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A80284	The compleat book of knowledge: treating of the wisdom of the antients and shewing the various and wonderful operations of the signs and planets, and other celestial constellations, on the bodies of men, women and children; and the mighty influences they have upon those that are born under them. Compiled by the learned Albubetes, Benesaphan, Erra Pater, and other of the antients. To which is added, the country man's kalendar; with his daily practice, and perpetual prognostication for weather, according to Albumazar, Ptolomy, and others. Together with a catalogue of all the market-towns, fairs, and roads in England and Wales. All those who peruse this book, must own, that it the knowledge gives of things unknown.		1698 (1698)	Wing C5629; ESTC R232040	59,597	177

Back A broad Back is a Sign of strength but the mean proportion of both Back and Brest is always commendable A crooked or hump Back is generally a Token of a niggardly and covetous Person Of the Belly A lank Belly with a big Breast denotes a Man of Understanding Courage and Counsel But a great Belly shews an indiscreet foolish proud Man and given to Luxury Of the Arms. Very long Arms are a sign of Boldness Strength and Honesty Short Arms denote a Tormenter of Discord and Strife among Friends Of the Hands The Hands very short denote a clownish rude ill-bred Person And if fat and ●leshy with the Fingers so also it shews ●hey are inclin'd to Theft Small Hands and long Fingers denote Persons of a gen●eel Carriage but very crafty Of the Legs Large and well-set Legs denote Boldness large Legs and full of Sinnews shew Fortitude and Strength Slender Legs denote ignorance Short and fat Legs Cruelty Legs crooked and hollowed inwardly is a sign of very ill Men. Soft and swelling Legs shew a Man to be of ill manners The Shin gross and short with a sharp Heel and fat Thighs do denote Madness or Frensie to happen to that Party Of the Feet Small and slender Feet denote hardness but the Feet full of Flesh declare foolishness XX. Of the Eour Prime Qualities and Four Complexions AS there are in Nature four prime Qualities which are Cold and Heat Dryness and Moisture and tho' these are all contrary to each other yet the right and healthful state of the Body consists in a due mixture and temperament of them all For as the Cold would destroy Life without a due mixture of Heat so likewise the Heat would burn us up without a mixture of Cold to allay it And Moisture and Dryness are the Cement of Heat and Cold and bind them together These Four Prime Qualities in their Combination together make the four Elements which consists of the Nature of these Prime Qualities For Air is moist and hot the Fire hot and dry the Earth dry and cold and the Water cold and moist Now as there are in Nature four prime Qualities and four Elements so is there also four Complexions one of which is predominant in every Man and Woman and the four Complexions are called Sanguine Choller Melancholly and Flegm The first of these is Sanguine that is Blood and this is gendered in the Liver and Limbs this Complexion is like to Air being hot and moist and is the best and purest of them all Those that are of this Complexion are of ruddy colour very lovely and amiable of a merry and chearful Disposition and Countenance delighting in singing laughing and pleasure courteous and affable in their Conversation and gentle and peaceable in their Demeaner being of a mild and quiet Spirit without Guile or Deceit just and honest in all their Actions And as the Ancients say he hath his Wine of the Ape for the more he drinks the merrier he is The second is Choller which is engendred in the Gall and is like thereto having the Nature of Fire which is hot and dry A chollerick Man is naturally lean and slender revengeful hasty and malicious deceitful and subtile covetous traiterous false wrathful brainless and foolish transported with Passion and Anger beyond the bounds of Reason And according to the Ancients he hath his Wine of the Lion that ●s to say he fighteth with every one when he is drunk The third is Flegm engendred in the Lungs like to Gall and is of the nature of Water cold and moist A flegmatick Man is dull heavy slow and sleepy and rheumatick also somewhat ingenious His Visage of a white pale colour He commonly spitteth when he is moved And as the Ancients say hath his Wine of the Sheep for when he is drunk he esteems himself most Wise The fourth is Melancholly engendred in the Milt and like the Dregs of Blood It hath the Nature of