[Footnote 1: The Iron at the End of the Blade that runs into the
Handle.]
[Footnote 2: 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.]
[Footnote 3: See the 8th. Plate.]
[Footnote 4: See the 12th Plate.]
[Footnote 5: 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.]