FOOTNOTES:
The Iron at the End of the Blade that runs into the Handle.
I am not of Opinion that the Body should be drawn back, except it be impossible to avoid the Thrust without doing it; all Parades being best when the body is not disorder'd.
See the 8th. Plate.
See the 12th Plate.
As in this Paragraph, Monsieur L'Abbat rather introduces an Encomium on his Country-men, than any thing essential to the Art of Fencing. I leave the Reader to his own Opinion thereon.