the Earth and is cold and dry A melancholly Man is slothful envious and malicious covetous false a Back-biter spiteful and slow And as the Ancients say hath his Wine of the Hog for as soon as he is drunk he desires sleep XX. The Significations of Moles in any Part of the Body according to the Judgment of the Ancients A Mole in the Forehead of Man or Woman denotes they shall grow rich and attain to great Possessions being beloved of their Friends and Neighbours To have a Mole on the Eye-brows shews a Man to be incontinent and given to the love of Women but if it be a Woman it signifies a good Husband He or she that has a Mole on their Nose it signifies they love their pleasure more than any thing else A Mole on the Chin shews the Party shall never stand in need of his Kin but shall get Mony and grow very rich A Mole on the Neck denotes him honourable and prudent in all his Actions But if a Woman it shews her of a weak Judgment and apt to believe the worst of her Husband A Mole on a Man's Shoulder signifies Adversity and threatens him with an unhappy end But a Woman having a Mole on the same place it shews she shall abound in Honour and Riches A Man or Woman having a Mole on their Wrist or Hand denotes encrease of Children but Affliction in old Age. A Man or Woman having a Mole near the Heart upon the Breast shews th●m irreligious wicked and malicious A Mole on the Belly shews the Person to be addicted to Gluttony and Lasciviousness A Mole on the Knee shews a Man shall be fortunate in marrying and that his Wife shall be beautiful vertuous and very wealthy A Woman having one in the same place shews she shall be vertuous happy and fruitful in Children A Mole on the Ancle denotes the Man to be Effeminate and act the part of the Woman like Sardanapalus at the Spinningwhole And the Woman has the like Mole she shall affect to be Lord over her Husband A Mole on the Foot shews a Man prosperous in getting Riches and happy in his Children If a Woman has the same Mole also ●etokens her the same Happiness THE Wisdom of the Ancients IN THE Interpretation of Dreams Collected Alphabetically OUT OF Approved Authors A. To Dream that you HAve your Business delayed by an Adversary signifies Dispatch and Expedition To commit Adultery signifies Quarrels See the Air serene signifies Pain See the Air Cloudy signifies Dispatch of Business See Ants signifies strife Discover an Alter shews Rejoycing Eat Apples denotes Choller Gather Apples signifies Vexation Have weak Arms signifies torment Have your Arm dried up is very unfortunate See Armed Men signifies good luck See Armed Men fly signifies Victory See an Ass signifies Malice See an Ass sitting on his Crupper signifies Labour Hear an Ass bray is a sign of receiving loss B. To Dream that you Cut Bacon signifies the Death of some Person Eat Bacon or falt Meats signifies Murmering

licking their Hoofs The biting of Fleas Gnats c. The Soot falling much from Chimneys The sweating of Stones A circle round a Candle Aches in ancient Peoples Limbs or Corns Bells heard at a further distance than usual Sparks gathering together in the Fire No Dew Morning nor Evening c. All these sure Signs of Rain Signs of Wind or Tempest Red Clouds appearing in the Morning Much Shooting of Stars The Rain-bow red Black Circles with red Streaks about the Moon Stars dim and fiery Autum fair a Windy Winter Clouds flying swift in the Air. Fire burning pale or huzzing Ravenes clapping themselves with their Wings The high flying of the Hern. Crying of Swine The Herb Treefoil looking rough Of the Rain-bow The Rain-bow is that Bow which the Almighty was pleased to place in the Firmament as a Token to Noah that he would drown the Earth no more But as to the natural Cause of it it is caused by the Sun-beams striking upon a hollow Cloud when its Edge is repelled and driven back against the Sun and thus ariseth variety of Colours by the mixing of Clouds Air and fiery Light to gether therefore it is seen in Opposition to the Sun for the most part in an Evening Of Rain The Ancients describe Rain to be a cold and earthly Vapour or Humour exhaled from the Earth and Waters by the Beams of the Sun and carried into the middle Region of the Air whereby the Extremity of the Cold it is thicken'd into the Body of a Cloud and afterwards being dissolved through an accession of Heat it falleth upon the Earth And this is done by God's Power and at his Appointment as the Prophet Amos witnesseth Amos 4. 