The methode which shalbe vsed in handling the Chapters following.
FOrasmuch as I ought in the Chapters folowing to teach more particularly all the blowes and defences in euery warde, (to the ende that no man doe meruaile why I do not perfourme the same, and do thinke that the instruction is therefore imperfect) I thinke good (because my purpose is now to intreat of that only which pertaineth to true Arte, to the which the blow of the point, or thrustes, are most agreeable, being more readie and strong than any other) to handle them prin-
cipally,
