The young folk's cyclopædia of games and sports ; (1899)
Champlin, John Denison, 1834-1915, Bostwick, Arthur Elmore, 1860-1942, joint author · New York, H. Holt and company · leaf 328
from that describedabove. In the old Italian school offencing there were eight kinds ofparries, called priino, secondo, tirzo,etc. (first, second, third, etc.), andfrom these the French terms nowused are derived. The early Italiansand Spanish aided the managementof the sword with the dagger… … Fig. 13.—Fencing about 1600. brance rather than an aid. Therapier became a favorite sword forduels, since it was the fairest to bothsides, as it depended least on merebrute force. Before its introduc-tion into England in Elizabethsreign, duels were fought without re-gard to equality of arms, and…
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