmejmploré or attefl. With this Afiion are {uch as thefe to be fet 0E $0 the befi 0f utterance, Va: 11/514115 Twmdi mg; E A: Llflufia ‘55 JCHIRDNOMIAtoyr; . (gm. Pm Luci, was, inquamjmploro my; aéteflar .' And that 31110 :19. add” laitmiqn of Grace 19141,,an gm mfifer Capfirm g 3 ' -' Iquo wrmm .3 in Capitaliumxe :’ atfi'atrig flagging ‘redwdat, (in 40mm?» ? (fit. The figme emphafis 9f 336m pm ‘éaion is required to that of Cicero , Tn exedita Mdo’né. .gmnte latialéc‘figpiter, cujm ill: lasagfiemargfimfg ,9 ' [ape 0mm" nefarioflupro @flelere mecxglamf, ' ' a? B01211 kszmfl: lightly {mitten ‘ ' " mgether? IS convenient (3.. nough to exPrefle a certaigc anxiam mm’ turéulgnt beat of 004 I gimzfz'an afar: Orarourjthat (gme “‘th {qfficiendy explaine‘ his gninde? or doe as he wguld. [refolliw conceives that infiin qr: articgdax,‘ iba’t finfillz’an {peeks ofzis an elegant and Come- ly 3&qu in the Hand& of the ancient Rhet‘oriei- Tans , and {o' commendable that they ufed it as a‘ Manuall introduflzon to their Oration$ a was “9 {ether but this Afiion. ‘ ” K‘ “ " " ' ‘ »~~_. 5,: I He Hand: gently {er toga? ‘ gher by a (wee; appmacha WQDE a 59W (Quasi. by theiv . ,. lghg . . ~ h..- “—1 \._..»_... 1‘ e 4'. ”’ibkrt PfManQaH Rhetbrzckef , light ence‘v unte‘r or com plefi an; make an opportune cadet-ate Of Aéfimgoattendthe c/Je gripe: , riod; of a y/kntence. This Afi'von was cemmended by theprafiice of Frame/Eu: that acu>mplifhed OratQur, of Old time , the Mailer of brave {peach ,' and grace in readylpeaking‘,who ;public‘kly pleadedhis éaufe 3'; Athens :0 the great admiration of’ all men, of whom one ofhisAuditours,Eunapiw,fthus {peaks «prone/{m ordimrfiumm quodaam armimi: [£3533 latperiodal Pal/1'4 mmmfinieni. - , 30th Handr’fmitten tggether £31”; with a certaine kindeofgra‘ ' ’ viry, doth afirme with R hetea ricall afiwmtien. BOth the Palmes helcl refpe; £33: 1 {five to the body 2 declare ' “ benewlence. ' .' 0th Palms held averfe be; £135» 1 forethe Elfififi?“ ote com? ‘°‘ Merma- . - Th , up ‘ Francife. . ; Jumdc ,' piaura ‘ ' ‘ Yetcrum. ,~._; V Came» .‘ XL??? CHIRONOMIA :Or; :«Thisifiétionawith this fignificatio’nJ have ob: ferved in form: aqdentpainted tables,thc Hand: of Bcifnniég Monfis. And verily , withcut thé knowledge of the naturall and a-rtificiall proper— ties ofth’é Hand , as F rancifirm funim well; ob— fcrves,it is impofiible for any Painter, or Carver, " or Plafiiquc to give right motions to his works or Hamf ; for as the Hifiory runnes and afcribes paffions '20 the Hdfld, geflures and motions mufl; Come in with their accommodation. The no- tions (therfore) ofthis Hand may bee of good ufe for thézdyfinccment ofthofe curious Arts. * He HMdfeadaérefiw-td150th fidgs, are We}! ddpofcd to iiflx‘tigfebfco reqfléfl. " IF both Hands by turnes be . have themfelves with equal! Art , they. fitly move to {scoff any matter that goes by way of flntit/aé/i: or opfofitian. f ’ ‘7 E may ufe likewife the advantage of 139th (finds, her: wec‘woulé ..... ,. ... ., ». Er? 4 112’ L prefent by fomeample giefg’cure «I the imenflt) of thingja..»ttfgm¢ , am far and Wide éxaehigégrat nmntléezgtdlmofl infinitégfizge ‘gfio ' r8 ~ 0. wh thvye , reiterate by corgduglaimtigm; ’ " rOth Hand: modem ex" (“”0” 7' tended'éfifl erec'tc’dimto XUX.’ ~ the {boulder points, is JaproPer forme ofpué/icke benedzfiifinlor the ‘Hands ofan Eccléfiéfiicall Oxatour when hee would dif- ; miffehis Aurjitours. It was t1};- cuf’come of the Hebtew Divinesm Godwin obferve thxs Decorum 1n elevmonof the Hand: in his for {olemne Benediéfion. And the Romanifis booke of 1 who in matter 0f ceremony much emulate the the Wi‘ 5 externall devotion of the Jewfin all their exten— 22$? ‘ {ions and elevations, ofthe Hand, WhiCh they “[6 Heb. in bleffing, keepethem withinthefeprefcribed ” ' bounds : Not that there is any myf’ceryein this point , only the elevation of cthkrm’ declares goat we have ghogen 11,53:me things, according - -« ‘ ’ to k, 7 “ ‘7 : ~:, , “Al‘fi ‘I 1:2? 7. V ’( .4 I '5.) t The Art ofMdmtalI Rbemricej ' 7 ‘ 5" ' Aui- . _ , :_ 4 r 'J-‘za'ra‘ : ‘ 60 - CHIRONOMIA:OI'; Origen t6 Origm , and the extenfion or fpreading eutoF Emu. the Hand: fig’nifies the effeétuall force of prayers, 3:23;. ‘7‘ as Rafi! expounds it. Terra/lien therefore regu. B W ;n lating the Hand: in this rite to a decencie of mo- jfdjah. tion , would have them temperately and mo. Tertul.dc deftly etefied; whereupon it fccms to me,the Paj- Orat- ‘8?— pilis conforming their Rubrique to'the Jewilh 3' Talmud, limit the Prielts Hands, not to over- 39311303 > _ - , - I Comm“: top , or exceed the dvltance of the flioulders.‘ 3n Rub“. This lolemne Aflion,according to fome modem cas Rom. Expofitors,implies the folemnity of a prefentati— on of the Auditours to Gad in prayer , and doth Hookers: denote unto them Gods famurahle goodnefl'e’, Egg" ' proteflion , and {pirituall fienediflion , defires P ' God to confirme the blefling given, who opens with his Hand: , and fills all creatures with his hl’eflings‘. and leems to Wifh the accomplifhment of all that is comprifed in their Manuall vote. That Priel’cly Blefling or {olemne Bane-dime», ‘ with which the Prielts under the Law blefled the People, was apparantly uttered and pronounced by this advancement of Geflure: becaule they ' fiodwins could not lay their Hand: on all the Congrega- chxfla tion , they lifted them up onely to the fhouldere Amiga» points: the ordinary forme that was then in tile. was to impofe the Hand, which couldpnot be done with any decent expedition ; and this the ‘ Levites conferred face to face , from the place whercthey”ffiood. Sucha {olemne Rem/5W0» the; 7, ,, was that where with Mc/cbi/edw/J is {aid to have " ”p blefled Mamba»), when he met him in his re- turnefrom the (la ughter of the Kings, and ‘blefled him. The like was raaifed by the Hand of laying; Mara», when he li up his HandstoWards the People: are! khaki theta: A516! Site?! the) gig“ ” '" ‘ fill. ts The In OfMdgtuafl Rhetoriehe: midi , thq fonne oinnim ,‘ in finifiaing the (a; ‘ lemnefemceJifted up his Hand: ovetthe whole 1‘ " ' , Congregation of the children of Iftacl, to give ECHIIMO‘: the blefling of the Lord with his lips. {The‘pcbl ’13?! ' ple boiaving themflel'ires, that they might teeeive a asa- a’bleflihg from the molt High" The form: of which folemne Ecuediétion the Pfilmifl: gives us : Lift up yqu‘r Hands to the Sanflkatjfindprmfi the Lord. The Lord that hath made heaven out! earth, Blefl‘e thee out of Siam For this the Levites ufed’to praife the Lord , and bleflethe People. Spirimall Emedifiian having been ever accom- panied with this facred Manifelto of the Handf.’ Hence we finde it obferved , that iarflnong the Hebrewes of old , when the Ptiefi blefled the ; People, they Mac! to area three fingers , to wit, theThumbe, the Index, and middlefinger ; .by which‘numbet of their fingers theyftacitely im— . n plyed‘a Secret of the Trinitie. Petra: Bleflénfi: {eemes to1 allude to this afiion of the: Hand. Hi; Petr,BIefl‘. Benedifliokihu: flcerdas alts: Bcflt‘ditetzs, protm/M Trafi. ante eta/tum ftmm Tabitha utrafqtte tenthat. Cum, c éfazg‘fig were) dicehttt,‘Dominw ,. qgod (& Hehmico i/lo trinq P '- Cé' monotnim exprimehtmt, Trestdigito: prior”, id eff, "Policem, Indicem; (6' Medium atria/é m4- nmrcfltzm \(év altim stigehat, (5» difloiitéflhmino,‘ digim remittehat ut prim. Addzt flatim; Quid per trium digitomm elevations?» melim quhm Tn:- m'tatia excellentia myflich‘ihtelligi potefl ? 4.: qtm [ct Saidmon " Trecenfis ' Comment 11m 72m: (é plaza Behediflio. A ‘Gefl‘ute of the} m smpt, Hand; ufed in the fame fenfe and figqificatiooiby idem tea; the Pope at this day : A Who when phasis catried “91th upon mens {boulders in Iolemnc proceflion ,_ with the fame pofiure of his Right Hand..and »» ~ rAmber of his fingers , befiowes his panogcall ' ‘ mac 65 ~r Cm Retro ~14 1 A : Or} ., 3e392i’ifliv’fi?”fipotj ‘thE‘fp‘qbplc ,‘ jo‘hel ‘wi; Egg; Vmg themimto é‘ . Cro ‘ ‘. > "Baxt0#12114?fayes,5 jut]; ffiitt’hétmddEtHEJéwsm the feat of that Paffe, Wfifihgtfi‘hfi’Ptiel’t af‘t‘Httend offlth'eir P’ray'qr‘s Bkflé’th thiefipeople , hc‘éx‘t’e’fidsiand {prgads ‘ag. fib'afél‘his‘l'flyzzdiahd Fihgqrtri, which they'ican *Cbaifiumm, 5‘ WhérEupoxj‘ Sikec‘hz‘fié: o‘fi'tfie Giétfe flit!“ ‘Maieffie bf (30d ‘, 'déffi t'ePc upon this Hand: 'Bf‘the Priefi'; Wher'efore’théy give a firi‘Efihargc that none ("fifthc people prefume toloé‘kc‘updn their -Hatids‘atthat time, finlefi’ehfle wguld be fmitfe‘n With blindnefTe. Add in the 13639: ofRe- mama-m, when the Prieft pronounfieth the Bleifirig 5 "he.“exteridmuth‘is‘Hand: towards thé peOple; ; ithgfpeopleprgféntly hidethe’ir eyes with theit £121:de , it b‘E’ifig )iinlafv‘vfull‘ 10f '21ij t9 beho'ld'thé Hand: oftthti‘efi ; as it isgwrfiitte'n i (3mm; 9; fiefioldkeflanux ée/yind that-25222113, lac [aokfiififoflb at .4 {be Winnie» ,L‘flitm'ng bimfelfii ,wr‘oggb :beijice .- '4»“:;1‘;'*"1f'h'at1’85gfitaifian‘ds béhindic the Pt‘icfi; and t 5‘; :zl'QOkFth firtthtjgtfk‘gh the wiig‘ddwes and'htticc‘si w:t‘hatfis, "through the ftpt'e‘ad ,ngndj ,'.“a"fid. dip Gavmus p¢1§féd‘fifiggtjfiflof the Ptifiefi‘ , whichkttteHe- in Cotn- b'r‘cwes ‘caftl‘the ‘wmdoW‘es and lattijgc‘s of thc ment.in Hand. ~TirefiRubtiques \of theRomiflmRites, Rubric. Which feé‘xfidfit‘ little to iquintrhi‘s Waygfiréfdibc RomtEcdg three fdffii'eusé: of Bencdiflio’n for the, Hand: of ’ _ ,_ the Prickff‘Theholding up ofthe'HMii! be- fcrejthe b‘réaft -: The crloffin 0mm Thumbes: A >3 .'1 and “the’vti’itning the little’“I-tsnger‘tdwards the » ;.P€0P1¢- ' Aug-Which hafi? "their {everall ,feafons See Math. and fignificéfiotls in the‘irLittirgie, Out blefféd 1953- Saviour Waé a‘mamfeft obférVet of the Naturall ink-244° forme ‘o'f'fBeIeea’ifliw, .ahd‘hath {anflifiéd (ht? 963m: t6 a more divine importance. After '“ “ " ‘ ‘ ‘ Chrifis 39F chrifts: attention , the Apoflles communicating the vcfmcaf i115 laft Bdifiediaion ’19 oihgfsfin the conveyaswees thereof iufed the {this eatpreflioné by geiture ,. and were famous for the effeétuail force of—txhgr prqueripg §§»41\,=m thirrexempla- ry afiio‘na‘Was copied mew thbififi‘chéfféfits, ~the illuftrious,, Fathers of the Etigfitixe. : Church , whore Hands” preferved'Bleflin .. fast their lips Knowledge. 3 Chfiitiianlsiin the? ééee’being de- voutiy ambitious of fuch benefits, thought them- felveshappy when they could receive this (pig ritugll favout: a: éhei; Hand's} ,, . . _ 7, ’x. , 5T"? - .. i-& w swan ~ ,1 *- I ~' “3"" x,” 3 “ ;_ There 19a i’cm‘ytflfi'régoffi ijfmmf'a "Deacon of the giihop ofNéocg/arigt 3 _ whoigtel’peét of Greg: _ the Wé’etful fiesr§ethings ‘Which‘he’ Wrought Nyifi in I by his ihfpited 35”,, ‘ adventurous jouti’geyg requefiedafileflin ‘ gtthe Haiaidti‘oifihiis Diorama: i'vyhor litdxf‘g Iii? fingHahdi‘, molt \gvigilylingly bei‘towed this 4219211441! viaticum upon him; This é‘o‘zfifotta‘b'ie elevation‘of the H4014 In Bcgzediflion, hath a form gt this day in theiiit’gz‘iyofi our R:*eVe’tend~"'DiviHES’: "Anti (va— rilyfi) there is no Blefliqg_f9rmally confirr’d no: a‘tithéhticéily admifi‘ii’cred ', ‘un‘lefie the Hand: de- note their filfli‘:§zg€s by their vifible attendance,‘ and aware in a due 'lconformi‘tie {to "the Words ditcficdunto thesgcai‘é.’ And I never {aw any Graveor Orthodox Divine from thePulpit, dif- miffi‘ngwthe P‘eoplemith a Bléfli‘ng,v . . . . 4., ,-: ‘ n ‘ « ~ L . 1 1, -'. ~:.'i.r/ ~’ 1 ‘ V r» 11.1w yr" A. 7.‘ - ' 68 Apuleius lib. z. Mc~ tamorph. . Lihanius Curt. Hetoum. CHIRONOMIA: Or, afiiOn. Of which gelture of the Finger: , AP”. Iain: hath left a certificate, Where Tclepbran,Por. rigit dextmm, é iii/I'm" amtamm conformal: articu. lxm , duobafg; infimi; conclafi: digitzk , (hetero: mi. ”mm parrigit, (j. ixfifio pollice clementcr /n6rigen:, 5’4"" Fulgmtiu: expounds this common fafhi- on of the Handafter this manner, 1:49;, compo/i; m: in dicmdi madam crew/g3, in iotam duoém digi‘. ti3,tcrtium pollise camprimem, im werlm exarfu: of}, who differ not much . but that one makes the Thumbe ereé’t , the other comprefl. Many have made mention of this matter, Libanim where he defcribes Neflor painted in the mlddelt of the Hero’s, Oratiomm 4pm! ipfo: barber: vidcéamr, My; fignificare conformation: digitomm , but what that conformation of the Finger: was, he doth not explaine. But the molt ufuall garbe of the Hand in way of preparative to {peech , was this of 11-: pnleim.’ ‘Which poflure of the Hand preparingg » the Auditours attention; is found in many Sta-; Gtuttetus ' in Sylloge infcript. tues of the Ancients. There is a Coloffns at! Rome , which in times pelt l‘tood in the Baines Ofvfntbonyfihc left hand whereof leaneth upon ‘ a club; but the two firl’t Finger: of the Right; Hand extended out with the Thumbe , fuch as of? old time was the geflure of Oratours {peaking .4 as Gmmm notes, which molt authenticall co-‘Zj pic of fpeech they leem to have followed,who[ .Q Hand the golden Hifiory of the Crolle in Cheaé Was , for there were to be feene two {tame oifi'nitted Prclates having their Hand: figured 19: this manner, asif they were {peaking to the pew ple. And in old hangings,in whofe contexturea melt part of the Hiltoricall difcourfe is reprefen— . ted and iefiyuatcd by gefiutct .0! the HM «' A23: The Art anzmMH Rhetoricke. in all ancient painted tables where any counter: fair of fpeech is exhibited,nothing to obvious and remarkable as this “Rhetoricall poi’ture of the Fingers. And the inventions and painted Hing- rics of our moderne Attifts in their reprefentati~ ms of {peech had in publicke, have a conflant relation and refpeét unto this ancient forme of the Fingers And over theancient images of the Prophets , which pollifhed by the Hand: of the kinks, come over to us from the Mart , thereis ufually a Hand extended out of Heaven, impail’d about with rayes , the Finger: retaining this ge- titure,as it were the Index of God {peaking to his Prophets , as He was wont to doe of old, when He Ptirred up their hearts , and fitggei’ced His {acred Oracles unto them. For fince they would not by any fitting femblance or fancied ‘ pouttraiture of inventive wit , defcribe God as 1 He isin Himfelfe ; lei’t impiety {hould have rain- ? ted their imagination , and they fhould {eeme to i make the Prophet equall to his God,they would not by a grofle difcription {hadow out God {peaking Face to {ace , becaufe the Face pre- lents the Petfon, Nudam rDie/23mm Ejfmtiam, as Ricrhiard , Brix'ian ; cleerly as heis in Himfelfe : but Hee ijga’n hath never been feen in that manner by dreame Symb. or vifion of His Seers, noris it poflible any more .‘tall eye (hould endure the infinite lufire of {0 great a Ma jelly : therefore to evade the pro- phaneneiie of that prefumptuous errour,they on— jlydifplaieda Hand from Heaven, to thatintent offignification,as a more lawfull note; and as it Were a member more remote from the face; and becaufe the Hand is the Index,and figne of infpi— lineng and that Divine power and impulfive ra- ’ ’ 17 3 viihmfml 96 ' 1342:“; gag/5:45“ in). «am ' :70, x. CHIemsxomweOr,‘ viflment'wherewith the Prophets were mifed up to Prophefie. For,Prophefie if it be firong, Ribera with the Hebrewes it is called the Hand, as Riée. {Comment 74 obferves 3 in which {enfe the Hmdof God is in‘PFOPh- taken in divers places of f Seripturefior the Pro, m‘fimr'. phets ufed to call that Spirit the Handof God Soszg‘ . _. g . . . . , which fell upon them when hedml mipn'ethelt 2 Chron. difpofed; foules, and'heating them with the ravi- 30.1 z. {hing influence oFa Prophetique fire,by a terrible 11123.”. illufiragien, filled them firangely fullof His re.L BTW; vealed will? qunelim g2 Lapide affirmeth him; 3' 1:23.