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A13248	The schoole of the noble and worthy science of defence Being the first of any English-mans inuention, which professed the sayd science; so plainly described, that any man may quickly come to the true knowledge of their weapons, with small paines and little practise. Then reade it aduisedly, and vse the benefit thereof when occasion shal serue, so shalt thou be a good common-wealth man, liue happy to thy selfe, and comfortable to thy friend. Also many other good and profitable precepts and counsels for the managing of quarrels, and ordering thy selfe in many other matters. Written by Ioseph Svvetnam.	Swetnam, Joseph, fl. 1617.	1617 (1617)	STC 23543; ESTC S101000	138,687	232

example of Patience shewed by King Dauid in the second of Samuel 16.6.10 Dauid being in the middest of his Army there came a fellow with cursing and rayling speeches saying vnto him Come out thou murtherer and withall threw stones and dust at him and one of the seruants of Dauid saide vnto his Maister Shall I goe and take off the head of this Rayler But Dauid very wisely and mildely answered his Seruant thus It may bee that the Lord hath sent him and therefore let him alone but now we haue a saying That flesh and blood cannot endure such iniuries as heere you see Dauid did But I say those that will go to Heauen must not looke to be carried thither in a feather-bed but by enduring iniuries crossings vexations and tribulations O then thinke on Heauen and yet forget not Hell presume not nor yet despaire not liue to die and yet die to liue Oh then leade thy life in true humilitie for so shalt thou vndoubtedly escape Hels damnation and enioy Heauens euerlasting saluation which place the God of gods vouchsafe vs all CHAP. II. Declaring the difference of sundry mens teaching with a direction for the entrance into the practise with thy weapons AS men of all arts trades and sciences differ in arte and workmanship as for example all Physitions doe not vse one kind of purgation nor all Surgions one manner of salue nor al writers write not alike but to make a rehearsall of all artes it were too long my meaning is so many men so many mindes euen so in this art of defence as the number which are experienced in it is infinite euen so seuerall fashions doe exceede the number of infinite if it were possible for euery man holdeth his opinion to be best in that fashion which he hath been most vsed vnto although a man shew them many errours by good iudgement yet it is as hard to withdraw them from their owne wil as it is to compell a Papist from his religion which he hath been alwayes trained vp vnto But the true skil of weapons once perfectly learned is neuer forgotten againe for if any man were to fight for his life as by a familiar example I will tell you of those which haue been vnskilfull yet haue had a suddaine occasion to vse their weapons and euen then suddenly summoning vp their wits what defence they should vse for the safegard of their liues being so suddenly charged doth not hee then as I said remember himselfe of the best defence or the best trick that euer was shewed him for then is the time to stand him in stead and then will vse it although he neuer plaid nor neuer practised in seauen yeeres before Nay further he which neuer learned one tricke but what nature bestowed nor neuer had any other experience vse nor practise at one weapon nor other but onely what he hath seene of others by chance where hee hath hapned to come yet such a one vpon a present occasion being vrged thereunto will instantly cal to minde that such a time and such a time I did see such a man fight or play and he was accounted a very good player or a very tall man of his hands and thus he lay or thus he defended himselfe Loe thus imitating for their defence that which they haue seene others doe before another example which by experience I can speake of and that is of some which neuer did nor neuer could swim in all their liues yet such at sometimes haue been in danger of drowning by chāce falling ouer boord into the sea or into other deepe Riuers where there was no hope of life but onely by swimming such I say being put to their shifts haue remembred themselues in the water and so by laboring themselues I meane with their hands and their feet so haue escaped and saued their liues Now I say if euery man before hand were grounded in skill with his weapons in the art of swimming when they were yong then would either of them be the lesse fearefull for what is bred in the bone will neuer out of the flesh Yet here one example more take a yong plant and set him and come againe within a month and you may pull him vp with ease but let him grow a yeere or two and he will be so deepe rooted in the ground so that you cannot pull him vp for your heart except you vse other meanes euen so of youth if they giue their minds to good and laudable exercises when they are yong it were great pitty that they shold want encouragement whereby it might take roote but if their minds be giuen to any idle or bad exercises it were good then that it were pulled vp in time before it haue taken any deep root And so I will here leaue off because I shall haue occasion hereafter to speake concerning those matters CHAP. III. Fearefull examples of murther with aduise to auoid murther GEnerally three sorts of men are