The text describes how different nose shapes and sizes can symbolize various personality traits and behaviors. Thick or blunt noses suggest indifference, while long and sharp noses indicate liveliness. Additional characteristics for flat, round, and curved noses are explained, including associations with courage, sin, and fierceness. Nostrils are also discussed in relation to emotional expressiveness and capability.
Human Limbs.
Truth. Noses that are thick or blunt at the end often indicate a dull mind with some indifference. Long noses that end sharply are lively and somewhat hasty. Round noses, swelling at the end, are courageous and resemble a lion's nature. The noses that are flat and curved inwards, like those of a hart, are sometimes lewd and unchaste. It is said that these deer stoutly endure this voyage: And at the time of mating, they are often frail of stock. Those with short flat noses tend to be somewhat thievish and drunken: And those whose nose conforms well to the shape of the face are generally good natured. However, with poorly proportioned noses, there is often something amiss; It is often said that one could infer suspicion of someone by their nose; This rule offers many opportunities for evasion.
Nostrils also deserve attention; For those with wide and large nostrils are often fierce, wrathful, and harsh people. In their bad journeys, they were helped significantly by their large nostrils, requiring a great deal of breath to sustain the senses due to much exertion. Those who apply to caricatures with wide snouts applied to the nose will express their fierceness entirely so. Horses with large nostrils are generally courageous by nature and are better held than others. Curved and stretched nostrils are also a certain sign of fierceness. Narrowly closed nostrils indicate confinement.
Translation Notes:
'Gramſchap' can translate as 'fierceness' or 'harshness'; 'vaardig' in this context means 'capable' or 'ready'.