}; {elfecte have feen the like defefiption of the Pro- 37.x,4c.1 phets in the ancient Bibles of the Vatican Li- :&C- ' ‘ breryfindin his Comment upon the four greater- EOTPEINE Prophets, he hath prefixed to their Prophefies aplde ,. Comment the1.r feverel} ufiges after the fame manner,“ in 4Pr°Ph w'meh, as.1tzs_ probable,were coped outof the major. Yatiean Blbl-es. » _ ‘ - He Thumbe ereét, the 0:? . ther Helge“ gently bent in, is‘a convenientcompofition- of the Hand for an exert/Mm and: to I‘Ead’ to the forming of the ether ateliens of the Hand; efi' ufed by om; modem C1113, mnemere ' * - £54m?! ‘ 9H? If 51792er b/Mm w / R}; #7 eiirzcfie: '7 1‘ IF anything be to bat/Lewd, am” the Thumb muf’c be bent in, 11L the other foure Finger: remifle. THC [Mex joyned to the CW _. ‘ Thumbe, the other fin»- Ive J gm remiHE, is anather forme of the Handfit fer ah exam’ium. He 111iddlefiszger applied 6ng . untoehe fhmfibeghe o; ' {her three 16: leofe, is a faflzion 6f the HAM, mafiof a‘ilcoma modious fora ‘Proém. This Afiion magi": be performed with a gentle motion to bofh (ides, the Haw! a litde put fetch, ‘2 the Head mgether with the {boulders ,} Witha. 1 {hrinking moflefiyxegarding that part to which 3 the Hand is carried. In Narration the fame ‘ gefiure, but a little mere produced and certaine ; i in Exproiémtiwz 3:253 mgmg, {harps and inflam; for-in thefe parts of an Orationit is put forth r longemmi appearesinalargerexteur. Wnich y ‘1: {koala bee the bef’s Rhemricali figure 9% {he 3, w t lt‘ 3, }« A Hawaii V a gi‘i i ‘ ' “we‘vxzzr‘ 4n 7 _ : 7 '~ 7 - 7 . 7:7 7 ‘ 7 7 , 7-. 7.7V . 7 7 v. e 77 d7 ' .w‘ ’ £29.}; '; ”522.; w .7" . - a“ 3 . , 'i, I‘m“ 7. 23.43.; .5 5‘ w. > A A‘Am 4 A. r. . _Cntaonomrt : Or; I—land‘to frame it to cxprefle by Art what it can; notfo wellmfinuate by Nature; neither by the ufe and practice of experienced and eloquent men that now are, : nor by any advertifement of the Ancients can he certainly collected, lines. they differ much about the matter; Iome pro- nounce with the unfolded Hand, thefe holding it downwards , others contraflit , and make ' thereof 3, Fill 5 {ome frametheir action by the fourth Canon, {ome by the fifth Canon ; Which V Qgimilimz commends above all other formes allowed to be of any moment, to fer a gloffe or yernilh upon difcourfet So many Oratours, {0 many varying and different formes of (peaking, Stremde But [re/012m: whole judgement is Oracular in” 3‘?“ 0”" fuch matters, conceives that pofiure belt ob- i’b'z’ ~(carved by, an Qratour, that when hec pronoun! ceth with the open Handheld abroad, and iet at liberty, he would not hold it wholly downmor altogether upwards, butin a certaine meanc . which as it is (according to the opinion ofPhy-a fitians) molt naturalls as be news it out of the Hippom. two grand Patriarchs of Phyficke, {o it feemes iffgfhs, to him molt ealie and aoreeable to modefiy, , alen , A . p . . _ , de mom although this ought to be in common ufe,yct up‘ 3,5“th on occafion the Hand may fall into the other 90+ erum3.a.fiure$t ‘ A ' " ' " ‘ [”023 m He two middle Fingers ,, = brought under the t/aumé, if? 53:0 Adlon more inflant and impartunatejand dath urge more then [1: convenient for anEXOr. diurn or Narration. " ‘ TH E top of the Fore». nger moved to joyne with the naile of the Tlmmée that’s neXt unto it,-the other fingers in re.- mitter, is opportune for thofe who relate , aitflinguifl) , or “I” prove. ’ Tis aifo fit for them that wild!) councell , and becomes the phrafes of pompous E/ocuti» on, With which Metariciam poliih and enrich their Oratia ons, ’Tis feafonahle alfo for Mrmtz’onr and Tanegyriquer, where a fair 6; pellucid Oratig on flowes with the copious fireames of Eloquenge, and it ' " avafiet thOfManuabt "27,? 1"“ A” {A . _7 ViCE-‘H R dubfinl'Orz availes in an? Mfited‘kiflfle of fPeec/J, and agrees With an“ (EFF dixu. 7, Crefollim commends this compofitionlof the e Fingers, as mofi; comely of all others , and con- " fonant to ingenlous difpofitions , if the arme be [anon NHL extended out fore-right,which heft agrees with" a ”Stanly and”t0umgious fpeech : or the Arm: a lit- tle bentafldfle Hand lifted up before 5' a gcfiure; much? dé'efled by elegant men” ] _ THe two Ial} Finger: drawn tothe botteme of Cythca 'rea’s'btawny hill, or the pulp: of the 'Tbumb ; the Team!) ap‘a pre‘fiunto the mifldle jo‘iy'ntof the two new : if the Dexter Hand [0 formed, (10:: fihite with" ~ afigh‘t’eercumenen[hammer ‘Palme’; it doch Eeonfpiéu OUflY dy’irtéute 6C digéfi‘ the ‘nfiifib'ers: arguments, afi‘aimembers‘ ofan‘ Grecian. ' “file to the middle? of the mile ofthe nght Inc?! X,: tWTe other Pingsxs rcmifle is fit to d/Zm’ gwif/y (ontmrzw. " , , .z H a left mmprefi’dwaé by- the [Mex of the Right rfand, dorh urgeandinflmtgy " I: g: enfOrce an argument. . ' v Tm: 20p or grape of the RR Index gently appmhende d, ’ Canon XI- puts the Hand Intoa R1 lTetomcal {hape for dzflmtatiofl. fan: middle joynt of the RR Index apprehended intends Cam» L} R‘ 2411., more earne/z‘nes and {uhltmates the fer-TR ofwei-ds unto a: paint efgxeatc webmzmcz” THE; THCP mp oRhe Thuméjoynd CW 6 .; : "(’1' h F . Tc “» l V T ‘ M of 5' ‘4 - , l v ,x L ( anon; ‘11 a , 1.: ‘ ‘-? ”j! ‘1 E L . T : ' T 1 2 ' ' T‘ L T; T ; ’ ~33”; ‘ ' '1‘st 76 7v CHIRSNEMi-Ai Or“ cam: THE upper onnt of the Index ' apprehended, the two nexc 2 Finger; al2 ttle Bowed the cure— fing er in the meane time [came bent at all- hath a Rhetoricall force to flihutatianr . cm» THE W m’ finger pref’c to the Talm, and the others at their own hehefl , makes the Ham! competently apt for to upémia’. K 043» THE two Middleqingerr hcnt inward, and their Extremes prefented m a fork, doth objeét afiofl}, and doth contume/iozfl} reproach. ' $1M Tm! I/ice’banofior ‘Tbuméfixr tended out with the 8m- F1 agenthe otherFmger: drawn " in, in; doth denote amplitude. THE/75101169 that prefents it Canon 13;" :3 felfi: Uprightput ofa Righu mmg hand bent into a F ifi; is a grave - Mafia/inc aétionfit to adVancc the fenfe of Wagnanimitio.. ~ {THE Thumée turn’d out, by a [‘m‘ rcccwcd cuf‘comejs made an XVIIIo aft of “Demon/batten. THC thret'laf‘t Finger: contra} Cam éted clofe to the V’alme, and. 193‘ com refs’d by the Champion of ‘ P», . . the Hand, and the Index dtf- play’d in full lcngth; upbmides : is a point ofindigitation, mofi demon/thive- The force in this indicatoric afiion; 4ntam'e Mm. 2. neted [mflm to have skilfully ufed to Ins putt—dc 0mo ' k V ' E70562 I r w ‘ ._ 7 , " inryfievn . v V . , W, ’ ’w-F'm. “In“, 77 .. ’ A. A. J ._ , 7 d ‘1 V 7‘ 43;? ;.’ ‘ M ~ 1.: 19; v1 r‘ ‘1 . ’ ‘ "Mm/anuwe; "* 4 AWW“,'W_-M ii ,-_.—.- A“ L f A < . 78“ CHIRONOMIA Or; pofefin expreHing his camel} griefe,a11d me V125- hement affcétion of his minds.- 6944 me karmic, C’mfle, 64172 4 te tmé't'matw m emf: borrerefizlco, - 1411M, 1m 4131.471”, Mum: dalor, 00:11:35, wzlm, (go/ht, Diglto demq 161110 1110, fignificari [0151' 0; her very excellent Pleaders, imitated this notable gift pf Nature , or exquifite endeaVQur and affe- flion of Ardifi that wealthy Oratour; as we may ggther 9111311511112 monuments of the Ancients.- . 3 To whom (faith Crefillim) thus {peaking , we ‘ Senecal 8 may cry out; as Seneca rcpmts a faire—fpoken 0-» ' ‘ 3 ' i3. Comm ratour once did 111 a certaine Declamation ofhis: ~ "‘ 0 @igimmz 424114 f gmfimntem' 6;)?ij THC index cre 61:11 {ram 3 F27? doth CM‘UC’ 11ml expeé? 41161212; on and,1f mov ’,d it doth 1151141611 and 481201111011. 6‘ m1: THC index advanmd from aflfl, XXL and 1111:1111 ’d refpeétive to the fhouldex - bath a great facultie to confirme 601195 and refiite. ' 1 Tm“; 1d This feexfies to be that Afiion, which Termh f5; Hermog [£411 fayes,Hermagem: Was wont to 1th to wit, :1 cap :7. Wm Tigiti accommodato- . and he calls it, Lena- ‘ ci'nim prommiatiqu. Indeéd, this Aé‘tion can doc much 111 gathering together,and reciting the . matter matter to b? debatedfiapd °9n01uded byfmafonil ‘0 Wit, wmn'that,fic take upfron‘h others, is {uch,va‘s Cannon be denyed, and ddth {eeme , WWW to fwllow , efpeciauy in can»; war/it; and Dflpupfttiqm, ‘.€When:the {falfit‘ie of “mm ‘°P*“i°"3’ a“? With. great gréfitie of * {Fee‘h‘ and: 'erefieeiz-a‘gregé a inWhichcafc' WM dares prondimcé‘shat bf'M/jniékiifi tthomoedie; .. , “grim!” C5” “WWW 'qm’fidam’helmt in' A:hcn.l.4.‘ Digitzér. * y . . He gndex"‘(thereanlcom, [W PQS’d‘ifltok 3 E173) 'tliffl’d )4qu ~ down. pler‘pendicfilag d‘oth'urge, inculcate and drive thQ-fpcint _f - into the heads of the Auditours. , ) 0th the Zfidebcés jayn’d,and cmfi E'pyrgmidicé‘ll‘y advanC’d ,- xgggg disc wait“ the $57433" thitflme: fiam were @Zemz’idland gforimu Elevatim; ‘ 3 Och the $ndexes; with *a‘figggéé * countenance mark: 57 dire» , § dad Tb: Art of .Mmu 1m; 7 * ~ ~7— . 3 CuttioN oMutOr; eted to one fide , doe point ouc an ironicall intention. This Aflion although it may with honefiy e. nough be done by an Orateur , yet to doe it of- a ten, and to charge them itrongly and vehement- I 1y againfl: them that are prefent, as if he would dig out the eyes of his Auditory : Crefoflim ‘ makes a queftion whether iu‘ch may be thought leiTe out of their wits then that miferable matron Hecnéa, who with great force and violence flew upon Paly'mmflor : OvidJJ; ~15: digito: in perfida lamina condit .- . mum“ 0r evera whit modefter then Cleodmm , 251i ‘ intent/o digita Zmotbem'di aculum efibdit in comm} ( lucian .in via; for this is rather the gar be ofthofe who rage C‘Wlm- and rave like mad men, then of thofe who with underflanding and ‘mOderation exercife the fa: i culty of the Hand in fpeaking. [mi- , . H E Middle Finger put xxv. , forth, and brandifla’d in extent, is an ad‘tion fit to 15mm! and upéraide men with flail), ‘flemmdfie, and notation: in; car. This afiion is Magifirall in Ri'tetorique,t but grounded upon Nature .- for this Pingje'r,as fome . M . Chiro-a Chiro Crittiques’ was for its floath and anafiiVe; nefle placed m the middefl: , as {Earning to {tang in need of the defence ofthe other neighbouring? Finger}, and being longer then the rem .length and laiinefle going many Hand in Hm'zdj; may helpe to relate in a more open. way of ex'prefl‘j On,the notorioufneffe 'of their vices,who ejtceed others in vildeneffe as far as this idle Finger tip? pears eminent above the rei’c. 7 He middle Finger firongi .. - 1y comprefl by the Q‘lmmée , and their .colléfioti producing a Hurting foundfiand the Handfo caf’c out .- is an A2 étion convenient to flight and undermlue, and to eXpreHe the; The Ari ofMdnudU Qhetdricke: ‘ ‘ 6mg; 1 XVI" v J t Y M "1“ x e 2 ,__r .4 'r H V Mu u H , ‘ vanity of things, in {catching}, ‘ after WhiCh things, and the im... ' moderate Care of keeping them; the indufity and fire‘ngth of mofl: mens wit are imperti-j nently e‘xercifed and (pent. . G was 3; ‘CHIRONOMIAFOI‘, Crefollim though he giveavtolleration to this knacking adjunétof' expreflion , yethe would have it fparingly ufed,and adds in an affembly of the people, for in the Iolemne Seflion of learned and judicious men, this a&ion,pefchance, as ta- - ken from the f'ceane and Hand: of Mimiqucs,is to i be rejeé‘tcd , and left unto the cul’tomary levity of men. . , - > ' ‘ g, . $931}? the Ring Finger by .3 '~ , ’fingle Aétion goeouitfofthei open’Hand, as it were tolfirve V * the Taét, it may much advance theirutterancmvhoin difcourfl: touch and handle .a matter: lightly. This is a Magiflzrall notion ofmy owne , ne—i InflRhén Ver'thought on by any Ancient (it Modeme 111).: 1. Rhetorician, for all I can finde, ( unlelléfi flintiliam Interim fixfartm oéliquc reponitgzr , darkely allude untoit) but, grounded upon thefame principles‘of obfervation as all their precepts ofgefiureare. Galen'faies this is’the Galen dc Finger we ufe to put out when we would touch; um Pm, any thing‘lightly ; and the ancier‘it P‘hyfitians u- {ed gently to {lit their cordialls'; and Co/lyrium; With this Finger,thence called Medicm, upon which ground ofNatufe; I was induced to calf. in my mite into the treafury'ofghis Am ” The TH:- Eire Finger appea, rm ereét our ofa bended Fifi, doth by thataétion obtain a force to exPIaine more {ubufl thmgs. * ' THeg Ri htlndexrficMar; Tb? 3'5 if Min-11210 Rhetoricke: ‘ 33‘ Canon XXVIII {1mm XXIX. fhal like goo from Finger, 10 Finger, to note them out: ; wichalight touch, ' itdoth fit l the1r urpofe who 1vould 2mm» her t eir argument:, and by a; vifible difiix1étion let them all: on a row upon their Fingers. ' I ‘ Haney/'11: the (5111er Was Wont after thi§ 1 mannerto {at his arguments all onarow uponi his Finger}: But although he excelled 111 this Way of numbring, andb chviding arguments 10, the Finger: having been devmed aftet a" eerv taine manner for the numbring of things by m Univerfall and naturall €11Pcome; as" we may lfiarne out of St. Hiaram, for he {peaking 0121 'S Warm “POD his Fingers, yet others ufed that faflfion aL 1 G cor-1391115“ ' 51 w 7, 7, H, , , ,,,,, 1, 7 7hr, / 7 ,_ I v, . , 7 . WW '1“"‘T"?zf?§:‘s' , , ._.;, ‘ fl 1 7V x. <,> V > .74, I ‘25: _. Va .Jfifi“i’s’w“‘n “arm ‘ an M - 7 7‘ ‘- - .1... ’ » " .11 “r . . i. I —r—--r ~1mAm~ .111“ , Tullie Divin.in Vetrem. Cicero pro Inge manll. CHIRONOMIAEOI‘; certaine finattercr in learning fwollen with a Conceit of his owner skill , Cum “pi/fit in digin’a partire canfam, (fie. And Tail} fignificahtl‘y to the fame purpofe ,' Q‘gtid .9 cum atom/mime?“ membrfl divider: caperit , 6» in di girl}: [14:35 fingula; partcs mafia canflimere ? rQttz'ntilim idenies'thic gefiure admittance to the Hand in a mpumfull caufe, perchance,becau{e it fecms to have a cera taine {plendour and elegancie of Artifice , Anfi dc marte filiifiai , ml injuria gm: mortefit‘ gravior dicwdum patrifm't , ant argumenm didacet in 41' ,i- (as, am prapafitianuw ac partitionum captavit lipa- mn ? This gelture of the Hand is not to be ufed unleife the diftinétions and diltributiqns be {ub- ' fiantiall and weighty, bejngthiflgéfdf great rpm. merit whichwe- defire,fhould fix 8: "take deep 1m- pr‘eflitm’ in the mindes of men; and of which we are accurately and““fubtilly to difpute; for in this cafe it is advantagious to ufe-the Eugen-Jr feems probable to Crofo/lim that Tall] ufed this geflure when he made mention to the Romans of the hoe nour‘able Captaine, in whom he did nore‘thefc, foure notable things, Scientiam m‘ militaris, wire hammersritatemfivfalicitatem, which be after: Wards amplified difiinaly and particularly, with a molt high and rich variety of utterance. This numeratiqn by the Finger: ,‘ doth likewife avalle in an Egtilbgue, and _Anacbephal¢fi:, as when W6 reckon up all the chief? heads and aides of} matter in quel‘rion, which have been brought in and alledged for the advancement of truth . 0” which have been evidently refuted or proved; Hence in the Areopagetique Schooles or Coup~ cel—houfe at Athens,they painted (-‘larifippm With his f’izzgers in this pollute, for the fignifieationF _ . o The Art 0/ Manuafl Rbetoricke: bf. numbers; and our moderne Artil’ts when théy would exhibit Arithmeticke counting, ob— {chC the fame gefiure of the Fingers. Such a Statue ofArithmeti'cke there is in the new O‘vali Theater, lately Child for the difleé’ting Anato— mies in Barber-Surgeons Hall in London. TO lift up, or put forth em fame of the Fingert, is a XXX“ plaine Way of Rhetoricall &, rithmeticke fit to fignifie a final number, a {imple aetion {era ving well enough their occafi» ons who WOUIdinculcate two orthree chiefe points to an iga norant multitude. Rdfcizt: made ufe of this Arithmeti call intima- tioninltead offpeech, when he rofe to fpeake a‘ gamlt the Lawes Gaéim'm had pr‘opounded for Y’ampqu Authority againl’tflthe Pyrates :_ for Plutarth when he could have no audience , and that hee m the his law he could not be heard, he made a figne with off’ompcy his Finger: that they {hould not give Tampa): ra- lone this Authority but j-oyne another unto him ;_ while he was fignifying this by the gefliculation ofhis Hand,the people being oflhnded with him, made inch 21 threatning outcrie uponit ,A that a ., G 3; Crow :H, it ' ‘- V l " *‘i in“; 1 35$ 3.,“ H 'lll i: ”if; 591.; ». ‘4”; ll:‘ , E 1 l l l: llll' ; ‘ ill . 3 E3: ‘ . 11 ' ’ all i -— M”... A444,...“ CHIRpNQMIA : Or; Crow flying over the Market~place at that ins Rant'was firicken blinde,and fell do‘Wne among, fDion lib. the people. Then Iii/5"?“ held not only tfis gill: Tanager, but his Hamialfo. This (is molt proper-— Pymico. ly performed by the Finger; of the left hand. “ [refs/Zia: commends this way of numeration in the Hand: of our moder e Divines. So fome of the Fathers when they‘dgid expound the myftery of the Sacred Trinity , they lifted upthree Fin; gar: of the Right Hand. But this {imple way-of domputation hath been entertained fin'ce the’an- cient manner of account hath growne fame-what out ofufe.