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A30105	Chirologia, or, The naturall language of the hand composed of the speaking motions, and discoursing gestures thereof : whereunto is added Chironomia, or, The art of manuall rhetoricke, consisting of the naturall expressions, digested by art in the hand, as the chiefest instrument of eloquence, by historicall manifesto's exemplified out of the authentique registers of common life and civill conversation : with types, or chyrograms, a long-wish'd for illustration of this argument / by J.B. ...	J. B. (John Bulwer), fl. 1648-1654.	1644 (1644)	Wing B5462A; ESTC R208625	185,856	386

Tullie when he had unfolded all the ornaments of a costly and copious eloquence he casts up all in the summary of these grave words Sed haec omnia perinde sunt ut agūtur implying that without a pleasing and opportune Action all the other aydes of Speech would become vaine and unprofitable Talaeus is in the right where he saith that many Infants by the dignity of Action have often reap'd the fruit of Eloquence while many eloquent men through the deformity of gesture have been accounted very babies in Expression For whereas Nature assignes to each motion of the Minde its proper gesture countenance and tone whereby it is significantly exprest this grace of Gesture is conceived to be the most elegant and expressive virtue of the three install'd by Plato among the Civill virtues as the speech and native eloquence of the Body for that those Elegant conceptions that inrich the pregnant Mind incite the minde by some stratagem of wit to finde out apt and fit expressions and while she labours to be free in powring out her hidden treasures she imprints upon the body the active hints of her most generous conceits darting her rayes into the body as light hath its emanation from the Sun which eloquent impressions a kinde of speech most consonant to the minde are in the moving of the Hand so neatly wrought and emphatically produced that the Hand many times seemes to have conceived the thought He therefore that would purchase the repute of an accomplish'd Rhetorician must pursue the knowledge of this Art which consists in understanding the lawfull garbe and ordered motions of the Hand the most puissant Agent of the soule and which hath by some been called Mens corporis or the Minde of the Body the voyce of Philosophie admonishing in Epictetus no lesse to be minded by a Rhetorician then a Philosopher Ne digitum quidem temerè extendere Some notions of this Manuall Rhetorique are derived from the Heroique ages of the world and were approved and allowed of by So●●ates Yet in the dayes of Aristotle were not delivered by any as digested into any forme of Art which had been a Subject worthy of his pen but in Chirologicis dormivit Aristoteles The Art was first formed by Rhetoricians afterwards amplified by Poets and cunning Motists skilfull in the pourtraicture of mute poesie but most strangely inlarged by Actors the ingenious counterseiters of mens manners The first Romane Oratour that collected these Rhetoricall motions of the Hand into an Art translating so much from the Theater to the Forum as stood with the gravity of an Oratour was surely Quintilian unto whose curious observation in the Hand I referre those who out of curiositie desire to be more punctually informed in these most subtle and abstruce notions of the Hand which they may also finde recited in Vosoius his Rhetorique a mysterie in great request with the ancient Sophisters and Rhetoricians and properly handled by them although some not well advised would have them considered in the Aethiques for there is distinction to be made between that which Moralists call Actionem moratam or civitem and Oratoriam which the Greekes call Hypocris●n and Quintil. Chiromomiam which are accōmodated to move the affections of the Auditors And indeed the gestu●●s of Rhetoricall utterance doe presuppose the Aethique precepts and the lawes of civill conversation The Ancients especially the Grecians were men ever very inventive of such subtleties had a Palestra or place of exercise for this purpose Talaeus preferres these Canonicall gestures before the artifice of the Voyce although his Commentator will allow the preheminence of this Art only among Nations of divers tongues and not where the assembly is of one lip Keckerman gives the voyce the dignity of precedence for our times but he is no better than a precision in Rhetorique of whose conceit let the learned judge since he confesseth the Jesuites known to be the greatest