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  • ...><section begin="1"/>feeble, slowe, or not of power to sustaine the weight of blowes, Or if it take not aduauntage to strike when time requiereth, it vtt ...uitie and force, auaileth litle or nothinge: Yea, happelie giueth occasion of hurt and spoile. For men beinge blinded in their owne iudgements, and presu
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  • ...uch in a manner in all quarters of Italie, seene most excellent professors of this Art, to teach in their Schols, and practise priuately in the Listes to ...r it bee seeinge I purpose to further this Art, in what I may, I wil speak of this first part as aptly to the purpose, as I can.<section end="3"/>
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  • ...proceedeth of no other thing, then of very nature, and of the mind, which of it selfe naturally conceiueth all these aduertisementes.<section end="2"/> <section begin="3"/>1 First, that the right or streight Line is of all other the shortest: wherefore if a man would strike in the shortest lyn
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  • ...ken: The which is perfounned, when he perceiueth him selfe to be more nere his enemie, in which case, he must nimbly deliuer it. For there are few nay the ...be aduertised hereby, to strike him in one or more of those times, so out of al due time spent.<section end="3"/>
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  • ...giuing euerie man to vnderstand, that falsehood hath no aduauntage against true Art, but rather is most hurtfull and deadlie to him that vseth it.<section ...ies the superioritie, I say whosoeuer mindeth to exercise himselfe in this true and honorable Art or Science it is requisite that he be indued with deep Iu
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  • ...idester" /><languages/> <translate></noinclude><section begin="1"/>fast in his hand may in my opinion be tearmed Weapon. Yet notwithstāding, because, as ...e or part of a circle: Of the which the hand is the Center, and the length of the sworde, the Diameter.<section end="2"/>
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  • ...nd him selfe from anie edge blow, he must for his greater safetie and ease of doinge it, go and incounter it on the halfe sword that is hindermost: in wh ...distance from the point of his sword, vnto his enemie, then there is from his enemies sword vnto him, In that case he must nimbly force on a strong thrus
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  • ..." /><languages/> <translate></noinclude><section begin="1"/>''The diuision of the sword.'' ...ame of ech part, to the end euerie man may vnderstand, which are the parts of the length wherewith he ought to strike, and which the parts, wherewith he
    2 KB (288 words) - 02:33, 10 June 2020
  • ...<languages/> <translate></noinclude><section begin="1"/>also fower fingers of counterpeize therby making the motion more forcible. The other two partes,
    533 bytes (79 words) - 02:33, 10 June 2020
  • ...time to the warie enemie to enter first: but he shall onely vse the compas of the elboe and the wrist: which, as they be most swift, so are they stronge
    917 bytes (153 words) - 02:34, 10 June 2020
  • ...<translate></noinclude><section begin="1"/>''That euerie blow of the point of the sword striketh circulerly and how he that striketh with the point, stri ...nstration thereof. And further hauing suggested for a troth, that the blow of the point is<section end="1"/> <sub>the</sub><noinclude></translate> <refer
    604 bytes (92 words) - 21:16, 10 June 2020
  • ...circulerly, because it is sufficiently and clerely handled in the diuision of the Arme and sword.<section end="1"/> ...rcle, or some parte thereof. And this euerie man may perceiue if in mouing his arme, he make trial in himselfe.<section end="3"/>
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  • ...tion make a circle vpwardes, and the hand mouing in the wrist frame a part of a circle downewards then it wil com to passe, that the sword being moued by ...s, So the hand mouing it selfe in the wrist, maie either lift vp the point of the sword vpwards or abase it downwards. So that if the hand do so much let
    2 KB (310 words) - 02:35, 10 June 2020
  • ...oint '''D'''. And this would not so come to passe, if with the only motion of tharme, a man should thrust forth thesword, considering the arme moueth one ...the hand, I wil hence foreward in all this work tearme this blow the blow of the streit Line. Which considering the reasons before alleaged, shall breed
    1 KB (183 words) - 02:36, 10 June 2020
  • ..., he must bend it rather backwards then forwards, to thende that it be far of from danger, considering the bodie can neuer<section end="1"/><noinclude></
    799 bytes (129 words) - 02:36, 10 June 2020
  • ...ie more then that and that same waie the head maie not moue being a member of so great importance.<section end="1"/> ...crease of a pace, he must vse his arm onely to perfourme the same, bearing his bodie alwaies as much as he maie and is required, firme and immoueable.<sec
    2 KB (300 words) - 02:37, 10 June 2020
  • ...other some half the length or more. Therefore I aduertise euerie man in al his wards to frame a reasonable pace, in such sort that if hee would step forwa ...exercise doe moue in diuers maners, it shall be good that I shew the name of euerie motion, to thend that vsinge those names through al this work, they
    2 KB (293 words) - 02:37, 10 June 2020
  • ...r crossing: and as it groweth forwardes, it carieth the bodie with it, out of the straight line, where the blowe is giuen.<section end="1"/> ...t this backe pace is framed more often streight then croked. Now the midle of these backe and fore paces, I will terme the halfe pace: and that is, when
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  • <section begin="2"/>''Of the Agreement of the Foot and Hand.'' ...alwaies to be the strength of the right hand, and likewise the lefte legge of the left hand: So that if at any time it shall happen a thrust to bee forci
    643 bytes (103 words) - 02:39, 10 June 2020
  • ...hand, which hande, ought not in any case what soeuer happen to varie from his purpose, either in striking or defending.<section end="1"/> <sub>Wardes</su
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