Pallas armata The gentlemans armorie; wherein the right and genuine use of the rapier and of the sword, as well against the right handed as against the left handed man is displayed: and now set forth and first published for the commmon [sic] good by the author.

CHAP. VI. How to Parere those blowes that thy left han∣ded adversary makes at thy right legge within.

[ 1] IF thine adversary doth make a blow with a Secunde at the inside of thy right legge, then let the point of thy weapon sink downe into a Quarte and parere it, presently raise thy point againe and strike him with a Quarte at the outside of his left arme.

[ 2] Or when thou hast parered his blow with a Quarte then changing thy Quarte in∣stantly into a Secunde, close to the outside of his weapon, strike him with a Secunde or a back blow at the inside of his left leg.

[ 3] Or seeing his blow approach towards the inside of thy right leg, draw thy right leg to thee and let his blow passe thy leg, and strike contra-tempo or at one time with him with a Quarte at the outside of his left arme, or else at his left cheeke.

An advertisement to the Reader concerning the left handed.

There is no very great difficultie for a right handed man to play against a left han∣ded at Rapier or at back Sword, when thou caust play against a right handed, and dost but observe those rules which I have

set downe at large in the first booke of this treatise, onely note these following axiomes.

[ 1] Those rules thou makest use of against a right handed man within, thou must use against the left handed without. As for example, Thou alwayes must thrust at the right handed man with a Quarte at the in∣side of his Rapier, this Quarte thou must use against the left handed without over his left arme.

[ 2] Those lessons thou must make use of a∣gainst thy right handed adversary without over his right arme, them thou must use against thy left handed adversary at the inside of his Rapier. Example, As when thou dost thrust the right handed man at the outside over his right arme with a Se∣cunde or a Tertz, even so thou must thrust the left handed man at the inside of his Ra∣pier with a Secunde only, not with a Tertz, because the Tertz cannot keepe off a blow in this case but you will both be wounded.

[ 3] When thy left handed adversary, maketh a thrust or blow at thee without, thou mayst safely parere, like those thy right handed adversary maketh at thee without.

[ 4] And those thrusts or blowes thy left han∣ded adversary maketh at thee within thou parere like those thy right handed adversary maketh at thee within.

And thus I have finished the whole trea∣tise concerning the true and genuine way of Fencing, which in these our deplorable dayes is most highly necessary. It were to be wished for that a Saturn••ne and golden age might againe returne, when armes should cease and the use of them be slack∣ned, and we might not have reason to be∣waile and lament our cloudy times with the saying of that learned and praise wor∣thy Heathen:

Damnosa quid non imminuit dies? Aetas parentum pejor avis tulit Nos nequiores, mox daturos Progeniem Vitiosiorem.

That this Page might not bee empty, I thought it not amisse to set downe these following verses of that divine Boetius.

Libri IV. Metrum 15.

Quid tautos juvat motus exitare? Et propria fatum sollicitare manum Si mortem petitis propinquat ipsa Sponte sua, volucres nec remoratur equos Quos Serpens, Leo, Tigris, Vrsus, Aper Dente petunt ijdemse tamen e••se petunt, An distant quia, dissidentque mores, Iujustas acies & fera bella m••v••nt, Alteriusque volunt perire telis? Non est justa satis saevitie ratio▪ Vis aptam meritis vicem referre? Dilige jure bonos, & miseresae malis.