7. and 96. Of Hail Hail is nothing but Rain congealed into Ice by the coldness of the Air freezing the Drops after the dissolving of the Cloud and the higher it comes and the longer it tarries in the Air the rounder and lesser it is We have sometimes great showers of Hail in the heat of Summer after a Thunder-clap which doth manifest that the Air at that time is extream cold thus to congeal the Water therein notwithstanding the heat then upon the Earth Of Snow Snow as say the Ancients is of the same humour that Hail is but only of looser parts and therefore in the Summer-time it is melted into Rain before it cometh down Of Frost and Dew In the Day-time through the heat of the Sun there is a cold and moist Vapour drawn up a little from the Earth which after the setting of the Sun des●ends upon the Earth again and is called Dew but if by the sharpness of the Air it be congealed it is called Frost and therefore in hot Seasons and windy Weather Dews are not so frequent nor so much as after a calm and clear Night For when frosts happen they dry up Wet and Moisture for the Ice being melted the Water is proportionably less Of the Wind. Wind is said to be an Exhalation hot and dry engendered in the Bowels of the Earth and being gotten out is carried side-long upon the face of the Earth and cannot mount upwards above the middle Region of the Air which by reason of its cold doth beat it back so as by such strife and by meeting other Exhalations rising its motion is forced to be rather round than right in its 〈◊〉 and this makes it a Whirl-puff or Whirl-wind which oftentimes by its violence carrieth many things with it from place to place c. Of Earthquakes The Ancients affirm That the cause of Earthquakes is plenty of Winds gotten and confined within the Bowels of the Earth which in striving to break forth shaking or sometimes a cleaving of the Earth and thereby the destruction of many People and ruine of whole Towns and Cities as the sad fate of Sicily has but lately shown us by sinking of Mountains and raising of Valleys But tho' what I have said may be the Natural Cause of Earthquakes yet doubtless the Final Cause is God's Anger against a provoking sinful People which ought to make all our Hearts to tremble lest God for our sins should cause the Earth under us to do so Of Thunder and Lightning Thunder and Lightning is occasioned by an Exhalation hot and dry and being carried up into the middle Region of the Air and there in closed in the Body of a Cloud Now these two Contrarities being thus shut or enclosed in one place together they fall at varience whereby the Water and Fire agree not until they have broken through so that Fire and Water fly out of the Clouds the breaking whereof making that Noise which we call Thunder and the Fire is the Lightning which is first seen tho' the Thunder-crack be first given because our sight is quicker than our hearing For the sooner the Thunder is heard after the Lightning is seen the nearer it is to us Of the Four Quarters of the Year and First of the Spring The Spring or Vernal Quarter begins when the Sun enters into the Ram or Aries which is with us on the ninth day of March Astronomically thereby making the Days and Nights equal to all the World the Sun then rising due East and setting due West This Quarter continues while the Sun goes through Aries Taurus and Gemini This Quarter is naturally hot and moist the most temperate in all the Year being both pleasant and healthful and most convenient for the taking of Physick either to remove Cronical Distempers or to prevent them for time to come II. Of the Summer The Summer or Estival Quarter begins when the Sun touches the first minute of Cancer or the Crabb thereby making the longest Days and shortest Nights to those that dwell on the North side of the Equinox which usually happeneth upon the 11th of June after which the Days dedrease This Quarter continues till the Sun hath gone through Cancer Leo and Virgo This Quarter is hot and dry for then the Sun with us in his full height and strength bringing to persection the Productions of the Earth the time of gathering in the Harvest being chiefly in the last Month of this Quarter III. Of the Autumnal Quarter The Autumnal Quarter begins when the Sun is said to touch the first minute of Libra or the Ballance thereby making the Days and Nights again of equal length which is usually upon the 12th day of September for then likewise the Sun riseth due East and sets due West This Quarter continues while the Sun goes through Libra Scorpio and Sagitary This Quarter is generally held to be cold and ●lry tho' it often proves very moist and wet for the Sun now with-draws his heat and there●y causeth the falling of the Leaves from the Trees whence this Quarter is also called the ●all of the Leaf IV. Of Winter The Winter or Hyemnal Quarter begins when ●he Sun touches the first minute of the Tropical ●ign Capricorn which is for the most part about ●he 11th of December

