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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	body_n	life_n	part_n	5,356	5	4.4664	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44424	The sword-man's vade-mecum: or, A preservative against the surprize of a sudden attack with sharps Being a reduction of the most essential, necessary and practical part of fencing, into a few special rules, with their reasons, which all sword-men should have in their memories when they are to engage, but more especially if it be with sharps. As also, some other remarks and observations not unfit to be known by fencing masters and others. By Sir William Hope, kt. Author of the Compleat fencing-master.	Hope, William, Sir.	1694 (1694)	Wing H2717; ESTC R215341	50,000	112

upon your Thrust but to recover your Body instantly to your Defensive Posture after the giving in of every Thrust although your Thrusts should not be designed home but even half Thrust the custom of resting upon ones Thrust is so Dangerous and hath such bad Consequences that I am perswaded he can never be a good Sword man nor play securely who is guilty of it which I think is a sufficient enough Reason to make any Man of Judgement guard against it Now thir three viz. Binding The Vse of the left Hand and the quick recovering of the Body after every Thrust are so Linked together that they may become a certain Defence against Contre-temps and Thrusts from the Respost that any one of them without the other two would not infallibly prove effectual but the three being wrought and joyned together do make so strong a Barricade and such a secure and ●nfallible Defence that no Contre-temps in the World nor any Thrusts from the Resposts can make a breach upon it or render it Ineffectual And to make this the more clear consider that although by Binding you may force your Adversaries Sword out of the way yet if he be an Artist and have a quick Hand he may before your Thrust be home bring his Sword into the right Line again and give you a Thrust as soon almost as you can give yours although you was the first Mover now the only way to prevent this is to strengthen this defence of Binding making it more secure by joyning the second thing ordered to it which was the help of the left Hand notwithstanding of which your Defence is yet uncertain imperfect for although by using your left Hand you may turn off the Thrust he was giving home at you yet if you rest upon your thrust he may alter and change the giving in of his thrust and so cheat and deceive your left hand Therefore to let your defence have all the certainty imaginable you must yet farther strengthen it and make it as it were impregnable by joyning to the use of the left Hand a quick Recovery of the Body which Three make the Defence upon your Pursute mo● Certain and Infallible if the Fault be not you● own or that you have not acquired Art enough to put them exactly in Practice And as for my Advice to Bind generally upon the outside of the Sword what I said in my Reasons to the preceeding Rule concerning the making use of the Contre-caveating Parrade generally upon the Outside may be also said here of Binding generally upon the Outside and therefore I refer you to what I said there not doubting but that I have fully convinced you that according to my Rule there is no True and Secure Play with Sharps and for a Mans Life but by Binding or Lessons proceeding from it the use of the left Hand and a quick Recovery of the Body perfecting with the Binding your Defence upon all your Pursutes But if you design not your Adversaries Life but only to disable him Then RULE V. With Calmness Vigour and Judgement Thrust at his Sword-hand Wrest or Arm 〈◊〉 at his nearest advanced Thigh c. The Reasons upon which this Rule is Grounded are Because I find the more home a Man playeth his Thrusts the more he exposeth himself and is lyable to Thrusts from the Resposts and albeit a Man in playing for Life and Death is necessitat sometimes to play home part of his Thrusts fully to the Body yet when he doth not design the Life of his Adversary there is not that necessity for giving them so fully home and so he needeth not so expose himself Now if he intends not to expose himself and yet designs to disable his Adversary What better Method can there be then for him to Thrust at those parts of his Adversaries Body which lie nearest to him and which he can reach without almost any kind of Hazard or stretch of his Body such as are the Arm Wrest Sword-hand and Thighs and which if hit do as soon disable a Man as any wounded Member of the Body by reason of the many Veins Arteries Muscles Sinews which are contained in them This is also an excellent Rule to be observed by Little and Short Men against those who are Tall and Vigorous and whose great Design is alwayes to Contre-temps when a Man playeth fully home any Thrust to their Body by reason of the Advantage they have of their long Reach or Elonge It is also excellent to play much from the Respost upon such kind of Persons But I think I need say no more for proving of this the Rule it self being so clear that it needeth no Commentary RULE VI. If your Adversary be Hasty Passionate and Pursue Furiously and Irregularly then with Calmness Vigour and Judgement c. The Reasons upon which this Rule is Grounded are Because it is found by Experience that nothing encourages a Man more who is of a Foreward Humour to continue his violent Pursute than the yeilding altogether to him and not offering any wayes to resist him so that by Crossing Stopping and Opposing his Fury I mean that a Man should alwayes so soon as ever he hath presented his Sword counterfeit a Real or make a true half Pursute which are alone and which half Pursute will be found extremely necessary in putting a stop to the Violence and Fury of his Adversary For if you observe it you will find for the most part that all Foreward Humors if given Liberty to do Extravague extremely and become most Insolent Impertinent and Unsupportable but if they be in the least checked it stopeth their Carrier and maketh them truely discover their Natural Constitution which is just upon the other Extreme of suffering all Reproaches and being Hectored and Baffled at all Hands But as in most part of things there is some Exceptions so is there in this also because there may be some Men of a great deal of Natural Courage who being sensible of their own weakness and ignorance in the Art of the Sword do find it absolutely necessary when it is their misfortune to be engaged to supply that want by brisking it out and confounding their Adversary if possible by their forwardness although he be a very good Sword-man but if he be such neither their Briskness nor Forwardness will do the business and as I said their Natural Force and Courage furnish them wherewithall to push it to the very outmost but there are few People of this slamp to be found and where an Artist meets with one of those he will meet with twenty who are such as I before described But engage with whom you please either with Ignorants of the first and second constitution and humour or with Artists of either a constant and vigorous half pursute for you can turn it into a true one when you please is the only method to make your Art effectual and their irregular passion and ignorant courage to turn into