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Title:  The compleat fencing-master in which is fully described the whole guards, parades & lessons belonging to the small-sword : as also the best rules for playing against either artists or ignorants with blunts or sharps : together with directions how to behave in a single combat on horse-back : illustrated with figures representing the most necessary postures / by Sir W. Hope, Kt.
Author: Hope, William, Sir.
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for when a Man answereth Feints, it is a great token of his ignorance.Tenthly, 10ly. Parie most frequently with the Con∣tre-caveating Parade, for by so doing you will cross all your Adversaries designs.Eleventhly,11ly. when you are playing, look always to your Adversaries Hilt, and never to his Eye, for by looking to his Hilt you may perceive where he intends to give his thrust, which you cannot so easily doe, when you look to his Eye.Twelfthly,12ly. Before you play home any Lesson on your Adversary, endeavour first to sift and find him out, by trying him with Feints, or any other Lesson you think fit, but offer not to play them home upon him, untill by sifting of him, you find out whither or not they will have effect; and have a spe∣cial care that when you are trying him with these Lessons he take not time upon you.Thirteenthly, When you are playing, 13ly. you re to judge both your own, and your Ad∣versaries measure exactly, this is a chief Rule to be observed by any Sword Man, for the breaking of Measure Parieth more thrusts then the Parade doth, and sheweth more of Art.Fourtheenthly,14ly. When you intend to make any kind of Pass, go quite by, or closs 0