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is prudent and polite, and of great courage. A ⟨nose⟩ big at the end, shows a person to be of a peaceable disposition, industrious, and faithful, and of a ⟨good⟩ understanding,
Mouth.—A great and wide mouth shows a man ⟨to⟩ be bold, a great liar, and a great talker and eater. ⟨A⟩ little mouth shows the person to bo of a quiet, ⟨pacific⟩ tomper, sccret, modest, and bountiful.
Lips.—The lips, when they are very big and blubbering, show a person to be credulous, foolish, and apt to be enticed to any thing. Lips of a ⟨difforent⟩ size denotes a person to be discreet, of a ready wit but somo what hasty. To havo one lip bigger than tho other, denotes the party to bo of a dull, sluggish temper, and much addicted to folly.
The lips, they so much dote on for a kiss,
Oft tell fond lovers when they do amiss.
Voice.—A great and full voice, in either sox, shows them to be of a great spirit, confident, proud, and wilful. A faint and weak voice shows a person of a good understanding, nimblo fancy, a littlo eater, but weak of body and timorous. A loud shrill voice denotes one sagacious and ingenious, but capricious, vainglorious, and too credulous. A weak, trembling voice, denotes one to bo envious, suspicious, slow in business, and fearful. A loud, shrill, and unpleasant voice, signifies ono bold and valiant, but quarrelsome. A voico beginning low, or in the bass, and ending high in tho treble, denotes a person to be violent, angry, bold, secure.
Thus by our voice 'tis to the artist known,
Unto what virtue, or what vice we'er prone;
And he that will of a good wife make choice,
May choose her by observing of her voice.
Chin.—A thick and full chin shows a man inclined to peaco, honest, but slow of invention. A poaked chin, reasonably full of flesh, shows a good understanding, a high spirit. and laudable of conversation. A double chin shows a man of peaceable disposition, but of dull apprehension, vain, credulous, and secrot in his actions.
Ears.—Great and thick ears are certain signs of a foolish person; but small and thin ears show a person
