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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11537	Vincentio Sauiolo his practise In two bookes. The first intreating of the vse of the rapier and dagger. The second, of honor and honorable quarrels.	Saviolo, Vincentio.; Muzio, Girolamo, 1496-1576. Duello. English.	1595 (1595)	STC 21788; ESTC S116779	158,351	306

VINCENTIO SAVIOLO his Practise Jn two Bookes The first intreating of the vse of the Rapier and Dagger The second of Honor and honorable Quarrels LONDON Printed by IOHN WOLFE 1595. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE MY singular good Lord Robert Earle of Essex and Ewe Viscount Hereford Lord Ferrers of Chartley Bourghchier and Louain Master of the Queenes Maiesties horse Knight of the most noble order of the Garter and one of her Highnesse most honorable Priuie Councell HAuing of late right Honorable compiled this simple Discourse of managing wepons and dealing in honorable Quarrels which I esteeme an Introduction to Martiall affayres I haue thought good to dedicate the same vnto your Honor as vnto him whose bountie most bindeth me whose valour inforceth all soldiers to acknowledge you the English Achilles whose fauouring good literature celebrateth your name for the students Mecenas whose benigne potection and prouision for strangers maketh you reported off as theyr safe sanctuary This work I must needs confesse is farre vnworthie your Lordships view in regard eyther of method or substance and being much vnperfecter than it shoulde haue beene if I had had copie of English to haue expressed my meaning as I would But I humbly beseech your good Lordship to accept this Booke howsoeuer it be as a new yeeres gifte proceeding from a minde most dutifully affected towards you that wisheth and prayeth that your Honour may inioy many good and prosperous yeres and is presented by him that is and will be readie euerie yere daie and houre to liue and die at your Lordships foot to do you seruice Your Honors in all dutifulnes Vincentio Sauiolo TO THE READER THE meanes whereby men from time to time haue bene preferred euen to the highest degrees of greatnes and dignitie haue euer bene and are of two sortes Armes and Letters weapons bookes as may most plainly bee proued out of antique and moderne histories Let it not seeme strange vnto anie man that I haue placed Armes before Letters for in truth I haue found by obseruing the course of times and by comparing the occurrents of former ages with those which haue fallen out and followed as it were by succession in later yeeres that the first Princes and patrones of people did obtaine their titles and dominions by force of Armes and that afterwards learning vertue did as it were by degrees grow and succeede for the making and establishing of good orders customes and lawes amongest them And then did common-wealths begin first to flourish when their Princes were like Minerua whom the Poets fained to bee the goddesse not onely of studies but also of Armes inspiring wit into schollers and fauoring those that follow warres Wherefore knowing that such men as endeuour themselues to attaine vnto the excellencie of anie art or science are worthie both of praise and preferment because they seeke for that onely true nobilitie which is in deede much more to be accounted of than birth and parentage I haue beene induced for the satisfaction of such and other like noble spirites desirous to imploie either their studies in the profession or their liues in the practise of the arte militarie to bestowe my paines in the writing of this Treatise concerning the Art exercise and manneging of the Rapier and Dagger together with the ordering and mouing of the bodie in those actions A thing I confesse in shewe the least peece and practise as a man might saie of the arte Militarie but in verie deed to most important excellent and noble practise thereof For when I consider with myselfe how some Authors doo write that hunting hauking wrastling c. are things in some sort belonging vnto Militarie profession for that men thereby doo both make their bodies strong and actiue and also learne to marke the scituation of hils woods lakes and vallies together with the crooked and turning courses of riuers It seemeth vnto mee that I may with farre greater reason saie that the Arte and exercise of the Rapier and Dagger is much more rare and excellent than anie other Militarie exercise of the bodie because there is very great and necessarie vse thereof not onely in generall warres but also in particular combats many other accidents where a man hauing the perfect knowledge and practise of this arte although but small of stature and weake of strength may with a little remouing of his foot a sodain turning of his hand a slight declining of his bodie subdue and ouercome the fierce brauing pride of tall and strong bodies Moreuer it doth many times come to passe that discords and quarrels arise amongest souldiers and Gentlemen of honor account the which when they cannot be accorded compounded by lawe learning and perswasion must bee determined and the truth thereof tried by armes and combat And therefore he that is wise carefull of his safetie and prouident against danger will be at all times stored and furnished with this honorable vrgent necessity and instant shortnes of time he shal be constrained to expose himselfe vnto euident danger Wherefore vpon these occasions and also for that I haue bin thereunto requested by sundrie Gentlemen my good friendes I haue endeuoured to expresse in this discourse and to make plain by pictures all the skill and knowledge which I haue in this art Exhorting all men of good mindes and noble spirites to learne and purchase the same not to the end to abuse it in insolencies and iniuries but to vse it in cases of necessitie for the defence of iust causes and to the maintenance of the honour of themselues and others For whosoeur will followe this profession must flie from rashnes pride and iniurie and not fall into that foule falt and error which many men incurre who feeling themselues to be strong of bodie and expert in this science presuming thereupon thinke that the may lawfully offer outrage and iniury vnto anie man and with crosse and grosse tearmes and behauiour prouoke euerie man to fight as though they were the onely heirs of Mars more inuincible than Achilles not remembring how it hath oftentimes happened that a little wretched man of stature by skill and reason hath ouercome a vast mightie man of person and ouerthrowen the vnweldie masse and burthen of his bodie vpon the face of his kind liberall mother the earth This manner of proceeding and behauiour doth plainely shew that these men although peraduenture they haue learned the vse of the weapon haue not yet beene fufficiently instructed in the Arte of Armes For by the rule and precept of this Art men are taught by how much they are resolute in courage and skilful of the vse of the same weapon by so much the more to shew themselues virtuous humble and modest both in speech action and not to be liers vanters or quarrellers for those which in this sort demeane themselues notwithstanding their skill or courage do commonly carry away wounds and dishonor and sometimes death I haue seene and