and stout a Mocker a Scorner unmerciful cruel and hard to be entreated beset with many Enemies and subject to many miseries also a Captain or other Commander looking for Promotion from Great Men unfortunate in Children and meeting with many Afflictions by their means putting himself into many Dangers he shall be also in danger of Fire Sword and violence of Beasts by whom he shall be in danger of Death but with prudence he may escape all threatned Danger But if the Native be of the Female Sex she shall be bold have great and large Breasts and slenper Legs which are Tokens of stoutness and boldness anger slanders and babling tho' the softness natural to Women do alleviate the excess thereof she ought however to be especially careful of hot waters and fire by which she will be in great danger She shall also be much inclin'd to the Sickness or gnawing of the Stomack But after the Age of one and twenty Years she shall be fortunate in Riches which she shall obtain by the help of great Men and the use of other Mens Goods also by House-keeping Beauty and Love The Sun being in Virgo Makes Men fortunate and successful in Houshold-affairs wise and faithful stout and ambitious his Wife shall die suddenly in his absence he shall have many things stolen from him but shall be revenged on his Enemies He shall be so much given to talk that he cann't keep his own secrets It also shews one fair of Face of genteel Behaviour a Lover of Women and delighting to be in the Courts of Princes and Noblemen It also denotes one wise just and honourable a Patron and Defender of his Friends also Religious and temperate of a comely Personage and well-featured If the Native be a Maiden she shall be witty honest and modest of a willing mind diligent and circumspect and shall be married about the Age of fifteen Years But whether Male or Female they shall be liable to meet with many Afflctions The Sun being in Libra Denotes the Person to be fortunate in all Maritine-affairs and that he shall gain by trading in Spices and precious Stones It also shews a comely Body and a voluble pleasant Tongue a good Name and one curious of understanding Secrets but not very careful to perform what he promises how much soever he may pretend to it It shews also that he shall have several Wives and that he shall quickly bury his first He shall also be a Gainer by dead Men who will leave him large Legacies He shall be a great Lover of Women and entertain unlawful Familiarities with them He shall be also a good Interpreter of Dreams whether he be born by Day or Night If the Native be of the Female Sex she shall be free and debonair and of a jocund Humour taking much delight in Herbs loving the Fields and wandering into strange Places About twenty three years of Age she shall have a Husband and be happily married for her Beauty pleasantness of Conversation and good Behaviour shall much promote her Likewise the Children of Libra are such as are Studious and Lovers of Learning but without special care be taken they may receive prejudice by Fire or Scalding-water The Sun being in Scorpio Encreases the Natives Inheritance and gives them boldness and stoutness inclining them likewise to flattery by which means those they deal withal are often deceiv'd and when they expect Bread may meet with nothing but a Scopion It likewise denotes a Person full of Mirth given to jesting and easie of belief and at the same time a Conqueror of his Enemies It makes a Woman to be full of ●raft and Wit and yet her first Husband shall deceive her She shall likewise be subject to the pain of the Spleen and have some extraordinary Mark either in the Head Shoulder or brawn of the Arm. It makes both Sexes bold ●●d rash given to thieving and to search out hidden things also it makes them wanton Fornicators and full of evil Thoughts and given to too much Talking The Sun being in Sagittary Gives fortune and boldness to take in hand any Enterprize inclining a Person ●o travel and take voyages by Sea and jour●ies by Land and not without considerable advantage It also gives access into the Courts of Princes where the Native shall ●e advan●'d to some honourable Post It also shews a Person given to riding hawk●ng hunting leaping fighting and such manly Exercises at which he always comes off with Honour by