A reprise is a sudden repetition of the attack, after a phrase in which
no hit has been got and both have returned to the guard. It must be done
with great quickness, so as to catch your adversary a little unprepared.
[Illustration: PLATE XIX.—TIME THRUST WITH OPPOSITION.]
PLATE XIX.
TIME THRUST WITH OPPOSITION.
A time thrust can be made when a man feints at your head and tries to
deliver a cut under your right arm, or on any part of the right side
down to the foot.
As he raises his point to feint, make a straight thrust at his breast
with a longe, keeping your hand as high as your right shoulder and a
little to the right of it. Palm turned down.
Should you be quick enough, your point will fix on his breast, and his
cut will fall on the forte of your sword.
If you are too slow, your thrust will guard his attack, although you may
not touch him.
The same movements should be executed on the adversary, when from the
engagement of _High Seconde_ he endeavours to deceive prime, or, when
from that of tierce, he tries to deceive quarte with “One, Two.”