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− | one, I will name indifferently, by the name of the Holberd, I say, to him that would vse them, & strike aswell with the point, as with the edge, which blowes at these weapons are mightie and forcible, it is necessarie, that he consider the difficultie in striking with the point, and the daunger in striking with the edge. That it is difficult to strike with the point, it is most cleere, because the full course of the point, may verie easilie be hindered and tyed, by meanes of so many hookes and forkes which are in the Holberd. | + | <section begin="1"/>one, I will name indifferently, by the name of the Holberd, I say, to him that would vse them, & strike aswell with the point, as with the edge, which blowes at these weapons are mightie and forcible, it is necessarie, that he consider the difficultie in striking with the point, and the daunger in striking with the edge. That it is difficult to strike with the point, it is most cleere, because the full course of the point, may verie easilie be hindered and tyed, by meanes of so many hookes and forkes which are in the Holberd.<section end="1"/> |
− | And that it is perilous to strike with the edge, hath bin declared when I intreated of the single Rapier, | + | <section begin="2"/>And that it is perilous to strike with the edge, hath bin declared when I intreated of the single Rapier,<section end="2"/> |
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one, I will name indifferently, by the name of the Holberd, I say, to him that would vse them, & strike aswell with the point, as with the edge, which blowes at these weapons are mightie and forcible, it is necessarie, that he consider the difficultie in striking with the point, and the daunger in striking with the edge. That it is difficult to strike with the point, it is most cleere, because the full course of the point, may verie easilie be hindered and tyed, by meanes of so many hookes and forkes which are in the Holberd.
And that it is perilous to strike with the edge, hath bin declared when I intreated of the single Rapier,