Pseudo-Hans Döbringer/Betsy Winslow St 2014

Here begins the fighting with the staff

Whoever will learn to fight with the staff, he shall first before all know and mark that a staff shall rightly be twelve spans long, and that the fighting with the staff is taken from the sword, and as one fights with the sword so he fights also with the staff; and the principles that there pertain to the sword such as, Before, After, Braveness, Quickness, Cunning, Prudence ect… They pertain also to the staff.