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when you come to him in pre-fencing, and he stands against you in the fool's guard, then put your left foot forward and hold your sword in guard on your right shoulder and spring to him and strike strongly with the long edge from above to his head, when he displaces the strike so his point and grip are above and to each side in the stance called the Crown, then keep your arms high and with your left hand raise the sword's pommel high and sink your point over his guard to his chest, if he thrusts his sword to push your point away, then wind your sword below his crown with a cut to his arm and hit, thus breaking the crown again, and with the hit then cut hard on the arm and pull out with a slice.<section end="69"/>
 
when you come to him in pre-fencing, and he stands against you in the fool's guard, then put your left foot forward and hold your sword in guard on your right shoulder and spring to him and strike strongly with the long edge from above to his head, when he displaces the strike so his point and grip are above and to each side in the stance called the Crown, then keep your arms high and with your left hand raise the sword's pommel high and sink your point over his guard to his chest, if he thrusts his sword to push your point away, then wind your sword below his crown with a cut to his arm and hit, thus breaking the crown again, and with the hit then cut hard on the arm and pull out with a slice.<section end="69"/>
  
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| Four positions alone<br/>Defend from those and eschew the common
 
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| Ox, plow, fool,<br/>From-the-roof are not contemptible to you
 
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Gloss: Note the four positions. These are the four guards that you shall fence from.<section end="70"/>
 
  
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<section begin="71"/><br/>
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<section begin="71"/><section end="71"/>
  
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The first guard is called the ox. Put yourself together like this here: stand with your left foot forwards and hold your sword next to your right side with your hilt in front of your head such that your thumb is underneath your sword and hang your point toward their face.<section end="71"/>
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<section begin="72"/><section end="72"/>
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<section begin="72"/>Note, Put yourself in ox on the left like this: stand with your right foot forwards and hold your sword by your left side with your hilt in front of your head such that your thumb is underneath your sword and hang your point toward their face. This is the ox on both sides.<section end="72"/>
 
  
 
<section begin="73"/>'''This is the second guard'''
 
<section begin="73"/>'''This is the second guard'''
  
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Note that the second guard is called the plow. Put yourself together like this here: Set up with the left foot forwards and hold your sword with crossed hands with the pommel down by your right side at the hip such that the short edge is above and your point against their face.<section end="73"/>
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The second guard is called the Plough and set yourself in it thus, Stand with the left foot forward and hold your sword with crossed hands with the pommel under you near your right side on the hip so that the short edge is above and the point stands against him in his face.<section end="73"/>
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<section begin="74"/>Note. Put yourself in plow on the left side like this: stand with your right foot forwards and hold your sword by your right side with the pommel low at the hip such that the long edge is above and your point is in line with their face. This is the plow on both sides.<section end="74"/>
 
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<section begin="75"/>'''This is the third guard'''
 
  
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Note the third guard is called the fool. Put yourself together like this here: stand with your right foot forwards and hold your sword in front of you with extended arms with the point upon the ground with your short edge turned upwards<section end="75"/>
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<section begin="74"/>On the left side set yourself in the guard of the plough thus, Stand with the right foot forward and hold your sword near the left side with the pommel under you to the hip so that the long edge is above and the point stands in his face. This is the plough on both sides. <section end="74"/>
  
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<section begin="76"/>'''This is the fourth guard'''
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<section begin="75"/><section end="75"/>
  
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Note the fourth guard is called roof guard. Put yourself together like this here: stand with your left foot forwards and hold your sword on your right shoulder or with upstretched arms high over your head and stand in guard like this.<section end="76"/>
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<section begin="76"/><section end="76"/>
  
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<section begin="77"/>'''This is the text and the gloss of the four parries'''
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<section begin="77"/>'''Text of the four Displacements'''
 
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| Four are the parries<br/>Which also severely disrupt the positions
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| Four are the displacements <br/>also used for addressing the stances
 
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Gloss: Note you have heard before that there are four guards. You shall also know this about the four parries: they break these same four guards. Furthermore, there is no actual parrying is called for in these, because the four parries are four cuts that break them.<section end="77"/>
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Glosa You heard before what the four guards are, now you shall also know the four displacements that break those four guards, also know to use no other displacement as there are four strikes that you shall counter with,<section end="77"/>
  
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<section begin="78"/>Note the first cut is the crooked cut which breaks the guard that here is called the ox.<section end="78"/>
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<section begin="78"/>the first strike is the Arc Strike. This breaks the guard named the Ox.<section end="78"/>
  
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<section begin="79"/>Note the second cut. This is the crosswise cut which breaks the roof guard<section end="79"/>
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<section begin="79"/>The second strike is the Cross Strike. This breaks the guard of the Roof.<section end="79"/>
  
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<section begin="80"/>Note the third cut. This is the cockeyed cut which breaks the guard that here is called the plow<section end="80"/>
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<section begin="80"/>The third strike is the Glancer. This breaks the guard called the Plough.<section end="80"/>
  
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<section begin="81"/>Note the fourth cut. This is the part cut which breaks the guard that here is called the fool<section end="81"/>
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<section begin="81"/>The fourth strike is the Vertex. This breaks the guard called Fool.<section end="81"/>
  
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<section begin="82"/>And how you should break the four guards with the cuts shall be found written previously in these same cuts.<section end="82"/>
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<section begin="82"/>And how to break the four guards with the strikes is found described before this under the same named strikes.<section end="82"/>
  
