FOOTNOTES:

[1] Lafaugère, Traité sur les Armes.

[2] Académie de l’Espée, by Gerard Thibault, Antwerp, 1628.

[3]

Dares the nimbler-footed, in manhood’s confident ease;
Huge Entellus of limb and of weight,—but his tardier knees
Totter, and troubled breath convulses his towering frame.

Virgil, Aeneid V. Bowen.

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