which means he is en●ied and has many Enemies whom yet he ●hall vanquish and overcome It also shews ●e shall possess the Inheritance of his Father and that he shall be just ingenious faithful ●earty a sure Friend and a generous Ene●y If the Native be a Woman it likewise betokens the same she shall be in●ustrious and of an excellent temper she ●hall be envied of her Enemies but shall o●ercome them She shall be married about ●eventeen and have many Children The Sun being in Capricorn Shews the Native shall meet with many Afflictions and Adversities which he shall sustain with much Resolution Yet it also shews him a●gry and fretful and one that keeps naughty Company It also makes him merry and chearful yet he may fall in love to that degree that he may be ready to die for his Mistress but if the Nativity be by Night he shall be Unconstant It also shews that in Age he shall grow covetous He shall thrive by Navigation especially if he Trade toward the East for from thence his Fortune shall arise If the Native be a Women she shall be modest and bashful of a fearful disposition and very much addicted to travel The Sun being in Aquarius Maketh the Native of a friendly Disposition fearful of Waters and in danger of receiving prejudice thereby He shall be subject to Sickness and Quotidian Agues until about the fifteenth Year of his Age after whihc he shall be more fortunate for by travelling through divers Countries he shall gather Riches which with a liberal hand he shall distribute he shall meet with sundry Losses and Afflictions especially by means of his Wife and other Women and shall live for a long time without any enjoyment of her But she being dead his Affairs will be more fortunate If the Native be a Woman she shall be comely of Body and of a faithful and constant Mind she shall be enriched with other Mens Goods but her Children shall be a great Affliction to her and she shall receive much damage by them She shall not attain to any great fortune till the two and twentieth Year of her Age and then she shall arrive to a competent Estate The Sun being in Pisces Denotes a Man to be quick of a voluble and ready Tongue bold and conceited but fortunate in finding out hidden Treasures for this is peculiar to those who are born when the Sun is in Pisces that they shall find something unlooked for and shall be also enriched with other Mens

He may remove Mort Stone First hang and draw Then hear the Cause by Lidford Law Dorsetshire As much a Kin as Lenson-hill to Pilson-pen Stabb'd with a Byrdport Dagger that is hang'd Dorsetshire Dorsers Essex Essex Stiles Kentish Miles and Norfolk Wiles many a Man beguiles Essex Calves The Weavers Beef of Colchester that is Sprats brought thither in vast quantities Jeering Cogshal Braintree for the Pure and Bo●king for the Poor Cogshal for the Jeering Town and Kelvedon for the Whore Gloucestershire As sure as God's in Gloucestershire You are a Man of Daresby It 's as long in coming as Cotswald Barley He looks as if he had liv'd on Tewksbury Mustard The Tracy's have always the Wind in their Faces As fierce as a Lion of Cotswald i. e. a Sheep Hampshire Manners maketh Man Quoth William of Wickham Canterbury is the higher Rack but Winchester is the better Manger The Isle of Wight hath no Monks Lawyers nor Foxes Hartfordshire Hartfordshire Clubs and clouted Shoon Hartfordshire Hedge-hogs Ware and Wade's Mill are worth all London Hartfordshire Kindness Herefordshire Blessed is the Eye That is between Severn and Wye Lemster Bread and Weably Ale Huntingdonshire This is the way to Beggers-Bush Ramsey the Rich. Kent A Knight of Cales a Gentleman of Wales And a Laird of the North Countree A Yeoman of Kent with his yearly Rent Will buy them out all three Kentish Long-tails The Father to the bough the son to the plough Dover Court all Speakers and no Hearers A Jack of Dover Some part of Kent hath Health and no Wealth viz. East Kent Some Wealth and no Health viz. the Weald of Kent Some hath both Wealth and Health viz. the middle of the County Parts near London Lancashire Lancashire fair Women It is written upon a Wall in Rome Ribchester was as rich as any Town in Christendom As old as Pendle-hill If Riving-pike do wear a Hood Be sure that Day will ne'er be good Leicestershire Bean-belly Leicestershire If Bever hath a Cap You Churles of the Vale look to that Lincolnshire Lincolnshire where Hogs shite Soap and Cows shite Fire Lincolnshire Bag-pipes As loud as Tom of Lincoln All the Carts that come to Crowland are shod with Silver As Mad as the Baiting-Bull of Stamford He was born