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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.
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G. A., fl. 1639.
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1639
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man in mortall feu'd combine To date her Trophies in a rubrick line Drawn with a Penne of Steele by which device Their slaughter'd bodies fall her sacrifice T is so such is their madnessâ— that for lone Of peoples breath they 'le prostitute their owne Vertue unarm'd suffers by such whilst might Incroacheth on the priviledge of right But Sonne of Mars to rescue innocence From injuries hast publisht this defence And teachest how with skill to countermaund The deadly outrage of a stronger hand Thy Booke although the volume be but small Is great enough t' undoe Chirurgions Hall Charon may yawne and stretch expecting fares As watermen doe at the Temple staires i th' long vacation ere they earne a groate Yet want a naulum to repaire his boate SAM BRIGGES Master of Arts and Fellow of Kings Col. in Cambridge To the deserving Author THe joyntlesse Fencers glory who rehearse Must let his fancy blood and bleed a verse In sheetes of Stâ—ele must entertaine the Nine And write with Quills shot from th' brisl'd Porcupine Spirit of Arts Lovely Misterious strife Deaths true Commedie acted to the life Motions pleasing-horrid here the same sight Daunts the valiant which makes the coward fight You that let fall your Babell thoughts at least When tumults omen what your feares suggest Your valour hence unsheath againe draw breath By Art and live in th' very act of death The left hand man that falsefies his Play Ne're yet oppugned now makes himselfe away Thy Art exact thus kills without offence And murther qualifies to innocence When judgement umpires 'twixt the hands and eye The first stroake types a perfect victory Grand Master of the great Art Masculine Lawrell thine owne Temples for th' Field is thine Triumph in th' Booke of Fate this wounding Balme Whilst thee in th' Cirque we Coronet with Palme Io. Gâ—DOLPHIN Bach. of the Civill Law of Glouc. Hall Oxford THou who as yet thy Steele dost feare Which at thy back doth hang and ne're Did'st draw thy blade but for to show 't Or tell the price for which 't was bought See here the Art to use it such That Naples scarce can teach so much Behold thy foe in paper bleede And cut that pittie 't is to reade Here thou mayst learne to laugh at those At Callis who to blinde their foes The Sand into their faces throw And then attempt a desperate blow Her 's nobler shifts to foyle his hand To drink his blood let lie the sand Now thou art taught by finer art To cut life's Gordian thread a part Pallas invites thee here to looke Read and thy life 's sav'd by thy booke ANTHONY ASKHAM Fellow of Kings Colledge in Cambridge To his worthy valourous and ingenious friend the Author NOt for thy love or kindnesse showne to me Doe I commend this Booke or yet praise thee For though I know thou art a friend of mine I praise this for its owne sake not for thine Thou herein to the Reader dost impart In a plaine way that famous Martiall art Of fencing which by charge and toylesome paine Thou hast attain'd and striv'st to make us gaine By thy great labour and hereby dost prove That th' art not onely full of skill but love Of th' common good for which thy name shall be Both lov'd of us and our posteritie IO. SOTHEBY Of Grayes-Inne To his Friend LOng peace some say breeds Warre a Fate Contemptible in its selfe for us to hate Yet when necessity to the Sword gives Law T were more then dastardy not to draw With braver spirits that them attempt to doe Her 's honored skill and skill for honour too Loe her 's a Mr. not for Boyes but Men Who terminates all weapons with his Pen His postures such that addes to our life Fame Life overpast a Trophee to our Name For if we honour give to Law alone That keepes us in our owne possession What dignities sufficient or what degree Can recompence that Art which keepes us free From forreine and demestique foes from wrongs In duels combats multitudes and throngs And in the Amphitheater to strive With savage Lions who shall survive Hadst thou beene there thy nimble skill and Art Would soone have wonne dire Neroes heart Who would have thought Romes treasury to be A small reward and recompence for thee Besides 't will adde unto thy worth by Sword Caesar himselfe through Flintie mountaines bord Much more our stony hearts thy Art and skill