The School of Recreation (1696 edition) - Or a Guide to the Most Ingenious Exercises of Hunting, - Riding, Racing, Fireworks, Military Discipline, The Science - of Defence by Robert Howlett
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the Palm of your Hand open against the Butt-end, your Left-Elbow under
the _Pike_, and your Left-toe in Line with the Spear; and when you Charge it must be directly forward, your Left-heel being just against the middle of your Right. 13. =Shoulder as you were.= Here raise your _Pike_ with both Hands, so quit it with the Right, and with the Left turn the Head backwards, the Spear even with the Rear; so with your Right-hand seize it again as high as you can reach with little straining, and stand with it from your Body aslope; bring up your Right-leg, and then forsake your _Pike_ with your Left-hand, and lay it on your Shoulder, ever keeping the Spear in a direct Point to the Rear, not crossing your Fellows. 14. =Charge to the Right.= In this Case fall back with your Right-Arm and Leg, the Spear being kept in the Rear sloping at the height of Shouldering; then turn your Left-Toe to the Right, suffering the Right to fall behind the Left-foot; so that the middle of your Right-foot may be over against your Left-heel; then bring up your _Pike_ in this Action, and turn backwards the Butt-end by your Right-side; then pressing it in your Right palm, Charge. 15. =Shoulder as you were.= Make your Left-toe come to the Left, and the middle of your Right-foot come also against your Left-heel, with your _Pike_ up; and then turn the Head to the Right, (that is) directly to the Rear, doing it at one |
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