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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16110	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.	G. A., fl. 1639.	1639 (1639)	STC 3; ESTC S100085	38,880	127

in judicando aequitatem ambio Omnibus placere si fas esset haud facile nulli probrosū Imperitis haec non peritis scribo amplecte●● itaque imperite connive perite si me in ipsâ herbâ oppresseris● nil ausurus sum adultus si non elogij● digna vituperiis ne onerato cogitans● magni excelsi animi signum esse laudibus indigna proculcata laudi●bus ornare erigere studuisse Vale● 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 plea●sure for health of body and soule too for if thou bee knowne to be exp●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 sub●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 ●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 wa● 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 an● the Sword are the grounds of the lesse noble weapons The Rapier of the Quarter staffe of the longe Pike of the Hal●bard the Sword of the two hande● Sword and of the Falchion so that 〈◊〉 man who can play at single Rapier an● Back Sword well and judiciously ma● with great ease learne to handle the re●● of the weapons There be some that wi●●hold that a man having a long arm● and consequently a long reach hath 〈◊〉 great advantage of a short man th●● hath neither so long a reach nor so lon● a Rap●er as he but if I should ma●● bold to mantaine the contrary again●● those I should perchanse be held to d●●liver a Paradox which indeede is 〈◊〉 Paradox but to the unskilfull In bac● Sword-play a long weapon may bee a●●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 f●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 d●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