Pierces and workes in us both power and will Yet men will carpe envie at vertue aimes The fairest face may be Sunburnt with staines And know Mechanicks that doe not understand Some Pety-Marchants growne behind hand Will secretly contemne abroad their feare Will reconcile them lâ—st thou shouldst heare And question words with blowes Heroick blood Termes this the sinewes of the publicke good But I doe wrong thee much in this low praise Nay I should wrong thee if I gave thee Bayes Alone since thy victorious hand and tongue Deserves the noble Palme the Muses song Tamberlayne Bowdler Nuper ex Aed Christ Oxon. nunc de Gray Hospitis To his Friend the Author MArs and Minerva in a Nuptiall band By a sacred Flamen here conjoyned stand At this great marriage after the English rite I offer here mine English worthlesse mite A. SMALLVVOOD Master of Arts sometimes of S. Peters Colledge in Cambridge GReat Master of the Sword and Pen â— poore we Hang onely Trophies t' your humilitie We but increase your traine not gild your Bayes Nor adde to th' shout of victory your praise Would weare a Caesars stile out one that writes With the same Art and Courage that he fights Mankind's your deâ—ter Sir and should each one Y'have sav'd a Garland bring our Okes were gone Duells may now be lawfull for to fight Will be but Exercise or Play in spight Each man 's impassable more safe from harme Than if he wore a Lapland Witches charme And though our Lawes forbid it yet y'have tooke A course to save the Dueller by 's booke Pallas now scornes her Gorgon and i th' Field Shee le make your Booke her Study and her Shield WILLIAM CREED Oxon. To the Reader HArke Reader would'st be learn'd i th' Wâ—rres A Captaine in a Gowne â—trike a league with Bookes and Scarres And weare of both the Crowne â—ouldst be a Wonder such a one As could winne with a Looke A Schollar in a Garrison And conquer by the Booke â—ake then this Mathematick Shield And henceforth by its Rules â—e able to dispute i th Field And combate in the Schooles â—hil'st peacefull Learnin g once agen And th' Souldier do concorde As that he fights now with her Penne And shee writes with his Sword RICH. LOVâ—LACâ— A. Glouces Oxen. HEre troopes of Figures muster here along March long-shank'd lines angles in a throng The Sword 's the Leader and a sharpe one too That never brookes to word it if he doe But turne they turne streight with him Figures the Dissigure Angles vary
in judicando aequitatem ambio Omnibus placere si fas esset haud facile nulli probrosuÌ„ Imperitis haec non peritis scribo amplecteâ—â— itaque imperite connive perite si me in ipsâ herbâ oppresserisâ— nil ausurus sum adultus si non elogijâ— digna vituperiis ne onerato cogitansâ— magni excelsi animi signum esse laudibus indigna proculcata laudiâ—bus ornare erigere studuisse Valeâ— To the Gentle Reader MOst Courteous and Ingenious Reader it was not the insatiable desire of a shade like fame which soone vanisheth nor the unquenchable thirst of an emptie glory that did allure me to write this treatise but the good will I bore thee and thine endeavours We ought to doe well not because we would be frequently talked and spoken of by every man but that wee may edifie and give content to our owne mindes for as men are inconstant so their actions and humours likewise are variable and he that heapes up prayses upon thee to day may blame thee to morrow And although our name doth not die presently with us if we having done well in our life time be praise worthy yet it cannot last for ever but must once perish with the world and thus we die twice The subject is praise worthy enough but as for the Penman I le leave that to thy descreet censure Good language I want yet if I did not want it thou wouldst want the understanding of the booke The Art of Defence may bee justly termed next to the liberall the chiefe the most necessary as well in time of peace as in time of warre at home and abroad the most part of other exercises of the body being but for pleasure onely or the health of the body this for pleaâ—sure for health of body and soule too for if thou bee knowne to be expâ—rt herein and to guide thy weapon by judgement thou dost scarsely give any occasion of falling out that thou mayst not be accounted a vaine man and because thou knowest what danger there is in onely standing upon thine owne defence when the unskilfull having onely courage will quarrell upon any occasion because the danger he may fall into is unknowne to him besides no body will easily offend thee so that