proficients in Rhetorique of our times instruct their disciples after this manner And how wonderfully they have improved and polished this kind of ancient Learning appeares sufficiently by the Labours of three eminent in this facultie Cresollius de gestu Oratoris Voellus de arte dicendi and Causinus de Eloquentia Alstedius could wish we had some booke of the Pronunciation of the Ancients that we might take out of it such gestures as did square with our times such a Booke as Laertius praises And Schonerus wishes for Types and Chirograms whereby this Art might be better illustrated then by words Which defect in this Art I have here attempted to supply and as I hope with reasonable successe If I have miscarried in any it is the more pardonable since in all my search after these subtleties of the Hand I never met with any Rhetorician or other that had picturd out one of these Rhetoricall expressions of the Hands and fingers or met with any Philologer that could exactly satisfie me in the ancient Rhetoricall postures of Quintilian Franciscus Junius in his late Translation of his Pictura veterum having given the best proofe of his skill in such Antiquities by a verball explanation thereof That which inabled me to advance so farre in this Art is the insight I have purchased in the ground-work or foundation of all Rhetoricall pronunciation to wit the Naturall Expressions of the Hand THE CANONS OF RHETORICIANS TOUCHING The Artificiall managing of the HAND in Speaking With an Historicall Manifesto exemplifying the Rhetoricall Actions thereof Canon I. THe Hand lightly opened timorously displayed before the breast and let fall by short turnes under the heaving shoulders is an humble and neat action becomming those who daunted and dismaid begin to speak as if their tongue were afraid to encounter with the publicke eare and such who shunning a profuse excesse of words would sparingly expresse their Mindes or asswage and mitigate the censorious expectation of their Auditours by an ingenious insinuation of a diminutive Action Quintilian thinks that Demosthenes in that lowly and fearfull Oration for Ctesiphon began with his Hand composed after this manner And that Ciero's Hand was formed to this composition of gesture in the beginning of his Oration for Archias the Poet when he said Si quid est in me ●●genii judices quod s●ntio quam sit exiguum Canon II. THe stretching forth of the Hand is the forme of pleading and hath a secret helpe and preparative to ready speaking and commendeth an Apology or any set speech to the Auditours In the memorialls of Antiquity in the writings of the old Annales the lineaments of Pictures and ancient Statues we shall finde this postute of preparation in the Hands of famous Oratours Aristides reports that Prince of Oratours M●ltiades to have been so painted in Grece to the eternall monument of his memory stretching out his Right Hand only as he was wont most honourably to speake unto his people Phillip that eloquent man

his Hands together he doth amasse them into one which is the glosse of Huelamus upon this Romish rite The many gesticulations of the Hands and Fingers so ceremoniously troublesome in the Masse whose mysterious senses Bellarmine Durandus in ritibus Ecclesiae and Gavantus in his large Comment upon their Rubriques hath so copiously explained was one thing that made the Masse so uneasie to bee said of old by the Hands of every Sir Iohn as requiring one very well trained up in their Schoole of divine complements This is the Manuall of Prayer and Practice of Picty commended by Nature unto us as a faithfull assistant to our private devotions which expressed in one of the most significant Dialects of the generall language of the Body is more vocall and effectuall then the explications of the Tongue and more religiously true to the soule in case of extremity which is manifest by their use in ●his Christian exercise when the voice cannot expresse or performe her office for the Hand inabled by Nature to supply the defect of a vocall Interpretour hath continued the act of prayer and presented many visible petitions to the eye of Compassion which understands the groaning Gestures and dumb ejaculations of the Hand And this is often observed in religious men in extremity of sicknesse whose Hands in the time of health having beene used to accompany and exhibit their requests to heaven as the last service they can doe the soule and body offer themselves in this Evening Sacrifice of life To passe by common instances it is reported of that learned and reverend