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<section begin="83"/>'''This is the text and the gloss about how one shall not parry'''
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<section begin="83"/>'''Text when one shall not displace'''
 
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| Guard yourself from parrying<br/>If this happens, it also severely beleaguers you.
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| Before displacing guard yourself, <br/>place it to your best advantage
 
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Gloss. Note this is about how one shall not parry like the common fencers do. When they parry, they keep their point up in the air or to one side. This shows that they do not know to seek the four openings in the act of parrying. Therefore, they often become struck. But when you parry, parry with your cut or with your thrust and 'Indes' seek the nearest opening with the point so no master can strike you without their own harm.<section end="83"/>
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That is you should not displace as the common fencer does. When they displace then they hold their point high or to one side, so understand that they do not know how to use the point in the displacement to seek onward and are often hit. Thus when you would displace, then displace with your strike or with your stab and Immediately search for the next opening with the point, thus you will not be mastered and struck to your damage.<section end="83"/>
  
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<section begin="84"/>'''This is the text and the gloss about when someone has parried you and what you should conduct against that.'''
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<section begin="84"/>'''Text how one shall drive the displacement farther'''
 
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| If you are parried<br/>And as that is arriving
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| If you are displaced <br/>as it comes in
 
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| <small>73</small>
 
| <small>73</small>
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| Heed what I advise:<br/>Break loose, cut quickly with violence.
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| now hear what I advise, <br/>wrench off, strike fast in line.
 
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Gloss. Note this is about when someone has parried you and will not withdraw themselves from your sword and intends to not allow you to come to any plays. In this case, rise up on their sword's blade with your sword as if you would abscond from their sword, but stay against their sword and cut back in against their blade directly at their head using your long edge.<section end="84"/>
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That is when one has displaced you and will not extract from the sword and intends that you will not be allowed to come to a play, then wrench upward with your sword on his sword's blade, as if you would take off from his sword from above, and stay on the sword and strike him hitting on the blade again with the long edge onto his head.<section end="84"/>
  
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<section begin="85"/>'''This is the text and the gloss about the four lodgings'''
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<section begin="85"/>'''Text on four attacks'''
 
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| Lodge against four regions<br/>Learn to remain upon them if you wish to finish
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| Attack to four endings, <br/>onward stay would you end the lesson
 
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Gloss. Note there are four lodgings that are called for in earnest combat. You shall conduct them when you wish to immediately slay or injure your opponent. Conduct them like this: When you initiate fencing with the opponent with your sword, move yourself with your sword into the guard of the ox or the guard of the plow. If they will then cleave in from above or initiate a thrust from below, note during the moment when they lift up their sword and will strike or will draw down toward themselves to thrust at you, that you go first and shoot in the long point to their nearest opening before they bring forth their cut or thrust and see if you can lodge against them. Do the same thing when they initiate an rising cut. When this happens, shoot in the point the moment before they go up with their rising cut. Conduct this to both sides. Then if they become aware of the lodging against, keep your sword against theirs and swiftly work to the nearest opening<section end="85"/>
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Glosa There are four attacks to know should you drive in earnest, when you would soon hit or drive when you approach him in pre-fencing, then stand yourself with the sword in the Ox guard or the Plough, if he would then strike from above or stab below, then observe as he raises his sword up to hit or pulls back low in order to stab you, then come forward and shoot into the long point to the next opening. As and when he brings forth the strike or stab, look to see if you may attack. Similarly also do this when he strikes low to you then shoot the point to him as and when he comes with the low strike and drive it to both sides. If he becomes wary of the attack then stay with your sword toward him and work nimbly to the next opening.<section end="85"/>
  
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<section begin="86"/>'''This is the text and the gloss of the pursuing'''
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| Learn to pursue<br/>Double or slice into the weapon
 
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| Two enticements to the outside<br/>The work begins thereafter
 
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| And gauge the application<br/>Whether they are soft or hard
 
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Gloss. Note pursuing is diverse and varied and is required to be conducted with great caution from cuts and thrusts against the fencers that fight from free and lengthy cuts or will not otherwise keep to the proper art of the sword.<section end="86"/>
 
  
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<section begin="87"/>'''Conduct pursuing like this'''
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When you come to the opponent with the initiation of fencing, do it with your left foot forwards in the roof guard and watch quite attentively to what they fence against you. If they cleave in long from above, take heed that they do not reach you with their cut and not during the cut when their sword goes toward the ground, then spring in with your right foot, cleave in at their head from above before they can come up with their sword so that they are stricken.<section end="87"/>
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When you come to him in pre-fencing, then stand with the left foot forward in the guard of the roof and be well aware of what he would fence against you. If he strikes high to your left, then wait so that he will not reach you with the strike, and meanwhile observe when his sword goes below him to the ground then spring with the right foot and strike him high to the head as and when his sword goes farther out, thus he is struck.<section end="87"/>
  
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<section begin="88"/>'''The play written hereafter is called enticement to the outside'''
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<section begin="88"/>'''The following play is called the outside take.'''
  
