You may also parry in disengaging,[2] drawing back the Body to the Left,
in order to give the Hand Time and Facility to make the Parade.

There are several other Parades, of which I shall treat in their proper
Places, confining myself now to the most essential.

[Illustration: 4th. Plate. A Lunge in Tierce.]

[Illustration: Tierce Parryed.]




CHAP. V.

_Of pushing_ Tierce _without_, or _on the Outside of the Sword_.


In order to push _Tierce_ well, the Hand being gone first, taking the
Feeble with the Fort, turning down the Nails, and the Wrist a little
outwards, not too high or low; in order not to give Light above or
below, the Body must bend more forward and inward than in _Quart_; the
Left Hand should extend itself in _Tierce_, because it ought, in all
Cases, to be conformable with the Right, except that it is lower. When
you push _Tierce_, you should look within your Sword: As to the Feet,
they must be, in every Lunge, on the same Line, and at the same
Distance.

The Rules I have laid down for recovering in _Quart_, will serve also in
_Tierce_, but of the contrary Side.