at Little Wittham Grantham-Gruel nine Grits and a Gallon of Water They hold together as the Men of Marham when they lost their Common Middlesex Middlesex Clowns He that is at a low Ebb at Newgate may soon be aflote at Tyburn When Tottenham-Wood is all on Fire Then Tottenham-Street is nought but Mire Tottenham is turn'd French London A London Jury hang half and save half London Lick-penny A London-Co●kney Billings-gate-Language Kirby's Castle and Megse's Glory Spinala's Pleasure and Fishers Folly He was born within the sound of Bow-bell St. Peter's in the Poor Where 's no Tavern nor Ale-house nor Sign at the Door Good Manners to except my Lord Mayor of London I have din'd as well as my Lord-Mayor of London As old as Paul's or Paul's Steeple You make Paul's Vulgarly call'd Powl's Work on it He is only fit for Ruffians Hall Stow in his Annals tells us West-Smithfield was formerly so called where Ruffians met to try Masteries A Loyal Heart may be Landed under Traitor's Bridge To cast Water into the Thames He must take a House in Turn-again-lane He may Whet his Knife on the Threshold of the Fleet or at the Counter-gate All goes down Gutter-lane As lame as St. Giles's Cripple-gate You are all for the Hoistings or Hustings Westminster There 's no Redemption from Hell As long as Meg of Westminster A Westminster Wedding i. e. a Whore and a Rogue Norfolk Norfolk Dumplings A Yarmouth Capon i. e. a Red-herring He is arrested by the Bayliff of Mershland i. e. an Ague Gimmingham Trimmingham Knapton and Trunch North Repps and South Repps are all of a Bunch Northamptonshire The Mayor of Northampton opens Oysters with his Dagger He that would eat a butter'd Faggot let him go to Northamtnon Brackly-Breed better to hang than to feed Northumberland From Berwick to Dover Three hundred Miles over To take Hector's Cloak We will not lose a Scot. A Scottish Man and a New-castle Grindstone travels all the World over If they come they come not And if they come not they come Nottinghamshire As wise as a Man of ●otham The little Smith of Nottingham Who doth the Work that no Man can Oxfordshire You were born at Hogs Norton To take a Burford Bait. Banbury Veal Cheese and Cakes Testons are gone to Oxford to study in Brazen-n●se Send Verdingales to Broad-gates in Oxford Rutlandshire Rutland Ruddleman Shropshire He that fetches a Wife from Shrewsbury must carry her into Staffordshire or else he shall live in Cumberland Somersetshire ' Ch was bore at Taunton-dean where shou'd I be bore else The Beggars of Bath Bristol Milk Staffordshire In April Dove's Flood Is Worth a King's Good Watton under Weaver Where God came never Suffolk Suffolk Milk Suffolk fair Maids You are in the High-way to Needham Bettles for a Puritan Bungey for the Poor Haselworth for a Drunkard and Bliborough for a Whore Between Cowhithe and merry Caffingland The Devil shit Benacre look where it stands Surry The vale of Holins-dale Was never won we ever Stall Twittle twattle drink up your Posset-drink Sussex A Sesley Cockle an Arundal Mullet a Pulborough Eel an Amberly Trout a Rye Herring a Bourn Wheat-ear Westmoreland Let Vter-Pendragon do what he can The River Eden will run as it ran As Crafty as a Kendal Fox Westshire It is done Secundum usum Sarum Salisbury Plain Is seldom without a Thief or twain York-shire From Hell Hull and Hallifax deliver us A Scarborough Warning As true Steel as Rippen-rowels A Yorkshire Way-bit or Wee-bit that is a small-bit Merry Wakefield Pendles Ingleborough and Penigent Are the three highest Hills betweet Scotland and Trent Pendle Penigent and Ingleborough Are the three highest Hills all England thorow If Brayton bargh and Hambleton hoagh and Durton bream Were all in thy Belly 't would never be team When Bighton is pull'd down Hull shall become a great Town Cleaveland in the clay Bring in two Soles and carry one away Proverbs Omitted Every Day of the Week a shower of Rain And on Sunday twain Oxford Knives and London Wives Who goes to Westminster for a Wife to Paul's for a Man and to Smithfield for a Horse may meet with a Whore a Knave and a Jade Grays-Inn for Walks Lincolns-Inn for a Hall The Inner Temple for a Garden and the middle for a Hall Dunmow Bacon and Doncaster Daggers Monmouth Caps and Lemster Wool Darby-Ale and London Beer Like Banbury Tinkers who in mending one hole make three You may sip up the Severn and swallow Mavorn as soon Little England beyond Wales that is Pembrookshire Little London beyond Wales i. e. Beaumaris in the Isle of Anglesey where most of the Inhabitants speak good English and many can speak no