Salmon, William: Polygraphice; Or, The Art of Drawing, Engraving, Etching, Limning, Painting, Washing, Varnishing, Colouring and Dying: In Three Books ... (London, 1672)

84 Folygraphices. Lib. I.
signification from the mount os that pla-
net from whence they rile.
X VI. Secondly0 That the place srom
whence any line riles (hews the ground,
caufe, or original os the things fignisied
by that line : the line or mount to
which it points, (hews the Isisue, to what
the thing tends., and what may be the
end os the matter fignisied.
XVII. Thirdly , That whether the
line fignifies good or evil, if it be cut
or crossed by any other line, that line fo
cutting it, will at a certain time not
only abate the good, but aho take away
the evil, if it fb fignified.
XVIII. Fourthly, That the nature
and quality of that line thus deftroying
the fignification of the former, is known
by considering from what place it rifes3
and to what place it tends.
XIX. Fifthly^ That a double judge-
ment ariles from every line, by account-
ing its rife, firfi: from the one end $ Se-
condly, srom the other.
XX. Sixthly, That little lines rifing
out of the fides os any other line, both
augment