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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

agreed of both partes that he of Geneua to whom the boxe on the eare was giuen by Luketo should in presence of the Generall and other Captains of the armie strike Lucheto on the shoulder and say I am satisfied wee will be freends But the Souldier of Geneua being of a stout stomacke when hee came to doe as it was concluded tooke Luketo a sound blow on the eare which Luketo taking for a great iniurie beeing in that presence and against the order set downe drew his sworde presently and ranne him through and so slew him out of hand iustly rewarding him for his insolencie sure I thinke it was the iust iudgement of God who vseth to shewe his iustice vpon them that are so insolent and full of contumacie and enuious malice that not regarding neither what they passe their wordes for priuatelye among themselues nor the intercession of noble Gentlemen and worthye personages that seeke their safetie and welfare care for nothing but the fulfilling of their headdynes and reuenging appetite My opinion concerning these reconciliations is that it were not good in the making of them to allow any signe of reuenge to passe betwixt the parties that are to be reconciled so that if satisfaction in the treating of any peace betwixt two fallen out can be made by words me things were not amisse that euen all tokens or signes of reuenge were auoyded Satisfaction vnto one that was trecherouslye hurt I Made mention aboue vpon occasion of two Captaines called Montarno and Faro the beginning of their quarrell you heard before the end was such Montarno being vngently and cowardlye hurt accused Faro as hauing dealt with him not like a man which Faro denying the deede the matter could not be taken vp betweene them howbeit many gentlemen trauailed in it but they appointed to meete one the other hauing each of them a God father as they call him appointed him wherupon the gentleman that was to go with Faro being wise and circumspect and a very honest man besides saide vnto him when hee was going to encounter Montarno looke what you doe for you goe to a place where God ouerthroweth the strongest and giueth the victorye to the weakest if he fight iustly and therefore if you haue offended Montarno make him satisfaction whereunto Faro answered why what satisfaction wil Montarno haue wherupon it was agreed that Faro should confesse that hee esteemed of Montarno as of a braue gentleman and honourable Souldier and that whilest he did vnbutten his doublet he meant not to offer him iniurie howsoeuer if fell out and therefore would gladlye haue him to bee his freend and so the peace was made vp betweene them But I thinke it a folly for men to trust their enemies hauing their wepons ready in their hands to iniurie or wrong them A peace made betwixt two noblemen by the Archduke Charles Sonne to the Emperour Maximilian THere were two Noblemen of account vnder Archduke Charles Prince of Stiria Carinthia some places in Croatia and of Friuli who were both of the confines of Friuli one of them being called the Earle Rimondo of Torre with whome I haue serued in warres when he was Coronell of certaine companies of the Emperours in Croatia against the Turkes at which time the Christians had as famous a victorie as likely hath beene heard of by the industrie and valorous vertue of generall Pernome and the Lord Firinbergher But to return to our purpose the other noble man was called Lord Mathew Ouuer they being both in mortal enmitie one incensed against the other were cause of much bludshed and the death of manye fine Gentlemen and Knights which the Archduke Charles their Prince perceiuing to be a thing lamentable caused both the noble men to be called to the Court placing them into sundrie lodgings about himselfe desirous of his subiects welfare separately to eache and first to Rimondo disswading him from his hostile minde and hatred towardes the Lord Mathew and finding him verie obstinate and altogether resisting all peace and agreement considering hee could not be reconciled with honor and would rather die than make a peace ignominious vnto him Whereupon the Archduke replyed that if hee were resolued rather to die than to yeeld to his intreatie hee should bee resolued and looke to himselfe for he should die in deed and with all called for an officer criminall to execute him presently Which soone moued the Lord Mathew to alter his resolution and to promise the prince to bee friends with the Earle Rimondo to whom he went also and forced him in like manner to vowe friendship to the Lorde Mathew The prince then hauing brought them both to consent to his purpose and demand made them meete in his presence where the Lord Mathew who had two verie excellent proper gentlewomen to his daughters being the eldest spake first and said Countie Rimondo I am at peace with you and accept you for my friend and sonne and do giue one of my daughters in mariage vnto you with a hundred thousand crownes who accepted of the conditions and so the peace was concluded to theyr great contentation the princes great pleasure and the ioy of all his subiects without anie more bloudshed or mortalitie A dangerous Satisfaction between two Gentlemen one called the Bianchi and the other Neri whereof issued great harmes I Reade in the historie of Florence of two Gentlemen in the Citie of Pistoia who were in verie straight league of amitie together and hauing two sonnes it happened as the two youthes kept companie together that once playing at cardes they fell to wordes and from wordes to blowes in the ende and one returned home to his father hurt His father that was not hurt vnderstanding the whole matter was verie sorrie that his friends sonne was hurt by his sonne rebuked him bitterly and commanded him expresly vpon his blessing to go to his friende the youthes father whome he had hurt and to aske forgiuenesse of him for hurting his sonne Now he seeing the youth and his sonne and not remēbring or considering the great amitie and friendship that was betwixt himself and the youthes father caused his men to cutte off his right hande and so sent him backe againe home to his Father saying that deeds could not be recompenced with wordes Which act and vnciuill parte caused greate ruine and slaughter in Tuscane They therefore that purpose to bee reconciled and make peace or goe about to reconcile others and bring them in league must take heed what they doe and neuer trust to the discretion of him that is offended but see the conditions and points agreed vpon first and if any one doe not keepe his promise and do contrary to his faith word passed they themselues that are the mediators and dealers in the making of the peace as louers of honor and iustice to be reuenged of him seeing such villanie and insolencie worthily punished for such men are commonlye for the most parte cause of