10. To hear magpies chatter, and flying about as you walk abroad, denotes much strife and brawling in marriage. 11. If walking abroad with your sweetheart you perceive a pair of pigeons encircle you round, it is a sign of marriage and happiness to ensue, with contentment. 12. If one drops their garter, when going to see their sweetheart, it denotes they will meet with a cold reception. _How to choose a good Husband or Wife._ 1. If the man be of a ruddy complexion, high and full nosed, his eye-brows bending archwise, his eyes standing full, of a black and lively colour it denotes him to be good natured, ingenious, and born to good fortune; and the same of a woman, if she be born under the planet Jupiter. 2. If a party be phlegmatic, lean, and of a dusky complexion, and much given to musing or melancholy, beware of such an one, of what sex soever. 3. An indifferent wide mouth, with full cheeks, smooth forehead, little ears, dark brown hair, and a chin proportionable to the face, is very promising. 4. An extraordinary thin chin, with the under lip larger than the upper, signifies a cross grained person, fit for little performance, yet given to great folly. 5. A long nose on a man, and a little mouth in a woman, signifies neither can be deceived in their marriage views. 6. A well set broad chin in a man, his face being round, and not too great, and a dimple or dint in a woman’s cheek or chin, denotes they will come together, and live happy in their married state. ART OF PALMISTRY. _Several Characters or Semblance of Letters and Lines in the Hand, as they tend to signify Riches, Honour, long Life, short Life, Poverty, Loss, number of Wives, or Children, Sickness; untimely Death and many other things, according to the Art of Palmistry._ There are in this case divers Letters and Lines appearing in the hand, by which the wise of all ages have given judgment, in the foregoing premises. 1. If the character A, be found on the mount of _Jupiter_, or the root of the middle finger, it promises a growing fortune, and perhaps considerable preferment, by the favour of princes and great men. 2. If a B be found on the mount of the _Sun_, which is at the root of the fourth finger, it signifies length of days, prosperity, much to be credited, also a virtuous person. 3. If O, with a star over it, appears on the mount of _Venus_, it gives the person early and happy marriage, promises many children, and a merry and happy life. 4. If the letter L be on the mount of _Saturn_, which is at the root of the middle finger, and be cut with cross lines, it denotes the party to undergo much affliction, to be given up to melancholy, and to be but very tender and of short life, &c. 5. the letter K, upon the mount of _Mercury_, which is at the root of the little finger, denotes the party to rise to preferment by ingenuity and a happy marriage.