Human Limbs.

Wickedness and mischievousness of a person can be recognized: also they are often secretive deceivers. Long cheeks are for vain talkers and flatterers. Thick cheeks that stand out from the eyes signify envy, just like round cheeks indicate deceitful manners. Flesh-like cheeks tend to ignorance. But those with dark cheeks and a serious nose are given over to all wickedness. Cicero has elsewhere predicted someone's beastly errors by the sign of rough-haired cheeks. And those red and prominent cheeks are a sign of a flatterer; it does not need to be written in a book.

The MOUTH is used for receiving food, and for grinding it with the help of teeth; hence the word 'Bak-huys' is primarily applied to the mouth: because common food preparation was done there like in a kitchen or bakery; thus, it is hardly fitting to say 'Bakkes'. Thus it seems somewhat true that 'Bak-huys' stands in for 'Kak-huys', sometimes appearing interchangeable. A certain carpenter once said, while working there, that three or four cabins of the Mayden were present, where he somewhat jokingly demonstrated, by opening her mouth as wide as the frame of the secretary: which, although it seemed far-fetched to that fool, he thus illustrated: He took his compass and spread both its points to the width her lips could bear open, and from this opening of the compass, having drawn a round circle with chalk, found this nonsense.

Translation Notes

1. 'Bak-huys': A historical term referring to 'mouth,' akin to a place of food preparation. 2. 'Kak-huys': Another historical term with synonymous usage. 3. 'Mayden': Possibly refers to a person or metaphorical figure connected to the anecdote of the mouth.