‘ For, the ancient Rheto't'ician‘s who lived in that age wherein Wit and Indultry were in their prime taking their hint from Nature, by an accommodation of Art reduced all numbers into geitures of the Hand, which did reprefent as‘i't were the lively images of numbers : And this Art of Mama/l Rhetbricke was {0 puné’tually o'b‘ferved by’ the ancient Rheto‘ticians, that it “ was accounted a great abiurdity and diipatageg ment to them'that erred through a falfe’ and 'in- , decent gefiure of computatimi , as appeareth. V‘Qgintil- plainly by gamma: who gives in this teltimo‘ £5“: 1‘”?- ny thereof 5 In can/i: Aflor ji digitamm facet” f ,‘c‘ m at}: indecotjogeflii ti computation: difentit, jfidicdtagr ifidofiun” And Apuleim reprehends this in Rfif- film}- in finn{th’e Lawyer, ‘ftthatby’a deceitfullgeflurg‘. 1‘; Oz 95' Of his Finger: he added twenty yeares 3 'Whofc , ' words alluding to the fame Arithmeticall ex‘ 2, 3(de A- premons run thus": Sitringium ”wiper dam/2‘ 1m 1 ogia 1' dixWr, puff}: wideri ‘pro campatntianz'ageflu efmflé’a a; qua: ting/aft: debun-is'digito: hpemijfet fat": w- to’qmz {mginmqmafatilim cater/53' parreflapalmulq “ramificamm, m uadrmrinmm dimidia 4“ “5 ”0" L.) J . . a t Z : “,Q :“t‘ ., ‘: ' '7' '1 5" Poffj pate: digit”; g‘fi” 57‘ "1113', iii/{forte triginta mm; mm Pudmtilla mtm, cup/g; anm' Canfuler name- .mfli. This Manual! Mritbmeticka was mUChin ufe with the Ancients,as appears by the frequent ‘ allufions to it in Authenticke Authours , the knowledge whereof will bring much light to A many obfcure and dificult places which necurre in divers old Writers, which cannot be under; Ptood Without the knowledge of this Manuel! A— rithmeticquo trace it a little through the gloomie Walks of Antiquity. Thus Seneca : Namemre E. Eng“ docet me Arithmetica nwtrz'cig accommodzre digit“. Pl ' - Term/Jinn thus : (um digitammfuppmatorizés ge- Tertul. flimlis aflidmdum. U’Vlartian. [ape/[e thus : In Apol.c.go digito: 6416;11qu di/iriéuit. The younger Tlinia Mari-C3- thus: Camponit onlmm , intendit ocular, mow: [A— P: ‘i'z'dc‘ éramgimr digit“ , nibil computat. SLAu afiin 31,5th thus : Omnmm wro de Iago re Calculantiu'm igito: Mere. refolw't” (’fiv gaiefcercjubet. Orom‘er, {on in law P“?- Iun.‘ to King Artaxerxe: was wont to compare Cour- 552$”. tiers, Computatamm digitzlx; for like as they make Adina a Finger fometimes Pcand for one , another time (5&1th for ten thoufand; even {othofe that be about l.18.c. 53. Princes at one time, can do all at once, and ano- mmfih ther time as little‘or rather juit nothing. -And_ m APO‘IL fluintilmn in difallowing one of thofe numeri— Quintil call gef’tures to beufed to a Rhetoricallintenti- Infi‘khét. on,acknowledgeth the Arithmeticall force and lib.x :. * validity thereof. To thefe allufions appertains that of I know not what Poet : ' Utile follicitis compumt artimlzir. . HenCe grew the Adage,'Ut in ‘Dz'giza: mittermhat Eral‘m.‘ is,to number in the mofi accurate and exat‘t way. Adages Their manner was, to reckon upon the Left ‘ Hand, untill they came to 100. and from thence I i G 4 bfi-e; Imiwfa?‘ w. .«aw mm; ammo ** '* g 563141 R ON oMIA: Or,‘ began: toreckon upon their Right Hand. $4501 Eromgmé‘. man 13 thougi‘zéfi to allude t‘otthis , where he faiih. f ' ' ‘ Wgfidowe comma}; with length of day; Wan her Salazar gig/22:; Hand: meaning ( as fame expound that RIP?“ ‘30" place } that WifédOi‘i‘lC {hould makethemlivea gefimk. long age, even to an 109 yeares. Pierirg: m'af. szwyn rmation of this artifzciall Way of account , antquud. brings in a favcetious Epigram of one Nicéar- Pi.“ 1“ clam a Greeks Poet ; jefiing at [otfltarléy an Old g'F'L-COSI? Hagg , Who diffiimbling her true age; began a- gaine to number her yeares upon her left Hanna The epigram rend‘red by him In laténegunSthusg Wit/mm garrula quuxyemplut omw 6‘ otytmrzk alga, ' I} Tropter quamxeflqr‘ my fit aabuq/miar.- ' ”Que cervo; flflfléf fayemvit, qmg; finiflm Fine itemm captez conngmemre dies. g/iw't 1151/.)th carnit', pgde fir-ma (ff,flifgifl13' iii/Ear, , ‘Z’lmancm at daéz'ies ”flaw aliquidgmwsz. Saw; - ’{o this, 73W”?! {peaking of the long lee- of “r lye/for, doth alfo allude. gem P fliw magno/i qm'cqmzm czedig Homera, “ Emmy/751m vim fmz é Cornice/ecuflda, I'celix nimimm, qm‘ tot per [Hilda Wham, . fl 7 ' Dzj’z‘ulit , affifiw: jam Dextra campulgt annex, @‘Y‘J" C brflalozm: upon the Parable of the 100 1795619, m Pgrlb. 4‘ ~ <’- -, - - . 65mm 0_ hit!) a mop: excellent con leéturall medltatxon, Mum“ ' alludingtorhis artificial}. Cuflome. which #7“? “’ “ ‘ having 4 1 oofbs’ep, and if be 5% made. Why not 50? why “no: zoo? but 100. Why not 4? WW Hot 5?, but 1;. And he filewesfihat he griev’d ghoré for the numberfihan the [066; for the loffc , 10f Che, had brake the century , and brought 1.15 . {Wk f(Om the Right [94:1er the left, matting“? vgllseiccouuné in his Left banddand left him nothmg a}; his fiEig/at, Cw. The firi’t pofiure in the 11:13!” .‘ * gm» 122251 Mm ~ -8-» , , 54ml, wherein the Bare—finger is circularly bent in; by Bede IS referr’d to Virgins , as that which Bed? dc F 1‘; expréflethfis It were , the Crown ofVirginitie. Isnglgl‘. 8‘ . FF '- The Gei’cnre [flurry] IS referr’d to Mariage; for J c1362? F F! F: * thg yery Con Jnnétion' of the fingers, as it were, in ag. F F with a {oft kiffe embracing and coupling them- F {elves , paints out the Husband and Wife. 5. Hierame, willing to explain: the reafon why FFF‘F ? FF 5.7%»! would haVe a widow indeedmhofen not Bier-F." ‘ FFFF. F f . F F” ' under 60 yeares of age: to Fhew why this num-‘." ”“35"; bet is {o properly referr’d to widowes , very m Pmcx?’ learnedly Fae-takes himfelfe unto the Hierogly- phique of this number , wherein the Thumb: is deprel’c by the upper Finger , and very fireightly V girded by the fame: It {hewes (faith he) in what F “1 {heights WldOWhood is aiflifled , which is {o F remained in on every fide. Capella bringing in Mart. Ca; Virithmetzqm‘, at the mariage of Philologie; and pella, 1.7.FfF Jammie defcribing the pofiure of her Finger: .- dc NUPF- ‘ - ‘ Digiti W“?! Virginia racer/antes, éqmdam incam- 511;: 8:“ pre/amfte mobilimtzls [Z'amrigine wrmicnlati. (QM principio. may; ingreflkfiptingento: decem , cfi- feptem namera; complicattis in to digital: fat/em [alumémda fubre— xir. Which made the Numbers 70. and 17. F” And Philoflp/aie (landing by , Tritanide: enquires of her what Arithmetique might meane by theft: poitures of her Finger: ? To whom Par/1m : She Salutes 2022: by his proper name. And indeed, the Manuall numbergo. was the ancient pofiure of adoration; which was,rhe for/wing Finger laid I over—thwart the Tbnmb; Made more apparent F : by Apaleim, {peaking of the adorers of Venus, _ F ‘i. E: admoz/mtu crib“: I‘m} drxtram Triare digita .AlPuFe'ufi . F. a F71 87915an pollicem refldmte, at ipfirm prorfit: deans F‘ijmm: F FF Fmrg regigioJQ; garatiamée; evemrelzanrur. Manyf 4' ‘ o “go ' CHIRBNEMiXiOfi3 bfthefe Numerical! pofiures of the Finger:; are found in the Pcatues of the Ancients. Witnes Pliniéi, that image of 74mm, with two faces,dcdicated gfifl'fi’ in the Capitoll, by King Numa; the Finger: of in 53:: whofe Hands were in fuch fort falhioned and m], 11b. 1, formed, that they reprefented the number, 365. which are the dayes of the whole yeare : by which notification of the yeare, he fhewed (are. _ ci‘ently, that he is the god and Patron of times and ages. Pierim endeavours to reprefent the Polture of his Fingerx, by a verball defcription. And it was the cufiommto place the enfignes of. Pi,"- 1" Honour on the more honourable Hand, and to $13:ch figure the left Hand ofOratours,and other great ‘ '37' men, to note out the 'firlt, fecond ,, or third time of their aeceiie unto that Office or Dignitie. Thefe pol‘tures , devifed by a happy dexteritie of wit , were recorded among the Egyptian Letters or Hieroglyphicks, as unfit to be profiie tuted to the Vulgar , in regard they did allude to all the Pythagoricall {ecrers of Numbers, info- much as the Caveat of Pythagoras might have been placed over the Rhetorique-School—doore ofthe Ancients : Ncma Arithmetim [Manual/3:] igmrm laic ingrediamr. And the Notions of this Art are not onely neceiiary to Oratours , but to ' all men, efpecially the Sonnes of Art, although by the carelefneiie and negligence of men , it is growne ComeWhat out ofufe. 'I n the praflice of this Art,{ome follow Bede , others embrace a more probable way of account. Some follow Ira‘neus. the order of Irene: the Divine , a man of great in Valemq learning and generall parts , who flourifhed 1‘b°"‘°‘3‘ fome ages before Bede. But among the modern, Law Mium‘ram: is above comparifon the bell, {Who hath a molt abfolute'lraét of this argument: Jinadfim 4 ‘ ‘ \ PARALIPOMENOIN} Hey who defire a more compleat account of this Art, {0 farre forth as this Chirogram may {acme dcfcfiive; as the continuatidn ofthc account from It: t9 19. as the numbers, n. 12.; 13. 14,8zc. :I‘cg {aqsfic their curiofitie, may con- full: with Puma m his Hieroglyphiqus. And Bed: if they Would knowrnc greats; udin‘oersfisd’le Indigit.‘ manner of computing from a Myriad , to wit, mooo. unto 100000. may advifc with Reva-j rend Bede , wholhath Written a whole B‘ooke a1: Indigimtianc, or the Ancient manner-of comu' putation by gei’cures 6f the Fag”: ‘ and is the Bath’om man (as it is thought) to whom we owe the pne-‘dc furtJit. fervation of this {ubtle peece of Hand-learning; nor. ' which he may find tranfqtib’d in Baptifla 79m, :2??qu in Furtiw': literam‘m mm. A Aé 129$“ Plaum: alludes to the Grand Account" thuszx' . ‘ Paths: Digink pulmt, cor credo cmmmm: form. _ ' _ Eco: mum Marti: nixm, lam»: infmre balm manum. : . - h . Dam? digimratiomm computat , firim’ amr. , ' . 2 “An g ? eeeeee é‘i ii , éw- {3,44 W%%%% An Iiidex to the folloWihg A1- Phabetx‘of‘dfiion , pr "fable of . ’ ' {Rhetorical}Ihnmrmuoxs. r . A B . C a _ Figure: out the I Canon. IV C4303; V Canoe; : ‘D E ' F G ' r VI {‘41, , WI Cm. _ VIII f Can. XXX Ca». I K L ' ‘ imam} x116“. xvm am. XVII Ca». . M y N O P ~ XIX Cdm XX [‘43. XXI C4». XXII Can. ‘ ‘ R S ' Q _ ., XXIII (kn. XXIV (an, XXVII can. . T V W‘ ‘" XXVIII Cam». XV Canon. X Canon. Y Z i X V XXIX‘CMM. XVI Canon. ' IX [Mont < 1' The Verbailll perifihrafis of the geflure F, by accident'hafh been o'verflipped : but the ‘Platé 'fpea'keé Cafionically for it {CIIC- It is we of . flytntiligm Gcflures , which he obferves the Greekes much to ufe ( even with both Hands) in their Enthymcmes . 'when they chop : 831k _' Were, their Logickij and inculcate and knock it " downgas within lib'met Ibis fonwing‘rabie dath no: oneI'yferve to cmefle the Rhetoricall pofiures of the ””3” 5 but may be ufed as Cyphers fer WW3“? wayes of Difcou‘tfe or Intelli- gen‘ces w A .__,___.—_. fluflz'entiam ficit . [E (2, ”1'5 uéjeét ‘~ ardz’z‘ur . Ewardium accomadat . I Acriu: flflumm ‘, '! tatw’: F E 11th] mt: mam tun it. \\\\\ wk Qspzmgfhmm cxpimt T Jubtiltora tx‘fl Wat Z Cantrm‘za, deuwuaL A ‘4: -v‘ APOCHRYPHA AC TION: Uncertaine PrevariCations a; gainfltheRulc of Rhctorécail I Dccorun} ,notcd in the Hand: of the Ancient and Modem 0RATOUR& j ,. 0 L116 any Grammaticall‘gefim‘és P; mm” 5 ’ ofcompaft, or any fnappmg ricwm‘ii of the Finger; , or amorous iii-A» ~m.;:.1. f , . timations invented by Lovers 7 a": ‘/ (field, is very uniutable to thc /' W " - gravity of an Oratour. The nae turall difcourfes of the Hand being fo plains to be underfloodfihe Ancients affay’d to finde out in theHand a more clofe 8; private way,contrivi~ng by a clofe compafi how men might figqifie their mindes ; a kinda of’fp’eakin‘g,‘ ufed by fuch who Would not openly aggrefl: tl'ncv‘mfelves,~ yet in a‘. H dam-’03 98 CHIfioNOMIAEOr; dumb 8c wary kinde of figninggintimate their in; tention , an Art fitfi found out and exercifed b ‘Lovers,when with great caution theywOuld prg. lent their affeé’cions,and make their Finger: con. vey a meffage from their heart. Ofthefe cautio- narie notes of Lovers, Ovid that grand Matter of love knacks , and amorous expreflions,afiordes . us many touches : . Ovid dc Nilopm efl digiti; per gm: mm ‘logmré. Art. And in another place : Amado ——E: in dig”; liter-a nullafuit. And againe glancing at the fame Grammatical! ‘CXpreflions, he faith ; Lib.z.de ---—-—N66 720: _ Art. Excipite 47mm: wréa mmm mam. Amand- And infirufiing his Mrs. in the Way of tacit con” ferences : , Verbal legal: digitzk mrérz notata mam. [Mm tibi fuccw'rit omen}: ldfcia/ia noflm Turpuremtenera pollice mngegenm. Si quid erit de me mcim quad mente‘loqmris, Tandem extrema: walla: ab am: mamas. [um tiéi qmfizcimfl mm Lax dimmve placcémzta Verfcmr digitir mmflm 24g; tmk. ' Tange mama men/92m, tangunt qua more pmmnm, Oprah's maritb mm maria mulm viro‘. ‘ IdemJ. 1. And to this kinde of amorous dilcourle by {peat dc Trill. king fignes,that of his refers: ' 3 Utg; refirt digitzkflepc Jimmy}; lacutm’. propm, To which Propertim allo alludes : ‘ ltg.’ . . «A’ut ma 5.7mm digit/A frriptafilmda non“. aniuwn To this is referred that which Ennim lpeakes of ram“ a certaine impudent Companion, who had no ‘ part of his body free from fome fhamelefle office Or other; his Words are thefe ; £23m]? in char/'05:”: ' ' ‘ " ’ u .m _, The Art of M mama Rib-starfish?- ‘ ' 5} st £35401! dfltdtim ddtfi/é’ (5' tommunemfacit, fliififié rte—her; aliirxmttgzthlz‘bi 1mm: 96‘ accupa;¢,aliz'4 pm. g ~ fave/lit pedcmgzliij; d4: mmyhmz expeélandam (£146er “ ~ idlium inwca‘t, mm‘l‘alio cantdt, atmémn aliés am div r 2i“ [item‘s And 5410””? "alluding to thefe kinde Slime"; bfeXpreflionsHe winkétb with his eyesms {pr 35 greyerb,‘ ; r; keth with his feet, he teatheth with his” ringer “3e §ometimes the Ancients did to this purport: (if ieerecie and priVate communication 9' order an Alphabet upon the joynts oftheir F ingerr,whicffi Artifice of Arthrologie Obtained 'a..privy force by «r {hewing thofe letters by a diPcinél and V'Grammaé l ticallfuccefiion. Amongfi whichGrammars by gefiures, The pofiures 6f the Finger; which ap-, pertaine to the old Manuall Arithmeticke, have been contrived into an Alphabet,of which Way 5 inf intimation? , mytz‘fla Pom hath treated at B with} V ‘ large. To the fame intent the Natural}. and Rhe- ta ids fun” . toriCal pofiures ofthis Ham! may be reduced into ”9‘0““ ' ‘ mylfique Alphabets, and be very fignificantly no * f ‘ {ed for Cyphers without any futpiciono’ some, times of 'old they ufed for a light watch-Word 3’: is; {napping collifion ofthe Finger: Called Crapimsj Digitomfié, which imperious way of filent exa preflion,&the phraie whereof is uifed fora hyper— bolitall diminitive Of the leaf’t figuifitatioanM in his learned defcant upon the . Pro‘Verhs harping upon this firing , _ The unt‘hrifty' and wicked man inflréflethi with his Fixgerr, faith a Digito [oq’xi , arragdmiam t?“ firperéiam indicat. And St. Hieronéz in a certaineprifile , faith, Sign} Perbige efl [ignum Cum qm/s per dz'givtqmm crepimm, ‘ wit intelligi, ., The notification and found of this arrogant gefiure ; was reckoned amongithe noéttiim‘all‘ zinc! dark‘c‘ fignes of Letters, Mallets " H g 9150: yrs in -_ Provflttg 1‘. a-lfo by this [mapping of their Hagar: ufed to call their {er‘vants,upon the hearing of which watch. Word, they were to be’prel’co and at Hand to ex- ecute their dumbe commands. To this cuflome P I finde that of Petronim' referred , Trimalcio lag- Aim: tiflim: homo digiti: cancrepuit, ad quadfz’gnum mil- , Satyr. tel/am Spado ludmtifuppafuit,exonomm ill: 'vcfcica, Thu“ (5% To this alfo belongs that of Tiéullm : , Elleg’. 