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Pseudo-Peter von Danzig/Mike Rasmusson 2004 SS

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All raise yourself here to the analysis and interpretation of the verses on the art of combat fencing

Those composed and devised by Johannes Liechtenawer, who was the one high master of the art and well respected / and so that princes / and gentlemen / Knights and squires hear the art so that they then learn / and shall know / Thus the art has been allowed to be written with concealed / and considered words / This is so that not every man who hears it shall even understand it / and if this is done through an irresponsible fightmaster's will / then your art will be lessened because of it, similarly your art shall then not be open but vulgar, so direct the art that it not become widely heard / as in hear the art and conceal the same / and consider the words on combat fencing that stand after here / and then are clarified / In the comments / and laid out so that any man can retain well / and will understand if he knows other fencing.

Here you come to the foreword /

Young / Knight learn /
to have God's love and women / honour /
Thus grow your honour /
upon Knightlyhood / and learning /
Art you must sieze /
and honour courtesy in war /
Wrestle well trap /
Lance spear sword / and messer /
wield skillfully /
and in other hands / ruin /
strike in / and hard there /
Rush him stepping or in driving /
That the wisdom /
that one keeps sees praise /
Thereon you retain /
and have all the length and breadth of the art.