Composite indexed references: Rules/Paradoxe of Defence
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Source pages: 313. Bracketed notes: ["SILVER", "MS.; 17thcentury. Apparentlybythesameauthor. Onechapteris entitled 66SundryKindsofPlayorFight. Thornborow.\"", "Woodcuts in the text. One chapter is entitled “SundryKindsofPlayor Fight.\" “Savioloseems tohaveremainedunconquered. Hewas theheroofthesilk button. Thecuttingofan adversary'sdoubletpoints on his bodyin unruffled sequence, preparatory to sending him to his account, was his speciality. Silverrecords thefeatgrudgingly,yetindetail,inhisaccount ofSaviolo'sfightwithanotherverytallmanofhishands,MasterBartholomewBramble, swordsman in Coventry, which encounter was the resultof Bramble'shastybehaviourinemptyingablackjackfullofOctober overthe airifiedforeigner. Thecuriousmayfindthisaccount,whichisveryquaint but long-winded, in Silver's 'Paradoxe of Defence, published as a counterblast to Saviolo's 'Practice, in two bookes,thefirst intreating of Rapier and Dagger, thesecond ofHonourandHonourable Quarrels,' in the same year,namely, 1599.”—Castle (E.), \"The Story of Swordsmanship.\" (\"TheNationalReview,\"May1891.)"]
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