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Note when the opponent misses their attack and you pursue into the opening with their cut, if they then rise up with their sword and come against your sword from below, remain strong upon it. Then if they firmly lift your sword upwards with theirs, spring behind their right foot with your left and strike them on the right side of their head with the crosswise cut or whatever, immediately working back around to their left side or otherwise with other plays thereafter, as you sense whether they are soft or hard at the sword.<section end="88"/>
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When he would strike to you and you travel after him with a strike to the opening, if he then soon drives off with the sword and comes below you onto your sword then stay strong on the sword with yours hard over his then spring behind his right with your left foot and hit him with a cross or similar to the right of his head and work soon again over to his left side with doubling or other similar elements as you find if he is soft or hard on the sword.<section end="88"/>
  
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<section begin="89"/>'''Here note a good pursuing at the sword from rising cuts'''<br/><br/>
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<section begin="89"/>'''A good travel-after on the sword out of low strikes'''<br/><br/>
  
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Note when you fence against your opponent from rising cuts or from the sweeps or lay against them in the guard that is here called the fool. Then if they fall upon your sword with theirs before you can come upwards with something, stay against their sword like this with yours below and lift upwards. Then if they wind in their point into your face or breast while on your sword, do not let them get away from your sword and adhering to it and work with your point to their nearest opening. But if they strike around away from your sword then either follow behind or pursue them again with your point like before.<section end="89"/>
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When you fence against him from low strikes or out of a strike, or stand against him in the guard named Fool, if he feints then with the sword onto yours as and when you so come forth, then stay low with your sword on his and lift upward, if he winds on the sword bringing his point at your face or chest, then don't let him come off the sword and from there follow after him to work your point to the next opening. If he strikes over from the sword then follow or travel after him with the point but, as before,<section end="89"/>
  
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<section begin="90"/>Note you shall pursue them from all cuts and from all guards as soon as you recognize when they miss their attack or they open themselves with their sword. But take care that you neither open yourself up nor miss your attack with your pursuing. Note this on both sides.<section end="90"/>
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<section begin="90"/>see that you shall, from all strikes and guards, follow after him as soon as you can when he has struck or opened with the sword before you, and when you yourself have opened or struck, wait so that you will not be followed after, observe this on both sides.<section end="90"/>
  
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<section begin="91"/>'''Precisely note here the text and the gloss about feeling and about the word that is here called Indes.'''
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<section begin="91"/>'''Mark here the lesson on Feeling and on the word Immediately'''
  
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'''Text'''
 
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| Learn to feel<br/>Indes, this word cuts sharply
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| Teach feeling. <br/>The word Immediately cuts sharply.
 
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Gloss. Note that feeling and the word 'Indes' are the greatest and the best arts of the sword and whoever is or wishes to be a master of the sword yet cannot feel and cannot perceive the term 'Indes' in it, they are in fact not a master, rather they are a buffalo of the sword. Therefore you shall quite fully study the two things for all situations so that you correctly comprehend it.<section end="91"/>
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<section end="91"/>
  
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<section begin="92"/>'''Here note the lesson about feeling and about the word that is called Indes'''
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Note when you come to the opponent with the initiation of fencing and one binds the other on the sword, in this, immediately feel as the swords clash together whether they have bound on soft or hard and as soon as you have sensed this, then reflect on the Indes. This means that you shall work swiftly at the sword within that perception before the opponent comes to their senses.<section end="92"/>
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When you come to him in pre-fencing and one or another has bound on the sword, then you should, just as the swords clash together, feel by hand if he has bound soft or hard and, as soon as you have determined this, then think of the word Immediately in that by it you will find how you will work nimbly on the sword so that he is hit even as he would ward.<section end="92"/>
  
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<section begin="93"/>'''Here you shall note'''
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<section begin="93"/>'''Mark'''
  
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That feeling and the word Indes are one thing, for one cannot be without the other. Look at it like this: When you bind against their sword, you must immediately feel whether they are soft or hard at the sword using the word Indes. And when you have felt that, then you must work 'Indes' according to the soft and according to the hard. Like this, they are nothing but one thing. And the word Indes, this is for all plays from beginning to end. Look at it like this:<br/><br/>
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that Feeling and the word Immediately are one thing and one is not considered without the other when you bind on his sword. Thus take full to hand the word Immediately, if he is soft or hard and when you have felt this then you must now work against the soft and against the hard at the sword. So  when both are not one thing, the word Immediately is foremost of all concepts and use it thus:<br/><br/>
 
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| Immediately changes through, <br/>Immediately charges through,
 
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| Immediately gains the slice, <br/>Immediately gains the grapple,
 
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| Immediately takes the sword, <br/>Immediately does what your heart desires,
 
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Indes, this is a sharp word. With it, all masters of the sword that neither know nor understand it will be carved up. This is the key of the art.<section end="93"/>
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Immediately is a sharp word that cuts all masters of the sword, the word is not ingrained without knowing that this is the key to the art.<section end="93"/>
  
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<section begin="94"/>'''Here again note the text and the gloss about pursuing'''
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<section begin="94"/>'''Text regarding the Traveling After'''
 
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| <small>79</small>
 
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| Pursuing twice,<br/>If one hits, make the old slice with it.
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| Traveling after hits one twice <br/>done with the olden slice
 
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Gloss. Note this is about how you shall not forget to conduct the pursuing to both sides nor the slices therein. Look at it like this: When the opponent misses their attack before you, be it from the right or from the left side, boldly cut into the opening and follow them closely. Then if they rise up and bind against your sword from below, then note as soon as one sword clashes onto the other and then 'Indes', continue with a slice towards their neck or fall upon their arms with your long edge and slice firmly.<section end="94"/>
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Glosa That is you shall travel after to both sides and don't forget the slices inward. Take this on when he would strike before you from high on the right or left side, then strike after him driving to the opening he makes and bind below on the sword, so mark as soon as one sword glides on the other, then slice him Immediately to his throat or let your long edge fall on his arm and slice closely.<section end="94"/>
  
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<section begin="95"/>'''Here note the text and the gloss about the overrunning'''
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Revision as of 03:56, 3 November 2022

The text expanding from the verses follows from here;



Text

9 If you will show art,
send yourself to Left and Right in striking,
10 and left with right
is how you fence correctly and strongly.

