FOOTNOTES:
Andrew Mahon translation
[1]
The Iron at the End of the Blade that runs into the Handle.
[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.
[3]
See the 8th. Plate.
[4]
See the 12th Plate.
[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.