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They who have their nails broad, aroare [sic] of a gentle disposition, bashful, and afraid of speaking beforobefore [sic] their superiors, or indeed to any without hesitation and a downcast eye.

If round the nails there is usually any excoriation, or sprouting of the skin, the person is luxurious, fearful, and an epicure, loving enjoyment, provided it is to be obtained without danger.

When there are certain white marks at the end, it testifies that the person is improvident, soon ruining their fortune through negligence.

Narrow Nails. The person with such nails is desirous of attaining knowledge in the sciences; but is never at peace long with his neighbours.

When to narrowness they add some degree of length, the person is led away by ambitious desires, aiming at things hohe [sic] cannot obtain; one who, having formed notions of grandeur, grasps at the shadow while heho [sic] loses the substance.

If at both ends there is a redness, or mixture of several colours, the person is choleric, and delights in fighting.

When the end is black, the man loves agriculture; hohe [sic] places happiness in mediocrity, and from thence avoids thothe [sic] cares attendant on either extreme of fortune.

Round nails dcclaredeclare [sic] a hasty person, yet good-natured, and very forgiving, a lover of knowledge, honest in mind, doing no one any harm, and acting according to his own imagination, being rathorrather [sic] too proud of his own abilities.

Long Nails. When thothe [sic] nails are long thothe [sic] person is good-natured, but placing confidence in no man, being from his youth conversant in deceit,