Glosa Mark that this is the first tenet of the long sword, that before all things, to learn the strikes rightly, you will always fence strongly, and undertake this thus: When you stand with the left foot forward, and strike from your right side, your step with the right foot will not follow after the strike, thus making the strike weak and incorrect. When your right stays behind, onward the strike will be short. Also don't make your right step go to the other side, putting it under yourself and ahead of your left foot,

otherwise the play further from the left side shall happen with the step and strike on opposing sides.

Text of a lesson

11 He who strikes after
deserves a joyless art.

Glosa That is when you come to him in fencing, then you shall not stay still and wait to see with what strike he would fight against you. Know that all fencers who wait to see the other's strike and who will do nothing but displace the other, deserve indeed less joy in their art when they are overcome and struck.

Text

12 Strike closely at him as you will,
that nothing comes unto your hilt,
13 head, or body,
allow no attack.
14 With the entire body
fence as strongly as you can drive.

Glosa When you come to him in pre-fencing, as you would then fence, then drive with your body's full strength, and strike closely to him, one to his head, and to his body, and always keep your point ahead at his face or chest, Thus he can't change through past the point. If he displaces strongly, and your point goes off to the side, then give him a withdrawing slice to the arm,

Or if his arms go high in the displacement, then hit him with a free strike below to his body and step backward with it. Thus he is struck even as he would (strike) himself.

Text

15 Hear what is bad,
fight not to left, if you are right,
16 and if you are left,
the right is very limiting

Glosa This lesson is intended for two people, one right handed and one left, and regards how you should strike, that one is weak when he strikes the first strike not to engage, and this is shown thus: when you come to him in pre-fencing, and are on the right, then undertake not to strike the first strike from the left side where he is weak and does not want to engage against and strike strong with you, so onward strike from the right where you will engage strongly and work at the sword. Similarly if you are left then strike the first not from the right side, as it is wild for the leftie to drive the art entirely from the right side, similarly for the right from the left side.

Text

17 Before and After, the two things,
all arts are from one spring.
18 Weak and Strong,
Immediately, do mark this word,
19 thus you will learn
work and weapon with Art,
20 know well that
no fencing is never learned

Glosa You should first of all rightly undertake and understand two things, that is the Before and the After, and thereafter the weak and strong of the sword and then the word Immediately.[1] From here grows the whole foundation of all fencing arts. When you undertake and understand these things rightly and not forget the word Immediately in all plays, you will drive. Thus will you be a good master of the sword and princes and nobles shall learn well with what proper art of the sword one would choose to fight best and in earnest.

What the Before is

That is that you shall always come before, be it with the strike or with the stab, as when you come to him with a strike or otherwise so that he must displace you, Immediately work ahead nimbly with the sword in the displacement or else with other plays, that he can then come to no work.

What the After is

Is to counter all plays away, and strike to drive the opponent from you, And to take this on even as he comes with the strike, so you must displace. Immediately work nimbly to the next opening and thus break his Before with your After.

Of the Weak and Strong of the Sword

Weak and Strong are taken thus, on the sword from the hilt to the middle of the blade, this is the strong of the sword, and farther past the middle to the point is the weak, and how you shall work with the weak and strong of the sword shall be clarified afterward.

Text of the Five Strikes

21 Teach Five strikes
from the right hand,
22 that the weapon will be exalted
by a praiseworthy art.

There are five secret strikes of which many masters of the sword know nothing to say. These you shall learn to strike well from the right side, which you can then strike with proper art to break and damage the fencer, which will be praised by other masters. How these shall be learned fully and how to strike when one fences in your plays will be clarified afterward.

Text on the verses' parts.

23 Wrathful strike, Arc, Cross,
has Glance, with Vertex,
24 Fool displaces,
Traveling After, Overrun lets strike,
25 Change through, Disengage,
Run Through, Slice Away, Hand Hit,
26 Wind with openings,
Slash against strikes, Stab with thrusting,

Here will be named the proper main parts of the verses of the Long Sword, as they are known, as well as their names, so onward you know well and can understand. The first are the five strikes as they are specially named.

The first is called the Wrath Strike,
the second the Arc Strike,
the third the Cross Strike,
the fourth the Glance Strike,
the fifth the Vertex Strike.

Now mark these elements,

the first being the four Guards,
the next the four Displacements,
the third the Traveling After,
the fourth Running Over,
the fifth the Parry,
the sixth is Changing Through,
the seventh is Disengaging,
the eighth Charging Through,
the ninth is Slicing Off,
the tenth is Hand Hitting,
the eleventh is Hanging,
the twelfth is the Winding.

And how you shall fence with the plays and how you shall gain openings with the Hanging and Winding so that you will go from one to the next, you will find described after here.