Doctor of our Church that he was totus in his sacrifi●●is alwayes imploy'd in this reasonable service God requires at our Hands and toward the time of his dissolution his Hands were never empty of prayer and when he could pray no longer voce with his voice yet manibus oculis by LIFTING UP THE HANDS and eyes hee prayed still and when weaknesse and necessity of Nature had excluded these externall accidents of devotion the Hands and voyce failing in their function with his heart he prayed still as was perceived in him by some outward tokens Ploro Gest. III. TO WRING THE HANDS is a naturall expression of excessive griefe used by those who condole bewaile and lament Of which Gesture that elegant Expositour of Nature hath assign'd this reason Sorrow which diminisheth the body it affects provokes by wringing of the minde teares the sad expressions of the eyes which are produced and caused by the contraction of the spirits of the Braine which contraction doth straine together the moisture of the Braine constraining thereby teares into the eyes from which compression of the Braine proceeds the HARD WRINGING OF THE HANDS which is a Gesture of expression of moysture This COMPECTINATION or WEEPING CROSSE of the Hand is elegantly described by Apulcius in these words Palmulis inter alternas digitorum vicissitudines super genua connexis sic grabatum cessim insidens ubertim flebam Where as Cresollins observes hee hath rightly conjoyned this Gesture of the Hands with weeping and teares For 't is the declaration of a mind languishing for grief and almost spent and wearied with some vehement affliction Which the brother of Basil the Great elegantly setting out to our eyes saith Complodis manus digitos complicas atque tuis cogitationibus angeris So also Dio Chrysostomus among the arguments and signes of mourning and lamentation puts down manum complicationes humilemque sessionem Indeed the FOLDING and WRINGING OF THE HANDS in the naturall equipage of sorrow hath ever passed for a note of lamentation History the mistris of life and right Hand of experience which is the mother of Prudence holding up the Mirrour to Nature wherein she may see her own actions represented in their true and lively colours affords some confirming reflection of this Gesture Wee reade that when Heliodorus that hated favourite of the Emperour Valens was dead and his corps carried forth to bee buried by the Beir-bearers Valens commanded that many should attend on foot bare-headed yea and some also with HAND IN HAND and FINGERS CLUTCHED ONE WITHIN ANOTHER to go before the cursed coarse of that bloudy villaine Who had not the Emperours command extorted this formality of sorrow from their Hands had missed of so solemne exequies and interment Admiror Gest. IV. TO THROWUP THE HANDS TO HEAVEN is an expression of admiration amazement and astonishment used also by those who flatter and wonderfully praise and have others in high regard or extoll anothers speech or action The first time that this expression appeared in the Hand of Man was certainly upon occasion of some new unexpected accident for which they gave thankes to God who had so apparently manifested the act of his beneficence And as it is a signe of amazement 't is an appeale unto the Deity from whose secret operation all those wonders proceed which so transcend our reason which while wee cannot comprehend wee RAISE OUR HANDS TO HEAVEN thereby acknowledging the Hand and Finger of God And that this is a naturall and so by consequence an universall expression of the Hand appeares by the generall use of this Gesture with all Nations That passage of Catullus is well known Admirans ait hac manusque tollens Dii boni c. To which intention of gesture Horace alludes Importunus amat laudari donec ohe jam Ad coelum manibus sublatis dixerit To this appertaines that of Cicero Hortensius autē vehementer admirans quod quidem per petuo Lucullo loquente fecerat ut etiam manus saepe tolleret And that of his in another place Sustulimus manus ego ut Balbus ut illud nescio quid non fortuitum sed divinum videretur And to this is referred that of Livie Ad quam vocem cum clamor ingenti alacritate sublatus esset ac nunc complexi inter se gratulentesque nunc manus ad coelum tollentes c. Applaudo Gest. V. TO CLAP THE RAISED HANDS ONE AGAINST ANOTHER is an expression proper to them who applaud congratulate rejoice assent approve and are well pleased used by all Nations For applause as it is a vulgar note of encouragement a signe of rejoycing and a token and signe of giving praise and allowance doth wholly consist in the Hands Whence Cicero Populus Romanus manus suas non in defendenda libertate sed in plaudendo consumit Which hee spake of theatricall applause exhibited by the Hand of old Xenophon expresseth this affection of the minde in a very cleare and eloquent kinde of speech in these words Primipulus qui nos proxime discumbebat rem intuitus manus invicem complosit ridensque laetabatur And Histaspas in the same Author speakes unto Cyrus in these words Unum solum ignoro quinam modo ostensurus sim me gaudere bonis tuis utrum manuum concussione utendum est an