13: vote: addzgrtmre tacarurmfonum, In Epi- To which Martml likew1fe alludes , gram. {Darn pafcorEcrcpimdzlgitarfijtj' warm mammr, 0 quatiem pal/ex culci trajafia me of}. .And in another place : QDigiti crepanti: [igm nor/it Eumtclms. , - , ~ Which cullome the Chtiflian Pedagoge would ‘1 ‘ Lib.z.c.7. have excluded from/the Hand: of men pioully af- ' ’1 g pad-,3, feéled, whofe mmde Clemens Alexandrina: hath ' ' ‘ expounded thus : ‘Dégiti expreflz" fimi, quiéx: an. car/m:turfdmuli,cumfint,mtiani: exporter fignifim— tiane:,mtiom preditis baminiém vitandi f am. This , kinde of commanding gefiure is molt common P 3.1 mm _ to the Spaniard, whofe humour is only a medley ’ g m, in of arrogance and imperious pride, whence he is proport. ‘mof’c commonly detelted of all Nations , for his ? naturall odious defite offovereignty over others. And the Romans, the ancient Lords and Matters of the World growneinfolent by the greatnelle of their Empire , couldwell skill of this proud ; Tacitus intimation of their Fingerr. For,T4cim: tells us, Anna], that theinnocencxe of Palm was not {0 grate- _ 115.”. full to the people of Rome, as his inlupportable I ' "1', Z- Ci—i‘IR’ONoMIA': Or, pride was odious. For whé fame of his freedmen were laid to have been privie to the practice of a confpiracie againi‘t 2(5r0,he made anfwer,that in his houfe he appointed nothing to be donebu; t ' W1! 7 The Art ofManuafl ‘Rbetorz'cke. lot with a nod of his Handor head, or by Writing, if he had much to fay, lelt if he {‘hould have {poken unto them,he {hould {eem to have made them his fellowes. Some Oratours of old afi'edred this percufiion or knackihg with the Fingerx,both to procure audience, to maintaine their authority » and for the fignification of gravity ; of which cultome many Authours make mention , efpeci- ally St. Hierom, for {0 he hath leftit written ; D H” , E: and” quidam ex ii; addnEh/upercilio @[cancre- Eém'elroo? pattibm digitir] emfiare @- dicere.And in another . place {peaking of that j angling fellow grunm'm, if??? id he hath this, [am mmfa pafim liérorjmn expo/uif- Rfigg‘um fitfimem, addqu/hpercilio, contraflifg; 2:47-55”; ,, Monach. (it'fiont: corrugataidigimlz}: tomrepabatJbac/igna ad audit-Mum ,difi‘ipulo: Prat/034m, cm. And of L this cuftome, Veleim Long!!! is to be underflood, In orthg.‘ ‘Digitommfona puero: ad refimndendflm ciemm .- So graph. that this gtlture hathtravelled from the bulinelle of common and individual! life,intoSchooles , Auditories,and Common- Pleas; fonthis knacke of the Fiiager: was got in ufe with many,‘ {0 that [92' > 5:12: cancreparc] feems to have been ufed by the fearnedwro refacilima. So in the judgement ' ' of [' rqfoIIim, Tullie difputing of his Offices,takes if“? It; inimi, [5 air bonus, balm” lmnc w'm, utfi [digitzk c 0 C1 3‘ concréfmrit] Paflit in [amplemm tcflammm nomen ejm irrepem For, this gel‘ture was performed in entring upon inheritances:they who did defire to trie their title , and take polleflion of an inheri- tance, they fignified their minde by this percuf— fion ofthe Finger: , which was the ufuall fym— . . boll as Cujacim faith; for this Permflfa digitarum (Eggs? (as Crefallins rightly colleéts) is altogether the .fame withEcrePitm digitamm] or digifi coaorepan- ' I H. 3‘ W t lib.5.c.t& Tu}. lib. §.de.0fii;» free/4r. ,«Séfl. z. (Elfin iii. idflituttj RhetJ. I I Emmy. 153353- 58%th fésifi. 4-; A » ea 1 New“ '1’; m ; Which may bevery clearly-gathered out at Tit/lie, where when he had {aid} Si 2dr £20m: 1mm 1mm. have 272202 , 41; fl digitzis, .cancrepmrit , ~‘ha little after touching the {amef’tring , he hathxiei thus 3 ‘ r2mm Paulo ante fingebam digitor‘am: pm. tuflonc Intermittent ,omhium pafl? 13d] e‘conmrmn a (@co' " He geflmewf one requiring the (21:19» 9? . threatning {tr-ipes, or the‘rnumericallgefi'utq which/With the Thamec bended‘infindreach‘idg to the ‘mauntof Mcrcurie , m'angresthe name: woe. according'tothe Computation ofManuaI-‘L Arithmeticke, are geflum‘s meme been noted by fome Writers, but yet [0 {Income} L , that Quintilian never’obferved themiin the ‘ and; (if any Rufiique. " ‘ ' '*‘ ' * ~ 1:“ O Gretch out theHand: in length to a racket} Extent, or to erecft‘thc‘tn upward to their“. moit elevation, or by a repeatedgefiure beyopg the left fhoulder, [0 To throwfibackthc Hands» that it is {came fafe fer any “ma-n to remaine bee hind them. To thrufl: out the Arm,,fo thatthefide is openly difcoveredmr To draw finifier Circles, 6r raihly To flingthe Hmd up and doWne‘ to endanger the ofliEnding of thofethat are nigh; are all Prevaricarions in Rhetotieki a noted and ECOndemned by flyinn'limt ' , ' ‘ ' , O throw downethe Hana? from the Head; , With theFinge‘r: formed into a gripe or fcrat—j .1 ching pofiure’ ; ’ . or To ufe the afiipn of one that §aws 0: Cute; 0;: ofohe dapcing the Pyrrhgule vs... ,, H ‘2 :1”. w, .‘ _. 4 a‘q‘ g The A?!" ofMau-MH Mattie" ‘ iyard ; or To throw it upwards with the Palm: turned up: are afiions prevaricant in Rhetorick, ‘ andcondemngd by ‘ngimilimzt _ i :10 reprefent .a 'Phyfitian feeling the pulfe of MW ’ " “16 artenes, which with them is mmum mit- see“: m min 0mm: or Io .fllcw a Lutenitt {hiking g the chcrds of an inf’ttutnent,are kind ofexprefli- OHS-t0 be avoided 5 for an Oratsur fimuld bee fan: from any light imitation ofaDamcer, and w ‘ hi iS'not permitted: to fhew'what hee fpsakes, ‘ " d! but his chcum muff~ more exptéfie his fenfe, . _\ then his words. 33‘ I _. , . 1 ' '1' O denounceWithahigh Hand, orTo craft a Prat/4r. 4: Finger to its utmoit poflibilxty of extenfion,is SCCLé. i3 ‘ i ‘ a blemilhin the Hkhd of an Orator; That habit "' ‘ Whichthe peace-makers, of old were painted & See Pitt“. _ .carved in,wherein theHead inclined totheRight it} Ellerogl ’3 f , Shou‘lder',‘.thé Arme (hatched out from tht: Eate, 115-35- ‘ ,thegHandextcndedfout with the Tlmméz manifeft- ‘; . tly apparent ,~ which moftpleaftth them, who “brag that theyfpeak with a high Hand is recko- ned by fiiutilz‘m among the moales of Rh€t04 _ricke ; an aétion not Far from the ufuallpendent {pofi'u‘re of Changclings anildtots. Framer. Cttfljo " - Hand hollow,WhCn we ipeake To our {th63, or in cohortation, objurgation , 0t Committin- tion, is an aflion that will {tldome become the Hand of an Oratout; or to (trikethe Btéai’t. with the Hand, Which is Scenicéll. T k I , 1 To bringthe Finger: ends tothe Breafic , the 15.x 3 s :M ‘ ’CHIR6N6"MIKEOI'; Fret/air. TO appiy the Middle-Finger to the 7751419155; new. 18 the common way of gracing an ex- ‘ ordium, yet to direct it as it Were toWards the Quinnl. ieft {boulden and {0 make it a collaterall afiion, 1"’r"“i-Bi1€‘*is nought, but worfe , to bring forth the Arm: ' ‘* tyranfverle, and to pronounce with the elbow. Prawn O {et the Arms ’a gambo or aprank, and to “a. i Stay the turned in backe of the Hand upon _, the fide, is an action of pride and ofimtation , '5 un- beieeming the Hand‘of an Oratour. . ; : jammy. He trembling Hand is {cenicall , and belongs ISWEJO- more to the theater, then the forum ' ‘ Prev/4r. THete are certaine hidden ereuflions of scan. ~ fpe'ech, as it werea kind of act , at Which the geiture Of moit of the ancient Oratours did gym”. fall, which though they were ufuall, yet .Qu’mi- 3mm“. 212m condemns them for moft deceitfull motions, ‘éibaU- noting it aifo for 2 Fault in young Declamers, that while they Write, they firfi; tune their fen- tences to geiiures , and forecait for the cadence ofthe Hand,whence this inconvenience eniues, that gei’ture which in the laft [houldbe Right5 , doth frequently end in the finifier point. Itwere xhettei‘, that whereas there are Certaine fhort gtnembers of ipeech, ( at which if there he need :we may take breath)to difpoie or lay downe our gefiure at thofe paufest ‘ ' ‘ " ' i Fret/#53 TO clap: the H4114: in givingpraifc and ale , Iowance, is a Natural! expreflion of age piaufea encouragement, and re 3’ oycinga heard m- 53* fl 0/ M mm!) Rhetoricke: eommon‘aflemblies of people, and in publique Theaters} which was at firfi , according to the fimpliciue of tho-{e times, plaine and naturallg for 07114 {peaking of the primitive and ancient- I’layes of the Romans, faith: - p ' ;. ‘ ——--Plaufu: nmc art: combat. ' 7 ‘ Nar" “'9 l ' But afterWards they had an artificiallmanner of 422:; clapping their H‘WII, toa certaine melafure at h K ; proportionable tune. Of which , the 90'“ 0,. psi-5% ; rival!“ , - I , ‘- V " fl _ Ingernimmg; mm: dnlci modulmihe plant/2wo For, thc‘applaule was done With~ the hollow of , both Handt; which being {mitten together-mau- ,. iii; fed that found which istalled Topifmm, a word ‘ r '* altogether feigned to the fimifitudeof' the found; ‘ ; The pollute of this artificiall plaudite of the 7 :i ‘ f Hands, and the found alfo raifcd from their colli- : j ‘ lion, ‘7’kilo/lmm: molt elegantly defer‘ibes in the Philoflra: 1% ~ image of Comm the god of Ebrietie, in thefe tus,1,,,d¢ ’ ‘ Words: Plaufnm etiam grandam imitamr'piflnm, Iconibus. , cujm maximé indiget C 0mm. Nam ‘Dextm, can-— i In: Elia“ digité', fuéjefiamflniflmm ad Cfl’wflfi plefli t, 5? ‘9 m Mann: ejmbalomm more percuflle Lian/om: flaw. The very figure of which gefiure is to bee feen in the French tranflation of that Author, . How ambitious was Nero of this popular apprm-x bation, when he entred upon the Theater to contend for the prize of Hat-pets; and kneeling, f’ fhew’d a reverence to the Aflembly with his ‘ k Hand .- and the Citie-people accultnmed alfo 33;: to approve the geflure of the Player , haul-warmly lib. ‘5: him witha certaine meafure and artificmllap- 'plaufe. Thou wouldfl: have thought, faith Tata- tm, they. had rejOyeed, and perhaps for the ‘ln_‘ jurie of the publique difcredit, Bur thofe wgnch ‘ ‘ ' ‘ , * tom « ' a A NW A - a _' "__ _ .- . h _ r : .._ .1“ 4 n "WW‘HP‘E‘W'IM m“ w r' y—w—‘J A ' L _ _;*~f;“.:..:1;.344 3“ 541.3- fight)“ 105 ; 'CfiisBNBMINOrfi‘ £20m tomes farts off} and-from remote pYOVifi; ces,una,cquainted with diflblute behaviour,eame either as Embaffadoursmr for private bufinesa could neither endure that fight , nor applaud any way {0 difhonorable a labour : but weary of " their unskilfull clapping of Handr,and troubling the-56514115 {wereoften beaten by the Sonldier's, placed in-lthick array , {left any moment of time {honld be loft by an untuned and difproportio- nable crie, or flothfull filence. The like applaufe he exoeéted; and had from the Hands; of his 'frie‘nels'at; home ; - for Xipbilinus reports; that Se- necaand Burr/am,though lame ofhis,-Hand,when XiPhil- in ever 2‘6?” (pake,they applauded him—with their N°‘°“€' Headband Veilmentst [Ehe ancient {Sophifiers C r I were {or greedy of' this manner ofapplaufe in re 0 . . . . 7 . , , Thaw“. their Scnooles and Auditorxes, that they purcha- Rhet. ., fedit; having for that gunpofe a Chorus ofdo- M meflicall Parafites, who were readyin the afiem— { I blies, at every Gefture to give them thisfigne of ' Hiemm.‘ approbation. This Applaufe,whicthianz.m cap. ad E- {calls,Clanomm Manflnmxaéhamm; andHS‘.‘Hitrom, Elf} Theatmlemimcglum 5 anti condemnedby Clary- H 031 'de fifiome , {among the triflmg and unprofitable vex-big. gefiiculations of the Hand .37 and -__.fI?heatricall gefiures ,V crept into the Chriflian {Churches , and was given to {the Divine Oratonrs-of the Primitive times , untill fuch time as it was exploded out of the Temples ,by their grave and U {harpe reprehenfions. But although the ancient Qratourstreceived this token of approbation front the hand: of their auditors,yet they never exblbt- ted. upon any occafion, fuch Manuall plaufibllttle to the people, it being a Gefiure too plebeian & T heatrically light {for the Hand; of any {indent hemw Then-Art of Manama Rhetoricke: Rhetorician, who can never decently advance; - his intehtians, by the naturafl or attifibiall plau- ' dzte 051318 Hm'h , A Q ‘ I ’ 39?: O difcourfe cufigmarifiy with‘thc Hand: Prat/4r; ' , . ‘Pm'd up, 0901a .faid, mam Maia“; difi- Se&,13. rgreglsaneffeminateandill habic’in the Hind “D P h g £ an Oratour- Div mew. amongrtm Symballsrzfmiié 1’“: ofIntemperance , repgehends this habituall tie-4 33. meanour of the Hand: for Whenhéc Wouid reckon up then: things which fighifig g catnip: and naughty cufiome , which he call§ W'Hfiom amgplcriotsz he fets downs agnohg thergfi, 314115703 1144an diflerere. ' .. ‘ , f NOW they are properly called M52113: (#9555, t that are {0 advanc’d,that the Paimes tefpeta: £113». heavens, 37r7fou M7325. with the Atticks. Crcfiilli crem'd“ mhathfiagi In his miracle , what $011191 b? 3‘? guiiihg. chaufe why f0 excellc rat, and weighgygn 454.3110; < - fhould {eeme jui’tly to have reprehended thifi gefiur‘e : {or he could 1.30:! altogethgr 7,c:ondemnh. it,becaufein thingsrfa‘crgedjt hath been {0 religig 0115, and reCeived with 170 great (gopient ofail Nations ,‘ L that the mqfi ancient holy myi’ceriesx Which :vulgarly were called Orgifl, .( as 193.133; Grammarians will have it) toohetheir denomie, I nation from this very gefiure of the Hands. But my Authour Conjeauring what his meaning {hould be; Perchancae‘ (faith he) his intention is, to reprove the aéfion ofibme foelifh memwho, as szntizzantaimmotd ounheirHandsafter the Qfii‘gfi; ’ L” a ‘ {my}. 1' ‘ manner of them whp carry Emailing; or of‘ thofe , Who as if they gravid a Salaryor Miner- V311 oftheitAud’itors,mofi unskilfully bear about their Hanés‘ upwmds 2.. in whom that of gm: . h t _ , t t , , , _ as Reman Poet may be verified; > , 1 1 El: . IE: mm pretz'umfiegz‘tet affine Manx: (.iajlcné'dt For gale», .when he would exprefle the Hand to "(a PM , e conveniently difpos’d for the conteining of ‘- "1 ~ = water that it flow not out, calls this purpo{e of -‘ thel—Iand, Mzmm fnpinam. But this would be « done more unfeafonably, and to leffe purpole, if a man by the motions: of his Hands lhould ale to imitate one taking up waterout of Iome river, as he in Virgil ; -- , -——-r£t& saw”: nndan deflnminepalmi’s , Sufinlit . "That which {eemsmolt probable,aml to come neerefl: the true {enfe of that ancient Author. ('rt-fc'wwmf'conceives to be anintended reprool-‘e » , rofa certaine action incident to nice and ‘efFe-r ”minate men : for in that place, Dio profecutes the finnes of Voluptuoufnel‘l’e , and a l’afcivious habit of the minde. Indeed,tender and delicate minkes, after their right Womanilh garbe , lay ; their Hand: upright, which a wife man‘fhould ‘ net imitate : and therefore in his opinion , that “ fighylus excellent Poet cAEfi‘bflM , with exquifite ‘ a gag?" Jl'ltlgementfiptly laid; (Mum: mzliebriCmore [ll-5! ; l AElfl.Pl1y-P”’at“' So that great Emperoroflearnmg, and ‘ Iiog.1tb.;. perpetual Diflator of the Arts, among the pori- ,:,~ tentous fignes oFImpuclence , layes down, Sta.- pimzo‘ martian”: matm, tenerimdine qmtdmn (T mafia- ’1‘ . cie'difl'alutdr. After which manner Tatian paints ; j‘ Twain» out [re/cam aCynicall Philofophet, theonelY l8::f°m'ring-leader to all abominable luPc and bealily. ‘ concupifcence; whom he therefore calls, dc"? W teraatefréééméi r a? stem WSW“ ' Tibullus The}; ”CH'IRENEMEAEOr; 4 l , the brisked fpirits. be Art of Manual] Rhetoricke: 105 ‘ Hey who cafl and throw out the Hand, or P , ‘ raife the Arme with a fiiout , if they doe it St???” as ofa cuftomary‘difpofition,declare thereby the Borg, ' , J jovialitie of their natures. Tothis vapouting ex- cap. 7.”: i > 1 teflion of the Hand, [cm 6 refer that of the Pro- ii ” phet Hofm : Thai; 13: the day of Mr King: the Prin- .m have made him/{ck with fiagoh: 91‘, wine .- [.79 firetcbed out hid Hand to fcarnm. And Lip/fut teljs us, that in Weflpbalia , where they drinke/uper mpg“, naculum,as an ordinary elegancie,at every quafi'e Epithad a: caroufe.they put forth the hand: and this (eems Ht“!- naturall to good fellowes , whofe fo‘ciable dif- - pofition makes them very apt to fall upon this j oviall exaltation of the Hat na’, which in the Me- ridian of mirth naturallyimporteth the elevation of the cheered heart, raifed by the promotion of THe wagging and impertinent'extenfion of - the Finger: in {peaking , hath ever been ac- counteda note of levitie and folly. And iuch who by a certaine reciprocall morion doe ever and anon lift up one or other of their Finger: vifibly prolonged , they feemeto trie conclufi- ons with their hearers, and to play with them at: that exercife which was in ufe among the ancir ent Romans,th had a game or lotterie where— in one held up his Finger or Fin er: , and the 0-: ther turnin away , ghefled how many he held 11p ‘: Or i you will have it according to Pali- ,, . dom- relation , the play was after this manner: fglmbh Two, having firft {but their Hands, forthwith let 136133“ out their Fingers, naming’a certaine number, As mm“. for example, I put forth three fingers, you as many; I name foure, you fixe : {0 you by giftef— lflg Y’rwarJ Scét. t 5. heft" - (‘27.,1'. ,—fi-: ’3}? 