On Chiromancy

[...regarding the] sentence of the lines. For this line descends from all the members of the body. Wherefore, if it shall be endowed with notable marks, it will denote the goodness of the whole body and a perfect mind. Take heed, however, that if the said line ends between the index and middle fingers, it may signify diverse effects of the effusion of blood: either blows to the head, or fluxes of the belly, or finally, in women, danger of death in childbirth, or the effusion of blood through the womb with danger of death. But when the mensal line has crossed the right hand without branches, [it denotes] a man foolish in his own affairs, indignant, and sometimes destitute of all hope. But if it is joined with the line of life and the line of the head, or even with the natural middle [line], it signifies an abundance of choler, a martial man of depraved thought, and inclined to perpetrate homicides. Know, moreover, that every line which departs from its due length and proportion is made and generated by superfluous heat, and especially then when it has occupied places improper to itself. But when it has effected the said mutations, it signifies a martial man, and that he wishes to dominate other men with cruelty and homicides, such as is the nature of choleric and pugnacious [men]. And especially when it is joined with the line of life, it renders the man a liar and a deceiver in words and flatteries. Nor is it to be ignored that when the lines of the hand have not been disposed with decent proportion according to their natural sites and locations, it is an indication of a weakening of the natural or rather preternatural color. And when the mensal line departs from this site or its natural place and tends into the line of the head, it signifies a defect of natural color in the human body itself from the head...