accept of the peace with the conditions Archelaus had agreed unto nor untill Mithridates had made him answer that he did would he accept of his proffered and suspected amity for then and not before he resaluted embraced and kissed him Thus Fredericke partner and consort in the Kingdome with Uladisla●● the second King of Bohemia REFUSED TO GIVE HIS RIGHT HAND to Sobieslaus whom his father received into favour after he had attempted to raise garboyles in Moravia pretending he had the gout in his Hand And so that lofty and stately Prelate Dunstan REFUSED TO GIVE KING EDGAR HIS RIGHT HAND before he was excommunicated because he had defloured a Virgin but rating him Darest thou touch my Right Hand that hast ravished one devoted to God I will not be a friend to him that is an enemy to God injoyned him seven years penance after which he was absolved and the childe christned Chare diligo Gest. LX. VVE PUT FORTH BOTH OUR HANDS TO EMBRACE those we love as if we would bring them home into our heart and bosome as some dear and pretious thing as Aristotle gives the reason of the gesture To which expression I find that of the Psalmist referred My Hands will I lift up unto thy commandements which I have loved A proverbiall speech taken from this intention of the Hand as Simon de Muis observes Cornelius a Lapide notes the naturall disposition of the Hands in embracing who commenting upon the second of Canticles 6. His left Hand is under my head and his Right Hand doth embrace me for lovers and parents use to put their left hand under those they tenderly affect and then with their Right Hand to EMBRACE the whole body and so bring them to their bosome comprehending them in the compasse of their armes as in the most naturall circle of affection Honoro Gest. LXI TO APPREHEND AND KISSE THE BACKE OF ANOTHERS HAND is their naturall expression who would give a token of their serviceable love faith loyalty honourable respect thankfull humility reverence supplication and subjection From this naturall gesture the Spaniards tooke their usuall formes of salutation and valediction whose complement usually is Baso les vostres mans I kisse your Hand The sonne of Sirac acknowledgeth the signification of this submissive gesture in that saying Till he hath received he will kisse a mans Hand If we should looke backe up on the actions of affectionate lovers whose inflamed hearts have moved them to sacrifice kisses on this low altar of friendship and to offer their service by this modest insinuation of gesture we might finde many passages of historicall antiquity to confirme and illustrate the sense of this expression How passionate was Cyrus when he came to the place where his friend Abradatas lay slaine seeing his wife sitting upon the ground by the dead body of her Lord for bursting forth into this patheticall ejaculation O thou good and faithfull soule art thou gone and left us and there withall TOOKE HIM BY THE RIGHT HAND and the Hand of his dead friend followed for it was cut off with the cymeter of an Aegyptian which Cyrus beholding it much aggravated his sorrow But Abradatas wife Panthea shriked out and taking the Hand from Cyrus KISSED IT and fitted it againe to its place as well as she could To match this president with another most illustrious postscript of surviving affection that bright mirrour of masculine constancie T. Volumnius when he had long wept over the body of his friend M. Lucullus whom Marke Anthony had put to death because he tooke part with Brutus and Cassius desired Anthony he might be dispatched upon the body of his friend whose losse he ought not to survive and having obtained his desire being brought where he would be having GREEDILY KISSED THE RIGHT HAND of Lucullus he tooke up his head that lay there cut off and applied it to his breast and afterward submitted his neck to the sword of the Conquerour Valerius Maximus in the relation of this Story runs high in setting out this hyperbole of friendship and unmatchable