skill maketh thee to be respected and feared and to feare no man if thou be engaged in any necessary quarrell And againe if it bee thy chance to light into a company where perhaps in thy presence some may fall out then the reputation thou art in for thy skill may be the cause of their agreement if thou thy selfe dost stirre in mediating betweene them and thus thou mayst deliver their bodies and soules from danger in hindring the shedding of blood I cannot but marvaile extreamely considering the necessitie why this art should be so much neglected without the want of good and skilfull teachers be the cause For with what confidence can we weare our weapons with what safetie if we cannot use them There is a great difference betweene the wearing and the handling of Armes to weare a Rapier or Sword is onely fashionable to use it necessary If a man bee assaulted and hath no skill to trust to he will be daunted and loose his courage and although hee doth not loose his spirit but with a resolute minde will strive to gaine the conquest his fortitude becomes temeritie and his owne valour will be his raine because it is not ruled by reason And if thou hast never so good skill doe not offend any one nor contemning undervalue thine adversaries skill although he hath none at all for contempt engendreth carelesnesse and carelesnesse destruction ever that thou shunnest thou escapest therefore rather perswade thy selfe that thine adversary hath more skill then thou and fight warily as if thou wert to combat with thy better man and thou shalt bee free from many perills that else would befall thee It is not my profession indeed to practise this science or to get my liliving the same but my ambition to unfold that to thee for Grande mercy which hath cost me both thankes and silver I was encouraged by many of my friends to commit this treatise to the Presse and easily induced to put it in action seeing the want of such a subâ—ect yet I had scarsely ventured to put my selfe into the world had it not pleased my noble friends to divide themselves and surround me with the fiery walls of their tender love I present unto thy view a booke small in quantity but great if thou peruse it throughly grounded upon reason and experience methodically composed and which I will not blush to speake in such termes that there cannot be made any blow or thrust â—t thee but thou mayst finde remedy for there There have indeede beene some few and those of great skill and experience that have written some discourses of this subject very obscurely because being that it waâ— their living and profession they thought it not expedient to make that common by which they were maintained I have fitted my selfe to thetimes in speaking onely of single Rapier and single Sword being that the Dagger Gauntlet Buckler are not in use and because that the Rapier anâ— the Sword are the grounds of the lesse noble weapons The Rapier of the Quarter staffe of the longe Pike of the Halâ—bard the Sword of the two handeâ— Sword and of the Falchion so that 〈◊〉 man who can play at single Rapier anâ— Back Sword well and judiciously maâ— with great ease learne to handle the reâ—â— of the weapons There be some that wiâ—â—hold that a man having a long armâ— and consequently a long reach hath 〈◊〉 great advantage of a short man thâ—â— hath neither so long a reach nor so lonâ— a Rapâ—er as he but if I should maâ—â— bold to mantaine the contrary againâ—â— those I should perchanse be held to dâ—â—liver a Paradox which indeede is 〈◊〉 Paradox but to the unskilfull In bacâ— Sword-play a long weapon may bee aâ—â—vantagious in Rapier-play it is not if he that hath the shorter weapon doth but alwayes thrust close to his adversaries weapon But if two play together that are both unskilfull then hee that hath the longer Rapier doubtles hath advantage because they thrust fâ—rre off from one anothers Rapiers Entertaine therefore gentle Reader these first fruits of mine endeavours with as good and noble a minde as I wrote it with a dâ—sire to benefit thee and to advance thy skill which if thou dost thou shalt oblige me further and give me great encouragement to enlarge it with Emblemes and the art of Caminering a thing very usefull namely how to assault an enemy farre off with a Rapier Farewell and peruse this with health and joy In laudem operis Authoris IS death of late growne feeble and her Dart So blunt that shee must learne to kill by Art Or are her Ministers Chance Sicknesse Age Too few in number to fulfill her rage That man and