51:37:" :"1' ’N . _ ' a r" ‘7'~. V' - ~~~ » r" ”w "-51%. > 4“ ' «*6 Ever *2er u ; fifs‘m‘Hztgo-Vuts a“ «'12. new.“ - " ‘ aim. w. no 'CHI‘RONoMtA:Ory e- fing and naming the right number, wiiine.. Andi; becau‘fe the Finger: thus unfolded , fnddenly zip. it] . ’peate; iby ‘a‘metaphor' they Were {aid in this [portly ’Micdfejdzgitis.‘ Hence ’Vdrro ; Mcmdflm cratk‘ cm: G'rév‘a , mm»: ego illim mmcmm, mt ills we'll mi figédmr. This is Well knowne among the 115] talian’svét this day, and Vulgatly called Mar; per- hapsflaith Poljdo'r) qdid Mauromm hicfit Indus, But the more approi/ed opinion is, quad may, a: ‘ “ ‘_ {/hSmltorim‘z Indus. 'And perha s New) had ob-i gluéim‘m fervfd in Claudia: his predeceor, fome {ueh' m {51” kinde of indifcree't pfevariCation with his Fix-'1 picter. . . , ., . _ 4 gen, who in fpightfulland contumelious manner at both in Word and deed, was Wont every way to .’ taunt and twit him with his. folly; and among: 1 other tapptobrious indignities offered to his name and memory , in feoffing wife he would fly of him , that he had left now (Momri any longer among men; ufing the fitl‘t {yllabie of the word,long ; in which word there is couched a’ double lenfe , which glues the grace unto” this . t a o . , .J pleaiant fwfie; for betn a meere Latina word, it fignifieth to l’cay or triage long abode : and ta»l king it thus , it importeth,that €1,224th lived no‘ longer among Mortalls. But as Nero [palm of Mora: in Greeke, whith fignifies a foole , and bath the fitit fyllable long , it importeth, that ( Claudius play’d the foole no longer herein the Crefol. de World among men; Crefollim condemnes this dc gefiu FingerJoping gel’cure as very uncomely,‘ and [In- one 1.2. 'Worthy the difcreet Hand of an Omof a {0 u'n-a advifedly to counterfeit the common geliures of Buyers of confifcate goods : and he would have the Edie} of ijpmm'm: ,‘ Prof/oil of] the, Cittie of Rome, to be [cc before! them ;‘ In ‘ ' which: The Art ofM’an’mfi (2?? berm-idle: Which he did defiré‘this‘up4andnd0vufimdtiéri ghhe Fihgtr-fi to be cafl: net 611er out'of the Courts ofjul’tlce and the Senate mate, but from the Forum, and very entetcourfe of buying and felling. This Edifl is yet to he been in a marble table at Rome, beginning thus. ' . VEX AUCTORITATE‘ TURCI APRONIANI, vie; _ a, VPR/EFECT‘I URBIS , RATIO Docmr UTILITATE SUA DENTE CONSUETUDINE MI. CANDI SUBMOTA SUE EXAGIO ponvs PECORA VENDERE (warm DIGITIS CONCLUDENTIBUS TRADERE,&C. They that would conferve the qualitie and hate afar: Oratour , muff avoyd this ridiculous iii": Graterue ex Smctio . in lite- ris Digi-r talibus, Ge cxfculpfit. culiome of wagging the Finger; , left now they A doc not feeme to Band in their Pu‘lpits to fell fheep, but to fell them oft , or to brag and .boall: of their» parts. ‘ Uch who have Hands too aéiive in diicourfe, Lo and ufe to beat the aire with an odious kmde offbiromarhmfiewray the cholerique tranfporév Praexaflri Sect. :6. ration of their individuall natures, a habit ofthe: Hand incident to young men , who as a Learned Father faith, are wont to glory thatin their}, St!— GregaNyfI pm madam vigmnt mam: ad motionem, This ha— bituall impert'eé’tion the Ancients calleds'fflfidfl orar‘ dc Beatitud. uvenal magma; even as the Satyrifi; {cages at thoie who L1. 5&3. ha i . i 5 ‘ “ V o ~AWM—varm wquofi-wm-g—rr—a W -e - q -—A m m” A ‘ i A ii in Cnieoxomu:0r,’ Juvmal. had a {ma ckering of the GreekeTongug ,f “y'h'd lib. 1.52m; d1d,éfuiej4 £247: martyr—a gefiure 1t feemé Pa- ” rafites in their way of admiration,were Wont to 'Martial. uh: for, Martial, Epigram , ' ‘ agcminaa tendia in are mum. . ' Hieron. S. Hierame very elegantly mocks at this fafhi. Epifm. on : Nam fi apple/Elle: pedem , intendifi‘et 96310:," rug/{0}: fiontemijaflafl'et manum wrlm tamflét, ranches illico ab Willa: cfundiffet adieilm: : imi. tating per-chance herein that renoWned Stoique, thus {etting it down. N66 fupplodcrem pcdm, 9m: Seneca . [Maxim jaihmm] nee att-olleregnmcm. 52523., Epifiqg. tilian alfirmes this behaviour of the Hand be- igg‘gh came onely ‘Demetrim the Comedian , famous ' c" in thofe times; and befidc him, none. As'forthc Athenian Eagle Son-am , {0 called for his quick ZOPYWS infight of underflanding , he was wont to ufe film?“ this vehemencie of the Hand, which was obfern ved in him as a token of his violent nature and hot fpirit; who , becaufe in his pleadings he Was tranfported with {uch heat ofafiion,and and WOuld often in the eagernelfe of dilputati- Laertius on,skirmi{h as it were with his Fifi a he was him- therefore defpis‘d and laugh’d at by many , and not undeferVedly : for his immoderate action was fomewhat hot,& mad-man like,arguing an impotent minde, and an ill temper’d (pint. Cra- fol/ins reports, he once {aw a learned man , a. Crete], dc Rhetorique Profeffor,make his Clemm in a pub- gefi. Om. lique afl'e’m‘bly of learned men .- But he with fuel! lib-7" a continued {wiftnefle' moved his Handbefore his face,- that he could {carce difcerne his eyes or countenance while he {pakea How other Of his Auditors Conceived of his gefture ,- he knew not a to him it feemed molt odious; for Wlth that ’ argues The Art af Manual! Rhetorique.‘ 113" argute and vehement action , his eyes were a1; molt dazled. This my Author Would fay pros perly to he that, which Mriflapbane: facetioufly calls Wuf‘cm abigere 5 as if all that labour of his had tended to no other end , then to make his ‘ Hand a Hie-flap. ‘Damitim Afar , feeing Mani- lim .S'u m handling a caufe; and in his pronunci— ation running up and down,dancing , Wan»: jailantem, tofling his Handx, cafling back and putting afide his gown, (aid, that he did not AA- -_ , “l' . gere,fcd/21Mgere : Aflio cm'm Oratorir cf}; Sam;- 1%“? ate git mmm, quifiuflm mi/ercg; cafldtfln pronun'ca N a fewin‘g poflure to drive out the Elbowes Pmmr‘é to. both (ides, as one of the Gentle-craft , IS a Seth”. Prevarication noted and condemned‘by filth-5 tilidn. (re/0115a: (ayes, Alearned and reverend friend of his-i, once {aw a Mufhrome Doctor Cram, ac pronounce after this manner ; that at every g. 11.0mm comma , he drew out his Elbowes with fuchllb-h cenl‘tancie, or rather'pertinacre, that he {eem’d _ to know no other gefiure. At which fight he tacitely to himfelfe : Either I am deceived in my opinion,or this man hath been offomeyfew-s ing occupation. And it feemes,upon further en- quirie, his Augurie fail’d’him not; for he had been lately a Cobler. This abfurd motion of the ‘ armes ,' makes an Oratour fee-me rather to have Come to fpeake, from his Laft, then-his Booke : l or as if he newly came from vampmg his Ora-1. i “on. ._ ' , 'TO {hake the arnfies with’a'kinde of perpetuall Era-Wm motion, as ifthey. would, l’craightway fire out Wits“ of the fight oftheir Auditouris, or were “ho?“ to I eave Aril’toph. Athan.’ CHIRONoMIAFOr; leave the Earth : is a Prxvarication in 'Rhctdé rique. Such Oratours have been compared to Oi’criches, who goe upon the ground , yet fo, that by the agitation of their wmgs, they feeme to thiuke of flight. This happens to form: by reofon ofa certain Pleth-orique wit and ardor of Nature, which [came {offers it 1elfe to be kept down and holden by the body. “Cw/011i»: once {aw Inch :1 Divine , whole habituall mobilitiezof his Hand: was fuch, that the {trongeflt men coulcl fearce emulate, unlefle by an incredible conten- tion of labour. Some,through a pueri‘le [infiitutif on, or by 'a coutrafied cultome doe the fame ; in imitating little birds; which beinggnot yet fledg- ‘ ed, norfirong enough for flight , yet in their nelis move and {bake their Wings very fwifily. Thele the Greekes call W79;u;4'vi€1y~, which they ale to object againfl: thofe who = by a foolifh geliiculation appeare in the pofiure of little birdsa The Polite Comoedian elegantly, omega: :9 fieguy’fim, yet/23375: grfliculando. This doth ufuL- ally appeare in many,in the gefiuring and skip- ping motions of joy, when the .exultant Mlnde caps and liftsup it felfe; and tickling the body with an afiive fweetnes, fhakes thofe parts molt which are more free and prompt to'at‘tion. Di- pbilma Greek Poet , plcafamly expreffes thisin his Pam/z‘te; whom he brings iu,re.joycing, With this exultant motion of his armes. claim If)“ flat, in an Oration ofhis, hath elegantly fignlfi- ed the fame; who , when he would prove the Adverfarie not onely to be confcious of the in— jeric, but to be the principall author of it s be ' ' brings this perfpicuous figne,that he imitatcd‘the crowing gelture» of a Cock of thccgaméa afther ~ ~ ’ IS Thad” ofMAnmli Qbetm‘icke.‘ "'5 ‘i ‘ Ellszwaill‘lfi; ,aindf clappgd his limits W‘titl‘lhe‘a'?” DionyQ . plank: oflns Armcs,as Wltb Wings, mcxrcledm Halicam‘j; a ring of Wicktd men.‘ This gcfiure is mall: 1 propér to Mimii‘firesm’ndthe Théaiet; and can scarce {land with the gravid-e ofthe Forum ,' or} thtt :r‘eVerenc‘e of the Church :- un’l’e‘ffe {omef’pa‘rt ofit well moderated, may be permittedin fiénié ficati'on o‘fGladnes ofhe’art. “ , H 0 lift no A&ion at allin f Tealtin 556% ha; ,g' ,: on» i ‘ Tvy and flow motion of th‘epHdndf-iis the pm- i: ‘3" Fl; , ‘ peril-c of on": fiu‘p‘id and ‘flugg‘ifh. ,Ifiprriderg ' w‘ i Whom Harare!) reckons in the Detad of Gran tours, was of this temper; for itis {aid , that in‘ V _ his Orations hfe {11'6ch no a‘étion' or geaurm l 5?; r? all : his manner was, to fet dovifn the’Cafe, and lay open the matter plainly and (imply; Withom: ; troubling the Judges any otherwifc then Withii naked narration. Which c/Efi‘kim: ,? as fomé ' thinke, did {itive to imitate ; who in affooli‘ih ea inulatiOn of Salon, and by praifing his Hand”; firove to coii'menance‘his opinion of an un-fl aflive pronunciation. But from that time ,~ all Antiquitic hath repudiated thofc for fiupid'an‘d V bruitifh Oratour's: of Whom one may fullly thy ij'fioaéh- . that whichCaf/‘iodamy ofth'at‘drunken wife man: 111b, dc A- wk— Afiww t. ",3 r, mum/1m prudentifiz‘mé difiiéntm ,' Jijfic'ife efi‘ “imam? l zu'wm eredm, qw’m (6 WC WWW IMF" “”‘PWM‘ 1.3' i Who may be defc’rib’d , as the mifi‘l‘ab 6 W0“? owing. 'lj man in thC Fable, turned inth fibhc by La," ta‘moiph. 1; ‘ tom: , . ,4 lib-‘5“? i .mcflefii caviar, flé’é‘ harm *fieddéfi" gefiygg; Nee pa: irepotefl; nibil'éfl in imagine wow}: : ‘i" . v W -—u~_/_._r..‘.,_. _ A inwhwyw-WRAA » i . i *- A I i There, was no kindé OFW’tiCErgthfit did‘nét wig} frank: language in’veigh and ylcafantly {Colic at l, :9, this 1176 _ Cfi‘IRONfOMIhfiOrl the {luggiflmefle ofthofe Orators. fivemlpret; t JUYWL tily compares them to the ftumpe of Hermemnd Satyr.8. "in one,difgraces them all. _ 7 ( i~ , _ . H N 51110 quippe glint/inc?“ gifirimine quaim quad ‘Illi marmozgmmgapqt ejh ma vim ima o. . ,. , Atifiidcs g/Irifiideswas wont to ray], that fuch dull Ora-f FO-S- tours were yery unlike Orpheus; for he,as thefa-g bles report, enticedand drew (tonesafterhimy ‘ , but they, as Wood and (tones , move no man”. $"f‘91- 1“ (refollim ( who had: prePared much of this in- hill-23“ telligence to my hand) flicks not to joyne toge- ‘ ‘" ° ther fuch men who fpeake without action , to thofe ftatues made by the Ancients in the igno-T: ‘ rant ages of the world : for they had their eyes fhut, their handshanging down and joyned to their (ides. Daedalm , a cunning and witty'man, Was the firft that formed the eyes, and put forth the Hands, {0 giving life and motion to all the parts, with .fingulat judgeme nt, teaching there? by the decencie thereof;whereforeheisfeigned to have made thofe flames andpourtraiétutes of men {0 excellently , that they moved of them- a {elvesh The inconvenience of this cold vacati- on in the Hamid, gave being to that .Axiome in , Rhetorique,,' Eli maxim oitiofumfi ailiane ma- mmmg; watecereazt : for fuch, my Author thinks a Wrellling place were necelTary; but that of the _ Ancients, wherein the apt and comely motions of the whole Body , efpecially (biranamia, the eloquent behaviour or Rule of managing the ‘ -_-Hend, was taught. " But time theie’he’lpesof'e- loquence now faile, his advice is, they would mark the gel’tures of famous and excellent men, honefily and freely brought up,‘and by'a certaine- till-isms .ieitttiszn; annihth’eir towns Heed; - ' we The Art of Manual! Rhetoric e. “iri- With thofe clumb'e figures of Rhetorique. Hey who have Hand: {low and ponderous, pygmy E *and ,. who without any ‘comelinefl’e beare Scfmo . and’offe‘r about their leaden Hm: , together ' "' t With‘the arme, after a rulticall manner; {0 lift— l ingyi‘t up {ometimes , that they {eeme to move‘ a :7 gre‘a‘t-lumpe of trembling flefh, reaching their [1on Right hand cut [0 timeroufly , as if they ' : g‘a ve provender to an Elephant.Such are by this ' - cufiomary habit,dilc‘overed to be Clownes, and ,5.“ men of a molt unfaithfull memorie. Such men i we (hall {ometimes fee [0 faint and idle in their , difcourfe , that they (“tick in the brim: , and de— Eié ” murre‘ in a grofle rgefiure of pronunciation; and J {tricken as it were with altoniihment , they » feemen‘ailed to that ill behaviour». This-inold - , . a a time, was called; Agerefiafpen/k 272mm. For that ‘ i “ Clownes, and men" not {o‘wellexercifed‘infpea— ,‘ ' l king, or {uch .whofe tinfaith-fulimemories-failer 'fl * ‘ ‘ I them, while they “are altogether ignorant of the \ 1"? matter , and are not certaine Whttherthey (hall , be caried , or where they lhallhtle’hgth’réftx; they hang the Hand"; and hold it as it were in £ufpenfe. Thereforrefl’liaietheyounger elegant- Plin.Se- lyufurps S‘f/Pm/fl‘mmm Commendare , for a faint and; 593 and Cold commeridatxonfiel’chmte of that ardent 11M, afi‘cfiion whi-ehiS' wont to appeare in thof'e A h who are moved in matters of greatmoment. ; - .- . :1-1-« He fubtle gelliculation, and toying beh‘avi—é’ 7:3?" 1? ~ e . e 1 our of the Hand: and Fingers‘, was called by 3 ‘ i , the‘Ancients , I’geflmfizzMamm,“ argum M52345, i 1 ' 5 and argmix @igito’fum 7: and are-certaine quick and over—fine delicate motions. of £116?inch ‘ I g " hush 5 l I l ,l : L $13 CHE R QNO M11530?" - {ugh as our juglers are, , who; gcrferme'tricksbg flight ell-15nd , and by a coleurablc craft mock 'thc‘ eye. Hence [Mama argum]; are-fpokéno? ghecycs, whofe H4124: doe quickly leap up; and ilfue- forth, inflantly V‘aniflling‘out QffighQ-gnm, they hawthcmlelves , and are called, tollevegyg; . part. Sidanim Ape/[infirm very skilfully»; Scrinia“ Sidoniu: m4 conniwmiéem naéi: , acj ‘fabarmntiém: ,4 efiém , . ' @P'9‘5Wis fliermEMmm; argzata]papulaéimnlhis;pulling} ~‘ ‘ 1951’ '7' and'bufic talking of the Hand; and Chagall-33;” Yaniflaof thelfg’izxger: , by. the.ccz:nmo~n verdiflif Ufa-ll difgreet andknowing‘memmtb béfinxmefi yam-damned fora ridiculous. weaxknfiflfie in tho-m thatlee-it much. ; againfi WhiCh-ftshe— melt Edi-fir: pus RimetpriCians l1a‘v-e_cntr,cd,thein caveats. Sea; , y ‘ gcm in that graveprecept of the Fringe of Eloquence 2,: ‘ gram-m Ala/14 [it mallicifl-mrwicwn ,, ,null&;[argati¢d;gitqm l ‘E. 1- , ' ' ‘ Ming] nan;aginamemm:nrtimlmmdml. That flab-1: Qmmur‘, ; whofe: wealth begbmyproverb, very; Wilely‘alfo to this purpole :< ‘Digitm [uéflqgmgg perk/,1. non exprimemf. ' This gefiuinfiblemifllfaml; rag-us d e qpidamicall‘difpafe ,‘takes holdiofthe Hand; of} graft-m. lxght and unsklljfull‘ perfons,3and young mm” a " 3. “ who are qfually too hot» at Hdifidln their exp‘refé ‘ fions :‘ yet it hath- bcenxthcznotedand deforming- progcrtie, of [cm charmed man: 3;. Wha- by reafmt offthe lively force; of their “Ligand, vigorouSfi-s lacritie of their-fpirits, doe-manifel‘t and fignifie their mimics. with a tumultuagfi agitation Olga-rm Whole body ,‘ whofe Hand; are never out of av film, but alwaYESlertin‘g and kept in playathein: Word's plentifully ifluing oqzon all Hands. 