Mark that you come here to the first text and glosa

on the Wrath Strike with its plays

Text

27 To him who strikes you from above,
Wrath Strike point concludes.

Glosa The Wrath Strike counters all high strikes with the point. And it is indeed nothing other than a bad peasant strike. Deploy it thus: when you come to him in the pre-fencing: if he strikes to you from his right side high to the head, then to this also strike from high on your right wrathfully displacing with him on his sword, if he is then weak on the sword, then aim to shoot ahead with the point and stab to his face, or attack the chest between the arms.

Text

28 If he wards,
then take off high without driving

Glosa When you strike him with the Wrath Strike, then thrust the point long to his face or chest as described before. If he is wary of the point and strongly displaces and pushes your point to the side, then wrench off from his sword high above you with your sword on his sword's blade, and strike one to his other side, yet again on his sword's blade, to his head, this is called taking off high.

Counter against the take off

When he takes off high, then bind strongly on his sword above to his head with the long edge.

Text

29 Be stronger, wind farther,
stab, stab first, then take it farther.

Glosa That is when you strike him with a Wrath Strike, if he displaces and stays strong on the sword in the displacement, then also stay with your sword strong on his sword and drive upward with your arms and wind your quillons onto his sword going forward to his head and stab high into his face, if he becomes aware of the stab and (note in margin: with the short edge) drives up high with his arms, and displaces with the quillons, then stay standing with your hilt in front of your head and send your point below to the throat, or to the chest between his arms, as will be told later.

Text of a lesson on the Wrath Strike

30 Mark well,
strike stab stances light or hard,
31 Immediately[2] and truly after,
onward the war will not be awkward.

Glosa When he has bound on your sword with a strike or stab or otherwise, then you should not let yourself stop even in your winds, the before will be gained by marking if he is weak or strong when one sword slides against the other and, as you have determined this, immediately work first by winding against the light and the hard, always to the next opening, as will be clarified and examined in plays after this.

Text on the war.

32 When the war roams above,
below he will be shamed.

The War is the Winding and the work to the four openings with the point that comes from it, and deploy this thus: when you strike with the Wrath Strike, as soon as he displaces then drive full forward with your arms and immediately wind the point high on his sword to the upper opening on his left side. If he then displaces the high stab, then stay standing in the wind with your hilt in front of your head, and let your point sink below to your left side, if he follows after your sword in displacement, then drive on to his left side with the sword and send the point up to his upper right opening, thus will he be shamed with the war high and low, in that you drive properly from one to the other.

Text of a lesson

33 In all windings,
strike stab slice, learn to find,
34 also should you not
test, strike stab or slice,
35 in all engagements,
you will lose the mastery.

This is when you strike with the Wrath Strike, then you should remember well to end completely with the Windings, and a single wind has three particular elements, that is one strike, one slice, and one stab, and when you wind on the sword, then you should indeed consider well that these elements aren't driven wrongly. Take heed in the winding that you not strike when you should stab, and not slice when you should strike, and not stab when you should slice. Thus you shall always know the elements, that by properly heeding them you will drive all meetings and bindings with the sword, otherwise you will fail or lose the mastery when one displaces against you. How you shall deploy the windings, and how many there are, you will find described in the last part of the verses, which will speak of what will deploy well and what will counter properly.

Of the four Openings

36 Know four openings,
space, thus you hit wisely,
37 in all attacks
double where he is wary.

Glosa If one wants to be a master of the sword, he should know how to break the four openings with art, and then he will fence properly and wisely. The first opening is the right side, the second the left, both above the belt, the other two are on the left and right side, both under the belt. One should seek the openings by driving on to two from the pre-fencing by following after and shooting with the long point. The second time one should probe with the eight windings, when one binds from one to another on the sword, this you should also understand when you come to him in pre-fencing that you should always drive as best as one can to all with a strike or a stab into the four openings and pay no attention to what he deploys or fences against you. Thus you will force your opponent so that he must displace and, when he has displaced, then seek quickly for the next opening by winding in the displacement on the sword, and thus always roam to his openings and fence not to his sword, in this part you will achieve placement at four end points, stay there and thus end the lesson.

How one shall break the four openings

38 If you will reckon
to break the four openings with art,
39 double above,
transform below right.
40 I say to you be aware onward,
you shoot no man without driving,
41 if you've reached him,
make a close hit, then he won't advance

Glosa When you have first struck, if you then reckon to wind to his four openings with art so that he must let you strike as you please, then drive a double against the strong of his sword and then transform when he is weak at the sword, thus I say onward be aware that he won't be able to shoot in the Before as he wants, and so cannot come to strike.

How you shall drive the Doubling to both sides

Mark when he strikes high to you from his right shoulder, then also strike similarly strong and high from your right to his head, if he displaces and stays strong on the sword, then drive on Immediately with your arms and thrust your sword's pommel under your right arm with your left hand, and with crossed arms strike the long edge behind his sword's blade onto his head.

Another

If he strikes high to your head with the long edge from his left shoulder, then do the same, onward if he then stays strong on the sword, then drive your arms up quickly and strike with the short edge behind his sword's blade to his head.

Thus how your sword goes to war and strikes was taught

How one shall drive transforming to both sides

When you have struck him strongly above to the head from your right shoulder, if he displaces and is weak on the sword, then wind the short edge on his sword to your left side and, driving well up with your arms, drive your sword's blade high over his sword and stab his lower opening.