hated for the most part and very much abhorred that is to say the proud minded man a coward and a murtherer but especially a murtherer howsoeuer it be done therefore most vnhappy is he which killeth a man cowardly in a desperate humour but if he doe it in his owne defence or in a morning vpon a iust quarrell in the field and both being equally matched then it may be the better tollerated both before God and man yet I doe not well to say so for Romans the 9. it is said what art thou which doest dispute with God then why goe I about to make my toleration in murther when God hath giuen vs an expresse commandement to the contrary saying thou shalt not kill Exodus 20. According to this saying In no case commit not murther he which striketh with the sword shall perish with the sword and likewise S. Paul giueth vs a good lesson saving doe nothing without foresight and iudgement Because I touch diuinity in many places of my booke no doubt some will say what should fencers meddle with diuinity but to answer you againe euery Christian ought to know the word indeed the sword is good but much the better when they goe both together But to our matter againe those which feare God and by chance happen into the company of a murtherer there haire will stare and their blood will rise that they will inwardly wish they were out of his company againe for many simple men do feare a murtherer euer after they haue once known him to commit a murther yet diuers honest men doe by chance happen into a murtherers company when they would bee glad to shift themselues from him againe or as were to spue him out of their presence in regard of his euill qualities which is quarrelling and taking exceptions vpon any little occasion If any man also doe seeme to contrary a murtherer or a litle crosse him in his swaggering he will forthwith breake out into these or such like vngodly speeches

and pay Paul accounting all fish which commeth to the net getting it by hooke or by crooke some out of Iudas bag and some out of the diuels budget for I haue seene a man of warre as hungry vpon a poore Fisherman as they would be on a Carioke as those that haue seene men of warre haue seene how vnconscionably Rufus the ruffian and his fellows haue dealt with those poor Fishermen whose whole estate for maintenance both for their wifes and children did relie vpon the gains which the poore men by great paines did get with their bote yet so hard-hearted haue these men of war beene vnto those poore Fishers that neither for the teares of the olde men which for griefe would beate their heads against the shippe side yet neither this nor the pittifull complaint of the yong men for all their yeelding and kneeling yet would they take away their fish their meat and drinke and their cloths from their backes their sailes from their yards yet not so contented but in the end set them ashore and either finke their boate or burne him aboord the man of warre to the vtter vndoing of many a poore man now iudge whether it be possible that these goods so gotten can prosper for they are gotten with no better a conscience then a strumpet getteth her money and therefore it will prosper no better for looke what a strumpet getteth of twenty shee spendeth it vpon one which shee doth loue and affect aboue all the rest euen so many souldiers and men of warre what spoyles they get they are not long in spending of it but as the Prouerbe goeth Light come and light goe ill got and wickedly spent for they put it into a bottomlesse bagge which neuer holdes thrist long Loe thus my opinion you haue heard and I yeeld vp my verdict thus That the goods which is gotten by the warres is ill gotten and hee which hath but one peny worth of ill gotten goods in his house God will send a curse vpon all the rest then let vs pray for peace rather then warres and euery man learne to labor with his hands to maintaine spending wherefore set thy wittes and thy hands to labour and turne ouer the leafe I meane learne a new lesson for looke what is gotten with labour will bee spent with discretion or else kept with warinesse and so I greete not onely Plimmouth alone but all Deuonshire and Cornewall with as many kinde commendations as it is possible for my Penne to expresse and all I protest with true loue from my heart and so I leaue you with a thousand Farewells to you all Your euer-louing friend IOSEPH SVVETNAM The Authors Conclusion NOw gentle Reader I doe intreate thee to beare with my rudenesse I am no Scholler for I do protest I neuer went to Schoole six moneths in all my life nor I neuer did write one line of this Booke by the direction of any other teacher nor did I euer aske the opinion of any other Professor since the time that I was first taught and that was when I was yong and then I had some of my skil in London and some in other places where it was my chance to trauell Againe I did write this Booke by peece-meale for after I first beganne I lest off writing a weeke and sometimes a moneth together before I writ againe and so forgetting oftentimes what I had written before Againe some chiefe notes I haue left out which I thought I had written of before wherefore they shall follow in my second Booke Now Gentle Reader for thy benefit I haue begunne if there be any other that find fault and cannot amend it let them iudge of their wit that heare them talke but if I shall heare