32‘. Hartmflmpthetwilc; a‘ man] eéxcellenr,wa;8 tsaxfili with this gauging for covntrgflc;di afieé’catio,n_ of gfhcfigzgzd ; concerning whom; laws beam the; x. w . V ... w The Art ofMai‘mm’I Ekatericke. '1' y 9 rtepdrt of e/Igéflim. Cam mam: eju: E farm: argu- 1 a: 3 admadum (6' gefluofie, media»: appellatiarzia $61133? 6mg; proérojfijamm: eff, m. In which he faith ‘ "“9“? t’rue:fbr..he was upbraided by the Orators oftthe . ‘ times, far the gefiiculmion of hisHandgand cal-.- ”11 led Stage-player; and T orqmtw, his enemic, 1 nick-nam’d himlgefikfllmiam @ionyflam: as if he h’gd been but the zanie amd ape of @ionjfia , a {93151ng girléfi‘n‘d RICE-Mimique of thofe times. 1- .fi‘ Tit/lie réla:€s the fame man to haVe uredruch om {ub'tlc and fwifrr'h‘o‘tions of his Handy, that he Dwinapin (fizzled the eyes of the beholders. Such a one Vmcm- was T itim,Who as the (am: Author reports, was E 111 do fg'hefl’e‘niinat'ev a‘n'd‘ dxflolutely a&ive in his ge- (130:3: 1 1 flutes, {bat tHC‘Tk‘m‘amimi ofthofe times made a ” ‘ ’ j ;, fiance of him, and called it by his name , Titim ' his (bmnrd. 1T 'rmmm that fWeet-mouth’d So- phifier , whom Axifiotle forbisvfiivinitiqof1310-. 1 g. 11 cmbmpointingouzwith hisfinger,asmwere, be” 1 11 ’ 1 1, a . s, . ,. s . .5. 51 1 the mantcall d hm Timeoglamfium : yer: Azkcjmcm mmhms 11, 1 1 1 11,11 tepdrts 111m, Nallum ge/Mm. cf» corpora mgfmmm Despnos. ; . », préeterméflfl‘e; and foby confcqusnce gum? ofhb,“ fab impertinem vexatxon of the Hands and Fingers. wager—u. ww—A ~ 4.1. , 0 la & fumbié Wirhthc Fimemin {Deed}, p ,., ,, , P y I. , ,.c> ,L“ \ ram/Var. 15 a fimple'and mohfh harm: of 1t136~hmzzfmflm cbhdemned by the'amient Rhetorlcmns,ssau 1 11 argument of 2 childifia andql‘L—{ctmper d mmfie. , 1 Tfiis’, with the Ancients, Was,1U/1zémrcdzgzm:1] F 1111.111 1 There are,ih1th figmnhm, 72/35; fmrmnm 1-7-1111 P111193 1 1 1 mm digitzk jamlmmr : and the HebrfiwflPr?» “3,7133, '1 #6:th faith , Swim: digito bqwmq, The Emma ‘ fpeakcth with his Finger. Whammy-mt was :33: (flyinc of6792710$h€1£€€é€tfl®fllfil [973??? lscgfimw 1 , . b 1 » . ‘ hum/1 1 1 1 I A, “21);???3 1 1 . . t I“. ‘*v:""“_ a, "T. ,» 3m LH 1 R ON 9 M 1 A: Or,- 1 ' i 1 1 3 :‘f‘ffi aertius dam mam: maven no» debere, which he {pake not i g of Rhetoricall motions, lime in Sparta there Was 1 {carce any man elieem‘ed the copious elegancie l 1 pi {peecll Worth his iiudy; but his 1ntention was -: ‘ either clofely to carpe at this foolifh toying wmh the Fingers , or elfe to admonifh his Citizens to be [paring 1n fpeech , and to aliet‘t Laconicall brevity , and Where one or two words would {ewe the turne to exprefie their minde , there Would be no great need of geiiuring with the 533630.333; Hand. To this may be referred that which Sue- 333.6 8. tom'u: reports of Tiberim Nero, Cefvzr, whofe “ {peeCh Was exceeding flow, not without a cer- taine wanton geliiculation , and fumbling W1th his Fingers,Which with other figns were reeko-g ' tied and obietved in him by wwguflm , as Pro- perties odious, and full of arroganc1e.' 3173””. TO Oufe the (Mddle-Fz‘nger infiead of the 12;- 1565.2 3_ dex in points of demonftration IS much to " » be condemned 1n the Hand of any man, much more of an Oratour. The ancient Grecians no- ted and reproved [rich for w itlefie dotards. Hence , lsertius magma: the Cynique iaid, Malta: infanirepr‘e. 315.6,. ter a gimm, covertly inferring that they are not , (oniy) mad, who erre in putting forth of their finger; Which gives a notable lufire to that eie- gent, but darke place Of ‘I’erfim, hitherto under- - flood ef none, not excepting Comma: the anci- 33 3mg,“ lent Scholiaii, for Ramirez. marvells not that E- comm“ 3 rat/71:1: was ignorant thereof, in his Adage 3 31 pig. Talk dizzimm, the place is Satyr 5 M ”ii- ”1 ’ N1! tiéi 60:26:17? mm, digitum mere, 193664»! 3 @1131)” El piidmm ? 333:: q part/um cfl. ‘ ‘ ° rtthou void eFreafon3and a liarke ioole: £03111 1‘. .i' m m 0M“ ‘ If prove it to you? excre digimm , mimically he feignes him to have put forth his Middle-Finger, which is the foolcs Index, aCCording to that vul- gar verficle’: - Milenmercatorfiulmr, marina, amatar, And he addes Palms, thou errefl: in putting forth that Finger, and he urges an argument, & riainori , and what is {o {mall and eafie to doc ? as if he fliould fay , if you miftake in {0 (mafia matter , what would you doe in a cafe of grehter mo- ment? Lnéium commenting upon thefe words 5; Lubinus' Digimw' extra, pecan , {ayes the Poet {peaks ac- Comment cording to the opinion ,ofthe Stoiques, who did ‘“ Perk“- dcmonl’trate, It: digimm ”513' éflaltia e.-t'em'poly-q;Asat)!r 5° and that a wife man only can doe a thing: which that he might make good , he puts him to an ea-v fietriall, in which this foolifh 59am; mifcarried, which difcovered , he was not able to move the , leaft member of his body Without faultand incur—x ‘ ring a jail: reprehenlion. Ta/chalim alluding to fiafchal. the fame mifprifion ofthc hand in demonllration lib. 26'. _ faith, Swim: mfdium digimm marzflmt, 6' biné‘fl’fiv‘mal Vi“ fedmfldat, an afiion fo unnaturall and uncomelylcmmfi‘ that we will not permit children to be guilty of, committing itq Omeafure out 6c difiinguifh the intervals of Prawn an oration by {canning motions of the hand,& Sefitzdp certain‘delicate flexions, and light founding per-z Cumons of the Fingers; is an aftion condemned in the Hand of an Oratour, called by gzzfmnlmn in his Prohibition againfi this aé’tion , .Adnmf— ram articulzé; wade»: ; and explaining himfelfe in this matter, he faith, Selma omtiomn defcmdm ad firefimm digitarrgmiindeed Zfrotagomtg gal’d, liar; Fabius it 90 (:3?th fuzz ’ cxmau‘misgor; the meaf‘ure ofaII things. The Learned very 6:19 cell Meafur‘e' the daughter of the Fingergand‘thc Egyptians ufed to fignifie‘ meafure by a Finger painted. Hence the meeting and {canning of verfes upon the Fingfligha-th’ been a very ancient Chfi‘o'me, and it Was the manner‘of old in the re- citation ‘of the‘verfes ofpo'ers , in the meafuring ain'd’iinging them, to note out the intervalls and fir‘oa-ks by» a certain motion Ofthefidndygwber‘e- 1:35;“ 1. indie Finger: exhibited 3 found, ”Which 62x35}:- 9'C9P-4- tili‘me 'cilsEngitorum Mam] for he fiies‘in mead ter,[Dig*itdrkm ifikjiktkrvah/z‘gmris;Aggy/fin .. not obi'cur‘eiy“ confentS'fo the fame , who attri— butes fihging‘ , a-pplaufe“ aihd petcuflion', to the“ recitatidn 2o'fVerI'es : hcneethat fen‘tenqe of S:- i s.‘ Aug.i. 2. ”2223’; to be taken notice Of, (Qfflitmi‘D‘égiti all; dc Mufic. ghadi‘mwfi chWn‘nfictimtfifemper fanfléat; where 5 Sena-dc (fa‘s 0%fliur‘obfervesflhat great guide of litera- 325;"; I: tut-3,2» Lipfim; hath‘correfleda place which was‘ . Crefiihdc: found-of it felfe' ; but the Finger: (faith he) in ; Gemom; that meafuring doe fcar‘c‘e found , therefore for 1.2; [brunt hEe puts/mt ; yet Crefollim is bath to tsh'inke that the-above mentioned piaic’e’o'f flainw tilted had‘efcaped his knowledge, which con- firms this [Mum digitomm] or founding motion ,. :, ofthe Finger: , Which Same in this {entence al- ‘ ‘ Hiontcdés Indes~unto:So,aDa&yi,onc of the Poetieall feet, on‘Whi‘ch verfes run, they wil have to have took denomination from the drawing in length of the” Finger, which they very cunningly ufed'to‘ ex; ptefie the modulation of the infirumentg But this’i'fim or muficall cadence of the Finger! 1 Which Crefizllint thinkes Was nor u-filrp‘e’d' 'of old by Oratonrs, when they related the verfe’s of an» eient» Poets; unlefie petehan‘ce ofthe merger??— ‘ " mutate The Art of Manual] Rhetoricke. minute of them, (who hunted alfo after. delicate fitfiélOflfiOf words)thoughit"ma be tollerablefot the ietnngofl: the intervalls, o refirained num- bers, yet in free profe, which Fabim Calls amtia— Seneca in mmfilmam , to affeé’cthefe fubtill cadences,,d-e- fenncitata‘, I ‘ i‘erves the [ting of the S~toique,_which he put: out 1 5 agatnltit‘. - ~ ' » . . 0 ulethe left hand commonly, as principall: l V inAfilon , which‘fhould beat molt but ac- 651%"? ais the idle propertynf one deltitute of all.» Aniline-mud Common. notions; and ofo‘ne that: would [earn to {peake in defpiteof theadverrifer- ments of the Ancients ; azltra-nge errour in the deofanOratoryet obferved 8eeondemned by. Cre/ollim infome pretenders to divine: Rheto- Crefol.‘ ricke. fit only to preachbefore fuch as the chil— Vac- All“ ‘ dren of Ninevehmzho cannot difeerne between ., ; their Rig/9t Hand, and their left.;t;l for. in. thofe - . g' things that are done in. thefighttofhoneft men,it ;j t was never thought the propertyvof animgenious 9 ' _ 1 minde ,, and one Well-bred to Lift: theleft hand. ‘ ‘ \ Neither is there any caule why- in the, education Plutarch of .NoblevmenS' children it is diligently‘given in of Fat-- Cha‘rgmhat they feed. themfelves withthe Right $221133: Hand,yca,8; nurfes ufeto re-buke’infants, ifhap: mm of ‘ ' pilythey’ put forth their left ; » which precept is childtcm drawne out of honefiyit {elfe , andnature , and ' hath ever beene in ufe withthole Nations who; 1 1r ‘ have addicted themfelves to humanitygand geod- 13" , mannerstHence the Egyptiansheceufe in WT“?- ? ' , tingandtcalting account; they 'frametthe'tr lets tee-rs, and lay their Countersfrom the Kid” Hand to the left; and the Greciansozs Hem/ow: notes) Herodet. e-Ofitrariwifmfmmthe letttq the tight; ufedtg ' ' ‘ ' " ’ ’ git ; E4 hi i Prawn Sea. 2. 5. 982/33; ’ -. 7‘4 illicit-€74 5:" £11: . _-iifil£}‘bu*' ' 3" HT???» ‘ _i':. :K‘ I. "uw t ,. 3 Meletlus. l S’.H’ietom '. “ 1“ Mat! 5'. 'CHIRON 0341113013“ 1» gird-and trump at the Gracia ns,faying,that them; {elves doe all to the Right Hand, which is well and honef’tly ; but the Greeks to the left, that is 'perverfely and untowardly. And indeed the- Nomenclators feeme to have excluded the left» hand from all afiions of decencie and impor- tance. The Hebrewes call the Right Hand fa- mimthe South,the light and active Hand3and the :11ch the North, the obfcute and'darke hand, ' muchinferiout to the South. Homerfihough hee differ, yet maintainesthc‘ dignity of the Right Hand above theleft, in calling it the Orieatj and theleft the accident. The Hand is {o occupied in endeavouring and doing,that the Greekswvho y A . to the advancement of wifdome have flourilhed in poltfhing humanity , and inventinglnames ‘, call it Mina/ms ml Jt’xeaszu -.- qm‘m at magi-gram- matici anim’atdwrmnt , 4‘2“er J)’ Gama“; 77:1 www- U’Vleletim faies the left hand is Called mam) X569“ my qu‘ rm’Em, quad in reém paragendis‘, ipfa per [it claudicet (fie oberret : And that is called Mum) [tea 1mm, 5m} ml «smiley quad 06 [xi imperfefliommab omni penéfunfliom remawmr. Sometimes with tthr‘eeks it is called gnawed; oi mat—rt! Mimi.”- linqm. Hence with the Latines, Relié'la é relin- qm, a‘ ram} (fivlinqno, and view: (it may be) for ' that in mol’c‘afiions we leave it out, for, the fame reafon in the Englifli Nomenclature,the left hand,for that it is molt u‘fually left out. With the Germansfit is Eta ltnhe bahtflmfi lag-cub haunt?! tfiquiefcem 'ch cefl'am Menus. With ”the Italians ‘Mamfla’gzga, Mama: 141133, and Mina mince, 1d {/hMamu deficient. StHieram fo attributes yertue and honefly tothe Right Hm , that r e Wlll not acknowledge a iufi mar! S9; hate-£9 {mash a; a ' V . .- __ , ,C i The Art of Manual! Rhetorickei ‘ ” lefthand; and the Hebrewes and Greeks- afm: mine the left hand to vice.Who(laith [re/015w) i‘sfo great a forrainer and [hanger in the nature ‘ o’fman, that he knowes not the Rig/er Hand to be n’aturaliy more vigorous, and able then the left? I‘lthere be any fuch, _Icou‘d> producea cloud of - witnefleé for his infOrmationgnd the chiefe Au- thours‘and Ring-leaders of Antiquity troop’ingl together under this banner , the *' fpléndour'of whofe Armes' and Martiall lookes {hallput all. A .fi. * ignorance to flight. Ariflotlc inhis Problems fil—f Prim“. z 5; led with incredible variety of learning, faith, may; Dextm part6: corporia nofiri [angle {tint nobiliore: finiflrés, é’ malt?) amplim folent efliccre. They who followedhimin the ”chorus of theLearned , ta- ' king their hint from this their renowned princio pail; adhere to the fame opinion; for Tlumrcb Plumrch iotidcm wcrlnirfimlflm efi emerge to omit What in Rom. cflpuleim,€wjbrim, ‘Pl'ixie, Solinm , and others qua!” 8. deliver, who have given their manuall {uffrage and alTent unto this point. Thilo fade”: enqui- pm, 1.3,; ring the reafon why the Divine Law in the rite de pram. of facrifices . gave to the Priel‘cs the .part Sum!- of the oblation , which they call the Eight fhoulder, layers, there is a {ymholicall fignihcati: on in that myl‘tery : That the Prielt ought tobe diligent and fwift in aé'tion , and exceeding {trong in all things. We know that commonlytn (trefoil de combats the left handg‘s it were affixed to the edit-0m body,manageth the fliieldnnd ftaying as it were at hometquiet; the Right Hand {hewesit felte forth , :tndis occupied in doing and giving the charge. In which wemay fee a certainet(ha.-j dow of Rhetoricall motion ; for in (peeking, motion and ,at‘tioniié. proper t-Othev Rig/7t Hard ' ‘ on y, l x. t l 13.269 C’HIRONOfiIAtOr: ‘ onely, the left re‘maines quiet, and is feared Cicero ad openly brought forth. 7 Tnflie not very obfcurely Herenn. advifeth-thus,‘ who di’fputinrg of Aétion , makes L3. Fab. in Rhet Infi. mention only of one Hmfihich he fomewhere calls the Right Hand , no where the left ,, Si m't ferma mm dignitatc, Iaew' @extm mam Yaqui oppor- teéit. But the molt cleare Interpretour of all the Ancients _, ,dintilian, hath brought this Oracle othetoricians from behinde the curtaine, Ma'- nm’ fini/fm nunqaflmfllflgeflumfdcit , and how flmuld it make of it fell a compleat aé'tion, lines the aetion thereofis more contra&ed , infirme ,1 incompo‘fe‘d, and out of order? whereas the affi— cos of the Rigbtare free , frequent, continued ,' Compofed , and refembling the {weer cadencies of numbers; 8: therefore hath the prerogative of eloquence in the body,asbeing nearel’c the prim-'- ciple of motion, and molt apt to move and {igni- fie. And becaufe the left hand of it felfe is of" my {mall dignity in pronunciation , common humanity doth teach us, that as a Virgin (but up in her chamber,it {hould be modefily concealed ; the Right Hand on the contrary, as a molt goodly Scepter of Reafon , with its force and weight.- doth much among men. But although this prazvarication ofaéting with the Left hand in chiefe , be an erronr {o groifc, that we cannot away with it even in pifinrq where an imitation of {heech is exprelt : Yet there might be a guareitéis’d , what toleration might be granted to their who are Left-handed or .Ambodexters by nature or cullome. And I could furnifih a Prevaricator in Chirofophie,‘ with form nations to advance with, toward an excufe,or Apologiegn the behalf; ofthofe who’ ' are The air: ofManua-U (I? betorickel — are Somme: and Scramble: in this point OERheto; rique. Formany of the ancient Sages,who gave themfelvesrothe fpeculation of Nature, are of opinion , that both Hands are'by nature equally qualified. The great Oracle of Phyfique,faith, “Utmmé in hamine Manama e canfimilem. And! 7’14», where he {peakes of the Handy, with that [,5 wit wherewith he comprehended things divine Plato”; and humane , affirmes, ‘Parcmeexrm any; Sini— .de legibus.