Another

When you have struck high to his head from your left side and he displaces and is weak on the sword, then drive up with your arms and hang the point over his sword from above and stab to his second opening. Thus you will drive the two elements from all strikes as you find him weak and strong on the sword.

Thus are fencing and work with the sword retained to be praised.

Text on the Arc Strike with its plays

42 Arc out nimbly,
throw your point to the hands,
43 Arc to whom would attack,
striding much allows strikes.

Glosa The arc strike is one of the four displacements against the four guards, in that with it one breaks the guard named the Ox, and it also drives onto the Over and Under Strikes. When you come to him in the pre-fencing, if he stands against you holding his sword before his head in the guard of the Ox, on his left side, then put your left foot forward, and hold your sword on your right shoulder, in the guard, and spring with the right foot well to your right side against him, and strike him with the long edge, from crossed arms, over the hands.

Another

You should also try the arc strike from the barrier guard, from either side, And thus set yourself in this guard: when you come to him in the pre-fencing, then stand with the left foot forward and hold your sword close on your right side with your point to the ground so that your long edge is above, and give an opening on the left side. If he strikes to the opening, then burst out from the strike with your right foot toward him well to your right side, And strike him with crossed hands and the long edge with the point out to his hands.

Of the Barrier Guard

Put yourself thus in the barrier guard to your left side: when you come to him with it in the pre-fencing, then stand with the right foot forward and hold your sword near your left side to the ground with crossed hands, so the short edge is above, and give an opening with your right side, if he Strikes to your opening, then burst out of the strike toward him with the left foot well to his right side, and strike in the burst with the short edge over the hands.

A good bit of text regarding the Krumphau

44 Arc strike to the flat
and you will weaken the master.
45 When it glides above
then stand off so I will praise.

You shall deploy this play against most binds with the sword, and drive it so: When you come to him in the pre-fencing, then lay your sword to your right side in the barrier guard and stand with the left foot forward, or hold it on the right shoulder, if he then strikes high to the opening, then strike strongly with the long edge to cross arms against his strike, and as soon as the swords clash together then immediately wind the short edge on his sword toward your left, and stab him in the face. Or if you will not stab him, then strike him immediately with the short edge, from the sword to the head or body.

Text on a part of the arc strike

46 Strike an arc not a short,
show changes through with it.

Glosa That is when he will strike one high from his right side, then drive up high with the hands and as he strikes you will arc strike to bind on his sword, and drive the point through under his sword and stab to his other side into his face or chest, and be sure you wait to keep your hilt high before your head. Also to break the guard of the Ox with this play, you drive so when you go to him in pre-fencing, when he stands against you and holds his sword with the hilt on his left side, in front of the head, then throw your sword to your right shoulder and act as if you would bind onto his sword with the krumphau, strike short and change through with it below his sword, and shoot your point long under his sword to the other side and at his throat so he must displace, then you will come to hit and work with the sword.

Here observe the counter against the Cross Strike

When you stand against him in the guard of the roof then strike high to his head, if he then springs from the strike and means to come forward with a cross strike by striking to the left side of your head, then let your sword's long edge fall on his sword, if he then strikes across over to the other side, Immediately strike your sword ahead crossing under his sword to his throat so that he cuts himself with your sword.

Note:

Mark that when you have bound on a fencer's sword, if he then flies from the sword over in a cross to the other side, then let the long edge fall on his hand or arm and hit with the edge of the sword with your arms well out from you and snap the sword's edge from his arms up to his head.

Counter against the high cut to the arm

When you strike across to his right side, if he then feints with a cut to the arm, then strike and double with the short edge behind his blade to his mouth.

Or if you strike across to his left side, and he then feints a cut to the arm, then strike a double with the long edge behind his blade to his mouth.

Mark if he counters the doubling when you cut high to his arm, if he doubles high to your head, thus drive on and wind against the blow with your sword below his and drive the sword's short edge to his throat.

A bit of verse on the Cross Strike

50 Cross with strength,
mark your work with it.

Glosa That is when you will strike with a Crosser, then you should strike with your body's full strength and always bind on his sword with the strong in order to win and take the openings. Thus when you have struck with a Cross from your right side, if he displaces then drive a double or thrust in from the Cross with the hilt of your sword off to the side and then strike in to the other side.

Counter

When you have had a sword driven to the throat, then drive your sword inward with the pommel up and let the blade hang down and thrust his sword from your throat and strike high to his head with a snap, or strike a double with the right hand up over his sword and under the face while he has his sword at your throat.

Text on striking across to the four openings

51 Cross to the Plough,
fly hard to the Ox.
52 That is you cross
to the head with a spring.

Glosa You heard the Ox and the Plough being named before. These two stances or guards are named here as they address the four openings, for the Ox the upper two openings and the right and left of the head, the plough is to the lower two openings on the left and the right below the opponent's belt. You should also aim for these same four openings with cross strikes in pre-fencing.

Thus strike the cross to the four openings

When you come to your opponent in pre-fencing, stand with your left foot forward and when you are in range spring against his left side with the right foot and strike an artful cross to his left side's lower opening. This is called striking to the Plough. If he displaces then hit him quickly to the upper right opening, which is to the Ox, and then always drive the cross strike nimbly, one to the Ox and another to the Plough, across from one side to the other, that is to the head and to the body. You should also consider that you always shall spring well to his side in every cross strike, thus you will hit well to the head, but be sure that you meanwhile keep your hilt high before your head.