those my selfe speake against this Booke which doe not goe about to amend it then if they were as good as George a Greene yet would I not be feared with deedes much lesse with words but will answer them not onely with words but with weapons for this Booke was printed in haste at the carnest request of some friends of mine Also I wrote it to profite those that can not come where Teachers are and againe there are few which teach this Arte that doe trauell the reason is as I thinke they are little set by when they come into the country amongst you Now it is not enough to haue this booke in thy pocket but to exercise thy body with all that thereby thou maist haue the perfect skill thereof in thy head and so praying thee to excuse me in the grosse penning of it and beare with me a little the rather in that I was neuer Scholler as I said before and as it plainely appeareth by the grosse penning of it but my folly herein shal be vpon my head yet I pray thee let it passe a little the rather and giue it your good word for because I haue taken paines in hope to doe thee good but not for any gaine I protest before God but onely because I know it so laudable an exercise and more commendable then any other wee see daily these bookes scoffed at which were made by learned and good Schollers for if there were one which excell ten thousand yet euery one will not speake well of him but he shall haue in spight of his teeth back-biters and fault-finders much more my selfe being the lest of ten thousand must not stabbe euery one which will speake in discommendations both of me and my Booke but if I may escape handwhich are vsually contemnors of such laudable exercises then I accompt that I haue made a good hand For herein I haue showen but my owne opinion and iudgement in setting out this booke now I doe not say it is other mens opinions for none but my selfe was counsell nor had any hand in this matter therefore I make no question that other men are of other mindes yet obseruing these rules and bearing these lessons in memory they may serue thy turne aswell as they haue serued mine all the daies of my life hetherto but yet beleeue what you list of it and leaue what you like not now if in my good intention and true meaning I bee vndeseruedly wronged I thinke it wil be by none but such pot-companions which cudgell there wits and beate their braines to shift for mony to that vse which often-times makes the sonne so hardy as to call his father knaue or worse Now if my booke doe come vnto the view of any such I will impute it vnto the Idlenesse of their braine or vnto the spitefulnesse of an enuious minde which will neuer commend nor allow any other mans man-hood opinion or iudgement to bee so good as their owne not much like vnto the proude Pharizee who said that his life in all respect was better then any other now mistake mee not for I doe not say so because you should thinke that this worke cannot bee mended for it is farre from my thought to thinke that this booke is so wel penned as to be without fault or to please all neither is it so wel as it might haue beene if my leisure would haue serued me to amend some faults which I know in it my selfe indeed I must confesse that there are many in this land of this noble and worthy art besides my selfe which might haue taken this matter in hand because many of them are more fit both for wisdome and learning but I see they haue not gone about it wherefore if any blame me for shewing my good will I hope those which haue knowen mee and seene my behauiour wil answere for me with reasonable speech against those which obiect against me no if reason will not rule them but like Balaams Asse will striue against weapons then I pray you referre the quarrell vnto my selfe and let me answere my owne wrong which I haue done them heerein for I had rather loose my life in defence of my reputation and credit if there were such a danger in fighting then my friend should loose one drop of bloud in my quarrell therefore while I am liuing wrong me not for hee which fighteth for another seeketh his owne destruction so praying you if I haue offended any let me answere it my selfe while I am liuing for when I am dead hee deales vnchristianlike that will abuse me and so I rest Thine euer to helpe thee hereafter in what I may Thy friend IOSEPH SVVETNAM

lay a plaster I meane reade it ouer before thou giue iudgement and then play the wise mans part which is to speake little although he thinke much indeed I must confesse a vanity in my selfe and that I haue deserued blame because so bluntly I haue set foorth such an vnperserued peece of worke but my reasons in the latter end of the book may a litle excuse me but in the mean while let it be neuer the worse welcome vntothee for that it hath my poore name vnto it I speake this because I know there are some will speake they care not what to disgrace they know not whom without rendring any reason at all out onely out of a dogged humor or an idle braine some finding fault with the gards and some because I haue written of things which belongeth not to the matter or ground of this worke and some because it is a booke of pictures accounting a book of pictures fit for children and fools to answer such I say when a child or a foole doth looke in a glasse he doth thinke there is a baby on the other side but when men of discretion looke in