This text discusses the characteristics and symbolism of different types of walking. A wide and slow walking style is seen as contemplative and indicative of successful ventures, while a short, slow walk is linked to laziness. The text gives insight into personality traits one might discern from how individuals move, such as suspicion or indecisiveness.
Human Limbs.
Sleeve movements should be like those of a stork, wide and slow, being fortunate in what they do. This swimming would aim to demonstrate truth, if the initially laid foundations of our propositions are indeed truthful. For the wide walk allows recognition, and the slow pace contemplation: If these two manners of stepping were melded, what else could it suggest but a successful undertaking? A short walk represents a lazy person. Those who are unsteady or erratic in their walk, with a grimacing and muttering mouth and shifting eyes, clearly indicate they are malicious people; or they avoid certain parts of the path while walking upon it. Those who walk, linger, stand still, often look back and around, turning their gaze here and there, are suspicious, unjust, and frequently deceitful in mind. Those who sway back and forth on the street, with a pompous pride and empty boasting, are not only self-important; many are flatterers. Those who engage with respectable people, fidgeting, posturing, or rubbing against others, are like dogs who wish to cuddle with wagging tails. Those who lean to the right in their walk show signs of indecisiveness, and those who lean to the left are seldom wise. But those who walk straight and with fixed steps on their postures fully embody the image of a prudent man, but one who is somewhat hasty in mind and a good soldier.
Translation Notes: - "Menschelyke Ledematen" translates to "Human Limbs." - "Oyevaar" is "stork." - "Regt" means "straight" or can imply "correctness" in action.