IV.—OF THE THORAL LINE.
This is also called the line of fortune; it is termed likewise the mensa, because it makes up the table of the hand. Which said line, when it is long enough, and without incisures, argues a due strength in the principal members of man, and also constancy; the contrary if it be short, crooked, cut or parted.
If it terminate under the mount of Saturn, it shows a vain fellow.
If projecting small branches to the mount of Jupiter, it promises honors.
If there it be naked and simple, it is a sign of poverty and want.
If cutting the mouth of Jupiter, cruelty of mind and disposition, with excessive wrath.
If it projects a branch between the fore and middle finger in a gentleman, it threatens a wound in his head; in a lady, danger in child bearing.
Three lines ascending upwards from this line, viz., one to the space between the middle and fore finger, a second to the space between the middle and ring finger, and a third to the space between the ring and the little finger, argues a contentious person in many respects.
A little line only thus drawn to the interval or space between the middle finger and the ring finger, sorrow or labor.
If annexed to the natural mean, so that it makes an acute angle, it brings sorrow and labor.
If the natural mean be wanting, and the thoral annexed to the vital, it threatens decollation or a deadly wound.
If no mensa at all, it shows a man malevolent, contentious, faithless, inconstant and of base condition.
Confused little lines in the mensa, denote sickness; if under Mercury, in the former part of the age; under the sun in the prime thereof; under the middle finger, in old age.
When in this line there are certain points observed, they argue strength of the genitals and burning lust.