paterne of Roman fidelity ¶ Allusius the Cel●iberian used this expression of thankfull humility to Scipio when he had received that unexpected favour at his Hand to have his captive betrothed wife preserved by him and freely delivered unto him seeing it could not be comprehended nor equalled by any recompence or thanks he was held seised with joy and shame and taking Scipio by the Right Hand prayed all the gods to requite the great favour he had done him seeing he found himselfe insufficient to make any satisfaction as he desired ¶ As this gesture is a signe of honour and obsequious reverence Cato Utican had his HAND KIST by his Army in especiall honour of him at his departure Scipio the conquerour of Africa received the like respect and reverence from certaine Pirates who when they had intreated him they might presume to approach into his presence and to have a view of his person he let them in and immediately they went and worshipped the posts and pillars of his gates as if his house had been the harbour of some sacred deitie and having laid their gifts and presents at his threshold ran hastily to his HANDS AND KISSED THEM which done overjoyed as it were with so great a hapinesse they returned home Delapsa Coelo sidera hominibus si sese offerent venerationis amplius non recipient saith Valerius This token of love and honor may be further amplified out of Livie For when T. Quintius had vanquished King Philip and proclaimed liberty by the Beadle to many of the parts of Griece as the Corinthians Phocensions and others there was such joy as men were not able to comprehend at last when their joy was once confirmed by making the Beadle to cry it once againe they set up such a shout and followed it so with clapping of Hands redoubling the same so often as evidently it appeared how there is no earthly good in the world more pleasing to a multitude then liberty is and afterwards running apace unto the Roman Generall in such sort that his person was in some danger of the multitude crouding so hard upon him alone to TOUCH HIS RIGHT HAND Thus Charicles a Physitian departing from Tiberius as it had been about some businesse of his owne under colour of duty TAKING HIM BY THE HAND felt the pulse of his veines Thus also we finde Gadatas and Gobrias in Xenophon worshipping the Right Hand of Cyrus But the most unseasonable and servile use of this expression the Senatours made towards Nero when even in the height of their griefe the City filled with funeralls the Capitoll with sacrifices one having his brother another his sonne put to death or friend or neare kindred gave thanks to the gods deckt their house with bayes fell downe at the Emperours knees and WEARIED HIS RIGHT HAND WITH KISSES It was a strange

IN the Rhetoricall endeavours of the Hand as in all other Actions the golden Mediocrie is best and most worthy the hand of a prudent man For the action of the Hand should be full of dignitie and magnanimous resolution making it a liberall and free Index of the Minde such as theirs is who are said by Xenophon to be inspired with divine love who as he sayes gestus ad speciem quandam maximè liberalem conformant Which forme of apparence consists in a certaine moderation of gesture no chafed and incomposed rashnes or a too daring garbe of action nor superfinicall demeanour nor on the other side a rustique and homely fearfulnesse which is wont to discourage and disappoint the purpose of necessary motion Yet of the two extremes it is least faulty to draw nigh to modestie and an ingenuous feare than to impudencie The manner and tempering of gesture is not onely to be fetched from the things themselves but also from the age and condition of the Oratour for otherwise a Philosopher or some grave person otherwise a young Sophister lifted up with study and boyling over with the fervencie of an active spirit A soft and calme action most commonly becomes grave men endued with authoritie which to one in the flower of his youth would be accounted slownes and a slacking negligence Modification of gesture hath also regard to the condition and qualitie of the Auditours for an Oratour should first consider with whom and in whose presence he is about to act for in the Senate or hearing of a Prince another action is required than in a Concion to a Congregation of the people or an assembly of light young men Among Kings and Potentates and Fathers of the Court regard is to be had to their illustrious power authority all juvenile gestient pompe and ostentation laid aside by a submisse Action he must transferre