Examples of the crude physiognomy proposed in the sixteenth century by Barthelemy Cocles in his Physiognomia. The two women exhibit distinctive noses - the one to the let is revealed as fickle, the one to the right as vain. The two men are said to have distinctive eyes - the one to the left is crafty in mien, the other, simple.

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