1. _Cardiaca_, or the line of life. 2. _Hepatica_, or the love’s line; also called the natural mean. 3. _Cephalica_, or the line of the head and brain. 4. _Thoralis_, or the table line. 5. _Restricta_, or the dragon’s tail. 6. _Via Solis_, or the sun’s way. 7. _Via Lactea_, or the milky way. 8. _Via Saturnia_, or Saturn’s way. 9. _Cingulum Veneris_, or the girdle of Venus. 10. _Via Martis_, or the way of Mars. 11. _Mons Veneris_, or the mound of Venus. 12. _Cavea Martis_, or the cave of Mars. 13. _Mons Jovis_, or Jupiter’s mount. 14. _Mons Saturn_, or Saturn’s mount. 15. _Mons Solis_, or the sun’s mount. 16. _Locus Luna_, or the moon’s place. 17. _Mons Mercurii_, or the mount of Mercury. 18. _Mensa_, or the table containing the part of fortune. 19. _Pollex_, or the thumb. 20. _Index_, or the forefinger. 21. _Medius_, or the middle finger. 22. _Annularis_, or the ring finger. 23. _Auricularis_, or the little finger. The question often arises as to whether judgment should be given by the right hand or the left. It is certain that in one hand the lines and other signatures are very often more manifest, and are thus more plain to be seen than the other, as well in the hands of gentlemen as ladies. That hand is the proper one (in both sexes) which shows and exhibits the lines thereof most clearly, and abounds with a series of characters and signs, yet so as that the other, whose lines are more obscure, may pay its contribution. If in both hands they consent, and appear to be fair and comely, they declare a constancy of fortune and health. The cause of diversity is that he who is born in the daytime, and has a masculine planet (the Sun, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars) lord of his geniture, bears the more remarkable signs in his right hand, especially when the sign ascending is also masculine. The contrary happens to those born at night, as often as a feminine planet predominates. If both hands agree, it must be that in a diurnal nativity the feminine planets rule, or that there falls out a mixture of masculine and feminine; so in the nights by the contrary reason. I.--OF THE LINE OF LIFE. THIS IS CALLED CARDIACA, OR THE HEART LINE. This being broad, of a lively color, and decently drawn in its bounds, without intersections and points, shows the party long lived and subject to few diseases. If slender, short and dissected with obverse little lines, and deformed either by a pale or black color, it presages weakness of the body, sickness and a short life. If orderly joined to the natural mean, and beautified in the angle with parallels, or a little across, it argues good wit, or an evenness of nature. If the same have branches in the upper parts thereof, extending themselves towards the natural mean, it signifies riches and honor. If these branches be extended towards the restricta, it threatens poverty, deceits, and unfaithfulness of servants.