a glasse they do not think so therefore as by the Heathen we may learne many good lessons euen so a man of vnderstanding may learne wisedome and gaine experience of a foole I wrote not this altogether to pleasure those that are skilfull already for this booke can steed them but little for the whole and sound need not a Physition but the ignorant and vnskilfull may profit by this booke as much if with discretion they take regard in their practise according to my direction as if my selfe were in person to teach them but both the skilfull and vnskilfull the wise and the foolish may here learne one lesson or other which they neuer learned before yet I know not how euery one will take this my presumption in aduenturing to set out a booke hauing no learning yet I pray you reade it ouer first and then iudge but yet be slow in condemning mee for I haue done my good will now he which can make a simple thing better he ought so to handle the matter that although he get credit himselfe yet condemne not me for shewing the best I could therefore so iudge of mee behind my backe as you would haue others iudge of you but if you iudge well and like well of it then shall you haue the second part with six weapons more but I will first see what will become of this first part let it commend or condemne it selfe for great braggers cannot better it nor dissembling specches impaire it neither will I maintaine for well done all that I haue done but if you accept it then I haue all my desire if otherwise good will shall beare the blame for my presumption but why doe I make a dought of any euill speeches which deserus no blame againe this I know that there is none which standeth in so much need of good words as those which goe about to couer dishonest deeds wherefore I may say as that great Captaine Marius who hauing occasion to vse a speech before the people of Rome in his conclusion hee said although my words are not well set in order I waigh not so much so that my deeds be good I haue made this of bricke and stones as Augustus said of Rome at the first but now Rome is built with marble euen so I wold wish that some expert and learned person or other would pull downe this rude begun worke of mine and build it vp with marble for the worke it selfe if it were workmanlike handled deserueth to be written in leters of gold and to remain for euer but first it must be twice or thrice distilled as they doe their Rosasolis for first it is Aquavitae then in the second and third distillation there is bestowed greater charge and more excellent matter ariseth of it I haue but roued at skill in weapons yet I am sure that I haue shot so neere the marke that some will account me for a good Archer otherwise they would neuer haue beene so important with me to haue me put my directions in writing and when it was in writing so many desired Copies that amongst so many friends I knew not which to pleasure first but especially and aboue all the late high and mighty Prince Henry whom I well hoped that he should haue liued to haue beene the ninth Henry and the tenth worthy of the world for what did any of the other nine worthies doe but this good Prince was as likely if he had liued to haue performed as much as any of them for what hath beene done but may be done againe But as I was about to say this good Prince had the perusing of this book and earnestly perswaded me to print it but I had not leisure to finish it before death vntimely tooke him away to my griefe and many more for all the whole kingdome was nothing but mourning Death were kind if he tooke none but those which offended but oh most vnkind death for thou in taking away that good yong Prince hast taken away him which neuer offended for there was neuer the like seene in one so yong for his wisedome learning and kind curtesie to all which came to see his Princely selfe talking so mildly and familiarly to euery one which did so reioyce and glad the hearts of all true and louing subiects and also caused him in his fame to be spoken of for Kings and Princes are talked of at poore mens tables and good words he deserued as euer any earthly creature did For besides his skill in Musicke hee was able by his learning to discourse with any forraine Prince whatsoeuer also his admirable and well riding of a great horse and his excellent running at tilt or ring likewise his cunning in weapons for the fight on horsebacke or on foote and for tossing the pike neuer so many feates seene in any Prince insomuch that it made strangers stand amazed to behold him at a word hee had experience in all artes or sciences thereby seeming as it were desirous to trust more to his owne valour if occasion serued then to the goodnesse of his horse And so to make an end least of the ignorant I get the name of a claw-blacke and also another doubt I haue least vndertaking so difficult a taske and being not able to discharge it according vnto the dignity and worthinesse thereof the which I cannot doe and therefore I will not wade so far in so dangerous a riuer but that I may easily escape out wherefore like the finger of a diall I will point it must be the clocke which telleth you the iust time of the day I haue drawne his Highnesse in bare colours and so I leaue the oily colours vnto those which are learned you may see by a tast what wine is in the butte and so to our matter againe Now he which will