but capricious, vain-glorious, and too eredulous. A weak, trembling voiee, denotes one to be I envious, suspicious, slow in business, and fearful. A loud, shrill, and unpleasant voiee, signifies one bold and valiant, but quarrelsome. A voice beginning low, or in the bass, and ending high in the treble, denotes a person to be violent, angry, bold, seeure
Thus by our voice 'tis to the artist known,
Unto what virtue, or what vice we’re prone;
And he that will of a good wife make choice.
May choose her by observing of her voice.
Chin.—A thick and full ehin shows a man inclined to peace, honest, but slow of invention. A peaked chin, reasonably full of flesh, shows a good understanding, a high spirit, and laudable of conversation. A double chin shows a man of peaceable disposition, but of dull apprehension, vain, eredulous, and secret in his actions.
Ears.—Great and thiek ears are eertain sign of a foolish person; but small and thin ears show a person to be a good wit, grave, secret, modest, and one willing to serve his friend. He whose ears are no longer than ordinary, is a bold man, uncivil, vain, and foolish.
Whoe’er his praise unwillingly does hear,
Shows a good life as well as a good ear.
Face.—A faeo apt to sweat on every motion, shows the person to be of a hot constitution. A very fleshy faee shows the person to be of a fearful disposition, but a merry heart, and withal, bountiful and discreet. A lean face denotes the person
to be of a good understanding, but somewhat capricious.