all dignity from himselfe Concerning this golden point of moderation there is a Nationall decorum imposed upon men by time and place for according to the Genius of that climate wherein we converse moderation may admit of a divers construction In Italy a faire spoken and overmuch gesturing with the Hand is held comely and acceptable And in France he is not a la mode and a compleat Mounsieur who is not nimble in the discoursing garbe of his Hand which proportionable to that language is very briske and full of quicke and lightsome expressions And your French Protestant Divines are easily good Chirologers some I have lately seen in the Pulpit to my great satisfaction and have gone away more confirmed in the validity of these Rhetoricall gestures there being scarce any one gesture that I have cut but I have seene used in the heat of one discourse of Polemicall Divinity such Logicall asseverations appeared in their Hands In Germany and with us here in England who in our Nationall complexion are neare ally'd unto the Germans moderation and gravity in gesture is esteemed the greater virtue The Spaniards have another Standert of moderation and gravity accorded to the lofty Genius of Spaine where the Hands are as often principalls as accessories to their proud expressions But our language growne now so rich by the indenization of words of all Nations and so altered from the old Teutonique if the rule of moderation be calculated according to the Meridionall proprietie of our refined speech we may with decorum and gravitie enough as I suppose meet the Hand of any of these warmer Nations halfe way with the Manuall adjuncts of our expressions Chirepilogus THus what my Soul 's inspired Hand did find T'exhibite in this Index of the Mind What Nature or her subtle Zanie can By signes and tokens reach with Speeches span While many Hands made lighter work at last Brought to the nail hath crown'd the labor past Here my Hand 's Genius bids my Fancie stand And having her discoursing Gestures scan'd Beckens lest for a Manuall unfit The Work should rise to make a Hand of it MANUM DE TABULA Franc. L. Verul V●s●ount St. Albans de Aug● Scient l 4. Exod. 4. 2 3 4 6 7 8 9 verses Althusius de civili conversatione li. 1. Plin. Hist. Nat. Seneca de Ira lib. 1. cap. 3. Montaign Essay in Raimond Sebond Bernard lib. 2. in Cantica Ribera comment in Proph. M. Beda lib. de Indig tatione Act. 1. 1 Ammian Marcellin lib. 20. Livie lib. 22. Plutarch in the life of Coriolanus Plut. in the life of Tiberius and Caius Ib. in the life of Paulus Aemylius Aelian var. Hist. lib. 5. cap. 19. Isai. 65. 2. 1 Tim. 2. 8 * Arist. lib. de Mund. Xenoph. Cyr. * Apuleius tit de mundo * Horac * Lucret. lib. 5. * Ped. Albin in carm Cons. ad Liviam * Virgil. Aeneid * Idem lib. 3. Aeneid * Idem li. 5. * Ovid. lib. 8. Metam * Sil. Ital. lib. 4. * Valer. Flacc. li. 2. Plutarch in the life of Antonius Idem in the life of Camillus Idem in the life of Alex. the great Idem in the life of Alex. the Great Plutarch in the life of Agesilaus * Virgil. Aeneid 2. Ex. 17. 11. Philo Judaeus in Exod. Origen Hom. 11. in Exod. Elias Cretens comment in opera Greg. Naz. Sil. Petra Sanct. Gorop in Hierogl lib. 9. 1 King 8. 38. 1 King 8. 22. Exod. 9. 29. 33. 2 Macch. 15. 21. Lament 1. 17. Lauret in Sylv. Alleg S. Hillar in Psalm Psal. 63. 4. Psa. 140. 2. S. Paul to Timoth. Isaiah S. Hier●m in Exod. 9 and Job 11. Calvin comment in 1 Tim. 2. Psal. 119. 109. ● Sam. 19. 5. Judg. 9. 17 Job 13. 14. Cresoll in Mystag lib. 3. S. Aug. de cura pro mort lib. 5. S. Chrys. Moral Tertul. de ●rat Pierius in Hieroglyp Euseb. de vit Const. lib. 4 c. 15. Dr. Donn● Serm. 13. Huelamus de cerem Missae B. Andrewes Franc. L. Verulam Nat. Hist. Apulcius lib. 3. Miles * Gregor Nyssen orat 7. de beatitud * Dio Prusaeus orat 16. Ammian Marcellin lib. 20. Franc. Verul nat Hist. * Horac lib. 11. Sat. 5. * Cicero in Academ * Idem lib. 7. epist. ad Caesarem * Liv. lib. 24 Cicero ad A●●ic Xenoph. Cyropaed lib. 2. Idem Cyr. lib. 8. 2 Kings 11. 12. So Nah. ult Psal. 47. 1. 98. 8. Isa. 55. 12. Liv. lib. 4. Plutarch in the life of Camillus Plutarch in the life of Camil. Idem in the life of Alcibiad Liv. lib. 45 * Seneca de ira lib. 1. cap. 1. * Idem li. 3. Idem cap. 4. de Ira. * Petron. Satyr * Petron. Satyr * Philo Judaeus de lege ad Caium Num. 24. 10. Ezek. 21. 14. Idem cap. 22. ver 13. Ovid met lib. 5. Job 27. 23 Job 34. 37 Lam. 2. 15 Ezek. 25. 6 Esa. 13. 7. 35. 3. Ezek. 7. 17 Jer. 6. 24. Heb. 12 12 * Polybius Pier. Hieroglyph Pro. 19. 24 Dr. Jerm paraph med upon the place Pro. 26. 15 19. 24.