You should also remember that in broad terms, you should always spring out off to one side facing the opponent with each and every crosswise strike so that you can fully connect to the head and take care that you are fully covered the entire time with your hilt up in front of your head.

Counter against the Lower Cross Strike

When he strikes you with a Cross from his right side high to your head's left, then displace with the long edge and stay with the point in front of the chest, if he then strikes from the sword over with a cross to your lower right opening, then you also strike across through low between you and also to his right side, and so bind on his sword and immediately stab to his lower opening.

Text on Feinting

53 Feints mislead
from below against intent to move

Glosa Feinting is a play in which many elements become blended as in you want to pull out and strike to those who will displace and fence to the sword and not the body.

Mark when you come to him in pre-fencing, then move as if you would strike to the head in a free downstrike, then disengage off the strike and strike him with a cross to his lower opening on either the left or right side as you will, and see that you keep the hilt over your head as you deploy the cross strike.

Text on Inverting

54 Inverting forces
running through with grappling too,
55 know to take the elbow
and spring on the way.

Glosa The Inverter is the name for fencing with a half strike or the twisting hand which one forces to the opponent in running through and trapping to wrestle.

Drive this thus,

when you have gone to him in pre-fencing, then go with the left foot forward to strike a half strike from the right side and reversed long edge, go and go on with your left foot until you come to him and as soon as you thus bind with the sword, Immediately hang the point and stab at his face, if he displaces and drives his arms high, then charge through to him. If he keeps his hands low in the displacement then grab his right elbow with your left hand, hold it well and spring with the left foot ahead of his right and push him over your foot.

Or if you would not push him by the elbow with your left hand over your foot as was described before, then drive with the left arm behind him around his body and throw him forward over your hip.

Text on just one of the Feints

56 Feinting double
makes one hit with the edge.
57 Let it double
stride left and forward with it.

Glosa This names the double feint which is driven thus: when you come to him in pre-fencing then stand with the left foot forward and hold your sword on your right shoulder and when you are near then spring with your right foot to his left side and do as if you would strike a free cross strike to his left side of the head and pull out of the strike and spring with the left foot to his right side and strike to his head, if he displaces and you engage his sword then spring away close to the side and cut him with the short edge behind his sword with a double to the mouth.

Or fall with the sword over both his arms in the cut to also make the feint from the high strikes, thus driving full to strike from the Crosser when it is open to you or when you wish.

Here you rise to the Glance Strike with its plays

Text

58 Glance strikes break once
what buffaloes strike or stab,
59 Changed defense concludes
glancing outward to deny

Glosa The Glancer breaks the guard named the Plough and is a particularly well applied strike as it breaks strikes and stabs with force and closes with an inverted sword, many masters of the sword do not know what to say of this strike

How one shall strike the glancer

Mark when you come to him in the pre-fencing to stand with the left foot forward and hold your sword on your right shoulder, if he strikes then to your head from above then twist your sword and strike long against his strike with your arms upward and the short edge right over his sword to his head. If he is then unsuccessful and disabled on your sword and would then change through below, then let your point shoot far forward from yourself so he won't try to change through below.

Another

When you stand against him and hold your sword on your right shoulder, if he then stands against you in the guard of the plough and would stab you from below, then strike him with the glancer to point high and long to his chest, thus he will not reach you with the stab from below.

Text of a lesson on the Glance Strike

60 Glance short on his
Changes Through onto his face

Glosa Mark the lesson when you come to him in pre-fencing, then you should glance to the face and see if he would fence short against you, so by it you should know when he would strike right at you, if he does not strike with his arms long from him then his strike will be shortened, Or when you stand before him in the fool's guard if he will then arc to fall out with the sword, then his sword is shortened,

Or when he stands against you in the guard of the Ox or the Plough, then his sword is shortened.

Also know that all windings with the sword are short in front of the opponent and shorten the sword and the Changes which the fencer then drives through freely from strikes and from stabs and shots in the long point, those that you force from one opening to the next so that he must displace, thus you come to work properly.

Text on how one breaks the Long Point with the Glancer

61 Glance to the point
and take the throat without effort

When you come to him in pre-fencing, if he then stands against you and holds the long point to your face or chest then hold your sword on the right shoulder and glance facing the point and act as if you would strike and then strike strongly with the glancer with the short edge against his sword and shoot the point long to his throat with a step ahead with the right foot.

Text on just one element of the Glance Strike

62 Glance high
to the lead hand should you threaten

Glosa Mark that this is a second counter when he stands against you in the long point, then glance at him with with your face to his head and act as if you would strike onto it, and strike him from the glance strike with the point over his hands.

Of the Vertex Strike

Text

63 The top
of the face is endangered
64 with your turn
threatening the chest.
65 That which comes from him
is taken at the Crown,
66 cut through the crown
then break hard
67 as the strike hits,
pull out with a slice.

The Vertex breaks the guard called fool and endangers the face and the chest with your turn.

