XX.--THE INDEX, OR FORE FINGER.

Many lines in the uppermost joint, and they proceeding overthwartly,

denote inheritances; by running so in the middle joint, an envious and

evil disposed person.

Right lines running between these joints, declare (in the ladies) a

numerous issue; in gentlemen, bitterness of tongue. If they are in the

first joint, near unto Jupiter’s mouth, they manifest a jovial

disposition, that is, they point to the man whom Jupiter favored well in

his nativity. That who hath a star in the same place, may certainly be

pronounced unchaste and lascivious.