‘ flm vim é Namm fiaifl'e conceflgm. And that it hapned by Cullome ,"that one Hand is better, and the Other more infirme : yet Cultometis an- other Nature. But Garopim hath a faying to Tiara for this. Mela—ingipoint-blanke, from an Goropius exemplar argument proves, Dextmm Lew: poti- in Hiero- orem nemiqmm ejfe. Tlata,the Prior of all anci- lePhg ent Philolophers, where he fets forth the educa— Mam“ tion ofhonourable Childhood, he would have 301:,“- them all in warre and handling their weapons, 143,017; to be like tho-{e Sonnes of Thunder in Homer, delegibus. mafia“, and no lelTe then the Scythians in bat- taile, equally to ufe both Hands , fince it feemes eafie to be done. The lawes of which malla- cute Philofopher , when the Interpreter of Na- ture briefly lets downe in illul’crarin'g his'learned Arifi L1; Trafiate of Politie,he remembers this to be one: Polit: cap; Calm: 0mm: a’me‘inxst’fl} oporte’re- Since the“; ulr. is little reafon why one Hand {hould be idle and . quiet. And Commodm the Emperor preferr‘d Dmmcar‘ the Left hand for any at‘tipn,a.nd was Wontto boal’c much that he Was‘Left-handed. We read d alfo , that Elmd and Tiderim were of this com- £3635“; plexion. But although fome are found more Tib.c as. nimble and aflive in their left hands , and'fome Barthel. Ambodexters, (which Bari/2017”“ imPutC‘S t‘? ‘1 fiffirtinfi' palm £01.260o Hippocraa' ,sF‘fizs' CHIRONOMIAtCE ' pain: of veiues, Whereas the puifl‘arz Right Hand proceeds from a veinefiai that fide onely) yet the utmofl: difper; be granted , is a connivence in C017: one; for in matter {of ipeech or or gef’ture,there can he no toleration gra . Oratour to play the Ghibeonite , an judg. zo. Words at his Auditors out of the Auk 16- rancc , though he can doe it at a haire ' For the truth is, the Left Hand wants . tie, excellence,force and grace in poi on, being made contrary and unhapp; tuation : whereupon’tis called Sinifln: gm}: fine aflris 5mm. And the lack es; doing of a thing, is called Sinifi‘erims fir} the adverb founds unhappily. The (therefore) that it can be imployed , is} dance on the fight; which by the court? ture hath the prioritie , as the more pre propenfe,and apter to make good its aflia more handfome diligence,as being plant: rer the fountain of'the blood.And verily; Hand {eemes to be born to an obfequiot pliance with the Right. And therefor; .wintilian calls for this accémodationdt: to have had refpefi unto the Interpret Aria; Nature , whole wellvgrounded Axiom:- Im campamm ejfe pi Namm, at Law Dex- Arifi. , mndmt. And the Philofopher addes his Pmbl’ 35‘ in another place: qm‘zd amm'a Simflm De; midiom/nntfacilim oé/eqm' , M95, dd mm; Mfingi (”a maveri : which the Hebrew . (as (‘refla/lz'm (ayes) feeme to have has? unto, in their expofition of Deuteranamé the ceremonie ofwathing Hands 5 w The Are a]! Manmfl Rbetériqué; tus : Dmiqm’ 0pm eflfit in aélutiane mmm ‘ ‘ m tanquam famula fuéferviat Dextm. gelesmg 6 form Critiques would have theLeft hand Hm? i by the Greekes , 0381955959 aim the gay ' , qmfi guild egregia aptimag; non fit , fed 45!, a: obfeqmum miniflerinmg’? pracrmm. And .ncient Lingones called improfperous 3, E perzflem;but good and fortunate things, C l“ n ' a. By the Greekes, indeed, fometimes by Rfflg‘fiw offintiphtafis,the Left Hand is Called 05:34:55- Lcc’t: tile/(gagic‘. optimm. But in all humane af-r -, szflmm fignifieth as much as unluekie‘. .; an Ecclefiallieall Otator, to blelle or dif- * , tile his auditorswith the Left hand,is a So~ PW“??? fine in Manuall Divinitie. For the Left hand sca‘w” .is bulinefle, hath onely ufin‘ped the office in fecond place, as being oFalowet nature : the Right; neither is it of thatfoxtune or tea ,tion : whence, in all Naturall devices and set of fotme ortolten of the Hmm’, or any name implying the freedome of eleé’tioni ntroducing of the Left hand doth abate, and JCCS a fubordlnate propettle. ’Tis the Right d. ( according to Ifldorythat hath its name fl , ”do, by which we undetltanda joyfulla- ”we dance of all good : the extenfion of that. ltherefote , hath been ever of more tenure inferring Benedifi‘io‘n. And thflin Afartyt‘ it was an inltirution oFthe prime Apol‘tles, . 2116 Right Hand lhould confet the badge of Jutlhftirw .tianitie in Baptilme, for that it is more are». "yr-"~11; 3' {honorable then the Left; and,as Cre/oiz’im‘ Cdgf‘ , , . . lawn. {5.1 :, accompaniedwuh Blefling:Wneteaa tn Amhogvfi Ehand there is a contrary Geniuggcettail when to fbond to be of a very difietent condition? K and“ i2? b? 16. Arifl.’ Ari'i’c. ‘ . the ceremonie ofwafhing Hands 5 where they " $23 ' CHIVRBN‘VOM'IMAOr; pair: at veines, whereas the puifi‘ance of the Right Hand proceeds from a veinefiae pari, (on that {ide onely) yet the utmoPc difpenfation can be granted , is a connivence in common adti- ‘ tans; for in matter of lpeech or ornamentall gefture,there can he no toleration granted to an i Oratour tofp'i'ay the Ghibeonite , and to fling Judg. :0. Words at his Auditors out of the Auke of utte-‘ rancc , though he can doc it at a haires breadth. For the truth is, the Left Hand wants that agili- _ tie, excellence,force and grace in point of'at‘ti? on, being made contrary and unhappy by its {ci- tuation : whereupon’tis called Siniflm in latine, gm}; fine aflrix am. And the lack of grace in doing of a thing, is called Sinifi‘eritm , and fini- firé the adverb founds unhappily. The heft way (therefore) that it can be imployed , is in atten- dance on the Right; which by the courfe of Na- ture hath the prioritie , as the more proper and propenfe,and apter to make good its aétions by a more handiome diligence,as being planted nee- ret the fountain of'the blood.And verily,rhe Left Hand {eemes to be born to an obfequious cem- pliance with the Right. And therefore when wintilian calls for this accémodation,he feems, to have had refpefi unto the Interpretour of Nature , whole well- grounded Axiome it is, Ira compamm eff: Ii Natura, at Law: Dextrz} abfi- mndwt. And the Philofophet addes his reafon , probl. 33'? in another place: quédamm'a Simfl‘m Dextrtk bun midiomjuntfacilim ab/equi , my; ad numm alteri- mfingi cév mwn’ : which the Hebrew Divmes, . (as [refillim fayes) feeme to have had refpcfl: unto, in their expofition of Deuteranamie , about ‘ fay ‘ The Art 9f M anaafi ,Rketorique: 129 fly thus : Deniqm 0pm efifit in ablation: mmm _ Q Sini/z‘m tanquam famald flab/crank: Dextm. fiekmg Hence fome Critiques would have theLeft hand Hog?“ called by the Greekes , a’ezsega‘v 07’?» an §aw ‘ gadget), qui quhd egregia optimag} no,» [it , fed an! Dextrta obfeqaium mini/farming; procream. And, the [ancient Lingones called improfperons , things, Eperzflem;but good and fortunate things, C21" 6 ' Tea-in. By the Greekes, indeed, fometimes by 11mm“; Way of Antiphrafis,the Left Hand is called diets? Leét. 5’ 552mb Jets-055.6. optimm. But in all humane af? faires , S miflmm fignifieth as much as unlucldet ' Or an EcclefiafiiCall Orator, to bleffe or difiv ‘ ‘ miffe his auditorswith the Left hand ,is 3. So-- Prawn lecifme in Manuall Divinitie. For the Left hand SW6” - in this bufinefle, hath onely nfurped the office in the fecond place, as being ofalower nature then the Right; neither is it of'thatfortune or tea» putation : whence, in all Naturall devices and matter of forme or token of the Hand, or any utterance implying the freedome of eleétion, the introdu-Cing of the Left hand doth abate, and denotes a inbotjdinate propettie. ’Tis the Right Hand ( actording to [find/07')“ that hath its name (i dam, by which we underftanda joyfulla- bundance of all good : the extenfion of that Hand therefore , hath been ever of more tenute in conferring Benediftz‘w. And flu/tin Afartyr fayestit Was an inftirution ofthe prime Apoftles, . that the Right Hand {honld confer the badge of I!i!’t,?«,«f1r'~ Chrif’tianitte in Baptitme, for that it is more ere-l :YI'-‘~1.}" 3° lentée honorable then the Left; and,“ Cre/oi/iat ggdf‘jm thinks, afceompaniedeith Bleflingzwnereas m Aachen; theleft hand there is a contrary Geniuageettaino hm ‘"’ 1375‘}: is found to be of a Very different condition: K an ' fidor; {:30 CHIRONOMIAtow and naturally more apt to deteine , then to be; :. flow a BleflinC. Yet notwithltanding, the Left Hand, though it contribute little, yet as in tome Naturall and civillaé‘tionsfit is conformable and obfequiousto aflifi: the Right : fo in the more ‘ac‘s complifh’d and plenary exhibition ofthis facred rite, it hath oft Diaconiz’d unto the Right 5 but of it {elf}: alone fomewhat improper , and ever in fubordinate unto the Right. Hence among other ' prodigies happening in the time offiefizr Diéln- m , which were thoughtto prognofiicate but {mall happines. When certaine Infants were borne with their Left Hands upon their Heads, ’ Dion.r.'4z the Sooth—fayer concluded that there was (igni— C~ Julg fled thereby , that men of an inferiour condition C3555. {‘hould rife Vp againl’t the more Noble. And the People, who relyed much upon thefe kinde of Allegoricall inferences , thought asmueh, and @efiev‘i‘i ii: 'CERTAINE . ; CAVTIONARY N 0 T t 0 N s, Extraéted out of the Anciént; and Madame RHETORICIANS , for the complcatmg Of this ‘ Art Offiidfitm/Z Rhetoriquc, and the better reguiating the im— portant géfiures of the Hand 5: Fingers. 4 ‘ _. H E ancient Rhetoricians weré (Whit V“ very precife in the Doéttine L- ofcflflion , and had many in.‘ ' véttons for the forming there— of, Which hapned by rcafon of - . . . the manners and complexion ofthofe times : but we are not to'tt'ead in theft- fleps fo tar, as to remke the whole Art of then: obfolete Rhetorique , fince it is not very agpaf tent, what Aé’tion the Ancients ufed : and 1? 1t Were known, the whale and perfeét difciplineg mnmt be (9beth [a properly {IGW , (met; the ’ 1a: z aimfi‘S 7? ~ ;‘»-’.‘;, .pdévawyzvym r ‘ » Nu“ t *‘ {137:2 ' Camn'a 1 I. ‘deio 41:. CfiIRbNbMIA: Or; times and difpofitions of men, nowdifFery; aha Oratonan Aéhon mul’c varie according to the --diverfitie of people and Nations, I n the. means. time , theiraunivetfall precepts . which may be . drawn out of the ancient Oratours , are‘notto! be negleéted , ‘ but diligently learned . andae- much as can beg-reduced to prafiice. “ A C TI ON accomodatcd to perfwade by an" . apt enumeration of utterance , called by . Rhetoricians,Premmciation5 divided into the fi- , gure of the voice,and motion ofthe body,whofe chiefe infirument the Hand is; hath been ever accounted abfolutely necelfary for a Rhetorici-v ‘ an: yet all things that the Ancients’prefcribe for Afiion, doe not properly belong to a Rheto- rician; neither are all things that appertaingcon- venient for our times ; nor doe all aflions of the Hand‘become fpeech ; forthere are fome to fat: from advancing eiocution, that they render it unamiable and deformed. Here are two kinde of Aflions , which are more perceived in the morion of the Hand, _ than any other part of the Body : one, that Na- ‘ ture by pallion and tatiocination teacheth; the other , Wthh is acquired by Art. An Oratout is to obferve both theNaturall and the Artifici— all; yet Io, that he adde a certaine kinda of art to the Naturall motion , whereby the too much floWnes ,, too much quicknes, and immoderate 7133fi9¢§§m3yg¢ EYOYClEda ~ :tHE The, Art ofManuafl Rbstoricke.‘ 5’ ' He incompofure of the Hand: is to be avoi- i' tied, for to begin abruptly with the Hand, is h finne againl’t the lawes of Speech. In the ex- erdz'um of an Oration , the Hand muPc not gee forth, nor fland extended, but with a fobe‘r and Compofcd heed proceed to its firft Aétion, it ie good, as Rhetoricians fay,/imu[dre commm,‘ 'and when it firft breaks forth into gefiuremhile it is _ fofrly brought forWard, we may looke upon it With an eye,expe&ing when it fhould {applyiour words : Wherefore when an Oratour hath ex— hibited his honotit‘to hlS Audrtours, and laid his Hand: upon the Pulpit, let him {land upright,and that without any motion of his Handy, or his Right Hand not brought, forth beyond his~ ho? tome, unleffe a very little way, and that gently. V Hen the Oration begins to wax hot . and prevalent, 'the‘Hand may put forth with a fentence, but mutt withdraw again with the fame. Eflure doth with mofi conformity to Art, begin at the left Hand, the fentence begin— ning together from thelett tide, hutis put oEand laid downe at the Right Heed, together Wlth the end of the fentcnce. ' f; Is abfurd often to change gef’cure in 'the lamefentence, or often to conclude fiml’cet Emotions. t ; ,Efiure mui’r attend upon every flexion of , the voice, nor Scenicall, butdeclaring the ientence and meaning of our minde, not by de- ‘monfiration, but figmfica‘tion ; far it mui‘t be ac- ‘ .i. K; 3 {some .__¢ ,._.-4 I; i Camiq 1% Carrie V; Cj’mt‘ia VI, Camia VHS 4 C dfilie Vim :szzztia @dfitio X! {bet-5e (XII: ,,,,, - Cfii‘Riofioi/tihé 0r; Eommodated by the Handfihat it may agreegna have a proper reference , not {0 much to the werds, as to the fenfe; wherfore ’tis‘ added as an authentique clanfe,that the Hand mnl’t attehd to begin and end with the voyce, left it fhouldouta run thevoyce , or follow after it is done ,1 both Which are held unhandfome. lenenot 5.9 A US Handy, with mom; 70]“: ., ' Q , t . ;.0 raife the Hanoi above theliye,‘ or to let'it: fall beneath the Breal’t , :orrto fetch it down from the Head to the lower belly, are amounted vicious mifdemeanours in the Ham! : yet the malters of this faculty doe grant a toleration fometimes to raife the Hand above the Head, for the better exprefling of a_ jultiindignation, 0: When we ‘call Grid, " the Cent'teours of Heaven , or the Common people of the Skies to Witnefle. O avoid the long {ilence of the Handgnd that the vigour thereof mightnot be much allay’d by continuall motion, nor prove deficient,there is a caveat entered for the interpofing of fame intervall , or paufe , as ’twere a meafnre of the expreflion, or fiay,of the attive elocntion of the Hand : fome that are skillull and curious in this matter, Would have three words to-meke the in- ‘tervallof every‘motion in the Heed. But 05%;”— tz‘lz‘an condemnes this for too nice a fnbtilty , as that which neither 15;. nor can be obferved. 0 gefinre that refpefts the rule of Art, div ,. “3&3 1? Mali? £0 tilt: hinder’patte t Yet other- ' while; T136 fir: ofMtzmmlI Rbatorioke: Whiles the Hand being as it were cail backe, is free from this prohibition : for whereas there are {even parts of‘motiom To the Right Handle the left, upwards,downwards, forward, backward, and circular , the firfi five are only allowed a Rhetorician. ‘ ' " Akc heed of‘a Hand Solecifme , 'or of tranf— greffing againf’t the rule of Afiion, by the incongruity of your Handand Speech: "For to {peake one thing with the Tongue, and to feem, to meane another thing bya contrarient moti- on in the fignifying Hand, and fo to thwart and belie a mans felfe, hath been ever accounted a grofi'e abfurdity in Rhetoricke, and the greatell: folecifm’e of pronunciation. Which makes, to ‘this purpofe; Wee read how attheOlympique "Games which in times pail were celebrated at Smyrna, where Polemotz , thetskilfitll Sephif’ter was prefent, there enters the Stage a ridiculous Player, who when in a Tragedy he 'hed’cried Out (3&2), o‘ (700le ! he put forth his Hmzez’to the earth : and againe pronouncing (3‘ 257336 Term 5 93 define ereé‘ted his face towarde Heaven. The-learned ms As; vim Sophifi'er laughed at the ab-{urd Aflorfic wrthall Sopherim alow’d, f0 that all were neare might hear-e ham , 3m; 27", gram? 3m Ewen, Iziz'c mmm fi/xciymum Mama 41%,“. fit :VVhereforebeing Prefident oftheft:-GrfilttnesB ’ he by his cenfure deprivedthet rude and ignoa rant Mimique of all hope of reWard. For area conciling of the Hmm’and Tooguefiand brmgmg them to an uniformity of figmfiearton‘, and for maintainingtlfteir naturall end-moi} lrrtpormgr relations, Rhetoricianshave agreedttrmti their; Canons ‘and Conftimtions. And the lit/wri- thee * ’ 1K At my?“ ‘ .- flame“: 135, [Maia XIII, (wife my; tinfoil. «“Ja'ca‘t. Auw tamia. Caraway n“:- or; bnly accords and complies‘with Speech, Whgfi it moves to verifie our words; for if the motions of the Hand doe diffent from the expreflions of t the Tongue, it may contradrfl: and convince the tongue of vanity ; for f0 we may Commend even when we doe repro'ae , if the gainfaying Hand {hould have a Contrarient motion; few: to ma- firme when we are in doaét, when we foréid,0u§ Hand may deport it felfe into the forme of an exbartation; We may acquit when we amt/é, ne- ceptg when we refit/6’, and 451m, comply in Words, yet by our difordered Hand biddefiance , befad», with a rejajciflg Hand,¢fiirme and grannwhat we den}, and many other Waies thwart and belie our (elves. No true coni‘tmfiion can be made of a— ny: {peech , nor can we made fuch dull ahfurdi— ties of this marker ofour words, do move in op- pofition to their meaning ; for without judge- ;ment and advice, which flaould efet in order and {upport the thought into the Hatred, that is ever: SIEady to maintaine that trufl: that the Tongue endeavours to obtaine , Twila wants her wane giant, and is {o abfurdly croft , thatthe efficacie of Speech is utterly defac’d , and allthe credit that {uch language amounts untoris the pittance J pf a doubtfuil faithe SHun fimilitudfe of gefiure; for as a monotone in the voyce, {o a continued fimilitude of gen fiure , anda Hand alwayes playing upon one firing is abfurd , it being better fometimes to ufe a licentious and unwarrantable motion, then al-V Wayes to obtrudethe fame Coleworts. Crag- MW: {ayesshe once {aw an eminent man , one WIS? bada at??? #19:. the knowledge of benefit ., i .