Page from a book with woodcut prints of faces. The faces all have exaggerated wrinkles on their brows. A man with straight wrinkles is captioned 'These lines are the character of a simple and honest person'. A man with many broken and wavy wrinkles is captioned 'These lines are emblems of unconstant fortune, now rich and then poor.' A man with zigzagging, wave-like wrinkles is captioned 'Such lines predict drowning, or great perils by water.'

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