Then drive this thus,

when you come to him in pre-fencing, and he stands against you in the fool's guard, then put your left foot forward and hold your sword in guard on your right shoulder and spring to him and strike strongly with the long edge from above to his head, when he displaces the strike so his point and grip are above and to each side in the stance called the Crown, then keep your arms high and with your left hand raise the sword's pommel high and sink your point over his guard to his chest, if he thrusts his sword to push your point away, then wind your sword below his crown with a cut to his arm and hit, thus breaking the crown again, and with the hit then cut hard on the arm and pull out with a slice.

This is the second guard

The second guard is called the Plough and set yourself in it thus, Stand with the left foot forward and hold your sword with crossed hands with the pommel under you near your right side on the hip so that the short edge is above and the point stands against him in his face.

On the left side set yourself in the guard of the plough thus, Stand with the right foot forward and hold your sword near the left side with the pommel under you to the hip so that the long edge is above and the point stands in his face. This is the plough on both sides.

Text of the four Displacements

70 Four are the displacements
also used for addressing the stances

Glosa You heard before what the four guards are, now you shall also know the four displacements that break those four guards, also know to use no other displacement as there are four strikes that you shall counter with,

the first strike is the Arc Strike. This breaks the guard named the Ox.

The second strike is the Cross Strike. This breaks the guard of the Roof.

The third strike is the Glancer. This breaks the guard called the Plough.

The fourth strike is the Vertex. This breaks the guard called Fool.

And how to break the four guards with the strikes is found described before this under the same named strikes.

Text when one shall not displace

71 Before displacing guard yourself,
place it to your best advantage

That is you should not displace as the common fencer does. When they displace then they hold their point high or to one side, so understand that they do not know how to use the point in the displacement to seek onward and are often hit. Thus when you would displace, then displace with your strike or with your stab and Immediately search for the next opening with the point, thus you will not be mastered and struck to your damage.

Text how one shall drive the displacement farther

72 If you are displaced
as it comes in
73 now hear what I advise,
wrench off, strike fast in line.

That is when one has displaced you and will not extract from the sword and intends that you will not be allowed to come to a play, then wrench upward with your sword on his sword's blade, as if you would take off from his sword from above, and stay on the sword and strike him hitting on the blade again with the long edge onto his head.

Text on four attacks

74 Attack to four endings,
onward stay would you end the lesson

Glosa There are four attacks to know should you drive in earnest, when you would soon hit or drive when you approach him in pre-fencing, then stand yourself with the sword in the Ox guard or the Plough, if he would then strike from above or stab below, then observe as he raises his sword up to hit or pulls back low in order to stab you, then come forward and shoot into the long point to the next opening. As and when he brings forth the strike or stab, look to see if you may attack. Similarly also do this when he strikes low to you then shoot the point to him as and when he comes with the low strike and drive it to both sides. If he becomes wary of the attack then stay with your sword toward him and work nimbly to the next opening.


When you come to him in pre-fencing, then stand with the left foot forward in the guard of the roof and be well aware of what he would fence against you. If he strikes high to your left, then wait so that he will not reach you with the strike, and meanwhile observe when his sword goes below him to the ground then spring with the right foot and strike him high to the head as and when his sword goes farther out, thus he is struck.

The following play is called the outside take.

When he would strike to you and you travel after him with a strike to the opening, if he then soon drives off with the sword and comes below you onto your sword then stay strong on the sword with yours hard over his then spring behind his right with your left foot and hit him with a cross or similar to the right of his head and work soon again over to his left side with doubling or other similar elements as you find if he is soft or hard on the sword.

A good travel-after on the sword out of low strikes

When you fence against him from low strikes or out of a strike, or stand against him in the guard named Fool, if he feints then with the sword onto yours as and when you so come forth, then stay low with your sword on his and lift upward, if he winds on the sword bringing his point at your face or chest, then don't let him come off the sword and from there follow after him to work your point to the next opening. If he strikes over from the sword then follow or travel after him with the point but, as before,

see that you shall, from all strikes and guards, follow after him as soon as you can when he has struck or opened with the sword before you, and when you yourself have opened or struck, wait so that you will not be followed after, observe this on both sides.

Mark here the lesson on Feeling and on the word Immediately

Text

78 Teach feeling.
The word Immediately cuts sharply.


When you come to him in pre-fencing and one or another has bound on the sword, then you should, just as the swords clash together, feel by hand if he has bound soft or hard and, as soon as you have determined this, then think of the word Immediately in that by it you will find how you will work nimbly on the sword so that he is hit even as he would ward.

Mark

that Feeling and the word Immediately are one thing and one is not considered without the other when you bind on his sword. Thus take full to hand the word Immediately, if he is soft or hard and when you have felt this then you must now work against the soft and against the hard at the sword. So when both are not one thing, the word Immediately is foremost of all concepts and use it thus:

Immediately doubles,
Immediately transforms,
Immediately changes through,
Immediately charges through,
Immediately gains the slice,
Immediately gains the grapple,
Immediately takes the sword,
Immediately does what your heart desires,

Immediately is a sharp word that cuts all masters of the sword, the word is not ingrained without knowing that this is the key to the art.

Text regarding the Traveling After

79 Traveling after hits one twice
done with the olden slice

Glosa That is you shall travel after to both sides and don't forget the slices inward. Take this on when he would strike before you from high on the right or left side, then strike after him driving to the opening he makes and bind below on the sword, so mark as soon as one sword glides on the other, then slice him Immediately to his throat or let your long edge fall on his arm and slice closely.

  1. ↑ Just As
  2. ↑ Just As // Indes
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