‘. ., t a or Arte Arts , and indeed there was in the man much learning, and that of the more inward 8t recon. dit, a great Antiquary,and one that had a certain large pofi'eflion of Divine and Humane Lawes . goodneffe of words , (of: and pellucent; and decked with flowers,adorned and polil‘ned with the fayings of wife men, and a {peech flowing equally alter the (file of Xenophon: But it can fcarce be imagined how much the ill ’ compofed and prevaricant geliures. of his Hand: tooke off from the common. eltimation of his accompli-a {bed wit a For when he had turned . himielfe to the left Hand, he powred out a few Words with little gefiure of his Hand; ; then refleé’ring him- {elfe to the Right Hand , he plainly did after the lame manner, againe to the left Hand, firait tor the Right Hand, almofi with the like dimenfion. and {pace of time , he fell uponthat fet gefture and univoeall motion; his Hand; making cit" ‘ cumduétions, as it were in the fame lineall‘ obli—é guity: you would have tooke him for one of the Babylonian Oxen ( with blinded eyes) going and returning by the fame way, which for Want. of variation gave an incredible diitaite to his in- genious Auditors,' which did naufeat that m~ i gratefull faciety oi‘At‘tion; if he might have fol- lowed the difiare of his owne Genius, hewould either have left the Aliembly, or given him mm my to hold his peace : But he confidered there ‘ 'was but one remedy,that was to [but his eyes,or to heare withthem turned another way; yet hee could not {0 avoid all inconvenience , for that identity ofmotion,entring at his ears,did dil‘turbe his minds with anodiougs Qmilitndea . we rm “m mama anaemia: a 3:7 ‘ 4,1.“Vififi ifi-,_, Midnrvx AA w, A AAA‘A A ., .i e A i «Q38 “C- H '1, R ON 0 M I A : Oi} )qutz‘a TVAke caregtbat varietyrofgefturemay eni‘wee‘ XV: the variety of the voyce and words, which that itmaybe better done, foure things” are to be , obfery-ed ‘: Firthfee to thewhole caufe, whether it be joy’fiall or fad;then look to the greater part; for in an Exordium, a gentle motion is molt: com- mOleH-S.1 Narration; requires the Homo! alittle fpread,and a (quick '& freer motion. Confirmation, a morefha’rpe and preffing Afiion; the combo-s— flan of an. Oration, if it be compofed to excite. 3 mul’t'hatvemrowfing motions; .if to pacifie, gentle andhfweet';ri‘fsto fadnelTe, flow and flmort, and brokenmmions; if to j oy, liberall, .‘cheerfull , nimble and briske accommodations. Then the fentmm areto be weighed , which vary with the afle‘étions, in exptefling which, diligence mutt be ufedl. Laft aka}! the wordslome where- ofarernowmnd then‘to be fer off with fame cm— phafis: of irrifion , admiration , or feme other fignifimtion; yet thofegeflutes which fall from mellow Hand, ate=mott patheticall. Cdfltio ~ ' Akeheed of levitie ,. and a fcrupulous curi- XVL ' ofitie , in a pedanticall and niCe'obfetvation ofsthefe gel’tutes oftheTHomdx and Fingers. Comtz'o Hun afieflation: for all aEc&ation is odi- XVII. oils: and then others are molt moved with out aétion'sj,‘ when they’ perceive all.things to ‘ flow, as 'it were, out of the liquid‘cutrentof Nature. » . Comic ‘ . . . , . , f XVIII. _ «.Sefome-prepareuon, end meglttate be oreg hand of the aéttonyou mtertdatoafccommo-g date your voyce with? ' Although Lthough an Craters art {hould not altog’ei ther Cpnfil’c in imitation, yet remember, that Imitation 15 one ofthe grea._tAdjutants,and Chifif Burnifhers and Smaothets of Speech : 'it having been an ancient and laudable cul’come, for ingee nious Sparks Of Otatqtiegto be prefentat the De- clamations of eminent ‘Orataur5,& {tudioufly to obfetvegtheir Countenance and Him}. Tlinie dill likes thofe, that imitate none; butf’am examples unto themfelves.The tame‘P/inimfi‘ecmaduga fa— Plimiibfl, ‘ The m Mama Mama: " * i}; Cqmig XiXo ‘ moms Pleademnd molt {weet Crater, among 0- Eplft. ad thers that applied themfelvestuntohim, had Fa.- Mmm. fim $15th 8c Nam/Mi”: ‘demtmfimim alfq ned up in the Examplar doctrine of Manuall gag- flares. Hence the Tribe and Nationzoffitatauts were called by the name of t-ho.f_¢._eminent men which they did imitate. Sidonim,ttuly fitnamed Mpvllimflk , call’d thofe Framméam ,_ who did imitate Promo a famous Philofophet and Oma- tout’ , , the‘patterne 0t" Eloquence to M. dm‘om'e. So the» followers of Toff/9mm: Fqflm wetecal— led Pzflbumizmr. Stzlpitim, not the halt in the Chorus of elegant men , imitated the Hand of epifi. Cmflmfihat Nightingall of the Fotnmfihe glory , oFthe Senate, and(as Tit/lie {ayes)za'lmoflva god in {peaking :_ {of whom, that (it feemes) mlght be [poker] , with {mall exchange of words! W'l‘ilCll was Hyperbolicrally {aid offleradx ele- quence ; Non 11/147751: hamimmfiumt .’ ) Wherem He was [0 happy and:indu€trious,thet he Wag a6}: counted to, be verylikeumo him. In Ac’ts 12, $2. 'a e . ' d I I ‘ commended to 11m by ins ancel’coutsa was trad-é em M no tau-tie XX.“ Arlliem IEthJib.9 Cicer. l. 2. dc Orat. Gre g. NaLorat, :9. ‘ (“antic VV XXI. CHIRONOMIMOr,‘ I‘N‘Imitation , prop'ofe to your {clfethe heft ,. patterue , according to the JErhique Rule of Artflotle : Parefl' in omm' re” optimum quenqm: i4- l'mz'mri. Fajita erred in this part 2 of Whom Til/fl! reports,that he did not imitate the linewie , expreffions of C. Fiméria, but oncly his Pre-v’ Varicationé. Rafi! the Greana grave and perfeél" Ora-tour , a ’ man accompliih’d in all kinde of humanitie , which"’in him had a {acted tinéiture ofpietie : when he had beene acknowledged to he Enligne—bearer to Vertue, he had not only admirers, but form that Pcrovero bc'his Imita-~ tors. ‘ And what did, Tome imitate. ?* Certaine moales and idei‘efis oi Aé’cion, and {o fell into an unpleafant and odious kinde of Mamuall compo- fition. ‘ Therefore NJzianzm , a man ofa moli: {harpe judgement, flicks not to Call. them, Sm. mu in nmé’ris, a kinde of ‘Hobgohima and night- 'Walking fpirits, who did nothing ie—ffe then @- mulate the {plendor of Rhetorica'll ’digmtie. Take heed therefore, that Imitation degenerate into Caco-zeale , and of proving a Leftvh‘anded (Euro. ' ' Hen you have judicioufly propofed your patterne, keep clofe unto it without le— vitie or change,for diverfity ofcopies is the Way to mar the Handof Aéiion. Titania: flmz’ar was famous for this vice, who ( as, Capitolinm faith) was the Ape ofhis time.The fame levitie or faci- lity ofimitation' Libam‘m the. Sophilter had, who was called by thofe of his times,the verypainted Map efexens matinee and. diqufitiome %, Life" The Art of Mahuafl Rhetoricke: i417. fe Exercife.‘ For as the mofl learnedof the 042% Iews, there are three IdeaS.NfltWe,i1fl,and XXII; Exercitation; by which we endeaVor to the belt Pm? de end. The Corinthian Oratou‘r much commends JQR’P'L this Exer citation.And the Oracle of the Graecian 1: Sage , is ,, 077mm [im fun: in Exercimrione. They'Su; abfolute perfection of all Arts , is from thence ; 33,3, and from it Eloquence receives her beauteous tuliiu ‘ colours , her Mufiveor Mofaique Extellency ; “5'5an ' whereby .{hee becomes molt accomplifhed. Bend and wrelt your Arme and Hands to the Right, to the Left, and to every part : that ha- - ving made them obedient unto you , upon a fudden, and the leaft {ignification of the mind, you may thew the glittering orbes of Heaven , and the gaping i‘lefS of Earth. Sometimes place your arguments upon your Hagen; {ome- times lifting up your Hand: , threaten and de- nounce puniihment, or with a re j eéting pollute abominate: finnetimes {hake and brandifh-your Hand as the lance of Elocution ; that [0 you may be ready for all varietie of fpcech , and at- taine that 5%:uxaeiow or facilitie ofaé’tion } with the decorum & beauty of decent motion: which excells both that of colours and proportion. Cbarmide: a goodly young Oratour, when he would compofe his geflure to all kinde of ele- mow gancie, and (as Ovidlpeakes) Navarro/o: pomre in’ Convt‘l gefl'm ) that is,acurate,and made neat by a {ubtle judgement) at home, alone, éxa pox/51.4w he pra-a-H ‘ fiited the gefiiculations of hts Hand. , “ 0 have Cenfors attimes ol‘exer‘c’ife; who Cdmgo . {hall intflotme truly and skilfully of all our XXHL gefiures , would much helpe to the conformati- on Z—eé'iwi.;;.§éibb‘u , "w ’ ‘ _mé "CHIRONoMIAEOfi " ' on of the Hand Or to prat‘rice in a great Look»T _ lucian ‘ , in Dxmfi. Camia X XI V. _ [4min " x XXV, 5 Cautia ing glafl’e : for though that Mirrour refleéts that: image of one Hand for another, yet we may be- leeve what We fee to be d'oue.,‘Demamx, a great’ Philofopher, and an acute Rhetorician’ , advis’d an untoward Deelamer to ufe more exercife,and while he anfi ered , that he alway firfl: afled his Gracious to himfelf; ‘Demamx replied, that may very well be ; for you at} {0 little to the purpofe, becaule you have aIWayes a foole to your‘ Judge. THe gelturm‘" of the Ham/mutt be prepar’d it: the Mind, together with the inward fpeech , that precedes the outward exprefliou. er no uneomely or irregular exeefle of gen {luring with your Fiwgm in {peaking , nor draw them to any childifh and trifling aétions, contrary tothe rules of Decorum, and to that they ferve forglefi you dimiuilh the glory offalre fpeech and RhetoricallperIWafion 3 and oflet‘ a. great indignitie to Winerm, to whomthefe organicall parts of Elocution were facred. T He Lefi band of it felfe alone, is molt intomu petent to the performance of any perfet‘f aetiou : yet fometimes it doth , but very rarely. MOI}: commonly it ddth confbrm <35 accommo~ date it [(3152: to the Rngt Hand. And where both Hands concur to any aflion, they exhibite more affeflion. Wherefore gay in the Duall,.is mafcu— line, 'cau{e @is'uqitafirtiorr _, - Both- TWWMWHhistories: at; BOth Handrdoe fometimes re&,and are out of” gawk _ afiion 2 yet this Rhetoricall filen'ce of the ‘(XVI-l" Hand, is an aét proper , where no afi'eerion isxeef 3 mergent : though a long intermiliion of gelture ' he difpleafing. ' i ' Voyd Koackings, and fuperi’ritious fie‘xute‘s . » Of‘ihe Reg”: . which the» Ancients have Carma not given in precept. ‘ XXVIII.‘ ‘l—ie Africans of the Ham! are’ito bend that "’ Way,that the voyce is ditet‘ted. Camw XXIX." ‘fl’tke 'heede , that‘while your Hand englea- C ami a veurs to accomphfli the aéts of Rhetoricall XXX pronunciation , 'yo'u lofe not model’de, and they ' ‘ morall and civill vertves , nor the authoritie ofa grave and hermit man. N all Afl'ion, Nature heares the greatei’c {Way : (Jamie: Every man muff confidet his own Nature and XXXL temperament. The reefer} is, beeaufe noman' ’ ‘ can put ofl‘his own, and put on anothers nature. One Aétion becomes one mamand another kiwi of behaviour, another. That which one does , Without Art: , cannot wholly be delivered by Art; for there is a kind of hidden and ineffable reafon , which to know, is the head of Art. If! {ome , the Civill vertues“ themfelves have no grace : in others, even the vices of Rhetortqu'e are comely and pleafing. Wherefore a Rheto- rieian muft know himlelfe, yet not by common fireeepts; but he mul’t take counfelloi Neture horthe framing oithe complexionall and rude» view-ail properties of his Ham; ‘5 . n "‘6 e t," “7;! 2’: " , 245151.: :‘f 6.1;- .?m 7144 C‘mti'o xxxu.» Xenoph. inVSymp. CHIRON 0M 1A30t‘, N the Rhetoricall endeavours of the Hand, as in all other Afiionsh the golden Mediocde is befl,and mof’t worthy the band of a prudent man; For the action of the Head fhould be full of dig- nitie and magnanimous refolution, making it a liberall and free Index of the Minde ; {uch as theirs is; who are {aid bemap/van to be inipired withydivinelove, who ( as he (ayes) geflm ad . eciem quandary maximé liéemlem 'canformant. Which forme’of apparence confifis in a certain: moderation of geflure, no chafed' and income pofed rafhnes , or a too daring garb: of action, iv nor {uperfinicall demeanour : nor on the other fide,‘ a ruttique and homely fearfulneffe , which is Wont to difcourage and difappoint the pur- pole of necefl‘ary motion. Yet of the two ex- tremes,it is lealt faulty to draw nigh to modef’cie, and an ingenuous feare, than to impudencie. The manner and tempering of gefiure, is not , onely to be fetched from the things themielves, but alio from the age and condition of the Ora~ tour : for otherwife a Philofopher , or tome ‘ grave perfon : otherwife a young Sophil’rer, lit? ted up with Rudy , and boyling over with the fervencie of an aéhve {pirih A {oft and calm: action molt commonly becomes grave men,en- dued with authoritie:which to one in the flower of his youth,Would be accounted flownes , and a {lacking negligence. Modification of geflure‘ hath alfo regard to the condition and qualitie of the Auditours ; for an Oratour fhould firl’t‘cou- fider, with whom , and in whofe prefente he is about to aflt: forinthe Senate, or hearing of ai' lfrince,another action is requiredthan in a Con-' then to a Congregation of the people , orig The Art 0/ Manual] Rhetoricke: affembly of light young men. Among Kings; and Potentates, and Fathers of the Court. re: gard is to be had to their illul’trious power & au- thority, all juvenile gellient pompe and ofienta~ tion laid afide , by a fubmiife Action he mull: transferre all dignity from himfelfe. Concer— ning this golden point of moderation, there ise Nationall decorum impofed upon men by time and place ; for according to the Genius of that climate, wherein we converle, moderation, may admit of a divers conl’trut‘tion. In Italy a Etire {poker}, and overmnch gel’curing with the Hand, is held comely and acceptable. And in France he is not a [42 made , and a compleat Mann/kw , who is not nimble in the diicourfing garbe of his Hand , which proportionable to that lana ‘ guage is very briske,and Full of quicke andlight- {ome exprefiions. And your French Proteflant Divines are readily good Cbirologers,lbme I have lately feen in the Pulpitfio my great fatisfefiion, and have gone away more confirmed in the va- lidity of theft Rhetoricall gefiures ,i there being fence any one geliure thatI have cut, but I have {66176 ufed in the heat of one difcourfe of Po- lemicztll Divinity,iuch Logicall affevetations ap- peared in their Hands. In Germany , and with as here in England, who in our Nationall com-3 plexion are neare ally'd unto the Germans: mm- dcmtiwz and gravity, in gefiure,is efieemed the greater virtue. The Spaniards have another Standert of moderation and gravity accorded to. the lofty Genius of Spaine, where the Hand: are as often principalls,as accefl’ories to their proud expreffions. But our language groWne now {0 rich by the indenizatién of words of all Nans- L L I 9313; 4‘4“.“ ”.04. » '. - «w "£1 ~CH1R0N0‘MI Ag but», and {'o altered from the old Teutonique, if the rule of made‘mfim , be calculated accordigg to (the Meridionall- proprictie of our refined {peach , we may thh decerum and gravitie e- ‘ neugh ( as I fuppofe ) meet the Hand of any of theta warmer Nations haife Way, with the 1K»: and adjunfls of our expreflions. Chircpibgus. . F Huxawbamy Saul’: injpt’red Hand didfifli 53 7 T’cxbléz'te in tlvis Index oft/1e Mind; W54: Nature, or bar fable 24m: cm 8yfignex and taken: with wit}? Speech: W” .9 % (Whitman) Hand: made lighter mark ) at [4]} . , fraught to the mii, bath cr amid 21:; [above/h Here my Hand’s Gcm‘m bed: my Fami: fland;.,_ And (brain bar dzfiaurfing Gg/luresfcaa’d )‘ Etc/(ens; [tfl or 4 Manna“ unfit, The Worléjhauldrg'fi, to maize a Hand if it. Maxim: ‘njfi Tun“; _‘ WA... ‘4 w __ war-Wm- ,,. . ‘.\\~J__1 o ’r’f‘lk \ I \U’ r ’1 . 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