Combinations
As soon as a knowledge of the parries and facility in performing the moulinets has been acquired, the following, combinations should be carefully practiced they will be found useful as a form of set play in stage combats or assaults of arms, and, indeed, the weapons are so dangerously heavy that on such occasions set is more to be recommended than loose play. commences, advancing pass by who retires pass by pass, and pass, and making the six cuts at forming the six parries. Cut 1. Parry Quarte,...
Chapter III RAPIER AND DAGGER
THE Fence of the Rapier and Dagger takes, with regard to other arms of the period, a place similar to that occupied at the present time by that of the foil, being the most complete development of the various systems in which an auxiliary weapon was carried in the left hand and undoubtedly a man fairly well skilled in it can master, with but little difficulty, the somewhat earlier exercises of Sword and Buckler, Sword or dagger and Cloak, and even the more puzzling Case of Rapiers, in which a...