“ A large nose much hanging down, denotes covetousness. A round nose at the extremity, with small nostrils, denotes in a man pride and incredulity: in a woman, much given to love and lust. A red nose naturally so denotes contentions with turbulent and quarrelsome persons, if in a female the gristle of the nose seems to part with the bone, or to be dented at the end, she hath undoubtedly lost her virginity. A great mouth standing unseemly wide, denotes the party foolish, but a great babbler, divulging false stories, and delighting to make mischief. ”

“ A little mouth, well proportioned, denotes the party wise, peaceable, loving, and chaste. The ears large and thick, denote a defect in memory and foolish; little and thin the contrary. A fleshly face denotes a merry and cheerful person, a thin lean one, a wise, malicious, and covetous person. ”

“ Physiognomy, as to the lines of the face and other remarkable things in it is under the influence of the planets and signs; but that graven on the parts of the body is mainly significative, we know, of good or bad fortune in men and women, and we understand by their outward parts their manners, inclinations, and intellectual faculties, as well as what shall befal them in the progress of their eyes ”